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TELLS WHAT COUNTY OFFICIALS RECEIVETWO CATHOLICSheridan Gives Interesting Data On the Salaries at Court House.SCHOOLS TO OPENSt. Joseph’s Institute and School of Our Lady of Guadalupe Begins Tuesday.Details of Incomes That Surprise a Few of Large Attendance Is Expected At That TiUs—Power Company Makes Valuable Additon to County Park.paid the bondLest we forget, a short chapter oncounty salaries ought to be interestingto Ventura County tax payers. Thesalary question always interests the office holder, and the men who pay the salaries should he equally interesting. In talks with Deputy Auditor Argatrite and County Treasurer Feck, your correspondent this week gleaned many interesting features of the question of pay of officials, and some of them are of enough interest to hear retelling. In the past year two county officials have received substantial raises in annual salaries. The County Superintendent of Schools was raised from $2000 per year to $2500. The Sheriff had a raise from $4200 per year to $570u. The latter office is considered the juciest plum of ail the offices in the gift of the people, for along with the 25 cents mileage, expenses and the like it looks equal to a Kimberly diamond mine for the lucky holder, and will average, says Treasurer Peck, something like $800 per month. The Sheriff pays the salaries of his under sheriff and jailor. Indeed, the officials all pay their deputies excepting Surveyor, who, when having a man help in the field, has his work paid for by the county.The office of Superior Judge has a salary attached of $5000 per year, half of which is paid by the state.Surveyor has a salary of $1800 per year.The Treasurer has the lowest salary of any official, $1000 per year. Just now this is materially cut, because the official has to pay the premium onhis enormous boud of $250,000. This amounts to $750 per year, which leaves Peck scarcely enough salary to cover the expense of his private car, yacht and his several automobiles. Iu the good old days, when the hanks had the use of the county money free, the bankers themselves interest, or furnished the boud. Now the hankers are paying the county 2 per cent for the use of the money and Peck has to devote the litth* left of his salary, after paying the bond premium, to something else than buying diamonds and such things. Breakfast foods, pork and beaus and house rent and water bills and such trival things get most of his salary. Thelegislature receutly passed a law making the county liable for the bond premiums of officials, but the District Attorney has voiced an opiuiou that it is not constitutional, though many counties pay boud premiums. So for the present Treasurer Peck is still waiting. He does not think the salary enough inducement for any one to try very bard for his office and feels that there will be no trouble to keep it for life, unless a change should come. He congratulates himself on the fact that there is a saving in one direction, at least—be does not have to hire a wheelbarrow to haul homo the little left of his salary.The Auditor receives $1800 per year and the Recorder $.‘1000.Tax Collector MoGlincbey is paid $2000 per year and furnishes a prettybond of $200,000. His bondsmeu are private. There is a long string of them, to he sure, but no premium is exacted from him, as in the case with the Treasurer, whose boud is from an indemnity company.The County Clerk is paid $3000 per year and the District Attorney $1800.The Assessor receives $1800 per year, the salary being $100 per month during March, April, May and June, and $200 per mouth during the other eight months.The County Health Officer receives$50 per mouth. County Physician,$100 per month. Three Justices of t he ! Peace receive each $70 per month and th ree Constables are paid each $80 per mouth. And there you are. Paste this in your hat, for when you want au offloe you will know which oue toeTwo Changes In Faculties For Next Year’s Work.St. Joseph’s Institute and the Schoolof Our Lady of Guadalupe will openou next Tuesday with what promisesto be a larger attendance than on anyprevious year. The faculty of eachwill be the same with the exceptionthat Sister Aloyius will superceedSister Teresa with the sixth grade inthe larger school aud Sister Octavia will lie assisted by Sister Irene among the Spanish children in the smaller school.The grades iu these two schools follow closely the work of the public schools with the exception of the addition of religious training. The latter work is not compulsory for the non-Catholic children who attend, and in fact is not given except at the request or permission of parents.in addition to grammar grade work there is a high school course of four years’ work, embracing both classical and commercial tranches.A limited number of girls are taken as hoarders who live too far from the school to attend as day scholars.Between the two schools there were about 235 students enrolled last year.Few people realize the good work that has been accomplished by the School of Our Lady of Guadalupe among the Spanish children of Ox* nard. The opening of the school next Tuesday will mean that the larger part of the Mexican and Spanish children of this city will be again re* eeivlng the most capable training In English and Spanish branches, taught by teachers with years’ of experience among this class of children. The youngsters are not embarassed by the attendance of Americau children and have the best opportunity to learu very rapidly.OXNARD MEN LEASEVENTURA STEAM LAUNDRYJ. L. Meyers and G. W. Ogelvie of Oxnard have leased the Ventura Steam Laundry aud will take charge of that business at once. Both men have hsd many years’ experience in ttie laundry business and will certainly be successful in their new venture. Mr. Meyers has been the foreman in tl e Oxnard Steam Laundry for several years and Mr. Ogelvie has had charge of the outside woik of the local business for two years. Mrs. Meyers, whohas had eighteen years’ laundry ex. perience, will be in charge of the ladies in the ironing and other depart* ments of the new business.In entering upon their ne./ business these two men should be most success fui. They will be greatly missed from Oxnard, hut our loss will be the gain of the county seat.pick out. Vou will know wherelies the most money and where is themost glory.* * •The Ventura County Power Compan j has made a splendid and substantiagift to the people of the whole county.Adjoining the Foster Park at Casitai pass entrance the corporation own* nearly forty acres of woody and Onelj watered land. A lovely stretcL which is au ideal place for picnici and the like aud which was all the 1 was necessary to round out to propei dimensions the gift of the Fosters. Il is wiiere the submerged dam is beinu thrown across the Ventura river and of course there is water aud iu abund. ance which, together with the trees, make an deal spot. No country in the world wll be able to toast of * prettier picnic ground than this will make when the Supervisors shall have completed the improvement con templated. Future generations, at well as the present, will have reascc to remember the gift with gratitude.E. M. SIIEKIDAN,
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Oxnard Courier
Oxnard, California, US
Fri, Aug 30, 1907
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