ANNUAL STATEMENT
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Office Board of County Commissioners
November 30, 1923
in accordance with section 1388 of the Revisal of 1905,1 hereby
~;m ri t the following statement of the finance of Chatham county,
aiding' November 30, 1923, together with the names of all persons
"w ho received county orders with the amount of each, and for what
recount.
C. C. POE, Ex-Officio Clerk to the Board Commissioners.
assets on general county and bond funds.
N \vy for 1923, used for all purposes, $222,098.26
] t> for clerk superior court, 1923, 1,480.32
, for register of deeds office, 1923, 2,058.15
n seated property, copper, etc., 25.48
uule B, Special license tax, 248.75
\ , 0 f Bonds, county roads and Home, 101,441.40
-import of paupers, 32.50
v'.nty property sold, 85.00
$327,469.86
School receipts, 87,628.22
i r-'l receipts for all purposes, $365,098.08
I, uoursements county funds, $212,497.44.
t • jurv tickets, 3,432.90.
I iarsements, jury tickets, 14,491.88 $350,422.22
surplus for sinking fund, $14,675.86
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS
Chatham county five per cent funding bonds, issued 1905, bonds 2 000 00
Chatham county four and one half per cent funding bonds, issued
■up l ) bonds due, - 15,000.00
Chatham county five per cent funding bonds, dated 1909, bonds due 5,000.00
Chatham county 6 per cent funding bonds, dated 1922, bonds due 60,000.00
Chatham countv five and a half per cent road bonds, dated
hw bonds due 100,000.00
Chatham county six per cent road bonds, dated 1920, bonds due— 200,000.00
Chatham county six per cent road and bridge bonds, dated 1922,
bonds due, 90,000.00
Chatham county five and a half per cent county home bonds
Pated 1923, bonds due, 50,000.00
Chatham county five and a half per cent road and bridge
bonds, dated 1923, bonds due, 50,000.00
iw River township five per cent road bonds, dated 1915,
bonds due, - - 20,000.00
Haw River township five per cent road bonds, dated 1916,
bonds due, 8,000.00
Center township five per cent road bonds, dated 1915,
bonds due, 50,000.00
Cape Fear*township five per cent road bonds, dated 1916, bonds due 38,000.00
Gulf township six per cent road bonds, dated 1919, bonds due 50,000.00
Bear Creek township six per cent road bonds, dated 1919,
bonds due,
Oakland township six per cent road bonds dated 1919, bonds due— 20,000.00
Baldwin township six per cent road bonds, dated 1920, bonds due 30,000.00
Matthews township five per cent road bonds dated 1915, bonds due 45,000.00
Total outstanding bonds due by Chatham county, $883,000.00
Goldston school district six per cent bonds, dated 1918, __ $ 7,000.
Moncure school district six per cent bonds, dated 1919 12,000.
Siler City school district bonds, 50,000.
Pitt.-boro school district bonds, 50,000.
Total school district bonds outstanding, $119,000.00
NOTES AND BONDS AND BOND INTEREST PAID.
\ t . W. Blair, sheriff, interest on note county home, $ 1,503.75
G. W. Blair, sheriff, load and bridge, 9»479.28
G. W. Blair, sheriff, Baldwin and Oakland, 1,500.00
G. W. Blair, sheriff, Haw River, 1,002.50
G. W. Blair, sheriff, interest on note, 4 75.00
G. W. Blair, sheriff, Bear Creek bonds, interest, 3,000.00
G. W. Biair, sheriff, Gulf bonds, interest, 3,000.00
G. W. Blair, sheriff, Chatham county road bonds, 2,750.00
G. W. Blair, sheriff, Chatham county coupon, 280.00
G. W. Blair, sheriff, Chatham county home, 1,315.78
G. W. Blair, sheriff, county highway commission, 50,769.24
Bank of Pittsboro, note and interest county home 50,350.00
Bank of Pittsboro, Baldwin bonds, 110.00
Hanover National Bank, Chatham county fund. 1 16,908.50
Hanover National Bank, Chatham county and Cape Fear, 9,019.63
Hanover National Bank, Haw River bonds 1,227.20
Hanover National Bank, Center township bonds 1,253.12
Bank of Manhattan Co., Matthews bonds 2,255.62
Total, $156,199.62
SUPERIOR COURT.
