The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-24

The good results of placing practical bust.
ness men in the County Commissioners office
is illustrated in very emphatic manner by
the record made by the present members of
the Board. They have dispensed the bust
ness in a methodical, prompt and satisfactory
manner to the taxpayers at large. The Re
publieans point to their record with pride,
and confidently anticipate the election Of
Messrs Kantuer and Reber.
Frank X Kantuer one of the Republican
nominees for Commissioner, is president Of
the present board of Commissioners aud is
native Of Cressona. this county, where he
was reared and secured his education in the
public schools. He has been in business the
greater portion of his life, first as coal
dealer at Cressona and later as a general
merchant at Lofty, where he subsequently,
moved and is still respected resident. He
held the position Of Justice of the Peace
several years, was School Director and has
| represented his party in county and state
conventions He is member of the g. A.
R having served in the Union army.
Horace F. Reber the other Republican
nominee for Commissioner, is at present one
of the clerks in that Office He was born in
Washington township, and is now resident
of pinegroye. He is serving his second term
as a member Of the Town Council of that bor-
ough and was at one time employed as clerk
for the P. q R. Company at Pinegrove. Mr..
Reber has been in the Commissioners office
for the past five years, part of the time as
chief clerk, so that he is thoroughly conver.
SAINT with the duties of the office to which he
sspres.
Business Ofthe Commissioners office. under
the present Republican administration, is
dispensed with dispatch seldom met in that
quarter heretofore. A majority of the Com
missioners are present daily to attend their
duties, and hence callers are seldom required
county are to be congratulated that this most
important branch of the county government
is in the hands of such able men.
The Commissioners haYe gathered about
them corps of clerks who are we'll suited to
their duties, all of them obliging and afable
gentlemen, prominent among them being 7,
| I. Williams and Frank Seanlan, both we'll
| Known ana prom nenL resluenIs OF onehah-
doah.
A statement of the financial condition Of
the county under the present Republican sd-
ministration, showing the receipts from the
various sources and expenditures for the first
six months of 1899, and also comparative
statement of the expenditures for the year
previous, is worthy of careful perusal by
the taxpayers of the county. This state
ment has been compiled from the monthly
statements as returned by the Commissioners
to the County Controller, and shows = much
healthier condition of affairs than the public
anticipates.
The statement of the expenditures from
January to July /, as compared with the
same period in 1898, shows a reduction in
every department of the county government
The smallest saving has been in the aims
house Democratic administration, outdoor
relief, the difference being only SS52, while
the greatest reduction has been on the county
proper, amounting to s21, ,3265S. The tOta
reduction is $SS S79 81. The following tabl,
shows the receipts from various sources from
January to July