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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-11-25
ii. N. BAsCoM,
@. X. MoRAE,
Q. q. HoLr.

The report Of the committee on
equalization was now submitted to the
board. A motion was made to accept
the report aud defer action on same till
2 o'clock p. NJ. Carried. The COM
nittes to settle with county clerk pre-
s,nted their report with that Of said
clerk, and On motioA same were ac-
copied and adopted:
REPORT OF COUNTY CLERK.
b, Jensen. County Clerk, In account with
Pierce County from Nov. ~. 1885. 10 Nov. LIST,
1856
To cash Oh hand Nov. TO- 1865 $50 65
To cash reed on redemptiOns,
interest, etc.a...-........-..........l 1850 80
To advertising fees ................... II ~
TO clerk o. 10 , 40
CIR
By cash paid individuals on re-
demptions and interest.....-....sl3s 80
BY cash paid Co. Treas. on adj
BY y easb pd &c Treas on elk fees 81 Is
Balance on hsnd 500 CO . -.
T1TAx SALE cERTIFIcATEs,
DIR.
To certificates on hand Nov. 10,
To sS Certificates from sale Of iSSG i %
CIR.
By certificates assigned............ 8 IA -
By certificates outlawed lover
10 years old, sale 1871 ........... 80 -
BY certificates on hand............ 2I3 30
800 %
State of Wisconsin Pierce county. S.:
J. b. Jensen, being duly sworn says the fore
going report is correct and true to the best of
his knowledge and belief J. b. JENsoS.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this 10Th
day of Nov, 1856. C. w. CAIRNS, Notary Public.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Pierce
county;
Your committee appointed 70 settle with the
County Clerk, would respectfully report that
they have examined the report, books and vOuch-
ers of said Clerk and carefully compared the
same and find his report correct in all respects,
and recommend the adoption thereof
All ofwhich is respectfully submitted this 18th
day Of November, 1886
n n Il aI fIRasa. committee.
C. NJ. SIAFFoRD,J
The auditing committee reported
the following schedule of bills as pass
ed upon by them and allowed:
SCHEDULE OF BILLS
Filed with the County Clerk since annual ses-
sion of the County Board of Supervisors in No
vember, 1885:
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Temperance.

CONDUCTED BY THEW. c. I. U.
For God and Home and Native Land. ;
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On motion accepted and adopted.
The following report of Sup't Pub
lie Property was then read and on mo-
ton was accepted and adopted:
To the honorable Board Of Supervisors Of
Pierce county
As Superintendent of Public Property | beg
leave to report and respectfully submit to you
the following statement oil expenditures py he
during the past year for repairs and Otherwise,
follows:
To cash paid Scott for cleaning out
court room after plastering &c SO %
do ; Close for repairs on co. barn
including material used -
do J K Moore for shoveling snow oO
do b Maynard repairing office
desk for Register 2P
90 warn IOr cenn'A'iHS jan "OO Sc 2l
do } Griggs for cleaning closets W
do o Warn rep. plast. court house 20
do ID Scott rep. els. at court house %
do c SandeTsOn for tinsmith Work 80 .
on belfry and court house root, &c oo ~
On c do bonse Sob baI leo A''si anu 10 90
10 On agosp 9Stee eo Office ice bsiIdns IL 90
% Ill lon oourt ~ bomse xard 81 -
'eN.I 80 for naint an court house 80 90
do Warn for repairing jail wall Oh
do ChaS Peterson for moving ana re-
construction court house water closet &c ii w
DO III Cannei1 an ISr baIi 2s 90
DO J r Moore for cleaning CO ohices ~
do Quinn for plank tor co, barn ~
90 GanHy io Te 9ls1n cage in jail 60
do h Turner cleaning cut once M
privy "
s2so o.
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AFTERNOON SESSION.
WEDNESDAY, New.