G. W. Blair, state vs. Ex Phillips and others, $ 28.65
H. M. Nicholson, court officer, 172.70
Carrie Speight, court stenographer, 422.62
H. A. Harrington, capture stills, 30.00
•J. B. Stinson, capture stills, 50.00
J. R. Lassiter, capture stills, 65.00
I. E. Self, capture stills, 10.00
C. L. Lasater, capture stills, 110.00
B. A. Phillips, state vs. Marsh, L3B
t ester Smith, state vs. Palmer, - 7.10
Pred Straughan, capture stills, ; 20.00
J. B. McManus, capture stills, 15.00
4. Dewey Dorsett, state vs. Goodwin, state vs. Carter, 34.85
B- B. Farrar, capture stills, ' 40.00
M. C. Marshbum, capture stills, 10.00
C. T. Desem, capture stills, ' 150.00
A. J. Johnson, officer grand Jury, 52.50
A alter Smith, capture stills, . 20.00
James Quackenbush, state vs. Dill Headen, 6.30
kee Alston, state vs. Wilson Alston, 3.70
Dr. W. B. Chapin, witness fee, 5.00
P- P. Goldston, capture stills, . 55.00
John Burns, capture stills, . 40.00
A- M. Webster, capture stills, 70.00
George Pickett, capture stills, 80.00
J C. Williams, capture stills, 40.00
P- G. ohnson, capture stills, 5.00
]’• V. Morris, capture stills, 15.00
P- M. Nicholson, capture stills, 40.00
J- F- Gilliland, state vs. Eli Foushee, 2.90
P- M. Nicholson, state vs. B. Phillips and others, 17.65
kacy Johnson, capture stills, 10.00
8- T. Johnson, capture stills, 115,00
J- H. Mills, capture stills, 30.00
Little, capture stills, 1 10.00
• S. Moody, witness for state, 2.70
* • T. Desern, witness for state, 2.40
P- G. Johnson, state vs. Bob Pugh, 4.00
J- Dewey Dorsett, insolvent bills, 1,775.01
\ aul Farrell, capture stills, 5.00
j: H. Campbell, capture stills, r 20.00
• H. Crutchfield, capture stills, 20.00
A. Hunter, serving capias, 2.00
;V S. Woody, capture stills, 20.0#
!'• P- Nooe, capture stills, 15.00
j;. H. Ferguson, capture stills, 10.00
nttsboro Case, feeding jurors, 6.75
-r ’ Pk Stroud, capture stills, 20.00
, Newton, capture stills, ; 20.00
T. Scott, capture stills, 50.00
w rk' Mills, state vs. Rogers, 3.70
I. ‘J* Jones, capture stills 1— 5.00
p Stone, state vs. Dean Sutton, 2.70
* PJ a vris, capture stills, 10.00
’ adge C. C. Lyon, salary, : 155.85
■'mine Lee Hoover, court stenographer, 88.95
Total » $4,024.41
EXPENSES OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
C G serv^ es as commissioner and mileage, $119.70
L. F H J et ’ sevices as commissioner and mileage, 94.50
• Wilson, services as commissioner and mileage, 105.00
lotal, * .. $319.20
COUNTY ATTORNEY
• l Je Ba *‘ber, services, $200.00
OLD SOLDIERS.
Bud Rogers, burial, $ 10.00
Chatham Bank, reunion, 35.60
H. M. Lewter, reunion, 21.18
J. R. and G. S. Moore, burial expenses, — T : 10.00
G. H. Langley, burial expenses, 10.00
J. J. Hackney, reunion, 6.12
J. L. Griffin, advanced confederate soldiers, 25.89
Total, $118.79
TAX LIST. ,
W. E. Brooks, work on tax books, T 1 $ 12.00
M. W. Duncan, tax list, 80.00
A. F. Whitaker, 75.00
V/. H. Lasater, tax list, 75.00
Alston Brooks, * 130.00
F. M. Farrell, tax list, ! : 100.00
E. J. Riggsbee, tax list, ; lOO.OO
C. M. Pattishall, tax list, 75.00
J. G. Hamlet, tax list, ! 90.00
C. D. Moore, tax list, 80.00
T. A. Dark, tax list, * 175.00
D. W. Tally, tax list, a 100.00
B. A. Phillips, tax list, 150.00
Mrs. E. A,. Farrell, tax list, 125.00
Mrs. E. A. Farrell, work on tax list, 67.50
C. C. Poe, extra clerk hire on tax list, 870.50
Mr.s J. J. Carroll, work on tax list, 24.00
Mrs. Ernest Williams, work on tax list, 75.00
Mrs. W. P. Horton, work on tax list, 9.00
Total, $2,413.00
ELECTIONS.
