The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-02-09


out by presumption OF law. There iH
not business OF $40 900 In Stark county
which does not provide safe or vault
for its books.
Ashtabula county, with one half our
population and not one half our wealth, Is
building a court house with vaults and oil
necessary conveDiences. Tuscarawas
county has Just completed a hue court
house. PoortaRe county has n court house
that Is an honor to the citizens. Macs
field hes an excellent court house with all
conveuiences and safeties. Besides that,
look AZ little Geauga aud little Carroll.
Both have rourt houses which put ours TO
shame They baVe vaults for ell records
and have room for people to turn around.
II 10 the intention OF the projectors OF
the scheme of putting n third story on the
court house, to have the court rooms hnd
the law lihraIy on the third floor. out of
the way of intruders and away from the
noise. The probate court will probably
get room No. 2, and the other offices will
have the second story. All this can be
done for about $4,000 which will be frat
class Investment.
Judge Thsyer and Judge Day were re-
quested TO investigate and report as TO the
jurisdiction OF the county commissioners.
Those eminent lawyers examined the
statutes thoroughly and give IL ns their
opinion that the county commissioners
have the power under the law to 90 ahead
Wlttl t0p IMPROVEMENTS, tNkluR tub iuOuey
either from the general fund or issuing
bonds in sum sufficient to cover the ex-
penditure.
A News DEMOCRAT man interviewed
pumber Of tue county officials with Te-
gard to the proposed change.
PROBATE JUDGE FAwoETT
when approached on the subject OF the
changing of the court house said: VI am
heartily ia favor OF a change. Tho press
H.. H..
the needs of both the people aud the
officials. Especially 10 tbcro IHck of
facilities in the probate office. In the
hrst place we need a court room. There
are now from two 10 six cases week hes
fore the probate court and we are entirely
at the mercy of the common plsna court
for place TO conduct trials. We have
been compelled to shift about from one
room to another and have even had to
go out to the city holl to conduct cases.
In the next place the office room is not
adequate. The probate Office ahould have
a judge's private Office, public office and
ali office for the clerks to do their copy.
ing. Then II should be supplied with n
vault for records. There are $50 books of
record here of wills and marriages and
other important pRpcrB and none
have any protection against
fire. Besides this the office is
nearly full now and IL business
in two years there will not be a place
where you can put poper.n
COUNTY RECORDER REEDS
said to a NEWS DEMOCRAT reporter: "The
present court house Is not at all well
lifted for the work required of 1t. Ii ia
not nearly large enough and 10 badly
planned. We need much more room in
this Office than We have got. A sp-ciul
separate office should be supplied for
4 he
they would not bs bothered by every body
that comes into the office, ,End we ought by
all means to have vault for the records.
Here we have 296 deed and mortgage
records and the loss OF any of them would
cost the county more to replace it than
whole vault would cost. Besides we have
not room and the books have to be piled
up nearly to the Getting and many have
been ruined by falling down. We also
have about 30 other books OF record and q
fire would prove OF incalculable less to the
county,
AUDITOR LOICHoT
was very firmly OF the opinion tlst some
change should be made in the court house.
"By all meaDs,n said he, omethinR ought
TO be done. Either a new court house
should be erected or this one enlarged and
repaired. We have not room enough in
this office to take care of the work proper
ly, but the most important thing is that
vaults be secured for records. We have
perhaps over thousand books in the
office now and If fire should get into
them the loBs 90 the county would be
enormous. 1t would destroy ali tho records
of taxes and there 10 no way in which they
could be replaced"
TREASURER MAUDRU
said he was in favor of some improves
ment and always had been. During the
times at tax paying the treesurer's office
10 not near large enough.
COUNTY CLERK CoXEN
said: "Everybody who knows anything
about the work in the clerk's office knows
shat our facilities for work nre miserable.
We are Gre mped up here and it is very
apparent that more room 10 needed. We
should have our offices all together iug
stead of one down stairs as is now the
case. The whole office is filed to over
flowing with records and the room is en-
tirely insufficient"
SURVEYOR OLIVER HoLn
Is very emphatic in favor of some
change from the existing state of affairs
in the court house. For a couple of
months the surveyors Office has looked
more like feb pond than anything else. .
The hoor mas been covered with water a
good portion of the time and the place
wac damp and foul and entirely unfit for
any one to occupy.
PROSECUTOR Row
looks with favor on the move for addi-
tional room in the county's temple of
justice. lie Is in favor of either adding q
story or building additions to the preaent
structure on the sides.
THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE
in the southeast end Of the court house Is
an lily ventilated, dingy and uncomfo ta-
BILE place withnl and the sheriff and hia
1nnyfinl wi hA in I,nr fg,1,
some movement that will improve their
quarters aud give better facilities for the
performance of their work.
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
will have the deciding of the whole mat
ter as 20 any change that may or may not
be made and while all are thought to look
with favor upon movement that will
improve the court house yet no action will
probably be taken until they have given
the matter an investigation and deter
mined the wishes of the people and the
necessities for the change.