WEDNESDAY, New. 10.
Beard met at 2 o'clock P. N; roll
called; full board present.
Report Of County Clerk was then
presented, and en- motion accepted and
referred to Committee to settle with
County Clerk. On molten the Board
then adjourned till tomorrow morning
THURSDAY Morning, Nov. IL.
Board met at S o'clock; all member:
present. Journal read and approved
County Clerk presented list of out
lawed county orders, and on motion
the orde.s were destroyed In the pres
enee of the board aud lie. thersoi made
ar # this journal.
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RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1885,

Of wholesome knowledge, presented tC
them in an assimilative form.
Most of the school hOuses of the county
are now comfortable and commodious
There Is growing tendency on the part
of district boards to supply them with
apparatus. There is one universal fault
with school buildings and that is i'll ventil-
alton. This is a defect that demands
urgent attention. In all the school hou-
ses of Pierce county no means are pro-
yided for ventilation other than windows
and "A door and in nine-tenths Of the new
buildings the windows are stuck fast, or
as Grant would have it Theoretically
sealed" No child can study and improve
and be obliged TO breathe the reeking,
pestiferous air of an lily ventilated school
room.
/ have disbursed during the year for
printing, postage and incidentals $l97.ll.
! would estimate the superintendent
incidental fund for the ensuing year at
800.
Respectfully submitted,
J. A. MURPHY,
Co. Supt. Of Schools.
On motion the report was accepted
and adopted. The board then adj
jourDsd till Friday morning.
FRIDAY Morning. Nov II.
Board met at o'clock; roll called;
a full board present. Journal read
and approved. Report Of committee
on illegal taxes was presented and on
motion accepted aud adopted:
70 the Hon. County Board Of Supervisors Of |
Pierce County
Your committee on illegal taxes have had |
presented TO them the matter ola alleged H. |
legal tax sale certificate Of the sale Of May 10, /
1858, numbered Ill, sSvsring acres Of tract. |
one half Of nwZ Of see. IS, town %, range 10 |
We iud that the dessripIO in said certificate |
No. III. sale Of 1888 Is eTrsnious and covers in /
part lands on which taxes have been paid. and /
therefore recommend that the certi fcate be /
cancelled and that the amount OF fl3fs being /
principal and interest now due said ceTtih i
cate be charged back to the town of Salem by 1
the County Treasurer Of Pierce county. Also |
the matter o. an alleged illegal tax deed on tho
nex Of sw4 secs. s. T. %, r. IL, gives on a GER
Iidcate from sale of April 10, 1860. We find that /
his was government land at the time II was
'old and tho tax thereon illegal, and therefore
recommend that the tax deed be cancelled aud
tho amount Of Sl2.i7 be charged back by the
County treasurer to the town II Trenton. as
he amount now due for principal. interest ana
expenses Of said deed and certificate, that the
amounts so charged back be paid By the County
Treasurer 10 the respective parties 10 whom the
lam0 may belong.
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certified bill, Of these expenditures are
n county treasurer office
Dated at Ellsworth, Nov. 9. l5oo. ,
II JENSoS. Supt. Z

j. Il. JENS0s, SHpt- FuD. FrO'
On motion the chair was requested
to appoint committee of three to in
vestigate and ascertain what disposition
this board will make of the matter OF
taking care of the insane OF this ooun-
ty. The chair appointed as such COM
mittee Sups. r. NJ. Sands, Ira D..
Smith, and NJ C. Piercs-commistee
to report to this board.
On motion the board then adjourn
Ell until tomorrow morning.
VI EDNEsDAY Morning. Nov. 10.
Board met at s o'clock; roll called;
a full board present except member
frem 1st ward city of Prescott. Min
utes approved. The report Of County
Treasurer was then presented to the
board aud on motion was referred TO
the Finance Committee.
On motion board adjourned till =
y NJ
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REPORT OF BUILDING COMMITTEES To
COUNTY BeARD.

