Show COUNTY ACCOUNTS MUCH ADO ABOUT TRIFLES BY ANOTHER PAPER Old Three Weeks Behind PublHIicn a Sensation True State of Affairs Af-fairs of Finance Up to Date Work of the Experts Two months ago when The Herald I called attention to the amount of I money expended on State road by the old county court the other morning I daily preserved a discreet silence When i was most vigorously scooped scoop-ed on the investigation of the new board of selectmen on the furniture I contract i said not a word An extended ex-tended article in this paper regarding checking of warrants failed to elecit any expression in this respect But upon a rumor that a few discrepancies I have been found by Expert Anderson i it takes a clerical error or two and the information already published in these columns and makes a first page column of news That there are discrepancies in the old county officials accounts is a fact i but up to date nothing of a serious nature has been unearthed The statement that a 25 warrant was issued i is-sued in payment of a 25 cent telephone charge is true but as far a intimat1 ing dishonesty on the part of the offi cial affixing his signature is concerned it is not to be thought of and the error j has since been rectified The paper referred to however can make a ten strike by accounting for charges for I telephone messages sent Logan and other points from the county recorders office about the time the fee system I i was before the legislature I can also score a bulls eye by demonstrating Why the books of the county collector i are to be checked i There are dozens of matters in connection con-nection with this investigation whiqh I will be shown up in time but as the court and attorney prefers to withhold i information until the report is complete com-plete i is impossible to get other than meagre detail of Isolated items j Selectman Bamberger for instance was in error in his accounts He gave j the county 27 more than i was entI tied to This has been common talk I around the county court office for several days Other smail items have I been more or less discussed Attorney Whittemore said last night I torney telephone warrant was collected col-lected by an employee The companys I attention had been called to it and itj i was rectified I There will doubtless be some explanations expla-nations regarding State road of a breezy natons character but not until all matters mat-ters are checked up |