The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-08
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The County Commissioners were in
session the greater portion Of last week
The business of the Board was to make
the annual settlement:and make up the
annual statement. The time was spent
mostly il correcting accounts, some Of.
which, in the Auditors and Treasu-
reris departments, were found to be
defective. The register. Of claims had
been very much neglected by form
er officials. Many claims: were found.
uncancelled on the books which had
been paid years ago. :. z VI.
The Board adjourned over to Monday
of this week and are still at work. A
complete list Of delinquent and uncol.
lected taxes belonging to the different
funds is being made up. They are do
ing thorough work, placing the bust.
ness on 2 correct footing for the new
administrations. 1t remains to be seen
whether it cannot be keptup more close
ly and carefully in future.
App0rtionment of State funds and
fines has been made to school districts
to the amount of $439. As, being Az cts.
to each scholar.
The Auditor is making up statements
of the standing of the account of each
School District and of each term.
These are to be forwarded to the Clerks
| and will enable them to check up with
| district and town Treasurers at the an
| nual settlement. Such statements are
TO be forwarded after each quarterly ap-
portionment ct funds,
We publish to-aaya statement from
the Treasurer and Auditor of amounts
due towns and districts on the first day
of March, 1880, as the law directs, and
though considerably behind time, it is
better late than never. This is Il new
and commenqable departure from estab-
lished usages and will be appreciated.
ANOTHER WCRTHINGTON MILLIQN
HEIR.
Recently we made mention Of the
fact that Mrs. S. "A. Davis, Of this
place, is one of the heirs to the Hyde
estate in England. A few days ago we
discovered another million heir in Wor-
thingtoH AND this time the luck struck
the ADVANCE office.
Elsewhere we publish an article cop
led from the Circinnati Enquirer and
sent us by one Of the heirs, giving an
account of Il 500, 600 legacy await
ing the Eerns heirs i'll America. BY Il
unique streak of luck, we happen to be
a grandson to Henry Kern, mentioned
i'll the article as having died some years
ago in Virginia. We are familiar only
with that branch of the family which
located in the Valley of Virginia, but
the heirship is straight as string.
This immense legacy is due from the
Government Of Holland. The note is
considerably overdue now and gone to
protest, but we suppose that some Of
our ancestors-Hans Yawcup, or Yo-
hannis Nicholas, or some Of them-sued
the government long ago and got judg-
ment. So it's all right. All we have
to do now is to get the money. Just
how to proceed we haye not fully deter
mined. One plan is TO get the appoint
ment Of MINISTER to tie Hague and col
lect Che bill in person. Another plan is
to have Dan R>hrer brin. the matter
before the County Commissioners and
have it compromised ona basis of so To GO
per cent. provided the School Board
will agree to accept their Share of the
mill tax on that basis. You se5 we
know What we are taIkiny about.
1t was one of our ''We;! thy and arts
tocratic ancestors,' SO the account
says,) who loaned this money to the
Dutch Government. Aud 50 we are
related to the Van Gelders OF Mattine-
cook and to all the Van Derbilts, Van
Wrinkles and Van Derpoels from Elack-
ensack to Spuyten Dnyyil.
There is some reason to apprehend
that the GoEsrnn:snt Of Holland may
go to war again with Belgium just to
avoid paying this little bill, but it would
NC u ulCstA Cli1'lS, " uO anu "tGft tuIuIt
the proverbial repu alton Of the Dutch
for honesty.
PER2O-NALS.
DR.. B. S. Cullen, OF Luverne, dropped
in the other evening. lie is on i trip
to Missouri and Texas.
Attorney Clark has gone to Luverne
district counting.
Judge Cox was at the sVorthington
the other night on his way to Luverne
to hold court.
EVE McM"n"s is up in Murray conn
ty putting in Il crop of wheat on his
fathers Tree clain..
Rumor says that ex-Auditor Jimmy
Walker has been getting married. Now
he'll be an eX-BachelOr and 4 Lieuten-