The undersigned building committee beg
leave 70 report: That acting under the resolu-
tien Of County Board, adopted at its special
meeting IN June last, we proceeded TO procure
plan and specifications for county poor-hOuse OF
John Nader, of Madison, an architect who has
had large experience IN drawing plans Tor
buildings of this kind. Owing to circumstances
beyond our csntrOl the plan did not arrive until
the sth Of July. l will say here that the plan
was substantially the same as shown the county
board by Mr. Giles. IL being however consider
ably reduced in size. Building proposals were
then advertised for two weeks. EleEen bids
were received ranging from 5000 TO SiOZ'. Ow-
ing TO Mr.. 4. +. Michael : well known reputa-
tion as thoroughly reliable contractor and
builder, il was thought 10 be for the best inter-
ests % the county 10 award the contract to him
for the sum OF $500. that being next to the low
est sum bid.
Although the work has been yigoro usly push
ed the pOer-hOuse is still unfinished. This Is
partly due TO delays caused By rainy weather
and partly to the short length Of time since
Aug. lst for properly constructing building Of
this character.
amount Appropriated by county board as fol-
To Nader for plan & specifications 5000
To Il Morse for printing 30
To Case 4 DOolittle for printing 200
10 q W Cairns for survey I.0U
To Michael according to contract 10000
fetal paid out to date sl.OS5.5)O
There is still due Michael including
SEQ additional l,o2soJ
Total paid out and due on contract s5,sss5
Leaving de feiency Of SOS .SO
II may not be considered improper in this
connection to call the attention Of the county
board to the propriety Of making some proVis-
ions for the construction of suitable prlYles and
a cistern; also to consider the fact that some
new furniture and bedding will be necessary In
order TO get rid of bed bugs" &c. Ii may be
thought advisable also to provide for painting
the dosrs for which no provision was made IN
the contract.
All OF which is respectfully submitted to the
County Board Of Pierce county.
Dated Nov. 3, 1896.
c. @. Hour,
Freeman Ii. LORD,
Buiiding Cammiftaa
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AFTERNOON SESSION.

THURSDAY, Nov IL.
Board met at . o'clock P. NJ; roll
called; full board present.
The petition from town of Spring
Lake for bridge aid. filed with County
Clerk June S, 1856, was called up and
read to the board by the clerk:
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On motion shs rsePasrt Of .Ae audit
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MKAD BAILEY.
CLERK SHRINK La

Valuation Of the town Of Spring Lake. by the
assessment Of 1885, SllO 96S. | certify the fore
going to be a correct statement from the rec
ords Of this office.
MKAD BAILEY.
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Report Of Agents Of ths Poor was
presented and en- motion referred 10
committee to settle with said agents.
The report Of Bailding Committee was
presented and on melton laid over till
tomorrow morning. On motion the
board adjourned till 2 o'clock p. NJ.
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Filed with the County Clerk since annual ses-
sion of the County Board Of Supervisors in No
vember. 1885:
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CONTINUED. J
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
Glover Nudge .

We have received some clover heads
which are infected with the nudge. The
trouble has been reported to different
papers from several sections this season.
The larva, according to Riley, is of a
bright orange-red color, lives within the
clover heads, and by exhausting them
of their juices, causes the seed to shrivel
and become worthless. When they
have made their growth, these midges
either enter into the ground or hide
under rubbish on the surface and form
tough silken cocoon, with particles OF
earth adhering. Some of the flies ap-
pear i'm September, and others not I'M
ill the following Spring. Thus far the
insects ravages have been confined to
the central and western parts of the
state of New York, and the only remedy
that has been suggested is, for farmers
i'm localities where the nudge prevails, to
stop growing clover seed for several
years or until the insect IS starved out
We may notice i'm this connection, too,
the clover worm about which we some
times have inquiry, has been OCCASION
ally noticed for the last twenty years
says Mary Treat, and now, in some 10,
calities, from New England to Michigan
and Illinois, it often occurs i'm trouble
some numbers. 1t attacks the clover in
the NOW or stack, webbing the stems
together with multitudes of silken
threads, among which is such an album
dance of black excrement as to unfit the
clover for feeding to animals. The white
cocoons are present i'm such numbers
that one, without close examination
would pronounce the hay to be mouldy
The moth is one of our prettlest species
being of Il reddish-brOwn color, with
golden-yellow markings and fringe to its
wings. 1t is suggested az a preventive
that hay containing clover should moi
be stacked twice in the same place, and
that the stack should be placed upon
log or other foundations, that will allow
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23

To make good cheese requires, first
of all, good COW. Those who have an
alyzed milk know this fact, and we be-
lieve that 1t requires a special kind of
good COW. In other words, an excellent
butter cow may not always be an excel
lent COW for the cheese dairy. We know
that i'm England, the pasturage used by
makers Ofcheese is set exclusively apart
for that one purpose. The butter cows
do not run on it, nor are other grasses
given TO the cows employed for making
cheese. No doubt some of the qualities
of Alpine pasture and the peculiar eli
mate of Switzerland go into the cheese
that comes to us from the Al ps. And
these are qualities we cannot exactly
duplicate if we can compete with. 1t is
said of German Emperor, when he ate
cheese upon the Alps and remembered
it with delight on his return
home, that he sent to Switzerland for
the very cow that was the author of its
milky substance. But when the cheese
from the Germanized-Swiss COW was
brought to him, he did not find it the
same article, and he complained about
it. "Ah, sire," said the farmer, "you
must buy and bring home the Alps il
you want me to make you that kind of
cheese"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
Joking Justices.

