Irate citizens continue to ask, is the

Mystery $900 Tied to Auto Dealership ?

             Residents of Grace continue to inquire unsuccessfully how more than $900 recently showed up in the town treasury cigar box at Grace Town Hall. They charged that the funds might have come from a gambling enterprise operating Tuesday mornings in the Grange Hall in Woodinville and challenged the propriety of such financial windfalls for the township.

          They noted that the money appeared in the cigar box the same day that a sign went up on Hiway 9 announcing the future location of Furrier Motors of Grace, an outfit long on used cars and a bit short on credibility, according to the inquiring residents.

          Treasurer Steve Dole-Out Dolan just back from another extended vacation in northern Idaho was still unavailable for comment. Mayor-for-Life Terry Jarvis referred all questions to the treasurer’s office but declared nothing untoward was afoot.

          Hugo B. Jonsen, the town’s grand marshal in charge of parades and celebrations, thought the money, “if it really exists”, might have been the results of a proposed Furrier Motors advertising campaign in the Greater Grace OnLine Gazette, of which Jonsen and Jarvis are co-publishers.

          Jonsen shed talk of conflicts of interest to say, “we can put the money to good use having fun,” alluding to the town’s motto of “Having Fun Is Serious Business.”

          Meanwhile, Hap Haywood, deputy director of the Grace Independent Bureau of Investigation, said GIBI would look into the citizen complaint with the help of Police Chief Don Fitz Jr. and the Fuzette Corps of Volunteers. Haywood said he believed concerns over the reputation of the operators of Furrier Motors are unfounded and that he saw no reason the firm shouldn’t be permitted to locate its mobile body shop in town.

          The Gazette was unable to reach any official of Furrier Motors for comment.