Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-12-31
Now write 1882.

Office the past three years will retire
Monday morning and be succeeded by
those chosen at the last election This
colutv has seldom if ever been more for
tuuate in Their public servants than dur
ing;the term now expiring. Sheriff DEAN,
though quite prominent and very pOpu-
lar in the west was but little known out
side of that section when he came here
three years ago, but he now returns to
hs home in South Creek, not only one
OF the most widely known gentlemen
in the county, but the most popular man
who has ever filled the sherff's Office.
He has SO discharged the onerous and re-
Sponsble duties of the Office as not to
fortunate debtor, while acting with strict
fidelity to plaintiffs. "a little brief au-
tho'ity' did not "puff him up and he
remains the same afable, unassuming,
courteous gentleman he was born. His
friends are not cOnfiHed to the Repubi-
can party, though he is as true as steal
to his principles. While Mr.. DEAN, ike
a sensible gentleman, as he is, retires to
his farm again, we shall be greatly mis-
taken if his fellow citizens do not soon
call him into public life.
ProtnonOtary BLAcKAIAN is his own
successor, aud the choice could not have
been bettered. 1t is a noteworthy fact
that Bradford County has been particu-
lary fortunate in the selection OF pro-
thonotaries, never having had poor one.
But Mr. BLACKMAN is the peer Of any of
his predecessors as an officer, while he
eXcels in those traits which make a man
Justly popular with his fellows. His
heart is large and beats in sympathy with
his less fortunate brethren who are always
received with the same cordiality as
those upon whom fortune smiles. The
duties Of the office have been promptly,
faithfully and pleasantly performed, leav-
ing no ground for fault-fnding on the
part of any one having business to trans
act there.
A. C. FRIsEIE, Register and Recorder,
gives place to Hon. j. IL. WEBB, the un-
written law of the Republican party hay
ing decreed that denominations for this
office must not be made. He goes out of
Office with the confidence and best wishes
OF all who have made his acquaintance.
Himself and son, Mr.. CLAYTON FRIsBIE,
have done the work Of the office during
his term and The records have never been
more neatly kept, nor the duties Of the
office discharged more satisfactorily than
during his administration.
The constitution bars the County
Treasurer from serving two consecutive
terms, and Mr.. JOHN IL. GRANT retires
after three years incumbency, during
which larger amount of money has been
received and paid out than in any other
similar pelod since the organization of
tue county, and we may truthlully say
the interests of taxpayers have never
been more careiplly guarded nor the fl
nances more prudently managed. 1t be-
c@me necessary to make loan to raise
money to erect the poor house and it was
la gely doe TO Mr.. GRANTS efforts that
the bonds were negotiated at very low
rate Of interest, in the face of strong
temptations TO allow his friends to take
them at higher rate. In this traIsac-
ton the county saved more than his sala-
!. lie superin,ended the payments FOR
the 70 k on the poor house in person
and aided the Commissioners very great
ly in the prosecution of the work. He
deserves great credit for the practical
iate,e diSplayed in securing to the