Among the latest bon mOts ascribed
to Chief Justice Waite. who, it will b,
remembered. administered the oath OF
Office TO President Cleveland. is the dc
claration that Il legal objection may bt
urged against the coming marriage.
1.-THE president took an oath 10 sup
port the constitution. you know" the
chief justice is reported to have re-
marked.
Certainly" was the rejOinder.
Every well. The constitution pre-
scribes his compensation, and declares
that it shall not be increased nor di
minished during the period for which
he shall have been elected. and that
he shall not receive within that period
any other emOlument from the United
States or any of them Those are the
words" said the chief justice.
Yes; you have quoted them ex'
actly."
Then, is it not clear that $4,000 is
the full sum for him and no otherP'
The patient listener died of shock il
is believed.
Associate Justice Gray, who is a
bachelor and is not credited with ma.
trimonial aspirations, has since ruled
on the opinion uttered by his chief. He
asserts that a wife can not be classed
as an emolument or compensation, but
quite the reverse. From his point OF
view, he asks that an exception to the
chief Justices dictum be noted in the
presloents tavor.-N y. Herald
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
Hints and Helps.

A small bag of charcoal hung in Il ram
water barrel purifies it perfectly.
| Salt and vinegar brighten brasses as
well as any more modern and expensive
notions.
Regulate the feed of your horses TO
correspond with the amount OF work
they are required to do.
The totals of cattle, hogs and sheep in
this country are wonderfully close to
each other, being in round numbers re-
spectively 46,OO0,0O0, 45,0OO,OOO and 49,
100000
1t sometimes costs less to have bad
ly soiled room repainted after a mOder-
ate use of the mop and brush, than il
does to have it scrubbed and secured,
to say nothing of the expenditure of
strength.
| Plaster busts and statuets may be
cleaned, when it is not desired to paint
them, by dipping them into thick liquid
starch and drying, and when the starch
is brushed off the dirt is brushed off with
il.
England buys $40, 252, 1884 ont of the
SO, S05, S24 worth of the bacon we export;
of hams, 81, 45i $50 worth out of the 81,
23l 500; nearly half of the s., 462 ,5}S of
pork, and about One-third of our surplus
lard.
The DANISH Horticultural Society has
just held IA very successful exhibition in
Copenhagen. There were flowers from
field and wood, garden and hot-house,
rare orchids and simple iorget-me-nots
all brought together IN gorgeous dis
play.
Powdered borax mixed with little
powdered sugar and scattered about ~
spots will prove certain death to cock
reaches and TO ants, and if that il not
handy, few droys of spirits of turpen
tine sprinkled here and there will be III
effective i'm the case of these nuisances
AZ il is in the case of MOTHS Farmer.
ddrOcdte.
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Chicago as q Wool Market.

Chicago has developed wonderfully as
a wool market, and the time is rapidly
coming when tins will be the chief wool
market of the country. There are legit-
innate reasons why this should be 80.
Ii is central point and IL railroad CEN
ter; and further, there are few firms
that handle wool here that have
determined that they will hasten the
time as rapidly as possible when their
city shall he universally recognized as
the wool market of the United States.
Hence they have worked hard to en-
courage the shipment of wool here, and
they have encouraged shipment by Sc
curing the very best prices and by max
ing prompt returns. They have also
done much to show the folly of shipping
wool TO the East, and often having il
brought back here for manufacturing
purposes. Another very commendable
thing, too, that our best wool houses
have done is simply to act as commits
sion houses. They own no wool, and
hence have no stocks of their own to
shove off upon an improved market.
The wool, which they hold from con-
signors, therefore, gets the full benefit
of the market The Eastern trade has
often been very unsatisfactory to the
down there among the rings and the
commission house to which he has con-
signed has often been part of the ring
that was controlling the price of his
wool. We have frequently endeavored
to show the folly of having great wool
mills located in the East, necessitating
the shipment of the raw material a
thousand miles and shipping the man
ufactured article back over the same
thousand miles for consumption. The
mills do not pay the extra expense that
is necessitated by this system. The
wool grower pays il i'm one direction and
the consumer pays it i'm the other. Both
pay the fiddler and the manufacturer
does the dancing.
But there is no way to force these
mills into the wool producing districts if
they do not wish TO come. There Is a
way, however, to get rid of paying
freight upon their wool. We can sell it
i'm Chicago and let them come here and
buy it; and that is what manv are now
doing and more and more are doing it
every year. Chicago prices are very
little below Eastern prices and our Wes-
tern wool growers are at least advised
to inquire into this great Western mar
ket before going further and perhaps
faring worse.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-07-23
j. N. Zeiiin & Co., Philadelphia. Pa.
PRICE. Gi-SO-
First ins. June IS: last July 30.
MORTG AGE FORECLOSURE SALE.

