The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-11-28

u D& = woll-earned victory of
majority of the Republican county ticket,
and are occupying their spare time in
speculatng as to who are to be the "ins' who
are to take the places of the "outs" on Court
House hill as well as in what occupations
those who are going to become ex.oficials
will engage in after New Years day, next.
And, of course, in this regard Madame
Rumor is very busy making assignments for
those who have been most prominent in
Office FOR the past three years, notably Pro
thonotary Kirk, Court Clerk Toole, Little
Jack, +" "Phil" Connell, the polite and efficient
clerk of the Commissioners office; Johnnie"
Rattigan, clerk in Mr.. Tooles office, and
Commissioners Bowes, DeTurk and Reed.
The latter will devote himself entirely to
his cigar and tobacco business, while Mr..
Bowes will HE himself to Girardville and
tend bar at the old stand Mr. Samuel De-
Turk will turn his attention to farming and
raising pigs, aud you will not catch him in
the business of building court houses again il
he lives to be as old as the biblical Methu.
selah
S. @. Kirk, Esq, it is more than probable
will engage in newspaper work, and there are
few in this part of Pennsylvania who can
excel him in the field of journalism. He is a
clean writer and a iudicious editor, who
knows jus what to publish and how to write
it up l am told he would consider favor.
ably proposition to edit the Chronicle with
Phil. j. Connell as an assistant and if il
should so happen that these two very bright
men should engage themselves ON that paper
which just now needs new life and a great
deal of common sense infused i'm its badly
edited columns that paper, which was the
first afternoon daily to take a firm foothold
in the county seat, will recover its old.time
vitality and once again become a newspaper
edited by real editors and not ruined by the
flash opinions of monkey reporters.
As am illustration of the trashy rot which
the Chronicles so-called reporters are per-
mitted 10 publish is herewith given In it's
issue Of the 23d inst. there was published
among other paragraphs under the head,
Changes on the hill" the following:
at has been announced that Mr.. Severn.
Controller elect, has appointed a deputy and
clerk The duties of the office require that
each bill, before it is paid, shall be audited by
the Controller or the chief clerk, i'm his
absence. A correct account must be kept of
all bills audited and the proper entries made
thereof. Tho announcement as to a deputy
and a clerk turns out to be very premature,
as the law gives the Commissioners the
30, . H.
fix their salaries, If Mr.. Rentz is the man
they say he is, before agreeing to the payment
Of 81 900 or $4,000 for clerical hire in the
Controllers office, he will likely ascertain
whether one good man at a salary of 81 900
or 81 600 can't do the work that is to be
DONE
1t is not for the information Of the igror-
anus who wrote and published the labove
quoted nonsense that the 9TH section of the
act of March 31st, 1876, Up. L. page 13) is re
ferred to in this letter, but it is cited for the
enlightenment Of your readers and that they
may know just what stuff is dished up for the
too confding subscribers of the Chronicle
in nearly every issue, By the section of the
act quoted the County Commissioners and the
County Controller viii constitute a Board to
ascertain and determine "the number of the
deputies or clerks required for the proper
dispatch of business by each of such officers,
and for fixing the salary of each Of said clerks
and deputies"
Controller elect Severn has simply nomi-
mated a chief clerk and another clerk whose
appointments he will ask the board to make
and whose salaries he will ask the board to
fix. Nothing has been announced by Mr.
Severn authoritatively as to the salaries he
wants for those clerks, and the figures men,
toned in the silly paragraph above quoted
emanated from the thick skull of the BOBBY
scribbler who wrote the article.
Mr. Rentz is about as likely to beinhuenced
by such publication as Mr.. Allen is, and
neither will ever be accused of taking their
inspiration from a sheet which opposed them
in a hotly contested campaign. 1t is more
than probable that all the Commissioners
viii give their assent to Mr.. sevem's having
just as many clerks as shall be required fol
the proper dispatch Of business"
Mr. John J, Tolle rumor has it, win take
Mr., Ed. Scbiiliug S saloon and restaumnt,i If h,
can get it, and stick closely to business, leay
ing politics forever, except an occasional
bout to help a friend along.