H. C. Clegg, pollholder, * $ - 3.00
Porter‘Johnson, poll holder, . 3.00
H. Z. Terry, poll holder, 9.00
N. R. Bright, poll holder, 1 3.C0
R. P. Alston, poll holder, 3 00
J. D. Jones, poll holder, 8.00
The Chatham Record, advertising, 21.60
Cole Printing Company, supplies, 6.36
F. C. Mann, chairman board elections, 58.00
N. J. Dark, poll holder, 6.00
Rufus Brewer, poll holder, 2.00
Alma Coggins, club election, 2.00
Total, $115.16
COUNTY HEALTH OFFICERS.
Dr. W. B. Chapin, services, $ 385.75
Dr., Clyde Thomas, services, 925.25
Dr. J. E. Cathell, services, 39.75
Dr. Jesse Edwards, services, 144.50
Dr. C. G. Upchurch, services, 125.75
Dr. T. H. Kirk man, services, 17.00
Dr. R. M. Fields, services, 106.75
Dr. R. M. Fields, services, 8.00
Dr. R. W. Palmer, services, 62.00
Drs. W. A. and J. P. Monroe, services, 10.00
Carter Furniture Company, care for Pal Cotton 5.00
Central Carolina Hospital, care for Pal Cotton, 16.00
Total, __v 1 , $184.75
LUNATICS.
J. T. Henderson, conveying lunatics to Goldston, 1 $170.00
C. T. Desern, conveying D. A. Moore to Raleigh, 12.50
M. F. Overman, conveying Sallie Overman to hospital, 10.00
D. C. Brooks, conveying D. Haws to hospital, 15.00
Dix Hill State hospital, account supplies, 38.22
Manly Smith, conveying Pat Cotton, 40.00
Total, _ $285.72
ROADS AND BRIDGES.
B. M. Mclver, ferryman, $ 332.00
Chatham Highway Commission, 15,000.00
Total, 1 $15,332.00
COUNTY CORONER AND JUROR.
George Brooks, $ 2.00
George Brooks, coroner and inquest, 73.60
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Total, $75.60
OUTSIDE POOR.
W. W. Fields, $ 44.00
M. K. Perry & Son, 4.00
B. N. Dickens, 30.00
Emerson Brothers, 38.50
J. A. Purvis, 36.00
1 Mrs. D. M. Womble, 42.00
j O. A. Palmer, * 12.00
! George Hfcaden, 24.00
J. R. Blair, 30.00
Brooks & Eubanks, 1 173.00
Chatham Hardware, 35.00
G. H. Langley, 27.50
iI. M. Ellis, 10.50
Willis Pleaden, * 20.00
W. R. Rives, 3.00
W. H. Rives, 28.50
W. L. London & Son, 84.00
O. A. Palmer, 12.00
Jerry Alston, 12.00
J. R. Milliken, 31.00
J. R. Ellington, ; 24.00
L. G. Gunter, 20.00
E. E. Walden, 15.00
Atwater & Lambeth, 74.00
Walden & Thomas, undertakers, 9/.5u
W. A. Phillips, 24.00
J. W. Johnson, 36.00
T. W. Hobby, , 32.00
J. H. Norwood * 30.00
J. R. Hilliard, 140.00
Childrens Home Society, 25.00
John Dowd, ' 25.00
Thrailkill Brothers, 30.00
T. Y. Mims, lB.OO
C. W. Elkins, 64.00
W. T. Brooks, 1 36.00
L. N. Womble, 16.50
W. W. Goodwin, 14.00
Albert Snipes, 5.00
Marley Smith, 10.00
Mrs. J. R. Milliken, 18.00
Fox & Co., 140.00
R. W. White, 24.00
D. W. Tally, 27.00
G. W. Perry, 80.00
B. A. Phillips, 20.00
J. W. Griffin, 60.00
J. R. Lambert, 16.00
F. M. Farrell, 36.00
A. P. Smith, 26.00
G. H. Sanders, 2.50
H. D. Gunter, 1.84 j
James Knight, 47.00
M. G. Dorsett, < 13.50
J. H. Hackney, 35.00
G. B. Watson, 20.00
T. B. Bray, 88.00
W. M. Scott, 24.00
T. R. Lambert, 24.00
Perry & Perry, 10.00
Total, $2,135.84
COURT HOUSE AND JAIL.
