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Show mm FAcing BlUVfSIIUifl Report of County Treasurer Grocsbeck Is Subni'ilfed for Month of August. SUM OF $139,186.68 AMOUNT OF DEFICIT Monthly Reports of County' Clerk and Sheriff Also Are Filed. Tho county has a handsome overdraft over-draft on hand. County Treasurer Groesbcck's report for the month of August, submitted Wednesday, shows that the county had on hand nt the close of business August. 31, just $-J2,-011.51. To ofl'set this balance thore is $1S2,00S.17 in warrants outstanding against tho county. This leaves an overdraft with the county's bankers of $K51),l.Sb'.l3. So tho county will havo to make nrrangomonts Avith its bankers or else refuse to cash llio warrants when presented for payment. Hut, at this, the county is $0,107. 53 better off than at this time last, year. At the end of August last vear the balance was $.11,0S-1 .05, whilo'lho outstanding out-standing warrants amounted to .-JISO,-.'1.10. 11, leaving an overdraft of $I'1S,-35-1. Hj. Outside of rhe donation of $7,500 for the entertainment of tho national encampment en-campment of the Grand Army of the Republic, there havo been no" extraordinary extraor-dinary expenditures so far this ycar, BO thore is no apparent good reason for tho depleted condition' of the county treasury beyond mismanagement of the county n (Fairs by county officials, mainly by county commissioners. The" balances reported by the county treasurer as being on hand August 31, which wouldn't bo there were tho county's debts paid off, aro distributed as follows: General expense fund, $1(1,0.13.00; tax sale redemption fund, $115,000. 7-S; county school fund, $5S.0G: state jurors' and witness' fund, $7S1; and bond interest fund, $0,337.50. County (Merit Margaret Zane Witcher filed her monthly report with the county coun-ty auditor Wednesday, showing the receipts re-ceipts for her oflieo for the month just ended to have been $2,738.45 as against only $1.S70.70 lor the corresponding period of this lime last vear. In fact, the receipts of this oliiee this year have shown an increase over tho corro-, sponding period last j'car from the firt of the current year. Sheriff Sharp's contingent Tund shows a balance on hand August 3.1 of $225.01. The expenditures for the month from this- fund were $70. 5S. |
