Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22
Continued from last week.

Continued from last week.
8 The following Is the report as 1t
appears in the New Time Of July
IA, 1911. Why it Is signed by the
Clerk in the middle instead Of the
end, Is beyond me, but / suppose
there Is some weighty but obscure
reason for 1t. This Is the first re-
port published after the plea made
at the school meeting for a fair in
telligent report in the spirit OF the
law, telling US who got our money
how much they got and what they
got it for. The cost of printing this
report is given In their next report
as annual Financial report New
Time, Instruction from Miss Shep-
lpard, Attorney McDougal and Cleri-
cal work, $685." making 1t impos-
sible for any one to tell what the
cost Of the report was. But since
writing the first article, ! have as
certained that order for warrant
No. 223, July %, 1911, was issued to
Truxton Talbot for $43.5O for an
nual report which Is approximately
liz cents per line. $43.50 for a re-
port signed in the middle and Tray
ed cut at both ends, report that
gives taxpayer the jimjams instead
of an intelligent statement: Notice
with what extreme care have been
itemized the bill Of $47.44 to the
Central Scientific Co., the two bills
of Roscoe Smith. the Bell Telephone
Co. Weaver & Tye, furnace coal and
the Electric Light Co. In the minds
of the board it was so essential that
the taxpayer know that the $4,000
paid to the Bell Telephone during
the year, was paid to them in amounts
ranging from 1920 at one time to
1896 at another that they devote
eleven lines to 1t at a cost OF ABOUT
s1.32 instead of one line at IL cents.
The same spirit of giving the tax
payer value received in information
for his money crops out through
: great portion of the report bu''
rock ribbed economy struck them az
awful Jolt when it came to publish
, ing the name and amounts paid tf
, tho substitute teachers. Mrs. Ell
eanor Mason, substitute work $3.OOl
is the only person named with the
} amount she got, In the whole repor'
1 of the money paid for substitute
, teachers. The above $500 LIS the on
ly amount for substitute teachers re
ported according to law, the "speci
fic item, amount and to whom paid,
: Now take the item "Superintend
ent |. B. Warner, material Dough
, for refreshments at opening OF gym
t nasium, substitute teachers $34.7O.'
+. No one can tell by the report wheth
. er the refreshments cost $4,000 ant
: the substitute teachers 70 cents o
3 vice versa, but they saved a line o.
two, at IL cents per line by not Civ
ing names and amounts. And. whil'
+ am ON this item Of $34.7O. l JUS
Q want to state that | am unable t
4 connect this item up with any orde
+ for warrant on file, excepting on
Q without a number, dated February u
n 1911, which reads IL. B. Warner
!. Sub. work and School Supplies
d $34.70." l supposed when ! saw tina
d order that l. b. Warner had dom
I some Sub. work, and bought som
r School supplies for the school; bu
VII am unable to find that amount
s s34.70 showing up anywhere In thi
!. report which covers the date OF tn
: order. OF course II the money wa
y drawn out of the school fund by
t b. Warner on an order for SUI
t work and school supplies" and 1t l
a reported to us as refreshments TO
opening Of Gymnasium and substl
D tute teachers, 1t doesn't make an,
difference in one way. The money
gone. But it Is rather CONFUSING
when you may want to check up, ant
school supplies" is hardly the tern
!. to designate refreshments. Anothe
item that has given me much worl
is to find where In this report 1
a shown the order for Warrant NO.
/. dated Dec. IL, 1910, which read
n kitty s. Cowen. Clerical Services
|. Taking Census, ETC., $126.60." Tn
J, only item Of $126.60 that can find i
d this report Is kitty 8. Cowen, mon
Q ey advanced to pay bills, takin|
Q census, typewriting, $126.60." Thu
n can hardly be the same. for the Of
der shows $l26.6O paid to Kitty $
n Cowen for clerical services AM
n enumerated the services, while tn
q s126. 60 in the report is not for clel
Z ical services but for money she ha
v advanced. But where Is warrant OF
1 der No. 1, reported to us taxpayer
Z in this $43.50 report?