The Glasgow courier. [volume], September 10, 1915, Page 2, Image 2

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OF GLASGOW
ODD BITS OF NEWS
Beno, O.—Jacob Groll and wife are
the happy parents of a new daughter,
who is their 16th child.
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New York, N. Y.—Because his wife
was "continually running to shows",
Morris Mulvihill burned all of her
shoes. He said that was the only
way he could keep her at home.
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New Bedford, Mass.—When a boy
Charles Lawrence inserted a cherry
stone in his ear, which remained
there for thirty years until removed
the other day.
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Easton, Pa.—While Mrs. Daniel
Hurley was at breakfast recently the
door opened and her sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Doyle, whom she had not heard
from nor seen for 51 years, walked
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Martinsborough, New Zealand.—A
small embroidered flag sold at auc
tion brought $12,000 for the Belgian
relief fund. It was sold ten times to
the highest bidder, who in turn gave
it back. Finally it was presented to
the school.
SIX STARS OF AUTO RACING WORLD NAVE ENTERED
FOR GREAT MEET AT THE MONTANA STATE FAIR
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Start In the free-for-all auto race at the North Dakota State Fair, in which three state records were smashed.
Three of these drivers are entered for the Montana State Fair auto races. l T pper right hand. Louis Disbrow,
holder of twelve world's records, in his 300-horsepower Jay-Eye-See car, which lie drove two miles in fifty-eight
seconds at Daytona Beach, Florida.
The twenty-one automobile races I
which will be run at the Montana
State Fair at Helena during the week I
beginning Sept. 20 under the sanction
of the International
association will bring together the
greatest galaxy of auto racing stars
that has ever visited the Northwest.
The $5,000 offered as purses has al
ready secured the entries of i^ouis
Disbrow of New York, track cham
pion, who holds every dirt track rec
ord from one to fifty miles; Eddie
Hearne of Chicago, former Speedway
champion of the world and winner of
the 100-mile race at Minneapolis June
Motor Contest
New York, N. Y.—John Hughes,
while swimming, dived from a jetty
and hit a log. Apart from a slight
pain, he worked as usual for five days,
when something snapped in his neck
and it was found to be broken.
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Kingston, N. Y.—When a well
dressed woman abandoned a baby in
a hallway the child was adopted by
a nanny goat who angrily resisted
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ecorts to take the baby from her. The
week
goat's kid had been stolen
before by some boys.
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Rices Landing, Pa.—James Black,
mine superintendent, the father of 18
children, has five boys at the front
with the British army. Two others
have been killed. John, the third
son, is home with a poisoned knee,
but will return to the trenches.
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Clifton, N. J.—Edward Morrell, 89
years old, recently received a postal
card, mailed June 16th,
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only postmarks on the card showed
ùliat it left New Hampton, June 16th,"
1881 and arrived in Passaic July 25,
25, 1915. The writer died fifteen years
;1 £°
I 26 ; Johnny Raimey of Cincinnati, light,
oar tra, k champion, who defeated Old
I fteW - Cooper and others in the 200 '
mile Oklahoma road race for $5,000
last April; Joe Bianchi, driving the
famous Maruion car; 1-ee Gunning,
another famous Speedway champion,
and George Clark of Texas, who lost
the 100-mile race at Brighton Beach,
New York, July 5, by twenty seconds.
In addition to these men who have
already entered the State Fair has re
ceived letters from Ralph Mulford,
Art Klein "Mad lx>u" Heineman and
Fred Horey asking for entry blanks.
A seventy-ttve -mile race will be one
of the features of the meeting.
The above picture shows the start
Commissioners'
Proceedings
Official Proceedings of the Board of
County Commissioners at the
Regular August Meeting
Glasgow, Montana, August 3, 1915.
At a regular meeting of the board
of county commissioners of Valley
County, Montana, held pursuant to
law and the custom of said beard at
the office of said board, in the court
house, in the city of Glasgow, Mon
tana, the county seat of said county,
on Tuesday, to-wit: the 3rd day of
August, A. D. 1915, at the hour of
10 o'clock A. M., at which there were
present:
Chairman Peter A. West
Member C. W. Baylor
Member Carl J. Anderson,
Board of County Commissioners;
and W. B. Shoemaker, County Clerk
and Clerk of said Board; the follow
ing proceedings, among others, were
had, to-wit:
There was presented to said board
a report of the County Clerk, com
prised of 33 sheets, lettered and num
bered as follows: b, c, d and e, and
1 to 29, inclusive, duly authenticated
to by the certificate of the county
treasurer, and showing in detail the
warrant indebtedness of said county,
outstanding and unpaid on August 1,
A. D. 1915, and still outstanding, due
and unpaid, heretofore lawfully incur
red only for the ordinary and neces
sary expenses of the county authoriz
ed by the constitution and general
laws of the state and evidenced by
the valid and legal warrants drawn
on the several funds of said county,
to an amount aggregating the prin
cipal sum of $170.281.13, exclusive of
the interest accrued thereon.
