Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-01-14
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
Proceedings at the January
Session of the Board.

Session Of the Board.
Auditors Office,
Jan. Z, 1896.
The board of county commits
sioners metin annual session pur-
suant to law.
All members present.
The board organized by elect
ing A. Flygare chairman for the
ensuing year..
Petition of L. Moline and 9th
ers for change of county road in
town of Whitefeld was taken up
and according to the report Of
the committee it was on motion
tabled because release of dam
ages was not filed.
Petition of Matts Wolner and
others for change of county road
in town of Lake Lillian was talk
en- up. The report of the commit
tee recommending that the peti-
tion be granted was on motion
accepted and the petition grant
ed.
Petition of Arne Olson to be
set off from District No. 26 to
Dist. No. % was on motion set
for hearing at the next regular
meeting of the board.
Petition of G. E. Wilson to
have his land set off from school
Dist. No. So to Dist. No. 1 came
up for final hearing. Proof hav-
ing been filed that notice of hear
ing had been posted and served
according to law, the petition WAS
on motion granted. and order
issued accordingly.
Petition of H. Gort to be set off
from school district No. 81 to
district No. 81, was on motion
tabled because affidavit of post
ing and serving notice Of hear
ing was not tiled.
The petition of 81. E. Anderson
to be set off from school district
No. 81 to Dist. No. 5, was on mo-
ton taken from the table, and up
on motion granted and order
issued accordingly.
Recess till 9 o'clock d. IN. Jan.
9th, 1896.
Jan, 8, 1896:
The board met at9 o'clock a:
All members present:
A petition for permission to
drain Swan Lake in town Of
Mamre was presented. Inter-
ested parties present were given
hearing. Action on said petition
Was postponed till future meet
ing: The mat ter Of establishing
a public ditch following the
course of Shakopee creek was
considered and-parties from
Swift Co. were present being in
terested in continuing the ditch
into Swift county.
Recess till 2 O'Clock p. m.
The board met at 2 o'clock p.
m. all members being present.
Bid for county publishing
was opened and found to be a
joint bid from: Willmar Argus,
Republican Gazette, New London
Times and Atwater Press. The
terms of the bid were to publish
all official publications of the
county for the year 1896 for the
sum Of $674.00,, the publications
to be made in all the above nam
ed papers and THE W1hLlMtA1H M i
TR1BVNE: The bid also specified
that the Atwater Press should
be named the official paper Of
Kandiyohi county for the year
1896,
The above named bid was or
motion accepted and the follow
ing resolutions were upon mo
tion adopted: e..
Resolved, by the board o1
county commissioners of Kandiy
obi county, Minnesota, that the
Atwater Press, a newspaper thai
now is and for. more than ONT
year prior hereto has been pub
lished and printed weekly ii u tbs
English language in the village
OF Atwater. said coa nty and gen
orally irculated be and the same
hereby is designated the oflicia
81 newspaper for the said Kandiyo
hi. county for and during th,
year A. D. 1876; and
Resolved, fnrth ther, that the de