Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-19

THOMAS WATSON,
GEO. w. HAMPTON,
ANDREW CAIRNS,
JACOB BREMMER,
LEWIS HOLLOWAY.
Report adopted.
MR.. MCCALL, chairman of the COM
mIttee on Insane. reported as follows:
To the Honorable County Board of Grant
County.
Your committee for the Insane and
Poor are proud that they can report to
your body that the poor farm, the poor
house, the insane asylum and its oceu-
pants are in fair and prosperous con-
dition under the management of our
present superintendent, r. B. Showal-
ter. Esq, and his respected lady. Mrs.
Showalter.
The institutions were heretofore run
under the contract system by Messrs
Petty & Sons. but on the urgent request
of the honorable state board of charities
and reform your committee, ON the 1st
OF October, 1884. made arrangements
with Messrs. Petty e. Sons that they
should run as per contract system the
poor farm till the 10Th of March, 1885,
and we engaged Mr. Geo. Budd tempo
rarily to superintend the insane asylum
for the county at salary of 500 per
month from the 9TH of October, 1884,
the county hiring the necessary help
and furnishing all the necessary means
to carry ON the institution under the
supervision of the state board and this
committee. On the 10th day of March,
1885. your committee engaged r. B.
Showalter and lady at salary of $75
per month till the 1st of January, 1886,
to take charge of all the inmates of the
peorhouse and insane asylum, the farm
and all the appurtenances thereunto
belonging: and your committee from
time to time bought the necessary stock
of horses, cows, pigs, chickens, wag-
ons and farming utensils, to carry on
the said farm, also the required seeds
for the cultivation of the farm, and all
the necessary provisions for its inmates,
feed for stock, clothing, grain and all
for the comfort of the insane and poor
There being no production of any kind
from the farm belonging to the county,
everything had to be purchased, as the
| bills hereinafter enumerated will show.
After the $4,000 appropriated at the
last session Of the board was expended,
your committee also made arrange
ments with the bank of Geo w. Ryland
& Co. to furnish to the superintendent
the necessary funds to pay the hired
help until such time as the state, county
and towns would pay for the care OF
their insane and poor, or such time as
the county would by tax raise the
amount. The amount now due foI
such moneys advanced is 81 ,097.52.
The county board at its last session
instructed its chairman to build an out
house, 1880 feet 10 the insane asylum
but upon examination we found that
such building would in all probability
be in the way of further necessary i'm.
proyements. and therefore by a resoln
ton passed by US requested him not tc
build, but, instead. have, as was mos
necessary and indispensable, a wei
drilled at convenient place for tbs
asylum. The chairman had the vel
drilled, as you will see by his report
The superintendent rented ten acres Of
land from Samuel Walker. paying
therefor $50. and sold one CIV for S5t
and six calves at 81 each (S42)
amounts were duly paid ont by him fol
rent OF land and wages of employees.
] The proceeds from the farm for this
years crop are as follows: 1882 bush