The producers news., 1927-06-17


had to hunt horses and cattle and
build fences for several days just be-
cause a neighbor of his wanted to
play a dirty trick on him and show
how almighty he was, giving himself
authority which he did not have at
all. If Hendrickson had been half as
bullheaded as this county commission
er he would simply have built his
fence across the graded road which he
had perfect right to, but being
gentlemen he did not do it. Afterward
Ed 1verson was small enough to come
out and put the blame on the men in
stead of taking it upon his own shoul-
ders like a man.
AT the last commissioners meeting,
the Board sure made another clever
move. Dan Olson has been the Pur-
chasing Agent for years. As far as
anybody knows, Dan never stole any
money or received any graft off the
job. 1t just gives him some more
work without any extra pay. He did
not kick and nobody else kicked-nOt
even the county commissioners. Dan
has been handling the job satisfactory
y
in supplies we could get it from Dan.
He had the key to the storage room.
Our County Commissioners by this
time had had quite some experience
in buying machinery, lumber and
culverts. Through this experience
they were very likely come to the con-
clusiOn that it would be worth while
extending the business to typewriter
ribbons, lead pencils, pen points and
other office supplies. So our County
Commissioners fired Dan Olson as
Purchasing Agent and appointed
themselves.
Ed. Iverson is getting more and,
more important every day. Now he
is also carrying the key to the stor-
age room. From now on every time
any of us need a pen point, we have
to call Ed. Iverson on the long dis
tance telephone and he has to make
a special trip in here with the key
he is on the go just about all the time
| suppose he expects to get his $500
per day and mileage for this work, so
getting pen point might cost the
taxpayers $3.50 besides the long dis
tance telephone call. Some people
think the whole board is going luny,
but how are you going to prove it
with Ed on the Insanity Board.
At the last meeting, Our County
Commissioners also decided to hire
Mr.. Babcock to defend them in the
taxpayers suit l have started against
them. 1t would be perfectly lovely
wouldn't it, to be~county commission
ers and violate the laws to their
hearts content and then use the tax
payers money to pay for expensive
lawyers to defend them. l think Mr..
Babcock will be wise enough not to
look for any county money in this
case.
Mr.. Riba did not get his road clos
ed at this meeting after all. The COM
missiOners could not deliver the goods
although they had promised him. The
deal had gotten too much publicity
and there was too much opposition at
the hearing. The best they could do
was to lay it over till next meeting
when they hope to be able to slip it
over when nobody is looking, but Mr..
Rlba got his taxes reduced so that
ought to pay him for voting for
Frank. 1t is not nice being too hog
/ glsh either, but somehow these bank
ers do not know when to stop, thev
were getting so used to grab it all.
After Pat Wallace had made his
famous spiel before the commission
ers, Ed Iverson beat it up town
swinging his arms in the air and
hollering: 81 am going to fight them
to a finish" +" Ed is fighting the fell
lows who voted for him and put him
IN office and honestly we deserve a
good licking for doing it, so lust 90
to it Ed, the fight will soon be over
anyway.
The county printing was let to the
PlentywOod Herald, "being the best
and lowest bidder" What a fake this
best and lowest bidder is anyway.
Long before any bid was ever turned
in, we knew that Kahle was going to
vote for the Producers News, Iverson
had strict orders from Mr.. Onstad to
vote for the Plentywood Herald and
French had promised it to the Medi-
cine Lake Wave. On the strength of
/ NA14o PAO1ll1oC -LuIClS Joe udQ travelled
all over the county selling shares in
a new linotype machine. Now Joe is
out of luck. He got a new linotvpe
machine and no contract and what
about the shareholders. Frank French
will have to do some tall talking in
order to explain why he was not able
to deliver the goods. Frank simply
did not have the nerve. and you can
not blame him after it leaked out
about Joe's spree and the way he
treated his wife and also the way he
has handled the printing contracts be-
fore. In a report from the State Ex-
aminer we read as follows: eve ex-
amined some of the claims presented
by Joe Dolin for county printing and
find cause for Complaint as entered
in the District Court. We note re-
fund after refund due the County on