The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-10-12
Candidate For Member of Board Of
Supervisors.

warren A. Caldwell, candidate on
the republican ticket seeking reelec-
ton to the office of member of the
Board of supervisors, term beginning
January /, 1918, and the people of the
county will exercise good judgment in
seeing that Mr.. Caldwell succeeds
himself. He has rendered the county
valuable service in the position at
the head of it's business and has saw
ed the tax payers money in almost ev.
cry direction he has turned his at.
Itention. .
This office is one of the most import
ant in the gift Of the voter and eX-
treme care should be exercised in
choosing men fitted for the place. 1t
is an office requiring excellent judg-
ment and peculiar business ability, eff!
ficiency and knowledge of condition
and of law. 1t is an office in which
careful superintendent is necessity
and requisite. Counties that keep a
good supervisor when they find one
profit thereby. One county of Iowa
kept supervisor in Office for term
of thirty years. The position above all
else requires a knowledge of county
business and this knowledge is not
easily nor quickly acquired The acts
of the members of the board may be
circumscribed and outlined by law
but the capable board member comes ,
near being worth his weight in gold
to his county. The inefficient, unin-
formed board member Is like poor
superintendent or business manager,
an expensive experiment to be avoid
ed. The superintendent or capable
manager at the head of business
gets results for his concern and just
as surely does the capable board
serve it's county. The office OF Board
member is the most vitality impol tant
within the gift of the voter and yet it
is one that too frequently receives
little thought on the part of the peo-
pile.
Warren Caldwell has brought re-
suits for Mahaska county and he is
business man worth keeping on the
job. He has a business of his own
and he has been eminently successful
in the management Of his private af-
fairs. He applies to the public office
the same diligence and study he gives
to his own interests and he makes
the same successful issue therein.
Mahaska county cannot afford at this
time to be without the services of
this well known public servant.
Everyone residing in the county. al.
most knows Warren Caldwell. Born
in White Oak township, he is the
fourth son of A. N. Caldwell who him.
self was called to serve the county as
board member, a term OF several
years, some thirty years ago. Warren
was student at Penn College, 1902
to 1915, and after his college record
taught school in Lincoln township. He
then gave his effort to the manage
ment of a farm of $50 acres until
about four years ago when he moved
to Oskaloosa to give his time to the
management of the Caldwell Silo Com
pany, an establishment that has made
notable success and growth, now
employing about Is men. He has serv-
ed the county as a board member 2
years and has given business ad-
ministration. While he has endeavored
at all times to favor home interests,
he has always had the well being of
the payer in view. AS the county seat
resident member has more to care
for than the country members Of the
board, the duties Of the town man are
naturally more numerous and upon
him largely falls the responsibility of
caring for the poor, hospital CO
In addition the manner in which the
county supervision is divided gives to
the town member fully half of the
county roads. to look after and the
bridges and crossings in one more
tonship than the territory cared for
by other members.
Mr. Caldwell is, in close touch with
the needs and desires of the farming
community, He served as constable
in his home township and is at pres
ent serving as state secretary of the
Iowa Grange and is in close touch
with all classes in his county. He fav-
ors extending the system of county
roads as rapidly as consistent with
conditions and demands. He believes
in permanent construction of bridges
and culverts rather than temporary,
make-shift work, as the more econcm
ical and satisfactory way of handling
this problem of county administration
economics. s
Mahaska County voters irrespective
OF party principle or inclination will
make no error in fayoring Mr.. Cald-
well at the polls on election day. rhe
record he has made encourages con-
fidence and should stand for recog