Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-13
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No MORE WARRANTS
FOR The RECORDER
Mrs. Allen Refuses to Turn in.
Fees of Office Quarterly and
Board Stops Pay
SHE WOULD PAY ANNUALLY
SHE WOULD PAY ANNUALLY
Board Instructs Auditor to Issue the
Recorder, or Her Deputy, Miss Eta
Northup, No More Warrants for SAL
aries Until Quarterly Settlement is
Made-Warm Session Held.

Recorder Minnie E. Allen, CIR der dep
uty. Miss Eta Northup, on which they
may draw their salaries each month
from the county treasurer, until Mrs.
Allen turns into the county treasury
the receipts Of her office for the first
quarter Of the year, is thu mandate
that went gu. from the board of super
yisors this morning. The board pro-
poses, fiuratively, that Mrs. Allen shall
aeither fish or cut bait" and Mrs.
Allen AYERS that she will run
her office without interference from
the board.
The stoppage of warrants, which be-
came a matter of record by a resoiu-
ton passed by the board this morning,
resulted, in a rather heated conference
between Mrs Allen and the board. IN
which personalities between herself
and Chairman w. H. Jorles. OF the
board. were handed back and forth.
Mrs. Allen Says She Has the Law.
3 Mrs. Allen claims to have the law,
and the custom of her predecessors,
back OF her determination not to turn
over the funds of the office except
once a year. This, she says, she IS
perfectly willing to do. The board
claims to have a promise from Mrs.
Allen, which she denies, that she would
turn over the funds each quarter. Mrs.
Allen has been depositing the receipts
Of her office to her personal account
in one Of the banks. She has as YET
turned; in none Of the money, and when
the board requested her to do so she
refused.
when the resolution was: being dis
cussed by the board before its adop-
ton members intimated that they pre-
sumed that Mrs. Allen was drawing
interest from the bank on the county's
money she deposited.
Mrs. Allen Visits the Board.
When this statement of the, board
members was carried to Mrs. Allen this
morning she loosed her office apron,
flung it on table and STRIDE into the
board office. What followed was
rehashing of charges and counter
charges, personalities and statements
which have led up to the existing
trouble.
When charged with the statement
they had made touching On the draw,
ing OF interest on county funds by Mrs.
Allen, board members acknowledged it,,
and based the, grounds for It as being
that they presumed she was drawing
If not, why, Their, her objec-
ton to turning in the funds each
quarter? The board also said it did
not know where the money was, and
had nothing more than Mrs. Aliens
word for it.
The recorder emphatieally denied
that she was drawing interest on the
money, but acknowledged that she had
it deposited. The board wanted to
know what she would do II the bank
abusted," and Jones answered the
question by saying the loss would fail
on her.
Oppressed, Says Mrs. Allan.
In making statement of her posi-
ton Mrs. Allen said one of the reasons
she objected to complying with the
boards request was that she had been
oppressed by the board ever since she
had been in office. She explained the
meaning of her use of tile word "op-
pressed. by saying that the salary of
her deputy had been cut from $55 to
$45. To this JonesNreplie'd, THAT was
done before you had anything to do
with the office. What was it to you?"
Mrs. Allen stated to the board that
she wanted the people TO know that
she could run her office without as
sistance from the board" This was an
other explanation of why she did not
acQuiesce to the boards request.
Personal Feeling Injected.
Traced backward from The converse
ton of the conference the trouble
seems toy have had its origin in per-
feeling between Chairman Jones
and herself. Mrs. Allen wanted to
know why Mr.. Jones' attitude toward
her had undergone so marked a change
since she was county stenographer.
Jones did not mince words when he
said he objected to Mrs. Allen referring
to him as ''tightwad" after all he had
done for her while she was the county's
Mrs. Allen admitted U.s.
ing the word, but said size was angry
at the time and was sometimes
"spunky." YES" replied Jones, "you
have more spunk than s:nse."
The conference ended with the ex-
preston from Mrs. Allen that she
wanted to comply with tile law and be
with the board. but further
than that she gave no i1ltimation that
she would comply with the boards
wishes.
The Resolution.
The resolution, after reciting that
because Mrs. Minnie E. Allen, county
recorder, had refused to pay over the
fees of her office for the quarter end
ing March 81, amounting to over $500,
and that she and her deputy were
drawing their salaries from the county
that it be resolved that the county audi
tor be instructed to draw no more war
rants for either until the fees of the
office were paid over each quarter.
The board proposes that Mrs. Allen
shall either turn over the fees each
quarter and draw her salary and that
Of her deputy from the county funds,
Or that she shall take the salaries from
the fees of the office and settle with
the county once year.
Hioh Pressure DAYS.