The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-10
HIGH COST OF
LIVING HURTS
AFFECTS PUBLIC AFFAIRS AS
WELL AS INDIVIDUALS.
COUNTY MUST ISSUE BONDS
increased Prices On Everything En-
tering Into Upkeep of Roads,
Bridges and Institutes Makes Big
Amount in the Aggregate.


Resolutions adopted by the board
of supervisors of Mahaska county
provide the issuance of bonds in the
sum of $4,000 for the taking up of
outstanding warrants on various
county funds, now overdrawn. EN-
bodied in the resolutions are state
ments to the effect that the county
bridge fund and road fund are over
drawn to the amount of $31, 900, that
the poor fund is overdrawn in the
sum of $1,000, and that the county
fund and the hospital fund are over
drawn $4,000. The bonds will be
sold at public auction on Friday, Jan
uary Is, 1918.
That the funds mentioned above as
overdrawn could easily be drained
with ever soaring prices can be read
lily seen. especially by the man of
the house who tries to hold down fam
lily expenses. The levies have not
kept pace with increasing prices and
as result the funds have been grad
ually overdrawn from year to year. An
increase in the county levies for the
current year will care for the county's
current upkeep, so that no further is
sue OF bonds will likely be necessary
adopted by the board reads;
Resolution by the Board.
Whereas, the Board of Supervisors
finds that by reason of the increased
cost of labor and all bridge material,
the County Bridge Fund and Road
Fund are overdrawn to the amount of
thirty-one thousand dollars; and
Whereas. the Government has re-
quested that the Improvement of the
roads and the building of bridges be
carried on during the war in normal
manner; and
Whereas, by reason of the increased
cost of all food stuffs and COAL as well
as clothing and all material and sup
plies used in supplying the regular
requirements that are furnished to the
poor and needy, and payment of wild
ows' pensions and blind pensions, the
Poor Fund is now overdrawn in the
sum of Eleven thousand six hundred
dollars; and
Whereas, by reason of the increased
cost of all supplies required by law to
be furnished to the various county
officers of Mahaska County, Iowa, and
the increased amount of supplies re
quired to be furnished to said officers
by reason of additional legislation, the
County Fund and Hospital Fund are
overdrawn in the amount Of Seventeen
thousand dollars; and
Whereas, the banks of Mahaska
County have on hands a very large
amount of warrants that have been
issued against these various funds,
and stamped not paid for want of
funds, and it being deemed inadvisa-
BILE to ask the banks to longer con-
tinue to carry this large amount of
outstanding warrants on account of
the urgent need of available banking
resources to be used in Liberty Loans
and other patriotic purposes, as well
as in taking care of the regular de-
mand for loans that arise at this
time of year in an agricultural COM
munity; therefore,
BE 1T RESOLVED, by the Board of
Supervisors that, pledging themselves
to a careful conscientious and eco
nomical use of all of the various
funds of the County, and to exercise
the same watchfulness in the ex-
penditure of county funds as the indi-
vidual members would in expanding
their own money, that the Board of
Supervisors, under the authority
conferred upon them by law, and for
the purpose of taking up all out
standing warrants, issue the negoti-
able bonds of Mahaska County in the
sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars, and
that said bonds be sold at auction in
the open market January 18th, 1915,
after full and complete advertisement
among the various banks, trust COM
panies and bond companies in Ma
haska County and the State of Iowa
and other States.
(Signed)
M. S. ,DOwNEY, Chairman.
III. ]. MOORE,
w. A, CALDWELL.