Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-09-26
"COUNTY NJ ALTERS"

ed name Of "JAsPER TewNsHIP'
appears in the Register Of last
week, in which the writer has a great
deal to say about county matters,
of which he is evidently very igno-
rant; we will, however, be charita-
BILE enough to suppose that he has
been misinformed on the subjects
upon which he writes, by some one
regardless of truth. We will, in
this article, only refer to that por-
ton of his article in which he calls
for information, relative to certain
advertising in the HERALD. The
writer says;
zone other matter Of expense to the
County which is somewhat talked Of in
our region, is the publication of the Plans
and Specifications for the various Turn
pixies in our County. / understand from
good authority that you proposed to pub
lish them as matter of general interest,
free of cost, but they were not furnished
you, but published in the HERALD and paid
for at regular rates, at an expense Of sew
eral hundred dollars, which might have
been saved the Taxpayers of the County.
How is it, Mr.. Editor, that the HERALD
man was paid $l00 for publishing The
Treasurer's Tax Notice last year, when
you only received $55 for the same thing
AS it regards the Notices and
Special Specifications for the Turn
pixies referred to, we did publish
them and charged nothing more for
the work than q reasonable price
a price that we are willing to sub
NIT to the decision of competent
printers in any of our adjoining
counties; and we know they are
lower than is charged in any of the
adjoining counties for similar work.
And further, a number of the same
notices published in the HERALD ..
were also published in the Register,
and in nearly, if not in every case {
where we published the same notices
Or similar ones, the firm of W. C.
GOULD d Co., Of the Register, in :.
stead Of doing the work for nothing, |
more than we did, although !
he circulation of the HERALD is =
probably double that of the Regis i
en- in this county. For the truth
If our assertion we refer "Jasper =
township" or anybody else Of an - -
nquiring turn Of mind, to the bills =, y
IN file in the Auditors Office. " /"
There was notice of over one :. =.
olumn of matter, called Gen era1 y
for the Pixies, which ~ ~
,e were asked las perhaps Mr. " "
'onld was also) if we would not "
ublish free Of charge, as a matter y y
f general interest to the people " "
long the lines of these roads, to al al
hich we replied that we would W "
he copy was furnished us, and we Il, "
ID publish it in the HERALD, free " "
f charge to the county A few ~ ~
eeks after this publication, other ~ ~
ontracts were sold, and we were a. a.;
gain asked to publish these Gener- u, H.
Specifications without expense ~ ~
} the county. We set up over VI
'lumn again and published it with
ut charge to the county, These ~ "
eneral Specifications were not or ~ IL
,red by the Commissioners to be ~ ~
lblished. Mr.. Gould did not pub wv
III these General Specifications.
e never published a single line for
ese roads but what he got his pay
+, and that, too, at a higher rate TO
an we charged, as can be seen by ma
vestigation at the Auditors OF ou
e. If he was so anxious, and VIC
uld so well afford to work with sn
1t pay, why was it that he charg- th
such exorbitant prices for all the wi
ork he was employed to do for tn
e county? He could have pub sh
he'd the same General Specifica- th,
ms we did if he had wished to tel
thout pay. bri
So, Mr.. JASPER TOWNSHIP" you spC
II see that while we did some $50
nth Of work on account of these e
ads free of cost, Mr.. Gould got for
id for every line of his work, and 90,
1t, too, at higher prices than we
for the same work. These, ne'
;, are uncontrovertible facts, and for
advise you, before you make any stri
re assertions in regard to "coun- cor
matters" Of this kind, to go to inf,
proper source for information mo
30 much, then, for your misun- the.
standing in relation to the print hor
for the Turnpikes. We did a neit
1T deal of work for these roads unc
'eat deal more than the proprie- tho,
) of the Register did. And when ion
editor talks Of doing the work anne
nothing, or that the Commits n si
ners ever asked him to do it free emf
charge, we know that no such ona
uest was ever made by the Com ono
sioners, and we know that the tow
Lor Of the Register is the last see
n in the newspaper business who to
nld do the work for nothing, or eye1
n for the moderate prices we sho,
'g1u' No"' whoever informed hole
| that several hundred dollars II
ght have been saved to the coun- tbo
by getting Mr. Gould q Co. to Of IN
the advertising in the Register ion
hout charge, told you what was for
true, and did it to decisive you. ann,
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