Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-14

IL WIS lnONCu anu SeCOhueu 6uiI
Supervisor James HiIes of baskerville,
be elected chairman of the County
Board for the ensuing year. Motion
was carried and Nh. Hiies was elected
unanimously.
DR.. NJ. B. Wood, of PittsvilIe, comes
in.
Geo. l.. Williams introduced the
following resolution.
RESOLVED, that the Chairman Of this
Board be, and he is hereby requested
at once to call upon the Finance Com
mittee, of the last board, to make and
file with the County Clerk within thirty
days, written detailed report upon the
Report of County Treasurer Berg, and
upon the Report of County Clerk Ksycki,
and condition of affairs in the offices of
County Treasurer and County Clerk.
On motion the resolution was adopted.
j. w. Cochran introduced the follow
ing resolution which was on motion
adopted:
RESOLVED, that committee of one be
appointed by the Chairman of this
Board to act with himself and the
County Clerk in the proper distribution
and taking Of proper receipts for the
new county map, heretofore provided
and now on hand, for towns, cities,
villages and schools.
The following resolution was intro
duced by Mr. ?. n. Christensen:
WHEREAS, Township No. % North,
Range 2 East, is cut up in all directions
by rivers and creeks for which reason a
great many bridges and culverts are
needed on the highways, and the town
being settled up in all directions,
demands are made for new highways to
be laid out and opened and improved
i'll many different localities, 4 great
burden Is put upon the taxpayers to
raise moneys enough to lay out and
improve such highways as fast as
needed, and
WHEREAS, highway is demanded
and greatly needed on the section line
on the north side of sections and in
said Township, and the Town having
already raised about 400 dollars for
highway purposes this year and still
being unable to use much of such
moneys on above named highway,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the
sum of Three Hundred Dollars be
appropriated out of the general funds
of Wood county, not otherwise appro-
priated, to be used under the direction
of the Town Board of the Town of
Lincoln for the improving of such high
way on the north side of sections and
6 in Township % north, Range 2 East.
Dated May 18th, 1896.
Z. \. CHRISTENSEN,
Ch'rmn Town Board of Town Lincoln,
Wood Co. Wisconsin.
1t was moved and seconded that the
above resolution be suspended under
the rules. Motion was lost,
Geo. L. Williams introduced the
following as an amendment to Mr..
Christensen's resolution which was
adopted by vote of 26 to I:
Amendment to Resolution of P. n.
Christensen.
BE IT RESOLVED, that the sum of
Three Hundred Dollars be appropriated
out Of the general funds of this county
not otherwise appropriated, the same
to be paid out and disbursed by and
under the direction of the Committee
upon Roads and Bridges hereafter to be
appointed, and upon certificates issued
by them, and that such committee make
full and detailed report Of their dGings
hereunder.
Roll call resulted as follows:
Ayes-Oettinger. News, Arpin,
Williams, Christensen, Kalshed Cadv,
McLees, BarteIs, Conner, Juno, Fech-
helm, Hooper, Alexander, Brown,
Heuer, Wood, Bowdelt, Ever, Phillips,
McKercher, Lereux, Mullen, Searls,
Arpin, Hiles. Total 26.
NaYs-Cochran, Nash, Schnabel,
Sampson, Wheelan, Wood, Brostow1tz.
Total 7.
Frank \. Cady moved that the Code
of Rules adopted in 1895, governing this
Board be adopted. Motion carried.
The following resolution was read by
the clerk Of the Board:
To the Honorable County Board of
Supervisors, of Wood County, Wiscon-
sin, Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, There is now no passable
Highway running South from the Towns
of Marshtield and Auburndale, towards
the central and Southwestern part of
this county.
the lack of said Highway is owing to
the difficulty in crossing Mill Greek.
There is now no bridge across said
creek from the village of Sherry on
the South, aud the town of Marshfeld
on the North.
There is at present only lacking a
distance of about two (2) miles to make
a good connection of road systems of
the town of Auburndale with the town
OF Nesper. The said uncompleted road