Southern Stamp & Stationery Co., supplies $ 14.92
C. T. Desern, conveying prisoners, 59.10
R. E. Lanius, sawing wood, 34.00
W. L. London & Son, supplies, _T_ 97.37
C. A. Maynard, arrest, 2.70
J. W r . Harmon, watching bridge, I_l 4.50
Worrell Manufacturing Co. supplies for jail, 39.75
Mrs. Loula Jones, jailor fee, 154.00
Sherman Alston, land sale, I 1.54
J. G. Hamlet, collecting tax, 109.91
H. P. Goldston, collecting tax, 276.75
L. N. Womble, supplies for jail, 34.00
R. D. Fields, collecting tax, 59.28
R. C. Griffin, account tax sale, 34.76
R. B. Farrar, conveying prisoner, 10.00
L. N. Womble, tax sale remitted 80.52
Womans Club of Pittsboro, chairs, 23.00
Owen S. Dunn, supplies, : 1.50
; Seaman Printery, supplies, 1,067.20
Virgil Davis, salary as janitor, 312.00
Bonlee Telephone Co., rental, 273.30
G. W. Blair, difference county order, 18.00
G. W. Blair, salary, 4,299.96
G. W. Blair, supplies and stamps, 368.53
Town of Pittsboro, lights 177.07
Bred Scurlock, wood, 18.00
John Bums, jailor fees, 669.20
| Mrs. J. B. Bums, sewing for jail, 3.65
1 C. H. Crutchfield, conveying prisoners, 83.50
Ernest W. Teague, tax collector, 65.00
R. L. Bryan Co., supplies register deeds, 353.15
Sou. Floor Supply Co., supplies, 15.68
C. C. Cooper, conveying prisoners, 19.50
C. J. Williams, conveying prisoners, 10.00
Lanius Brothers, supplies, 1 4.15
Rosa Stedman, washing blankets, 2.75
G. W. Blair, summons jurors, : 98.00
Burwell Patterson, clerk hire, 76.50
Cole Printing Co., supplies 29.35
G. W. Blair, indigent pupils,' 17.35
H. S. Storr Co., supplies 19.20
Lacy Johnson, conveying prisoner, • 2.50
G. W. Blair, vital statistics, 1 432.00
John Burns, conveying prisoner, , 5.00
J. Dewey Dorsett, court cost, 1,279.23
Elliott Fisher Co., repairs 39.17
Martin Scurlock, repairs to chairs, 4.75
, Harrell Printing House, advertising : 7.25
j Underwood Typewriter Co., typewriter, 110.00
■ The Chatham Hardware Co., supplies court house, 69.07
H. D. Gunter, express and telegrams, 25.30
F. P. Nooe, hauling liquor to jail, 51.63
National Supply Company, supplies clerk's office, 44.10
J. Dewey Dorsett, salary and clerk hire, 7 2,287.00
Edwards & Broughton, supplies clerk's office, 170.03
| Paragon Press, supplies, 96.23
Chatham Record, supplies and ad\ ertisinng, 283.40
James Stanley, wood, 6.00.
