The Little River news., 1919-01-04
COUNTY OFFICERS
 ARE SWORN IM
J. W. Duren County Treasurer Only Officer Not Beginning
 His First
 Term.

tiSSio lSIii sHS. iS Ouly O4.lCCl OO-
 ming on second term was J. w.
 iren, county treasurer. Mr Duren ~ served only one term and having V len general satis action had been kcted for g second term without op
 tition. MT. Duren is ill with the
 and will be sworn in later. . ice of county judge after having
 wed two terms. He has been fine
 ford and the county today finds it. CEFf in a good financial condition. ! nile there is some scrip outstanding
 ie finances have reached that place ihere scrip is taken up and cashed by
 he treasurer in the order of it's issue
 fithin reasonable time In a short
 lme the county may be placed on a cash basis entirely. P. M, McCord, the newly elected county judge was sworn in and now has assumed the duties of office. Mir McCord enters upon office with the entire confidence of his fellow 1 NitlHSAo, WAO OOiiCNC AO VIII LlChS good He has lain great stress on road building, seeing Ill that the ac- complishmcnt of the greatest good tc the county as whole. He will no doubt make some changes ac- cording to his ideas in working and maintaining roads. It is understood i hot h1t ,y;1 hn Ise3, and that oil tractors have been purchased, and that these will largely supplant the mule drawn graders. Since everybody wants good roads MT. McCord may be assured of the fact that he cant go too far along these lines so long as he gets results and more of them.
 1 W. D. Waldrop retires from the of flee of collector and sheriff after two terms of successful administration Or the affairs of that office. lie had male a good officer as well as popular one, and he retires from political life with honor and expects to looi, after his farming interests and also to engage in the real estate Du=.ness. J. R. Pierce is the new sheriff. He has been chief deputy for four years and has already proven his efficiency Be- sides knowing how and what to do when it comes to running the sheriff's , office he is crackerjack of a good fellow besides.
 Chas. H. Park has handed over his stewardship as County and Circuit Clerk. which office he has held for the past four years. Mir Park will look after his farming inte: ests. He has made a good officer and neither he nor his people have any regrets to look back upon. J. Il. Williams is the new clerk. While he was confined to his bed he was sworn in and now has charge of the office through his depu- ty Will Denson. Mir. Williams has , been chief deputy under Mir. Park and knows the job from clean on down | 10 izzari. Folks voted for him like they liked him a whole heap. and we'd be willing to guarantee that the official records will be in good hands during his term.
 II. W. Gray takes over the office of assessor. succeeding F.. NJ. billiard, who retires at the end of his second term. The office of assessor for ob- vious reasons has always been hard to hold for more than one term. Mir. billiard held it his allotted two. whiea means that he was an assessor that was an exception and a good one. MT. Gray Is we'll known and liked, and win no doubt make good
 Prof. T. T. C. Anderson succeeds w. L. Phillips as representative of the county. Mir. Phillips had only served one term and did not run for second term. He made a good representative. Prof Anderson was elected by large majority and has the ability and the convictions to make splendid rep- resentatiye in the forthcoming gener- al assembly.
 K s. Thomas succeeds A. $. Fellows as surveyor. He is a good engineer as we'll as surveyor with all tue tech nicai knowledge needed and which Is SO hard 10 find in many of the counties of the state.
 The district officers, who were cleo tod by this and othes counties are as follows:
 O. T. wingo. member of congress, elected to succeed himself without op- position, and with c .scord loo per cent American and always on the job for his constituency.
 Judge Jas s. Steel. elected by an