Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-12-29
FIRST BOOKS KEPT
BY McC0VERN CAN
NOT BE LOCATED
Search of Files of Industrial
Commission Fail to Reveal
First Set of Books Pur-
chased For State Mill and
Elevator Association.

~lldSCu IOI Oldle N1Iu anu
Elevator Association.
Bismarck. \. d.. Dec. 22-t tSpec-
ial "A search of the files Of the In
dustral Commission has failed to re-
veal the first set OF books kept by
The Mill and Elevator Association
under J. II. McGovern. Records of
the commission show that bill was
paid for two sets OF books, according
TO Lewis Crawford. secretary. Only
one set of books is in the office.
There was a journal cash book
and ledger in the first set Of books
purchased for the Mill and Eleva-
or office. according to the records.
J. n. McGOvern was appointed man
ager of the Mill and Elevator AS
sociati0n on May "a. 1919 and drew
a salary on June 30, 1919? 4 sec
ond set Of books was purchased on
Dec. s. 1920. The second set or
books contains entries entirely IN
purple ink. which does not show
age.
The books of the Mill and Eleva-
tor Association became notorious
during the time the Bishop, Bris-
man Audit company was seeking
them for the purpose OF making an
audit for the state board Of audits.
The Bishop. Brisman report speaks
of the efforts to get these records AS
follows:
I'VE inquired OF the Secretary OF
the Industrial Commission at Bis
marck for these records, and were
!, advised that all of the records of the
North Dakota Mill and Elevator As
sociatiOn were either at the Drake
mill or at the Offices Of the Assoc1a-
ton at Fargo or mill at Grand
Forks.
I'VE inquired for these conslgn-
ment records at the office OF the As
sociation. Mr. McGovern;s secretary
Mrs. Dodds. informed us that Mr..
McGovern was absent from the city
at the time: and in regard to the
consignment sales records, that no
such records we're at the Fargo Office
but that weekly reports were made
by the consignee to the office at
Drake or TO the Industrial Comris-
sion's office at Bismarck.
Mrs. Dodds also informed us that
the bookkeeping records OF the Far
70 office had been turned over To
the Equitable Audit company for au-
dit the latter part OF the preceding
month, and to the best OF her knowl-
edge were still III their possession.
1--WE next inquired of Mr. Dar-
ling, the representative OF the said
Euuitable Audit company then at
Bismarck, if he knew where these
records were obtainable. and were.
| u t,,, ha{ nj than1
were in a suitcase of his locked up
in Fargo, and that the remainder
were in his possession at Bismarck:
that the records were IN confused
condition and he had been engaged
in endeavoring to straightcp them
out, when he was called away from
Fargo. We asked him il it would
be possible to get an order from him
for the records at Fargo and were
informed that nobody but himself
could get them
The records are not volminous aud
the number of entries are compara-
lively small a bill had been allow
ed to the Equitable Audit company
! for SIG for work on the records OF
the Mill and Elevator Association.
There are vouchers to show that
! two sets of books were purchased,
but only one set Of books in the pos
! session of the Industrial Commits
sion, and nothing to Indicate what
became Of the first set of books.
In this connection records show
| that J. II. McGoyern resigned as
manager of the Mill and Elevator
Association last January 2S effec-
tive February /. When McGov-
ern's resignation was announced
during the legislative session last
! winter, it was said he had resigned
/! in the previous November.
Another example OF queer handl-
ing Of records was revealed when
resolution which. according to
COPY Of the resolutions, was adopted
by the Industrial Commission. Jan.
|28, 1921, was not. spread upon the
permanent recor dof the commission
This resolution, introduced by
Attorney General Lemke. was to
make retroactive an agreement as to
nay at the Drake mill with the In
tcrnational Union Of Brewery. Flour.
Cereal and Soft Drink. Workers. The
resolution provided that the contract
made Jan. .22, 1921, be made retro
active TO take, effect from and after.
June 80. 1920 to Feb. .2S, 1921. ~
The Equitable Audit Company's
report showed that retroactive: pay
was allowed.
However, the paragraph which
was in typewritten copy Of the min.
utes Of the meeting, relating to this
was omitted from the permanent rec
ord Of the minutes. All other parts
of the days business were Included.
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