The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-09-28

cCIuIiIIlacIeI interest In the
welfare of the county revenue is
shown in the letting Of contracts.
and may be summarized by the fol-
lowing incident that happened in
/, the letting Of the contract for sta
tionery for the county, September
term Commissioners court. 1887:
Number Of stationery firms bid
ding, one. Kind of bid for the sta
tionery needed for the year 1888,
first offer 81, 10000; expression Of
deputy Auditor, "Why, you GER
tainly cannot afford to furnish tn,
county that cheap"
Rejection Of the bid by the COM
missioners, and final contract with
the same firm, all conditions being
the same, for the sum Of 81 OPS. 90.
|"Oh, consistency" etc.
ScByHMAcHER's LOVE FOR HONE
lxsrIftrIoNs will be better under
stood'sby his actions with agricul-
tural fr.ds. The law requires that
all receipts from Show and Ferry
licenses be paid to the agricultural
associations. In the records a col
umn is set apart under the head Of
agricultural funds" for this pur-
pose, but instead of putting them
there the receipts were carried into
the column Of county funds, and
not to the proper column. Some Of
the funds were paid over to the
Martin county District Fair, at
time when the present Dubois coun-
ty Fair association, at Huntingburg,
was being organized, and BY all 4
means these should have been paid
over to the home association. The
whole affair is shrouded in mystery
as far as this fund is concerned, as
to manner Of book keeping, the
payment to Martin county, and
Schuhmacher's final eight years ,
report, published in the Hunting J
burg ''Independent," Feb. A, 1888. !
In that sworn report he reports
show license received, $1O5. 90. :"
Ferry license received, $50. co."
and in the same report shows no {
disbursement Of these receipts. {,
Perhaps they are covered by the :
specific. !"
Page 276. Record X, March term,
1888, shows the following:
Comes now the Loogootee Dis ,
.rict Fair Association, by Joseph /. ,
their attorney, and i
lies its claim, etc, for show IL a
,ense, and the amount Of $1O5. OOlee
was allowed JOS. l. Schumacher
IS atty. for the District Fair Associ- I
ltion." Call and see the record #
At the Auditors office. Everybody
knows that the Dubois county Az :
'ieoltural Association was then or o
yanizing, and that undue haste to Il
get the money out Of the county for
lee was practiced. Call and see
ne record, it will interest you.
ScHUHMAcHER's DEpRAvED hon.
'R, as gentleman, is further 4
proven in his action taken during
ne campaign Of 1886, in which he j
Trustees report, took il +,
9 Frank Quante, and others. Of
ferdinand, and represented it TO be l''
ne last report Of John Gramel-
pacher, as school Trustee of tho
own OF Jasper, and further stated
nat the report was not legible or in
eligible, and that the commits
toner's had to receive the report in
MS condition. When asked 10
ave the report with citizens in or
er that it might be shown 10 9th
r, ne replied that he could not do
,, as the report was on file, and
Of allowed to pass out OF his hands 81
ould meaner act be compre- :
ended? Frank Quante, and other ne,
illnesses to this statement, are still SEol
i've. Jrsrrcr so