The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-31

SASA" %AF NA~ Z
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day OF October, 1918.
Martin l.. Berther,
Notary Public in and for Lake Coun-
ty, South Dakota.
(SeaD
AS to the list of checks found not
sent out for a while l am also ac-
cused of something awful. We must
go back to November Z, 1917. 1t
was that date Mr.. Westaby left to
join the colors. Also Mr.. Schlebloom,
the boy whom | had given about two
hours a day executive office work,
Both these leaving, we were without
any help in the secretary's office or
In the registrars office. This was
before Miss Baker came to take care
of the book store and club accounts.
Therefore, during November and De
cember, / had to take up the work of
secretary and keep that office going
with my w work. Later Mr.. James
gave part of his time to the work
of the secretary, but only to take
care of state funds. He had nothing
to do with book or club money. Be-
cause of these conditions and be-
cause Mr.. Westaby was expected
home at Thanksgiving and then at
Christmas to turn things over fully,
we just had to keep open house and
could not close up club accounts
promptly at the end of the fall term.
Further, the students went away at
Christmas time owing from $500 to
$500 on board. All this with the alb
sence of the $1,462.12 fund of which
| did not then know, we just had to
be careful not to- send out checks of
the month until we had funds in the
bank. / asked Prof. Golf, the treas
urer of the club, to leave his checks
with me and / would have Miss Ba-
ker send them out rs we could, and
when we could meet the same.
may state here as elsewhere, that
this was the only time / eve took in
any club funds, during November
and December, 1917. Both Prof.
Lawrence and l kept the receipt
books, one had them while the other
was teaching and we took money if
students came to pay. We could not
however, close up the books and
square accounts. The money / took
in was not deposited in my private
account as alleged, but in the public
account of the secretary, with other
funds in the Lake County bank, and
remained there until April, when Mr..
Westaby and the public examiner di-
vided the funds. They were not
transferred to the club account, as
InII1rnl uvhnn Il Hnnu tho nBhlin nv
aminer was to come.
BY the way, Mr.. Urdahl claims ii
would have been an easy matter to
have separated all these funds, and
intimated or asserted it could have
been done in a few hours. 1t took
the public examiner a full week, and
he worked several nights on the job.
II would have taken either Mr.. Ur-
J dahl or myself two weeks or a month
] to do the same work.
| was only temporarily in charge
of any funds. just until a successor
to Mr.. Westaby could be selected
This was done about the first oil
[ April.
/ AS to the other charge of Mr.. Ur.
r dahl, that / diverted funds which
? had no right to do, etc. He bring;
this in under other Irregularities
2 Let me state this case: He is cor
! rect that in the summer of 1916 W.
, did use a surplus of club funds fol
4 some other use than hat of bacoI
I and wheat, etc. This balance wa
not needed for any club purpose. L
could not have been related TO thos'
: who paid in the ~incidentals tina
made Ii up. We did that severa
times, but it is an unfortunate plan
We try to keep about 81, 200 on hand
!, at the close of each school year, TO
I IL takes about that much to blu!
I dishes, linen, etc, for the next year
D and If each group leaves about tn
same amount there is no inequalit!
; in the plan.
But to return to this diversion o
: funds Hesrcn ordered. We, the com
: mittee, composed of Mrs. Preston
y Prof. j. w. Golf, Mr.. Westaby an'
: myself, all agreed that it was, undo
! all the circumstances, the thing t
y do to take $500 of that old unuse'
Z club fund and pay certain salarie
I for June, which the state auditor ha'
3 thrown out on a technically after h
: had agreed to pay them from tn
Esummer school fund. l admit Their
8 is a technical error in this action an
0 that / agreed to the same when !
0 was put up to me, and probabl
0 wrote the order for transfer of tn
Q amount. There are situations whel
: 1.-The absolutely technical thing is no
. imperative nor feasible. / make N
apology for this act, but / deny tina
. the money went to me or that l ha
anything whatever to do with its dis
= tribution.
: Mr.. Golf, as treasurer, turned
over to Mr.. Westaby, and he the mex
day paid Ii over to the differen
teachers who otherwise would nc
and could not have received any sal
aries for that month. The check
are on file in the secretary's office
and have always been open to in
n spection of reputable citizens. Fur
Their, Mr.. Urdahi knew of this at tina
q time, i'm 1910, but said nothing unit
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