Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-04-04
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Paid 11-24-11 - No. l41.

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! Paid 11-24-11 - No. l41.
\ What does the inspection of thi
bill disclose? First, that there wer,
$40 names ON the census roll of 1911
for which the clerk is allowed b.
law five cents for each name.
The specific wording of the law Il
Section %, (K)-- For said services
50 d clerk shall be allowed, as full
compensation therefor, five cents, (5,
for each child so enumerated. 62(
names at five cents per name makes
$31.O0. That accounts for the item
of $3l.0 all right. The $780, they
claimed at the trial, was the amount
the board agreed to give the clerk
! for making a list the names for
each teacher in the school, some
i twelve at that time, as | remember
the evidence. AS the bill shows a
total of 462l4 words, these, at zoe.
per folio would be 92.42, but she
Jumped the work at $500, or for
$17.42 less than the amount figured
at 20 cents per folio.
However, when you take two
things into consideration, you will see
where the district ''got off at First,
that the price, according to the Boise
standard of prices, is only 15 cents
per folio for tabular work for the
FIRST copy and only 712 cents for
carbon copies, and If the clerk made
these in carbon copy, Gas per her
testimony you would get about this
result; Three original copies at Is
cents per folio, and nine carbon
copies at 71a cents per folio, in
stead of twelve copies at 20 cents
per folio Much cheaper TO send
our work to Boise to be done, be-
sides saving the cost of a typewriter
for the clerks office. You can figure
for yourself that 46214 words, at
standard typewriting prices, one
fourth allowed for original and three
fourth of them carbon copies, should
come to about $4,000. Instead we
have paid for all, both original and
carbon copies, at nearly 20 cents per
folio, or $500.
But we are furnishing typewriters
to the school, and typewriting is
taught in the school, and, as students
are des!rous of getting practical ex-
perence, why not let them type
write these copies and save the dis
strict the entire $500? We have
never heard of any complaint of their
doing Prof. Warmers typewriting
for him, in fact, it has been spoken
Of in high terms Of commendation as
9 wing them some pract C II exper ence
which might save the district money,
would be very commendable from the
over-burdened taxpayers view point.
md, when you take inup consideration
hat the board paid the clerk this
$500, not only in 1913 but each year
pack to 1908, (there was no evidence
Introduced prior to 1909, you can
ilgure that for that time alone ii
las cost the district $4,000 for this
me item of typewritng. Typewrit.
ng is taught in the school, and
hese lists would furnish Just as ben
9f.cial, practical work as the type
writing that is being done for Prof.
Warner.
Now we have analyzed $4,000 of
he above bill The balance is
Extra repori 10 day at W 30, $500"
There Is nothing in this bill to sig
llfy what extra report is meant, so
20 to the Reco der Is office for in
ard find that order for
No. 141, paid November Gath,
9l1, shows, kitty S. Cowen, $131 90,
eport, services, typewriting." No
aforn alton in that as to any or what
Xtra report, so we turn to the pub
lshed report, VIII 'ch the law makes
the duty Of the trustees to furnish
IS, and when they took their office
hey took an oath to comply with
hat law. November gath, 1911 would
e reported to us in the report be-
ming July 1911, and ending July
9l2.s In that report we find CLERK
eryces, Kitty s. Cowen, $4,000"
hat DOESN'T enlighten us, for that
her salary as clerk for which she
5 10 make the reports, keep the
oard minutes, and the usual work
evolving on the Clerk; and we
'ant to find what EXTRA REPORT, |
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