Said report was read in full by said
clerk, and was in words and figures
the following:
REPORT OF COUNTY CLERK OF
VALLEY COUNTY. MONTANA,
SHOWING IN DETAIL THE WAR
p a NTS OF SAID COUNTY OUT
STANDING. DUE AND UNPAID
ON AUGUST 1ST. A. D. 1915.
g TATE qF MONTANA )
COUNTY OF VALLEY, V*'
I, W. B. Shoemaker, the undersign
ed. do hereby certify with regard to
Valley County, Montana, as follows.
1. That I am now the duly quali
fied, sworn and acting county clcrk
ir. and for the county aforesaid, ai.d
the lawful custodian of the books, re
cords and corporate r eal there »'.. _
2. That on to-wit: the date of this
report, the said countv has an out
standing warrant indebtedness am
ounting to the sum of $170,281.13. ex
clusive of interest accrued thereoij,
lawfully incurred for only the ordm
I ar y an< ^ necessary expenses of the
1 county authorized by the constitution
an( j general laws of the state; that
each item of said indebtedness repre
sents a claim dulv verified as to its
I proved and ordered paid by the board
correctness and duly presented to and
of one auto race at the North Dakota
State Fair in July, during the running
of which three state records previ
ously held by Barney Oldfield were
smashed. Disbrow, Raimey and
Hearne were at this meeting. In the
upper right hand corner is shown the
300-horsepower "Jay-Eye-See" racing
car with Disbrow at the wheel. Dis
brow drove this car two miles in fifty
eight seconds at Daytona Beach, Fla.
The car is too long and heavy for
circular track racing, but Disbrow
will bring it to Helena for exhibition
purposes at the request of the fair
management. The car has 1,600
pounds of steel under the seat to hold
it on the ground at high speed.
of county commissioners of said coun
ty, and evidenced by a warrant duly
drawn by the county clerk of said
county on the treasurer of said coun
ty; that each item of said indebted
ness represents a claim duly verified
as to its correctness and duly pre-|
sented to and legally investigated, ex-1
amined, inspected, audited, allowed
and approved by the proper officer
of said county, who did endorse his
approval thereon as and in the manner
provided by the laws of said state;
that said warrants were duly issued,
numbered consecutively in the order
of their issuance, and registry there
of made by the said county clerk, all
as and in the manner provided by the
statutes of said state; that all of said
warrants were at the time of their
issuance delivered to the payees there
in named, respectively, and that prac
tically all of said warrants have here
tofore been presented to the county
treasurer for payment and payment
refused for want of funds and are
now outstanding, due and unpaid, to
gether with interest accrued thereon
from the date of their registration at
the rate of six (6) per centum per
annum.
3. Ilia' attached hereto, marked
"Exhibit A" comprised of 29 typewrit
ten sheets, to-wit: sheet lettered a
and 29 sheets numbered from 1 to
29, both numbers inclusive, and made
a part of this report, is a true and
complete detailed list of the warrants
hereinabove mentioned, showing the
numbers thereof, the names of the
person or corporation to whom issu
ed, date of their issue and registry,
respectively, the amount of each war
rant, the total aggregate face value
of such warrants outstanding,
due I
and unpaid as aforesaid, and the cer- to
tificate of the county treasurer veri-1
fying as to the correctness of this,
report and the statements appearing
herein; and that appearing as sheet
28 of said "Exhibit A" and being a
part of this report, is a true and com
plete summary of the warrants of said ; of
county which were issued prior to
March 16, 1915, and which are now
outstanding and unpaid, together with
the interest accrued thereon, as set
out in detail on said sheet 28.
