The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1922-06-23
DISCHARGED TRIBUNE MANAGER.
TRIES To DISRUPT LEAGUE.
Eleventh Hour Attack IS made BY Nelson and
other |. Y. As in County Circular Be
ing mailed from Sheriff Office and will
Be published in other papers this week.

carl Nelson, who was employed
as manager Of the Bowbells Trib-
une for three months last winter.
& and who was fired for incompetence
and because he failed to keep a
record Of the business, mas written
4 letter which has been sent, by
himself or parties in Burke county
who have been lighting the Nom
partisan League, to various resi-
dents of the county In which he
: attempts to discredit the board Of
directors OF the Burke County
Farmers Press, The County Execu-
tive Committee, some OF the League
county officials, the former manager,
b. "a. Stefonowicz, and Senator Ing
erson. to whom the letter is ad-
dressed.
He does not charge that any II
legal action has been committed by
+ anyone Of the men Wflom he attacks
but his whole letter is filed with
the cowardly insinuations of a
character assassin who has ascer-
tanned by long experience the divtd-
& ing line between libel or slander
and q cheap line of bluff, bluster
and inuendu. His excuse for writ
Ing this letter, he gives, as his
method Of letting the people of
Burke county know why he no
D longer is manager of The Tribune
and to correct false reports that he
says have been circulated.
That there may be no grounds
for false reports as to why he was
discharged, 1t is here stated that
the board OF directors fired him be-
cause he was incapable Of managing
The Tribune in businesslike man
ner.
He quotes parts Of a letter which
Senator Ingerson wrote him after
the senator returned from the state
convention, in which he demaded
that Nelson correct some untrue
statements he had made in The
1 Tribune Nelson admitted the
sta4erHents were incorrect and cor
4 rccted them in the next issue, bat
IN the letter he has been circulating
he states that this demand for cor
rection from Senator Ingerson was
L the cause for the disagreement pe-
tween himself and the senator The
readers OF The Tribune, we believe,
expect the board Of directors to in
1 sist that it's manager print the
truth.
Nelson's evident object is, TO dis
Y rupt the League forces in Burke
county. He was fred from a job
that naid $4,000 per week because
his methods would soon wreck this
farmer owned cooperative enter
prise, and 1t made him sore and he
takes this underhanded method OF
getting revenge.
The charge that the taxpayers
I have been overcharged for official
publications by the Tribune while
4 he was manager and before Is an
swered In the following letters, the
first OF which was written to MI.
Carl Nelson by Senator Ingerson at
the request OF the board Of direct
Ors Of The Tribune. and the second
letter printed below Is a letter writ
ten to Senator Ingerson by the for
y Imer. editor and manager OF The
Tribune. b. "A. Stefonowicz. whom
] the reading public or Burke county
have known for years as q straight
4 shooter and one OF the most capable
editors and newspaper managers in
the state. .3. n
signed:
GEO! 8. WHITE, Vice Pres.
ss8 C. s.. SUMMERS, Sec. Treas.
d. y. MARKS, Director
w. &. MITCHELL, Director.
Following Ii Ingersorl's letter to
Bowbells, IN. ID,
June 1922.
4 NH. Carl Nelson, ,si III
Cando. N. Oak,
Dear Sir: y S.s
Your letter written IA Bowbells.
/, May 10th and mailed to me from
Cando, May list. has peen received
and would have been u answered
sooner if the Board Of directors Of
the Burke County Farmers Press
8 had been able to get your Jumbled
4 accounts OF the BowDells Tribune
HtraiEhtened out so that we could
tell iii what condition your mis-
management OF that business for
! three months had left it in. 5
Your record of the business done
during the time you were supposed
ito be managing lit, was so fncom-
plete that we had to employ an ex-s
spert accountant whose services We
could only secure evenings, SO it ia.
0nly recently that we have been
certain Of what We suspected when
you we're discharge that under
h the, business methode you were fol-
lowing thin o-opnrarive enterprise
would be wrecked ss 81.
Besides the chaotic cond dition Id
which you left your accounts, we
h have found also several Items Of
which you failed to make any rec
DrdS ut all. Two notices foS cred 1tor6s