County Commissioners Push Through Costly Poor House

From present indications the county commissioners will be under the necessity of issuing warrants to meet current expenses before the year is out, and the new poor house will have to be built in the same way. The result will be an additional levy of three or four mills next year to pay off these warrants. The levy for the county poor house would have been made last year had the Statesman not called attention to the purpose of the commissioners, and the machine bosses then ordered a halt for fear that an increased levy would mean the loss of the whole county ticket. Now two of the commissioners have made up their minds to go ahead with the building of the poor house and let the people settle the bills whether they like it or not. Everybody admits that the few paupers of the county are given the best of care by Mr. L. Hunt under the contract system and that the cost to the county is comparatively light, but for all that an expensive poor house is to be built in order to carry out the hobby of the chairman of the board and to provide a few more soft jobs for faithful followers of the machine.