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.
DEFAULT having been made i'm the condi-
- tiuns al certain mortgage executed by
Thomas J. Perry ana Ella T.. Perry his wife,
mortgagors Ia Mary w. Fleet MORTGAGE, Ola
Office of the Register Of Deeds in and for the
county of Blue Earth, in the State of Mime
sofa, ON the first day Of April A. ID, 1851, at 10
O'Clock IN the forenoon, in book Is of mortga
gcs. on page ll3, 10y which mortgage there WA.
conveyed and granted the following described
real estate situat" in the county Of Blue Earth
aforesaid, tu-wit: Lot two 90 I'm block twelve
u2D in Hunts Addition To the village of Lake
Crystal, according tn the recorded plat thereof
to secure the payment of the sum OF six hun.
drcd add hfty dollars, with interest AT the rate
of ten per cent per annum payable annually
according Ia the conditions Of one promsSory
note hearing same date as said mortgage
made 10y said Thomas j. Perry Ia said Mary W
Fleet and the said mortgage having been duly
assigned by the said mortgage In Marquis L.
Hawlcy 10y written deed of assignment which
assignment WAS, ON the 18th day of May
A. ID. lSS6, recorded in the office of said Regis
ter of Deeds. in book II of Mortgages. an pag,
10, and there being due and unpaid upon sait
note and mortgage at the date of this motto,
the sum of seven hundred and Twenty-Five and
>2-lp dollars, and this assignee having on thu
9Th day ofMny, leSG, paid taxes upon said mort
gagged premises the sum oi thirty-four aud ~
ITO dollars, which said sum IL was necessary
Ia pay Ia protect the lien of said mortgage
and no action or proceeding AT law al
otherwise having been instituted To ye
cover the amount of said mortgag,
debt or any part thereof. Now therefor
notice II hereby given that 10y virtue and il
pursuance oi a power of sale in said mort gag,
contained ana herewith recorded, and oi the
statute IN such case made aud provided, the
above described premises will be- sold AT public
auction, nj the front door of the office of the
Register of Deeds in and for said county al
Blue Earth and at the City Of Mankatn there
~, on
Saturday, the 3lst day of July,
\. 10. l>>d, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon. e
satisfy the amount nf said mortgage debt thcI
due and unpaid, and the amount 81 paid n,
aforesaid for taxes together with the costs an,
expenses Of such foreclosure proceeding, in
Guiding twenty iive dollars attorneys fees a
stipulated IN said mortgage and the said mort
gage will bc thereby ferecloSed.
Dated MAY 18th lSS6
MARQUIS l.. HAWLEY,
Assignee of Mortgage
]. l. WAsHBURS,
Attorney for ASSign.,.
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Good Manners.

Good manners are innate with som,
people. with others they are more Of
less acquired. Where ignorance of pre-
scribed rules exists. tact will often leaC
the person out of the social difficult,
impending. Ii is important for thu
scholar or man of genius not to neglec
the minor courtesies of social life, us il
shown in the case of Carlyle; while
every one can admire his splendid i'm.
tellect, there are few who have the
temerity to praise his crusty manners
A proper regard for the feelings OF
others will often cause a person ignor
ant of all social usages to hit the proper
vein in good manners.
Needless people bring up topics OF
conversation regardless of the feelings
of a portion of those whom they are adj
dressing; the latter may hold different
views in religion and politics, but on
goes the needless one, rnthlcssly tramp.
ing on the most tender corns of opinion,
cherished by some sensitive one among
the number, who is too wcll-bred 70
make any reply.-Mrs. Ellis l.. Num-
ma, IN Good HOHSekPeDin1.