Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
Grand Rapids, Wis, Nov. Is, 1896
Court House, 8 o'clock, a. m. I
PHILIP NJ. KSYCKI,
County Clerk.


called to order by Chairman Hies
Roll called and quorum present.
Jacob Searls, chairman of the committee on
roads and bridges, made the following report:
To The Honorable The Board of Supervisors Of Wood Cotn
Wisconsin, Gentlemen:
We, the undersigned Board of Superysorsof the Town
of AubuFndale in your county uniting with the under
hereby respectfully represent and show you follows
That the said Town of Auburndae has voted build
out extending north and south the section line between
sections 33 and 81 in Township % north Of Range east;
and the said Town NeSper voted build
and construct bridge upon continuation of said high
way extending south between Sections and T. IN Town
That the bridge voted by said be constructed
is and the BRIDGE and is located partly in the
Town Of Aubundae and partly in the Town OF Nesper
at about the point where said Sections 80 and 81
with said Sections and +.
That the total cost Of said bridge will be about the
sum of Six Hundred Dollars $500 and one-half of such
said towns exceeds oneourth of per centum of all of
the taxable property in each Of said towns according to
the last equ&Iized valuation
WHEREF0RE, The undersigned Board of Supervisors
CT the Town of Aubundae and the Board of Supervisors
pray you that you appropriate the Three Hundred
Dollars $780, being onehalf the cost of such bridge
toward the payment Of the construction thereof pro-
yded by Section 1919 of the Revised Statutes of this state
and the several acts amenditoy thereof and this we will
Dated this 9th day Of November A. D. 1896.
AMY FROTHLAND.
FRED SCHUETTE.
SupVrS, IOWn or AuOurndale
On motion the report was adopted and the
amounts therein allowed in full upon thefollowing
vote:
Ayes-Mews, Nash, Schnabel, Arpin E. P,
Whee1an, Wood, Christensen, Kalshed, Cady, Nc
Lees, Bartes, Juno, Fechheltn, Kohel, Hooper,
Brown, Boynton, Ever, Phillips, McKercher,
Lereaux Brostowitz, Mullen, Searls. Total "a
Nays-O.
Bills of Jacob Searls, VIM News and Henry
Fechhelm, SO each, committee work. was on
motion allowed in full.
F. \. Cady, chairman Of the Poor Farm COM
nlittee read that committees report as follows:
70 the County B0ad Of Supervisors Of Wood County,
Cct}cmm:-Iour committee upon County Poor Farm and
passed November 18th 4. D. 1895, instructing in
yegate the condition of the County Poor Farm the
ditOn OF the inmates and also alleged charges
against the management OF said Poor Farm and to make
u report in writing 10 your honorable BODY peg leave
to submit for your consideration the following statement
Yesterday November 18th we went personally to the
poor farm and believe made very careful examin-
Abrams had no notice of our coming and we found him
We found the farm proper to consist Of 100 acres Of
land Of which, about III have been cleared 10
Of new land having been cleared during 1896 The
Nr Abrams has also stumped all of the cleared land
as we should Judge in excellent manner, and the
cleared land be in rScIaSs condition
Of machinery. The fences farm buildings and all machi-
cry found to be in good repair and in orderly cOnd
ton We found all tools and farm machinery under
and housed for the winter We also found the CATTLE
hor5es poultry and all other live stock IN good condition
sleek fat and well cared for The stables warm,
Portable and could not be better managed or kept to
cleanliness. While the hog yard and pens in good
condition as could be expected we would however recon-
mend that the County Poor Commissioners should direct
That the hOg yard and pens be removed farther from the
poor house and possible the road the side
as that upon which the barns are situated We found the
root and potatoes carefully stored in the root cellar
and cellar under the house, and all rye and other
grain carefully stored and under good cover.
We looked the poor house proper carefully from
cellar to garnet and found all rooms to be scupqouSy
clean, and tidy The cellar well stored with
potatoes and roots, while in homemade refrigerator
stored quantity of good butter made during the past
season and stored away for winter All the products
mentioned having been produced upon the farm The
pantry and kitchen were very neat and clean and we found
and clean. We found the sleeping chambers be
we'll warmed well ventilated, and very neatly and Clearly
kept The condition OF the entire house regards clean
found however, the bedseads be very old, shaky and
norted by nailed ceats While ali Gore mute but eloquent
evidence of the appcaton-both in and i'm
other remedies that inferred had been
check the progress and stay the ravages of the gay and
that the sleeping and beds had formerly been in
tested by very active variety Of bedDugs but that the
suited in complete victory for her. and that both rooms
and beds were now free from yerln and had been for
about three years We would in this connection recon-
mend that Commissioners with all reasonable prompt
ness cause the needed rooms on o9h the male ana female
iron beds and cheap excelsior mattresses. We would
recommend that the beds furnished be mainly single beds
may so lar as practicable. be separately cared for.
We found The manager MI Abrams. practicing excel
lent econ0n1v in many V3yOne being hv having the old
sump upon the that had been pulled, worked up by
the male inmates into fire wood and chunks for the heat
ing s0yeS-theebv saving the county for the ensuing
winter at least forty dollars that would otherwise have
be expended for cordwood Wefound all the inmates
- in number. cheerful and we'll cared for
We questioned different carefully and all eX-
pressed themselves being well treated well fed and sup
Piled and without exception all the testified To-
being kindly treated by both Mr.. and Mrs Abrams Wei
are therefore Of the opinion that the poor house and poor