New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-02
COUNTY BUSINESS IS
INCREASED IN 1915
REVENUE AND POOR FUNDS APP.
PEAR WITH INCREASED
OVERDRAFTS.

OVERDRAFTS.
BOTH RECEIPTS AND EXPENDI-
TURES WERE GREATER THAN
IN 1914.
While to most readers of newspapers
the perusal of the financial statement of
the county seems a useless waste OF
energy on the account of the maze of
figures contained therein, in reality it is
the one document published by the
county in which every taxpayer should
be interested, as it shows the amount of
business transacted in the several
branches of the county government, the
salaries drawn by the officials, the amount
of taxes paid and the purposes to which
these taxes were diverted.
The county treasurer's exhibit shows
a greater balance on hand at the end of
1915 than it did in 1914, but it also
shows that the receipts and expenditures
exceeded those of the previous year.
The balance on hand at the beginning
of 1916 was 91,027.23, as against
37,668.34 the year before. The main
source of income, of course, was the tax
collections, which brought the sum of
1922, 731. 10 into the Golfers of the county,
to which amount was added $55 100000
from the sale of state rural highway
bonds, 100000 from the sale Of ditch
bonds, $25,729.21 from interest and
principal on bitches and $37 ,80S.45 from
the school apportionment and aid. The
inheritance tax payers contributed 49,
1920, aid from the state in the con-
struction of state roads another SIS ,434.20
and the ninnrods of the county $771.30
more for hunting licenses. These are the
main items of receipts, which with the
minor sources of income bring the re-
ceipts of the county up to total of
$548,626.94, including the cash balance
of $37, 668.34 left over from the previous
year.
The main item in the disbursements
went to the school fund, $137, 328.37,
with the town fund second with 1884,
367.26. The county revenue fund, out
of which are paid the salaries of the
county officials, the expenses of the dis
trict and justice courts, furniture, sta
tionery, printing and other supplies,
used up total of $34, 896.47 and shows a
deficit at the end of the year of 24,878.-
sc. The latter fund last year showed a
deficit of $19,724.93.
The county poor fund drew total Of
$l4,472.47 and also shows an increased
overdraft over the previous year. Last
year this fund had been overdrawn to the
extent of 11,081.43 and this year that
amount is increased to $13,834.77. The
items in the poor fund were expended as
follows: Physicians, $1,715.40; medi-
cine, $257.50; relief orders issued by
county commissioners, $2,673.11; mis-
cellaneous, including groceries fuel, and
board, funeral expenses, etc., $3,929.87;
poor farm expenses, $5,218.50, and
mothers pensions, $678.00, total of
$l4,47247. The orders issued by the
county commissioners we're distributed
as follows: First district, $4,000; Sec
ond district, nothing; third district,
$1,38100; fourth district, $472.75; fifth
district, $649.36.
The total liabilities of the county are
the overdrafts in. the two funds men
toned amounting to $38,713.63 and
100000 still unpaid on poor farm land.
The assets of the county are given as
$190,575.78, included in which are the
taxes for 1914 still uncollected, the taxes
for the current year and the value of the
buildings owned by the county, the
court house, jail and poor farm buildings.
Of the appropriation for the county
revenue fund nearly one-half went for
salaries of county officials, the total for
that purpose being $17,372.82, dis
tributed as follows:
Louis G. Vogel, Co. Auditor. $2,50O.OO
Henry J. Berg, Co. treasurer. 10000
George Ross, judge of Probate $4,000
R. B. Kennedy, superinten-
dent of schools ..... 10000
Adolph Frederickson, county
attorney .......... 10000
W.. Julius, sheriff .. 10000
Carl P. Manderfeld, clerk of
court ......... 10000
Loretta Sturm, Minnie Schroe-
der, deputy auditors and
Frida Mielke, M. B. Vogel,
Elma Frank and Hilda
Luetjen, as clerks. .... 1,482.3C