The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-13
COUNTY DADS
OF NO. OAK.
in SESSION
continued prom page ono.

Jaberg OF Sanborn. county commits
sioner Of Barnes county, in the chair.
Mayor Lowell delivered the address Of
welcome.
The mayors speech was brief, but
exceedingly cordial. He extended a
most heartfelt welcome to the visitors
and wished their deliberations during
the next two days would be of great
profit to all the counties in the state
and tend toward the better govern
ment in each.
President Jaberg responded, thank
ing the mayor for his kind expression
of welcome and then made a few sug-
gestions to the association in regard to
some to the features OF the onven
ton. One of these concerned the ques-
ton box, a committee for which will
be appointed this afternoon. He gave
a few pointers regarding the sort OF
questions to be placed in the box and
then called for a roll call Of the off,
GERS, all of whom were present.
The officers of the association are:
President. f. Jaberg, Sanborn.
Vice President-G. d. DrakeIey, VIII
liams county.
Secretary-H. J. Rusch, Fargo.
Treasurer-0. T. Gjerve, Cavalier
county.
Directors-T. o. iceland, Morton
county; j.. H. Henkle, Towner county;
William Farley, Stutsman county; r
F. Babcock. Ransom county and 10,
seph Donovan. Grand Forks county.
After the roll call OF the OFFICERS
Secretary Rusch called the roll of tn,
association, which consumed the res
of the time of the morning session
Payment of membership tues and reg
fstration occupied most Of the tim,
during the noon hours.
After the reading of the minutes o
the previous meeting and several re
ports from different officials of tn,
association, Treadwell Twichell read
splendid paper on Taxes and the Col
lection of Personal Taxes, which wa
the chief feature of the days pro
gramme. MI. Twichelrs paper was on
of the ablest that has been heard be
fore the association in years. AS
member of the Cass county board o
commissioners at one time and forme
speaker of the North Dakota house O
representatives, Mr.. Twichell is thor
oughly familiar with taxation prob
lens and competent to discuss sue
matters in the light of an authority
In his paper he touched upon the goo,
roads question and the projected Meri
dian road from Winnipeg to the gull
This evening the commissioners Wi
be entertained by the Fargo Builder:
L e. Tf~a 6aFog axrnhunna IN f11 An,a5n1~.
new quarters of that organizatio
above the old Casselman drugstore.
Tomorrow there will be a most IN
teresting programme. Four very fin
papers will be read. One in the morn
ing will be by Addison Leech, auditc
of Cass county, who will present til
subject of The Cooperation of Count
Officials With the County Commits
sioners. This will be one of the mai
addresses of the convention and mar
who have not arrived for today's ses
sions will be on hand tomorrow [
hear County Auditor Leech on tn
subject.
The other papers tomorrow will b
by Sam F. Crabbe, Cass county en-
gineer, who will discuss Drains an
Drainage Laws. States Attorne
Fowler will read q a tomorrow afI
ernoon on the Care of the County
Poor and Sick. State Engineer Al
kinson of Bismarck will conclude til
afternoon session with a paper on Ho'
to Secure Good Roads in North DE-
kota. All of these papers will be ope
to discussion by the members of IL
association.