Show what did mister lee resign res ign I 1 7 I 1 1st ast I weeks issue of be bob b crock otts paper contained a two mass of and misrepresentation con concertin concern cernIn tn T the alleged 41 resignation of arthic r jy lee as secretary of the carbon air association cia tion th resignation was given mue much h more prominence th thin than an it dese deserved ived and as far as the news ad can learn mr lee was the cause of the prominence ho ile blamie j county commissioner himilton 11 for I 1 the failure of the county commission era ers to make an appropriation to defray the expenses of the last fair and another yet to be held mr air hati hamilton il 1 is out of the county and the writer can not at till vil time learn what he said or did to prevent an appropriation but commissioner bry ner monday informed tho writer that the reason the commissioners did not make an appropriation for the 1915 fair was because all the fair money bad been appropriated to get a state display at the he san Fran francisco ciRco exposition the law allows but one levy for elpes exposition asclon purposes in any one 3 ear but if bill hamilton has said that he be is opposed to an appropriation pria flon tion until there is a change in the administration h b has been talking good business at present there is no county fair board and there was no legal secretary when lee dd resigned the directors ars ara ap pointed for one year and thy cannot elect or appoint a secretary whose term runs longer thun than their own when the 1914 fair was over and its business closed the directors and other officers ceased to exist af at fair officials lee bad baj no office to resign and if he is intelligent enough to ti draw down 50 a month as fair secretary he roust must have known that he was out of office when he trotted to bob crockett Crocket fc with i copy of his resignation president horsley says he did not give it to the newspapers so it must have been lee and why did lee do this F it may mry be because he ha thou thought glet the publication of a resignation would free him from u note he be in company with tuc tle ol 01 oilier officers signed with the commercial bank or it may maybe be that ho he did it to place commissioner hamilton in the position of trying to block blo C k a fr 1 I r 5 whatever the reason it will win him nothing for people who know lee and hamilton and their reputations in and out of carbon county will not be long in deciding thit if it hamilton opposed le lle as secretary he bad had good reison for hs opposition and the 1915 fair will lose nothing by the resignation for it would be shameful to confess tb th it neither carbon nor emery court cour es could produce another man so go capable as arthur J lee of selling and taking tickets at the fair grounds or selling auces to kooch shows the statement in crocketts paper made president A W V horsely say that he re fretted very much the resignation president horsley denies maki making ng that statement for he admits the resignation was without effect that there was nothing to resign he does not consider it necessary for himself or any other officers to resign for their terms have haie expired all he lie wants Is for somebody to tell him birn how he and ani the other off officers leers can get out of paying u debt at the bank incurred to pay premiums and expenses in connection with the fair if you dont know bow to get your you name in the crocket paper just re sign as pr president eident of the fuji islands and take your resignation to bob hell print it if he can see a chance to stir up a little bitterness against any of the county commissioners commissio neis nels the next big celebration is the odd fellows picnic to be held in price on saturday sept sopt ath |