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Show I ROUTINE BUSINESS I OF COUNTY BOARD 1H Proceedings Finally Hccome A H vnilable to Newspapers Ten B Days After Meetings. ...4... MOW CLERK TRIES TO H FAVOR PERSONAL PAPER ..g... Too Busy to Give AMM of Record H Reporter to Proceedings I'ntil They H Have Been Published in Parowan. 4 B The Board of County Commission- H ers of Iron county were in session Monday uml Wednesday last week. On Hp Thursday a reporter for The Record H called at the clerk's office, and re- H quested the privilege of transcribing H the minutes. We were informed that the minutes were not yet "written up" H and that the clerk hadn't timo to H write them or furnish our reporter H with any kind of an account for pub- B lication. And this is not the first pB time it has happened this way. It H has become very noticablc that un- BH less The Record has a reporter in at- tendance at the meetings of the board H it is impossible to get the proceed- H ings on the week the meeting is held, H and in no case until they have been H given to the Parowan paper, which is H furnished with a carbon copy of the H clerk's revised minutes, after which H they become available for publication H in this paper. We have appealed to H the commissioners for redress, and H for a square deal, at least in the mat- H ter of news service, but they appear JB to be powerless in the matter. The CleiV is the self-constituted cham- H pion of the Parowan paper, in which H he happens to be a stockholder, and H he appears to think he has the right H to deal the cards j'ist as he sees fit. H As the representative of the great H majority of the people of Iron Coun- H ty, we have a right to the procecd- H nigs of the county board within a H reasonable time after the meetings H lire held. From Monday until Thurs- H day should allow a reasonable time H for the clerk to get the proceedings H written up, or at least to have them H in such a shape thut our reporter could obtain the information for pub- HB lication. H Hut the real trouble is thut the H Parowan paper is printed on Wednes- H day, and if the clerk is unable to get pp the minutes in time for it, he refuses H to give anything out until the next H issue of that paper comes around. H Such petty tactics are entirely be- HH neath the consideration of any man H who is big und broad enough to hold H a county office, and it is therefore ap- H parent that the present county clerk H ii too sectional in his feelings to be pp suitable for the position he now oceu- H pics. He might do for a clerk of a BH town board, but nothing bigger, and H the voters of the county should see Bp to it that a bigger man is on the job H at the end of his present term in of H H Following is the report of the pro- H ceedings of the two meetings held Bp la.- L week as furnished to the Paro- Hp WU paper: 0 Meet inn of December Third. BB Mr. Woolsey, engineer in charge of Bfl State Road construction in Iron coun- H tv, met with the board to report the H progress of the work in the county, H and to discuss generally the progress H for bridge and road construction in H the county. B The clerk was instructed to write H tin- Suite Road Commission in regard H to an account due the Parowan Equit- H BBj Appropriations of $10 to Mary Ann H , Dover, 1Mb Mrs. Sandin, $fj to Nun- H 'Jcv Walker, and $10 to Sarah Holyoak H were made in lieu of tax abatements H y which they should have received from pH the Bourd of Equalization in June, al- H SO fa to alpha Urie for the same H purpose. m Wm. T. Morris und Belle Mitchell H were appointed as deputy County 1 H Clerks to serve without compensation from the county. The County Agent reported thnt he could rent suitable office room for ' 7M n month for his requirements, and that it would cost approximately $100 to equip same with desk, files, etc. An appropriation of that amount was promised, and he was authorized to rent an office at not more than the price above mentioned. The petition from citizens of Kan-arra Kan-arra asking for & town organization ! was deferred at the request of other citizens of that place until next meet-1 ing of the board. Clerk was authorized to issue his warrant for premium for insurance on court house. F. L. Nance's resignation as constable con-stable of Modena precinct was accept-ed accept-ed and C. O. Wood appointed to that office. Roy Armstrong was appointed con-stable con-stable of Enoch precinct. The following claims were allowed: E. J. Palmer $7.75 William Lund 19.40 J. S. Fife 109.51) Lawrence Miller 13.25 Kate Taylor 15.50 Janet Rollo 15.00 Lillian Orton 13.20 L. J. Adams 7.74 j Warner Mitchell 2.00 Marieus Dunton 6.80 J. S. P. Barton 3.40 Hurley Dalton 1G.75 ! F. L. Nance 1 15.30 ' L. John Nuttall 5.00 ! A. H. Rollo 5.OO' S. A. Hulterman 5.50 M. J. Macfurlane 56.80 A. N. Leonard 22.66 Fuel 12.42 j N. B. Whitney 3.90 Wm. T. Morris 41.00 Beaver Weekly Press 34.00 1 Arrow Press 50.00 1 Florence Hartley 24.00 Cedar Mercantile Co 85.03 Charles E. Jones 5.00 John W. Benson 5.00 D. Claud Urie 153.98 David Prothero 8.50, L. J. Wiliams 57.991 Mary Orton 11.951 Meeting adjourned to Dec. 5. Adjourned meeting of the County Commissioners was held Dec. 5, and 1 the following business attended to: The purpose of the meeting wus for the filling of the vuenncies occasioned by the resignations of the sheriff and attorney, and a motion by Lund carried car-ried to the efTeet that Alfred Froyd DC uppointed as county sheriff. R. II. McBrlde's application for appointment ap-pointment as county attorney was considered and a motion to the offset that the chairman of the board of County Commissioners be empowered to employ legal counsel if necessary until the county attorney's office can ' be filled. Alfred Froyd's bond as county sheriff sher-iff was approved, so also, was his appointment ap-pointment of Edward Bentley as dep-1 uty sheriff approved. The clerk was instructed to notify, all county officials that hereafter they should take receipts for all expense items in excess of $1.00, and attach said receipts to their claims for expenses. ex-penses. St. |