Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1910-08-04

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o. no YOU sign orders where they IN.
Dayabe ITO orderlm A. Yes.
a. You do sign them? A. Yes.
q. What do you sign on the back OF a.
order IL IT Is made out to the Pennsylvania
Coal 90. DO you sign PENNSYLVANIA oa
COZ A. would sign II. j. Perkins. May
b4 that order would be for sS0and 500 would
be my personal money that would pay for
freight that would have 10 walt month
for. i would be an impossihllily 70 srhd
that draft TO the tirm The month btfor,
last had $40 In for coal that hhd adNHhc-
O. Have you beer so the habit OF adyanc-
ing money for the county In payment oi
these hillsF A, Yes SIT, ever since uNNt
O. Why was it necessary for you to al
vance this money Why did you deem u
necessary to advance this money! A, Why
/ can't get my freight from he pot unle IS
l pay my freight. Gan you get II at Miner
al Pontf
retain part of the county funds TO meet
such bills? A, That is what it ought to be,
but they never did.
o. You never held any of the county
funds to meet any such bills rs thatF A.
Sometimes, II was obliged To have money.
Say If during this week somebody would
pay me some money! would pay tn" freight
AT the next meeting of the trustees would
come IN and would turn the money into the
county treasurer and maybe the next week
there would be- some more coal and / would
advance my own money.
q. Regarding the payment OF these hiils
Did you ever tender "a county order to such
firms as Rnndy Peckhnm Il CO., Marshall
Field & 90. or other creditors OF the county
A. No sir. Never did. Lots OF those DIS
1 have paid in nd vance to save discount ON.
Q. liou't you think they would be ac-
ceptcd? A. think so. Never was instruct
ed to do so.
o. What rate of exchange would you pay
on drafts? A. Fifteen cents hundred or
something like that.
D. Wouldn't that be- rather an excessive
amount? A, Probably fifteen cents would
o. You never rendered any of those or
ders to any OF these concernsf a. NO sir,
never did.
Q. You never had any discussion on that
matter with the truSteesl y, No. III was
never suggested.
o. Did you ever pay local men, such as
blacSsmiths, and creditors about town here
with these ordersI A. l always did. Lo-
cai dealers always
O. lid you mail them or take them to
to them? A. Always took then to them.
In fact sometimes | paid some Of these bills
out of my pocket. They would say, I'd,
I've got bill and I'm hard up. And
would advance it TO them out OF my own
pocket, and when the order was drawn, that
was my money and had n right to cash IL.
Q, The trustees were acquainted with the
fact that you did advance these moneys
from time to timer A. | don't know; that
IS some OF the outstanding bills, such as
-four. I've told them lots of times I've paid
these bills to save discounts, but donl
know If they ever knew That ever PAID any
local bills
O. For instance, you had "A carload OF
-four the 18th of this month. or the 10th of
the month. You would meet the trst 1ues'
day of next month to aGdit that bill and any
others that might be presented. wouldn't
these several creditors allow you take the
fun discount within thirty daJ $! A. How
could you do that when IL comes from the
bank or II you have to pay 1t to get the bill
OF lading before you can get your hour
There have been times " hen ] would buy
-four and the first thing 1t would come here
with the hill of aiding Nithit
Q. Hasn'tit been n fact that up to within
a few years ago such was not the case! A.
don't know, am sure They generally draw
through the bank. That Is with hour, gen
orally. This first carload ! bought the
freight was paid on the other end.
@. Is the freight usually figured on the
billsl A. That is II we figured II on SO
much less freight. we would have 70 pay
the freight ut Edmund. I had to get that
for the lull amount of the -four.
Q. 1t occurs to noe that concern DONG
business with county would be perfectly
willing to bill II ca load OF -four mere subject I
to thirty days, or some reasonable period
A. | always buy -four pretty low | bought
-four at twenty cents Il barrel cheaper thhn
Ffo4p-..euicf you do thatT A. Away
have done IL, and have had Hour come Tor
John Edwards and James Hicks IN the same
car as mine, and my -four would be cheaper
than theirs.
0. Did you usually book orders ahead?
A. Yes sir. | had a carload OF -four that
i had booked ahead Tor three months.
when bought IT it was $50 When the
-four came it was $3.50. Is that properE
A. Yes sir.
o. I'D you ever buy when it decreased
in price? A. No sir. have never lost any,
on n car OF -four yet.
Q. You have always been successful ON
the -four question. asked you few min
utes 70, isn't IL Il fact that up TO within n
year or two or three years ago that most OF
the flour that went into the Asylum has
been on thirty day basis! A. ! couldn't
say us to that. Some OF IT has been and
some OF IT has not.
o. What are the usual discounts on FOUR
A. Some times 1t is five cents a barrel. !.
used to bee more so than lately.
Q. That would not appear on the Invoice.
The invoice would appear TO be metz a.
Five cents less for cash or so much for sixty
days.
6. You generally took this discount of
the bill in RENTING q. Yes slr, .oso "a.
counts have been taken OF the billf A. Yes
sir.
when you present these orders to the coun-
ty treasurer. What do you exchange them
for? For drafts, or do you get currency a.
No. get IA check ON one OF these local
banks.
Q. Then you present the check to the
local bank for payment? A. Yes sir;
Q. DO you draw out mo-, OF that check IN
# | have a 5000 check on the county treas
urer and have sl2Oo worth of drafts. 60 to
work and write tn" amount down. They
that the balance of the money Is mine.
O. You don't take the whole amount OF
that $500 and deposit IL to your credit IN
any local bank hcrtY A. No sir. always
get drafts to balance up ali expenditures
for that month.
o. 1t is usual for you to balance all those
bills every month"; a. Every month, the
next day after the trustees meet. lnYari.
ably, unless something prevents.
q. You never carry any OF TINS amount
to your credit anywheres, do YOU or IN your
pocket before making payment 70 any con-
ceful A. No sir,
o. How often has IT been the custom tc
deposit this money; every thirty days or
oftcuery Whenever the trustees meet.
o. In the interim between the meetings
the money you have received from sales
You keep that until the mcs ting Of the trus-
tees2 A. Not all the time. II ! have
check or cash bring IL in.
o. How DO you account for the fact that
on some OF these invoices the receipt at
tached 20 IL calls for more than the biz
A. For instance. il may be that have paid
for some OF IT In advance.
O. Ii isucVer of back date, Is II For IN
stance a bill for 500 for MHshnll Field & 90.
a. allowed and you attach a receipt on that
same bin for S67Jy A. The rest Is some
thing / bought for my own personal use,
when sent In draft would send drait
for SGI5 what was accounted for and what
was my own.
o. understand that your personal nc
count Is each month deducted from the
amount of the bills sent out by these con-
q rms. A. Yes sir.
O, In buying would you usually nave
your personal bills separate Ol-A. used
to have Il up 20 the Inst year or So The last
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