Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-27
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EulCOF ASkOV AMERICAN.
DR.. w. c. Ehmke comes to aid Gus
tafson, and evidently wants the county
board to raise his salary. He says
that he wishes to inform the public
and show facts but as yet he has not
proved anything. Just because he
says so himself proves nothing. l
would like to know how he is going
to prove that Willow River School
District No. 81 does not have 1899
mills of school tax rate and Bruno
school in the unorganized district has
only 66.44 mills, both for school pur-
pose only, and both are high schools
and the teaching is the same. This is
of record and does not correspond with
your facts, Bill. You say that Gustaf-
son works hard, yes, for himself and
Mr.. Ehmke. same as they are doing
now. He says that the financial facts
were misrepresented, yes in 1923 and
1924 when C. M. Erickson was treas
urer of District No. 81 and cashier of
Willow River Bank. That's when the
school district lost over $4,000
through misrepresented reports. Look
this up and see if you did not sign
these reports as president of the
school board. This might refresh
your memory about facts in this mat
ter. Everybody in District 81 knows
all about this, so your home rule did
not do us any good at that time and
we would have been over $4,000 to
the good had we lost our home rule
before the Willow River bank went
broke, and this is all of record; so
where are your facts?
All l have stated before and now
is of record in the county seat and you
are trying to tell the public some
thing about county and school affairs;
be careful, records speak for them
selves and cannot be twisted and de-
MED, can be published and will be if
necessary.
He indicates that l had a reason
and that l would have received a
large salary had District No. 81 gone
into the unorganized district. Well,
you better get posted on these facts so
that you know what you are talking
about. But for your benefit l will
state that the chairman of the I'M
organized district receives So per
meeting as his fee and if all the
school districts in the county were in
the unorganized district the pay would
be the same and not 5000 as you in
dictate.
He gives us something about the
law and says that he heard that they
were going to discontinue the coop
buses. Well, they did not do this in
the unorganized district yet, so that
can't be a fact either.
He says that the county commits
sioners should not make attacks. We
are not, we are only defending our
selves. GustafsOn made the attack on
the county board because we did not
raise his salary as he wanted, and
because we rejected and reduced
many of his bills, which we found
too high or illegal. and we did the
same thing with Mr.. Ehmke's bills,
and that's why the sore spots and all
this noise. But these bills are of
record and we can publish them if nee
eSsary.
Yes, the county commissioners are
hard boiled, and they must reject or
disallow all shady bills of which the
pubic knows nothing about, but should
know And yet some drone will try to
mislead and fool the public by writing
smart letters so that he would not be
exposed.
F. w. STEFAN.
Willow River Mimi