Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — PAID EXCESSIVE PRICES, [ARTICLE]

PAID EXCESSIVE PRICES,

Say Field Examiners of a Rush County Trustee Who Is Short $2,053.60. Alleged excess payments on school supplies, which it is believed may provide grounds for a charge of 5568.67. has been reported by Edward P. Brennan and Charles W. Sutton, field examiners in the employ of the state board of accounts, in their report on the condition of affairs of W. A, Lord, trustee of Center township, Rush county’, from 1905 to 1908. The total amount charged against Lord, including the alleged excess paid for. supplies, is $2,053,60. The total alleged excess on supplies bought from S. D. Kiger & Co., of this city, amounts to $223, covering a large number of items. In arriving at the alleged excess, the examiners compared the price paid for the supplies with catalogue prices, the difference being the alleged excess. Following are some of the items bought from Kiger & * Co., and designated by the examiners in listing the alleged excess:

Price Alleged Item. Paid. Excess 2 school wagons. . $360.00 $60.00 8 dozen erasers. . 20.00 10.40 5 clocks 30.00 6.25 2 N. A. bird and nat studies 40.00 20.00 3 pencil sharpeners 18.50 8.40 90 gallons floor oil 34.00 7.00 On eight maps bought from Scarborough & Co.. the examiners found that Lord in a payment of S3O paid sls in excess of the value' of the goods” On various purchases for roads, the examiners reported an excess payment to Kiger & Co., of $88.34 on seven boiler plate sewers, and an excess of 561.64 on a similar purchase from the same concern. On other purchases from the same concern, an excess payment of 528.34 is alleged on the purchase of two sewers and some pump shafting, and an excess of $26.65 on the purchase of two sewers and a grader blade. An excess payment of sllO is alleged on the purchase of a road grader from J. D. Adams & Co., of this city. Other firms mentioned in the report on the excess payments are Steel & Draper. Thornton-Levey Company'. and the Globe Printing Company. The shortage charged against Lord, aside from the alleged excess in prices includes the following items: ? Failure to charge himself with borrowed money. $188.05; duplicate credits, 561.64; excess payments to various individuals, including teachers, $71.50; paid for supplies in the furnishing of which he was held by the examiners to be directly dr indirectly interested as a seller, 5464.91: credits on annual settlements not authorized, $150; paid for working out road tax, $62.06: paid on alleged illegal claims for stock damaged or killed by dogs. 5467; piiid wife for office rent and furniture, s7B.—lndianapolis News.