The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-10

weekly issues fer the fiscal year for 500, |
or they will print as above stated and print
rs books as shown by sample. and deliver
to the county clerk at the end of the year
for $3.50. Your committee have failed to
come to any agreement on the above
We therefore refer the propositions to the
board for its action.
THOMAS CAMPBELL,
JOHN BARTON,
JOHN AsTER,
Committee"
The clerk laid before the board the
following communications:
MOLINE, ILL.,, May 2, 1884
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Rock
Island County: |
Gentlemen: We will print and publish
the proceedings of your honorable body
in the Daily and Weekly Moline Republi-
can for the current fiscal year for the sum
of fifty dollars.
Respectfully yours,
KENNEDY & Co.
Per c. T. Guy.
MOLINE, Ill.,. May 2. 1884.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Rock
Gentlemen; We will print and publish
the proceedings of your honorable board
for the current fiscal year in the Daily and
Weekly Moline Republican, and deliver
TO the county clerk seventy-five copies of
the proceedings of each and all meetings
Of your board for the year and printed
and bound together similar and in all
respects equal to the sample of the pro
proceedings of the board of supervisors
of Peoria county, NJ, shown for the sum
of one hundred dollars
Respectfully yours.
KENNEDY & Co.
Per c. r. 9hy,
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the
county of Rock Island, Ills.
The undersigned respectfully represents
that he is the editor and proprietor of the
'Nolks Zeitung" semi weekly newspaper
published in the German language in said
county, and the only newspaper published
in that language in said county.
That great many Of the inhabitants of
the said county of Rock Island are Ger
mans and that the said Volks Zeitung has
a very large circulation among the same
That us a great many of the said Ger
man inhabitants of the said county, are
not sufficiently versed in the English
language to read and understand matter
printed and published in that language,
they have no opportunity to become in-
formed of the nature of the official acts
and proceedings of your honorable body,
the same being published and printed in
the English language Therefore and for
| the further leason, that the interest of the
| German inhabitants and tax payers of the
county in the affairs and welfare of this
community deserves some consideration
| Respectfully request your honorable body
| to engage and authorize me as the editor
| and proprietor of said newspaper to print
and publish the proceedings, announce
ments, ordinances and advertisements Of
the county Board of the county of Rock
Island and all matter and things, which
are to be printed and published by order
of said Board during the present fiscal
year, in the above named newspaper in
the German language, at the rate of:
Proceedings $50 per year, advertisements
81 per inch or Is cts per line and the IN
dersigned will ever pray, etc,
| F. PRoTAR
Editor and proprietor Of theVolks Zeltung
Rock Island. May >, 1884.
Supervisor Ryder moved that the pro-
ceedings be printed in the Moline Repub-
lican daily and weekly at the sum of $50
per year. Supervisor Barton moved as an
amendment that the same be published in
the Rock Island Argus daily and weekly
at the sum of 300 per year
Supervisor McEniry moved as al
amendment to the amendment that the
Board solicit bids for the publication OF
the proceedings in supplement form and
the same be given to the different county
papers for distribution to the sub
scribers to the same. The yeas and nay:
being called resulted rs follows: Yeas
Supervisors Aster, Burial, Cederberg
Fitzgerald, Fisk, Goodlow, Hawthorne
HOLSTER Martin. McEniry, Swanson
Trnmble, and Weatherhead, -. Nays
Supervisors Barton, Bowman, Campbell
Clarke, Heath. Ryder, Schneider Schoon
maker and Titterington g. Absent, SUI
} pervisor Pearsoll; carried. The yeas anC
nays were then called on the motion a.
amended and resulted as follows: Yeas
, Supervisors Aster, Barton, Burial, Ceder
berg, Fitzgerald, Goodlow, Hawthorne
HOLSTER, Martin, McEniry, Swanson ant
Weatherhead, Is. Nays, Supervisor
Bowman, Campbell. Clarke, Fisk. Heath
Ryder, Schneider, Schoonmaker, litter
ington and Trumble, 10. Absent, Super
, visor Pearsoll: carried
u Supervisor Ryder moved that the com
mittee to solicit bids for printing consis
} of three members and that Supervise
} McEniry, chairman of said committee
carried.
Supervisor Ryder moved that Supervi
sor Weatherhead be the second membe
D of said committee; carried.
Supervisor Ryder moved that Superb
sor Hawthorne act as the other membe
0 of said committee; carried.
Supervisor Aster moved that Supervise
. Hawthorne be excused from serving o.
. said committee; carried.
q Supervisor Martin moved that Superb
0 sor Ryder act as the other member OF sal
committee. Supervisor Heath move
that Supervisor Ryder be excused from
q serving on said committee; lost.
e Supervisor Martins motion was the
. voted upon and carried.
e On motion the committee on Jail an
Jail Accounts were authorized to max
the necessary repairs in the sheriff's oil
Office, and the supervisors room; carried
Supervisor Martin moved that Ii
sheriff be authorized to repair the fent
% around the soldiers monument and
n put blocks under the carriages of It
q cannon; carried.
Supervisor Bowman offered the follow
ing resolution, and moved its adoption;
If WHEREAS, 1t is currently reportf
that there is in the inventory of proper
IS on the poor farm many articles old, wor
e out, broken and unserviecable. Their
q fore be it Resolved:
That the committee on poor farm
o authorized and instructed to inspect ar
q condemn any such unserviceable proper
l. and direct its sale or destruction as
l. their Indictment may he wiseSt and hes