Mitchell Printing Company, supplies, 31.18
; C. C. Poe, salary and clerk hire, and stamps, 3,110.00
I W. F. Bland, lumber court house, 4.75
; Burroughs Adding Mfg. Co., machine, 328.30
j The Flax Manuafcturing Company, 5.00
| Brooks & Eubanks, supplies, 14.84
! J. W. Boone, repairs court house, 3.50
I George Thompson, hauling wood, 13.60
! Martin Scurlock, repairing chairs, 8.00
M. C. Cooper, wood, 21.00
■ Will Baldwin, wood, 35.50
j John M. Martin, supplies, 24.37
H. P. Goldston, capture prisoners, 22.50
Chatham Chair Co., chairs, 45.00
C. T. Desern, collecting tax, 220.26
D. M. Nooe, truck hire, 12.00
Carolina Chemical Co., supplies, 11.20
C. W. Hanks, clerk hire, 9.75
J. T. Gunter, capture and conveying prisoners, 23.10
W. H. Ferguson, collecting tax, 10.73
J. B. McManus, collecting tax, 67.82
J. T. Wright,' collecting tax, 21.34
Commericial Printing Co., tickets, 2.75
J. B. Caviness, conveying prisoner, 4.50
Jasper Green, wood, t 17.50
J. Q. Seawell, clerk court bond, 299.00
! A. C. Ray, sheriff’s bond, 381.50
Jacob Thompson, register deeds bond, 30.00
E. L. Brooks, wood, 10.00
Little & Farrell, supplies for jail, 3.45
J. B. McManus, conveying prisoners, 5.00
Odell Hardware Co., 19.50
' Total, $19,144.50
AGED AND INFIRM.
! Bland & Connell, supplies, $ 142.33
| Bennett Nooe & Son, supplies 32.60
I The Chatham Record, advertising, 2.25
j Hall & Mclver, supplies, 111.19
Richard Posey, washing county home, 7.00
Durham Public Service Co., fixtures, 956.26
Lee Copeland, supplies , 22.95
J. N. Hackney, supplies, 43.38
Sears, Roebuck & Co., chairs, 81.90
Cecil H. Lindley, supplies, 5.30
E. M. Farrell, beef, 57.60
, K. D. Gunter, freight county home, 3.30
, L. C. Clark, supt. county home, 83.32
, London Richardson, labor, 10.00
, Maggie Scurlock, cooking, 15.00
, William Harris, hauling coal, 7.50
, Glasscock Store Mfg. Co., furniture 35.15
, Luther Riddle, supplies, 12.00
i Mrs. J. M. Farrell, hauling coal, 10.00
, R. R. Ramsey, hauling coal, 43.00
, Herbert Jackson, work county home, 1.25
I Add Pendergrass, supplies, 28.80
( Boone Brothers, supplies, : 56.39
, C. L. Henderson, beef, 90.45
( Connell & Farrell, supplies, 155.77
Brooks & Eubanks, supplies, 97.60
Calvin Mitchell, hay, 8.00
( W. O. White, beef, 5.40
Hammock & Harper, blacksmith work, 11.10
H. J. White, repair work county home, 3.00
( S. P- Teague, fruit tress, 16.00
I ittle & Farrell, supplies, 127 81
|J. W. Womble, pork, I 72.75
Chatham Oil & Fertilizer Co., supplies, 187.01.
( Willie Johnson, work county home, 133.00
Mrs. J. W. Johnson, sewing county home, 105.95
: W. F. Beard, hay, 38.50
J. W. Johnson, salary, supt. county home, 900.00
Laura Johnson, cooking, 90.00
J. W. Johnson, extra work, etc., 506.00
W. L. London & Son, supplies, 1,523.48
G. R. Pilkington, drugs, 176.66
R. M. Connell, supplies, 132.18
H. C. Johnson, labor, . 37.95
The Chatham Hardware Company, supplies, 61.47
Pittsboro Case, supplies, 82.72
T. M. Bland & Co., supplies, 270.48
MV. H. Gurley, work and repairs new county home, 1,693*50
Carson Medlin, hauling coal, 20.00
Ed. Dowd, labor, 300
i F. P. Nooe, lumber, 1*52
! L. B. Buckenstein, new county home, 773.00
' Union Brokerage Co., new county home, ~ 309!00
, Durham Mattress Co., new county home, I . 291.00
1 Mebane Iron Bed Co., new county home, • I 114.00
Fitts - Crabtree, new county home, _ 22*30
C. C. Griffin, labor, I ~ s^AS
Walter Johnson, auto hire, (j’qq
Royal & Borden Mfg. Co., supplies, 23.52
Southern Chair Co., supplies, 84^28
j W. L. London, policy new county home, 309^00
Total, $1,0287.85
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