The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-08-21
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HOMER E. ESTES, for Clerk of
the District Court and Ex-Officio
Auditor and Recorder, has no opposi-.
ton in the Primaries for nomina-
ton, having received the unanimous
endorsement of his Party. and with
no opposition nominated for the pri-
maries, in the opposite party, which
practically comedies his election, has
made an enviable record in the one
term that he has served the tax pay
ers of the County in this official
position, and since he has gone a
bout his work, and accomplished re-
suits, in quiet and modest way, or
rather has kept still and sawed
wood, we think that the tax payers
and voters of the county aresentitl-
ed to a review of what has been
worked out and accomplished under
his able management of this office.
We find in looking back over the
period of his office career that the
promises made the tax payers dur
ing his campaign have not been for
gotten; they read as follows; IF e.
lected to the office | shall discharge
my duties with faithfullness to the
people, it shall be my policy to con-
duct the office on economical lines
and at the least expense to the
County that is possible with effici-
ent and prompt service. We find
: that in taking up his new work he
first took up the matter of turning
out work from the office more
: prompt, in bringing up all back
work and endeavoring to keep all
work up-to-date; having gotten the
' work of the office well in hand along
= these lines, he next took up the mat
Y ter of expenses. being determined
to reduce same to the minium, al
ways keeping in mind efficient and
prompt service, and we find that
the running expenses of his office,
!, have been reduced every year of his
administration, until the total of
same the last fiscal year shows re-
Il duction of more than 10 per cent
n from the running expenses OF said
n office at the time that he took
g charge of same; the surprising fea-
q ture of this reduction being all the
a more complimentary when the facts
e are presented that same has been ac-
e complished in the face of great in
n crease in the work of the office,
v partly from natural increases in the
IS routine business of the office, and
N partly from changes in the State
'd laws, which latter source has added
E. great many duties and RESPONSE
bilities to the work of the office
re first the new laws have practically
r made the Auditor the Delinquent
he Tax Collector and has added great
e. deal of extra work in taking care
ne of this work matter then the Regis
a tration laws have been changed max
Is. ing the Clerk the Official Registrar
a and the keeper of the registration
y. books, and he must furnish the reg
U, istration lists complete, in trlpllcate
A for each and every precinct OF the
gs County, which has added much ex
ira work to the office from this
source again all transcripts on ap
peal to the Supreme Court of thu
es State must be gotten out by thu
to Clerk. and we find that this changs
he in the laws has added largely to tn,
m duties of said office again instead o
70 the special road distrci tat&es bein,
IS worked out and the receipts TO
rs same turned in against the individ
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