The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-26
ON
 ROAD DIST. NO. 3
Assessors to Meet Saturday, Febru- ary 4, to Correct Assessments
 Financial Statement-Still
 Hope for Improvement.

Announcement that the assessors os Road Improvement District No. 3 had given notice of meeting to be held Saturday, February 4, has re- vived interest in the highway pro- posed to be built from Mena, thru Rocky to the Oklahoma line.
 The meeting called by the asses sors is for the purpose of correcting a number of assessments enormously made and for the approval of certain land descriptions which were not given in sufficient detail in the for mer assessment. While the meeting is mainly for the purpose of making the records strictly and accurately legal, in order to avoid objections from the attorneys of bond buyers, any and all property owners in the district have the right to call and ex- anime the assessors books.
 Commissioners of the district have never given up hope that some day the road could be built and they have been working to that end the past several months. As a result of their work and others the prospects of building the road are considerably brighter than they were.
 Better prices for bonds and lower prices on materials make a combin- ation that make the highway situa- tion better in the opinion of the com missioners, who are seeking to get the best possible road at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayers.
 No assessment is being collected 1T the district this year. Last year small assessment was collected 1T order to pay for indebtedness in cured. The figures of collection anc expenditure never having been pub. lished before, The Star has arranged to give them, tho such publication is not required by law until such time as bonds are sold and money received therefrom. The official record can bt seen by anyone interested in the of flee of County Treasurer Mount.
 Sheriff Thornton as tax collector turned over to the county treasurer { total of $5,783.75, which is the tota amount he collected in District No. 5 save the amount allowed him by law for the work. This amount of 50, 7S3.75 has all been spent, save a bal ance of $3.99, still in the hands of the county treasurer.
 The money was paid out to th' following persons and for the pur poses explained below:
 First National bank, repay
 ment loans ..........- 4,bUo.o O. Emmett Rowe, services on commission and travelling
 expenses one trip to Little ROCK A-C@C' II. w. Finger, exp. trip to
 Little Rock ............ 25.0l Minor Pipkin, attorneys
 services ........... oVV.u, c. L. Graham, A. S. Daniels
 and c. L. Clement, asses oooe
 orS .................. ocV.oS '" missioner ......... 75.oC R. M. Berry, services com
 missioner and travelling
 expense ................. lVV.v' w. F. Mount, treasurers
 commission .............. llo.oi w. l.. Linam, refund on as- sesSment s............. f.zc Mena Star, official publica-
 tons ............... oo.Ot Will Alexander, making as-
 sessment record ......... lO.9l
 The largest item of expenditure that to the bank, is due to the fac that while the engineering work wal being done it was necessary to bor row money and pay the engineers Some other items of expenses were also paid for out of this borrowed money, among which were assessorl books, and legal expenses before At torney Pipkin was engaged. The en gineers have been paid in full to dat and the loan with interest repaid il full at the bank. The present indebt edness of the district is said tt be but a small amount.