The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06
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Election day passed off very
quietly.
ED. Maybee has moved to town
and lives on lions hill i'm Sam Gar
dner's house.
jacob Butterflss has moved his
family into rooms over Campbelps
Store.
The President has issued a proc
lamation appointing Nov. 9th as
Thanksgiving day.
Brandon charges S4,75 year for
his paper since elections; Miller almost
gives the Democrat away.
Heavy snow storm here on We'd
nesday. Have had considerable snow
since Sunday the earth now present
ing very wintery appearance.
Thomas F. Miller, axman for the
engineers on the new railroad, cut his
foot badly with an ak on Thursday of
last week. He will be laid up for
some time.
ID. S. Andrus & Co., of William
sport. Pa, are prepared to sell good
organ now for $500 cash, stops and
beautiful case, and they are fully war
ranted by them which is sure mark
oftheir merit. Send them your orders
and owill not be disappointed.
Mr.. ID. S. Luther sustained quite
a serious scalp wound while working
on the new Court House on Tuesday
of last week. A brick fell from hod
striking Mr.. Luther glancing blow
as he was going down ladder back
wards, laying the scalp open for about
three inches, The brick fell quite a
distance and had the brick struck a
square blow the result must have
been fatal. Mr.. Luther is rapidly re-
covering.
Judge Julius Jones, of Benezette
township, was deprived of his vote at
the recent election He was challen-
ged for non-payment Of tax and al
though he produced receipts showing
that he had paid more than $500 of
county taxes within the two years as
required by Jaw, the election Judge
took the ground that he could not
vote because the tax was not assessed
within the two years. The decision
of the election judge in this case is
outrageous and does an act of gross in
justice to one of Elk county's best cit
zens, However, nothing is impossible
with judge of election.
The election o Ulcers were only A.
lowed sl.5O or one day pay by's the
County Commissioners this wear eX-
cept in cases where they were actually
engaged until after midnight, which
cases were rare. An old law exists
making the pay of these officers 81. so
day and making a days work from
seven in the morning until midnight.
Az best the pay is little enough but
when it comes to asking men to work
seventeen hours for 81 80 the absurdtv
OF the thing must be apparent to every
person. In many counties in the
State this law has been annulled bv
special acts, and there is no reason
why new law should not he passed
fixing reasonable length of time for
days work. We suggest to Messrs.
Hail and Farley that at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature they have bill
introduced making the pay of election
officers $500 "A day, and wherethe vote
polled exceeds 200 to allow two days
pay. AT the proper time we propose
TO urge this matter. Also we hope to
see the unjust law allowing assessors
but $l.OO day supplemented by law
which will at least not give pre-
MUM on dishonesty.
The County Commissioners have
had their trials this week with the
election judges. The law says that
the judge, inspectors and clerks of an
election shall have Sl.50 pei, diem for
their services, (Act of July 2, 1881,
and it has been decided by the Com
missioners' Counsel that day shall be
construed to mean from 7 O'Clock in
the morning until midnight. Acting
on this advice the board of Commits
sioners have refused to pay election
boards more than Sl.50 unless tbev
were willing to swear that they were
actually engaged until midnight. The
result was that but few election Off
GERS received more than 81 so although
in Fox township, we are informed,
that the board worked until fifteen
minutes to midnight; sixteen minutes
more and two days pay would have
been allowed by the Commissioners.
In Fox 2l2 votes were cast. In Ridg-
way the board were through at about
10 o'clock with 262 of a poll. OF course
it will easily be seen that had Fox
township cast the same number of
votes as Ridgway the counting would
have kept them until after the mystic |
hour. The decision of the worthy
counsel is undoubtedly correct, but the
law that makes II hours days work
should be expunged from our statute
books. AS we said in the beginning
the Commissioners have had their
trials, as nearly all the judges received
the pay with good deal of growing
Infa la3.