Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-07
# the emergency fund and any others that

OF the emergency fund and any others thai
may become available. If the emergenc,
fund is at all analogous in use and purpose
to such fund. in other counties witt
which we are familiar. then by the end OF
the fiscal year all of such fund will be re.
quired to liquidate the current and run
ming expense of the county. Such being
the case the county commissioners by ap
propriating this fund to the ere ction of a
court house will thereby be indirectly
appropriating money beyond the fiscal
year for this purpose. which by law they
are not permitted to do. Moreover, in
view of Mr.. Stoddards motion there is nc
necessity at the present time for the build.
ing of court house that would warran,
the appropriation of the emergency fund
for that purpose. in other words there is
no emergency. The people of this part
of the county feel that taxes are burden
some enough as they are and that if furth-
er taxes are to be raised they should be
only for such purposes as providing schools
in the districts that are now being rapidly
settled-up, and for other improvements,
the need for which are far more press
ing than the erection of new court house.
And as we have pointed out a deficit in
the running expense account is bound to
result if all the emergency fund is appro-
priated for . new court house: and
such deficit will have to be met
by higher levy next year. Besides. it is
an improvideat and short sighted policy to
build court house when, at the present
price of material and labor. it will be
impossible to erect respectable lean-to
with the funds available for such pur-
poses. Such building would be soon
outgrown and useless for county purposes.
Let us defer building court house until
such time as we are able to build one
commensurate with the importance of the
county. Then we will have building
that will be permanent and credit, and
not mere temporary excuse or make
shift. The people of this community will
in very short time, be able to bear the
tax for building worthy of the county
and they will then be willing and even
demand the same. But they will resist to
the utmost, any attempt on the part of the
county commissioners to erect any such
structure at this time, as they contemplate.
The CHRONICLE does not wish to ap-
pear. or to be. harsh, unreasonable or
censorious in respect to this matter. but
feels it to be its duty to point out that this
act of the county commissioners is un-
warranted, unjustifable and contrary to
the express mandate of the people who
elected them to their preset Office, and it
knows that in giving voice to these views it
is but expressing the general opinion and
sentiment of this community.
BY listening to travelling men one &C.
casionally learns that travelling men are
banded together to give hotel keepers who
patronize catalogue houses the goodby
whenever possible. This is dead,- cold
fact and not fancy, and every hotel man
who patronizes catalogue houses the 60
by whenever possible. This is dead cold
fact, and not fancy, and every hotel man
who patronizes catalogue houses is up
against proposition that will lose him
more money every week than lie ever
imagines he makes in year by patroniz.
ing catalogue houses instead of home
merchants. This is something for every
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