4. That all of the warrants in this
report mentioned evidence a general
outstanding indebtedness of said coun
tv lawfully incurred only for the or
dinary and necessary expenses of the
county authorized by the constitution
and general laws of the state; that in
the issuance of the said warrants,
the said county did not for any single
purpose incur an indebtedness or li
ability to an amount exceeding $10,
000; that in erecting any bridge, and i
by
tv
building the approaches thereto, or
in erecting any county building, or
constructing or providing any road or
highway, payment for which was
made by any of the warrants men
tioned in this report, the said county
did not for any single purpose incur
an indebtedness or liability to an am
ount exceeding $10,000; and that the
validity of the said indebtedness, or
of any of said warrants, or any or
either of them, has never at any time,
or in any manner, been questioned,
contested or made the subject of ac
tual or threatened judicial inquiry,
action or proceeding; and that at no
time, since the organization of the
*id county, has the total outstanding
indebtedness thereof exceeded five per
centum of the equalized assessed valu
ation of the taxable property of the
said county.
5. That the total bonded indebtedness
of said county now outstanding is
$203,000; and that the total indebted
ness of said county now outstanding of
every other kind and character, in
cluding all contract, warrant or other
obligations and floating indebtedness,
amounts to the principal sum of $170,
281.13, exclusive of the interest ac
crued thereon, and which represents
the warrant indebtedness hereinabove
mentioned, and to pay which, or any
part thereof, there are no funds avail
able in the treasury of said county.
6. That the total valuation of all
taxable property in said county, as
shown by the assessment roll com
piled in the year 1914, as finally
equalized by the state board of equal
ization and the board of county com
missioners of said countv for state
and countv purposes, is $7.756.446.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my official hand
and the seal of Vallev County. Mon
tana. at my office in the court house,
in the city of Glasgow, the county
seat of Valley County, in said city,
county and state, the 3rd day of Au
gust, A. D. 1915.
(SEAL)
W. B. SHOEMAKER.
County Clerk in and for
Valley County, Montana
CERTIFIED TO UNDER OATH
before me by W. B. SHOEMAKER,
who is personally known to me, in
the city of Glasgow, Montana, the 3rd
day
(SEAL)
WALTER SHANLEY,
Clerk of Court, Twelfth Judi
dicial District in and for Val
ley County, Montana.
By O. S. CUTTING,
Deputy.
(List of warrants on file in office
of Clerk of Board of County Commis
sioners).
STATE OF MONTANA )
COUNTY OF VALLEY )
I, TRUMAN M. PATTEN, the un
dersigned, do hereby respectfully cer
tify with regard to Valley County,
Montana, as follows:
1 That I am now and during all
of the times since the organization of
*said county, was the duly qualified,
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sworn and acting county treasurer in
id for said county and the lawful
custodian of the books and records of
said office.
2. That I have carefully read the
foregoing certificate of W. B. Shoe
maker, county clerk of said county,
comprised of 32 sheets lettered and
numbered as follows: b, c, d and e,
and 1 to 28, inclusive, and relating
to the outstanding indebtedness of the
county, and have carefully compared
said certificate with the records of
my office, and from such reading and
comparison, I find and hereby further
certify that the statements therein
set forth in said certificate are true
of my own knowledge and as shown
D. 1915
by the official records of said county
l my custody.
IN WITNESS WHERROF, I
have hereunto set my official hand in
my office, in the court house, in the
city of Glasgow, Montana, the county
seat of said county, in said city, coun
tv and state, the 3rd day of August,
A. D. 1915.
T. M. PATTEN,
Countv Treasurer in and
for Valley County. Montana
CERTIFIED TO UNDER OATH
before me in the city of Glasgow,
Montana, this 3rd day of August, A.
(SEAL)
WALTER SHANLEY,
Clerk of Court. Twelfth Judi
dicial District in and for Val
lev Countv, Montana.
By O. S. CUTTING,
Deputy. !
The said board then carefully com
pared said report with the records of
the county, in its office and the office
of the clerk and treasurer, respective
ly. of said county, and it was ascer
tained. determined and adjudged as
follows: (a) that the amount of the
outstanding legal warrant and bonded
indebtedness of the county is as set
out in said report and that the same
lawfully due and unpaid; (b)
that each warrant mentioned in said
report represents a claim duly veri
fied as to its correctness and duly
presented to and legallv examined and
allowed s»nd approved and ordered
paid by the board of county commis
sioners. and was nroperly and legally
drawn for only the ordinary and ne
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thorized by the constitution and gen
eral laws of the state and constitute
the valid and legal obligations of the
county; (c) that each item of said
indebtedness, represents a claim duly
verified as to its correctness and duly
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