| Show SALARIES TO GO QUIP UP I II I I Count County Counts j Employees an n Increase J BOARD WILL MEET TODAY A i COMMISSIONERS TO THEES C At AI tile the tie Time the Cuts Guts Were Made Three Years Years Ago It Was Agreed That the th Schedule Then In Force Fo e Would Be Re Restored When Condi Conditions I Warranted the th Increase 4 The county commissioners have a pleasurable surprise in store for tor the employees in the several se Be eral ceral county offices For several months past pasi pu the heads of O departments hav have been urging the jus justice justice tice Lice and propriety of increasing the salaries of some of the underpaid dep deputies deputies deputies and clerks lerk who have continued to render efficient nt services at inequitable le rates at of compensation All along alo j the commissioners p have haTe recognized the tue justice of the demands for better pay but the finan financial financial cial condition con has rendered it inadvisable Inadvisable able aole to act on cm the lines desired When salaries we cut three years ago it was known that the pruning knife had gone too deep P in many instances and arid the promise e waa then made that as aa soon as no a the opportunity offered all com COID would be adjusted To Adjust t Salaries By the exercise of or wise economy the county is at last fre from front floating Keating debt und and now tile tie are in po position altion to tl adjust t salaries on a scale of if fairness fair but b t still tm within the limits limita of or ofa c a proper regard for cr the taxpayers in interests inte te t gats S SAs As A the new year veal starts out ut the corn com comm m itol icel that the time is ripe for redeeming the th pledges made to adjust salaries One fact however has forced immediate mediate attention to the Question oue and that is he common knowledge prices rices on all commodities have haH made living expenses of wage earners higner and higher This ap to tu ai and em el employees employees y s but tLc tie pin v i ill ro to coma Om Omin in lor a d snare c L tae InC l L Ol favor since gince S nc the vere ere erel fixed l d at the maximum max mum baft ro their elec clec election election tion lion anti cannot be tie change chans l now ivow For the thA purpose p rI e of considering the salary x IK lg y cut u ution i non and de ing ng a i r for the year 1900 the commissioners c ont will hoid hoil hoi an executive tive E t Iday tda Ail All the county of officials have hae been t een notified to participate pax t in the es but no one une will have I an opportunity to tu hear his colleagues plead in behalf of vf his m l office force forc Each Has a Half H f Hour flour By an arrangement reads made County Recorder Jensen will hold counsel witS the board at 10 this morning moraine followed by County Clerk Dunbar at 1030 1010 At 11 Sheriff Howells will make his p and half hal an hour later Treas Treasurer Treasurer will have the floor As Assessor sessor r Quinn will have his ms inning at 2 p m in Chief Chi f Engineer Lawrence and anti Chief Janitor Jan ter will w ill divide be between between between tween them the tae time from to making way xay for fr f r Auditor Wood at the latter hour County Attorney Putnam will report at 4 In order or er to effect the lIre new schedule of salaries laries to t subordinate officials and other employees in the south uth halt half of the public Dublin building it te as probable that thata a few superfluous heads here and there may be knocked ulO ked off oft in departments where the rush 1 of work is La over for tHe season |
