Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-08-17
Lookout, w. Va.

W Oo'ne around today at l O'Clock, and
here am but am not feeling we'll 4"
why, Sam what in the world is the
matter with you? You look like YOU
had been sick aud your nerves seem to
be unstrung you are shaking Are you
cold?"
mo, l am not cold; neither have L
been sick but went through with an
awful ordeal last night. I'll tell vou
about it, Late yesterday evening | was
sitting on my front porch meditating on
the fearful condition our county and
road affairs were in and trying to study
out some remedy that might be proper
to place before our county court at its
next session, when n newsboy came along
yelling, 'Extra-all about the financial
, condition of Wayne county: five cents a
copy That being the very subject |
was studying about and also being
anxious to learn all | could about il. |
immediately called the boy in and pur.
chased copy. Then | adjusted my
glasses and made myself comfortable
and began 10 read. The headlines read
like this: Financial statement for
Wayne County, West Virginia, for the
Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1910 The
| first article under this heading was, EN-
penses for Couct Purposes There was
set aside the sum of Sll77.20 to pay off
this expense and it was supposed to be
divided equally among the three mem
bers of the court but | noticed that
Uncle John, Jr., of Camp creek had
copped S55645 the Red Fox of Cove
creek had copped $4,000, whil5 poor
old Uncle John, Sr., of Mill creek had
only secured S265.75 Now Jack, take
note of these as we go along for am
/ Roirg to ask you several questions along
the line and one question about this
court expense will be, Why should
Uncle john, Jr., of Camp creek get the
biggest piece of this court pie? 1t
seems tc me that If it couldn't be diyid-
ed equally they should have given the
largest slice to poor old Uncle John of
Mill creek, for he is hardly able to get
to the court house but stop, Jack don't
try 10 answer any questions just yet
Let me go on. There is time enough
for you to answer This first article
my nerves going and the further |
waded in, the more nervous got.
The next article was Salary of Off
GERS. Now, Jack, do you know how
many officers it takes to run Wayne
county? Just fifteen and the year just
passed, being short year on account
of some OF these officers being appointed
after portion of the past year had
elapsed, it just took the small sum OF
80 10000 TO pay them off Now Jack
that's one list that j don't want my
name mixed up with. Those three four
dollar day men are on this list. They
are the ones that said the assessors, you
and me, had swore lie. You needn't
laugh about it, Jack. They did il.
Don't you remember when the assessor
came to your house last January and
! qualified you; then asked you what
! your farm was worth? You told him
- 600 He said you had swore a lie
1t was worth $4,000. Then when the
assessor took this matter before these
four dollar a day men, what did they
say? They said Mr.. Assessor, you and
Jack have both sworn lie. Jacks
fern is worth - 600. We have never
seen Jacks farm, but we know it is
worth 81 900
/ also noticed under this article that
the county engineer had only drawn
- ,125 for twine stretching" You
will be asked why he did not draw the
other 1915 and if he did what head
does it show up under? / was getting
awfully nervous when / finished this
article noticed the next article was
Court House Expenses.
Say, Jack. that old brick court house
was pretty expensive last year. It re.
quired 1886 % to keep her going. OF
this sum ] noticed there had been paid
TO Joe Newman 1912 81 for merchandise.
/ What kind OF merchandise did they
\ get from Joe? He handles a general
line. Why don't they itemize these
accounts so we can tell how,much calico,
thread, ribbon, French barps and Ar
buckle coffee is bought? 1 also notice
that Smith & SAMSON got 800 " and
Uncle Sim got $40 and Bill n. got
! Sl2.15; Of course it would not be neces-
sary to itemize these last two, as every
body in the county knows that Uncle
Sims place is famous for lemonade and
Bill n. hands ont the temperance drink
'Moxie.' L notice one other item I'm
this list. 1t reads as follows: Paid
the Marrell M. +. G.. Co. $4,000 for
dust absorbent and soforth. Now, we
all know what 10000 is and also know