Show ORDINARY PRISONERS NOW WANT ROAD PAY Men Bien Ien convicted of wife desertion and Serving terms In the county Jail have advantages over petty thieves and arid other country prisoners in that the wife deserters are paid 2 a day for tor their work on the county roads while other prisoners get only their meals and their cells ceUs Request has been made by men serving for petty theft that they like the wife deserters be credited with 1 l a a. day for tor their work on the roads the money J money to go to their families But the county commissioners would not listen t to such a suggestion and quietly consigned consigned con con- signed It to a pigeonhole where it will likely remain until sonic some prisoner with plenty of nerve files suit Buit against the c county for remuneration During September the county county- ex exacted exacted exacted ex- ex acted days' days work from the 28 prisoners p in the county Jail Only two of these are wife deserters One worked t ten n days and the other two twenty-two days their families being paid for tor this I work at the r rate te of 1 I a da day |