Tuesday, April 14, 2026

County Commissioners Pay Their Bills, April 15, 1926

Commissioners’ Proceedings

The commissioners in session, all members present, on April 5 ordered the following accounts paid.

--Pat Tucker for turkeys killed by dogs, $7.50.

--R.E. Williams for cow bitten by mad dog, $25.

--Ola Fields, turkeys killed by dogs, $10.

--Cannell & Johnson, supplies, $101.30.

--John Burns, jail fees, $98.70.

--J. Dan Dorsett, tickets to reunion, $4.28.

--J.J. Thomas, 3 days services as dog damage investigator, $9.

--J.W. Griffin, ditto, $9.

--J.H. Norwood, burial Alice Alston, $11.50.

--W.W. Long, 1 ¼ cords wood, $3.75.

--J.W. Johnson, salary, $83.33.

--Mrs. Johnson, salary, $8.60.

--Mrs. Snipes, washing for county home, $16.

--W.B. Gunter, 3 days with car, $25. Clearing new ground, $32.75.

--Robert Brown, work at county home, $25.

--J.M. Hancock, work for county home, $2.15.

--T.M. Bland & Co., supplies, $85.19.

--A.M. Webster, one still, $10.

--F.C. Straughan, 2 stills, $40.

--R.H. Mills, one still, $20.

--C.T. Desern, still and worm, $15.

--Meat Market, $27.50.

--J.D. Womble, coffin and case, $14.

--A.G. McIver, wood, $7.

--Brooks and Eubanks, supplies, $2.90.

--C.C. Poe, salary and clerk hire, $266.66.

--C.C. Poe, postage and express, $10.

--C.C. Hamlet, 5 days service, $25.

--N.J. Wilson, car hire, help, etc., $15.

--Charlie Thompson, road work, $1.

--F.P. Nooe, 6 cords wood, $21.

--R.E. Lanius, sawing wood for county home, $17.

--Auto Service Station, work at Home, $2.

--Chatham Record, school election and Tax collection advertisements, $28.35.

--R.R. Ramsay, hauling 8 tons coal, $24.

--Chatham Hardware Company, supplies, $26.57.

--Farm leveling with telescope, $22.50.

--Supplies C.S.C., $22.73.

--E.B. Hatch, salary, etc., $246.33.

--G.W. Blair, postage and telegrams, $23.26.

--Paragon Press, printing, $29.50.

--Chatham News, Advertisement Tax rounds and circulars, $37.75.

--H.B. Jones, sawing wood, $7.

--T.V. Riggsbee, 12 days on tax books, $54.

--G.W. Blair, salary and clerk hire, $358.33.

--R.L. Edwards, 5 days court officer, $20.

--Carrie Speight, court reporter, $60.

--Mary Robinson, court reporting, $26.49.

--F.P. Nooe, conveying prisoner, $5.

--C.T. Desern, conveying Joe Henderson to Concord, $25.

--Received fees for clerk’s office, $595.40.

--Received fees for hunter’s licenses, $35.70.

From the front page of the Chatham Record, Pittsboro, N.C., Thursday, April 15, 1926

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