The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-05-01
HAVE WE--OR
HAVE WE NOT?

tie matter OF SIX or seven
dollars as between friends, if you
ask me. Its nothing to get all het
up about"
Howdy, folks. You know we
plumb forgot to make a salutation
at the head of this dust storm
cause we were doing a little
heavy thinkin' and havin' quite
an argument with ourself and
we emerged from the argument
with a coupla questions on, what
we modestly call, our mind. Some
fellers will claim we're overratin'
ourself, but we'll let that go.
In this day and age of the
world and politics, since said pol
itics has come into the spotlight
as the biggest business in the
world, it seems childish and ir-
relevant to mention sums in the
hundreds or thousands and down
right petty to decry the loss of a
few hundred dollars.
But, anyhow, question number
one: Have We a County Physician
or have We a County Physician?
Question number two: Have we
a County Health Ossifer, or have
we a Countie health Ossifer, Huh?
Well, just to satisfy ourself, we
went into Mr.. Cox's recording
museum, where they keep a record
of everything whether it has any
value or whether it hasn't and
we asked for and got what are
called the Minutes of the pro-
ceedings of the County Commits
sioners. I never could understand
just why they call 'em Minutes,
anyhow, because they usually run
up into days and daze.
Well, after scanning all the
minutes, including (a)m e d c d
minutes, made on March 3, 1886,
as of January 6 1886 We discovered
that we have both, a County Ply
sician and a County Health Of
ficer, (Some folks have doubted
this but its a fact.) with all the
emoluments, appurtenances and
whatever else goes with the said
jobs, being due and payable each
month to one and the same per-
Son
The County Physician gets
twenty bucks per month with no
drag pardon, I near milage)
mentioned. The County Health
Officer, ACCORDING to the above
mention mended minutes, gets
eighty dollars per month and mil
age not to exceed seven cents per
mile. While there seems to be a
speed limit on the amount paid
per mile, there doesn't seem to be
any such limit on the number OF
miles. Incidentally, we note that
the Health officers milage listed
in the April proceedings amount
to ninetys-six dollars and eleven
cents or the equivalent of tnir-
teen hundred and seventy-three
miles. OF course we can see
from this that that little ole seven
cents per mile is no mean drag,
specially when you have to do all
the runnin' around that tn e
Health officer, apparently, has tc
do.
Now, the first job. that OF
County Physician, was let by bic
and the low bidder got it, all o.
which is perfectly all right. The
other job, that Of Health officer
was appointive.
So, the main question that
seems to be coursin' thru our
what I mentioned a little. while
ago. is just why did the Count,
Papas let the job Of County health
officer, for eighty dollars PEI
month with a more or less elastic
milage attachment, when another
capable and fully qualified ply.
stefan offered to do the health Of.
flee work for twenty five dollar!
per month and pay his own dral
or milage.
OF course as we said before, i
only means q difference Of six o.
seven hundred dollars per wear ir
the salary end Of the deal, leav.
ing the milage emolument (that
sounds better than drag) as x
the unknown quantity. From {
taxpayers point Of view, six D
seven hundred dollars looks lika
AEWeI, six or seven hundred dol.