Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11
The chairman read his annual re-
port as follows:


port as follows:
Gentlemen of the Board OF Supervisors;
At your last annual session you appropri-
ated Sl,305 for the following improvements
and instructed your chairman and clerk 10
carry out the work. The lining OF the upper
part of the Jail with good and Sufnclent steel
Jail plates, cost not to exceed q ,oo0. me
ceiling of the county judges room to be COW
cred with steel, estimated cost complete 80.
And a drinking fountain to be put IN on the
second floor of the court house with drain
age pipe leading from same 10 the Wen at
the northwest corner OF the building IN the
court yard: pipe to be laid in the ground
under frost line estimated cost $50. Also
the repairing of the monument IN the court
ward erected to the memory of the Grant
County Union Soldiers and Sailors of the
late war who lost their lives on the field,
which YOU found to be in an unsafe con-
dition: estimated cost $780, You also appfo-
priated - 10 paint the spots on the celllng ~
the circuit court room ne spoI,s a. -.
caused by scaling. and the painter. When ne
came 10 examine the ceiling ciosely. sala
that il would be labor lost 10 the county -
in a short time il would be Just a. pdu 7Y
reason Of scaling in new places. and that ne
did not think good Job could be zone IN
that way Therefore we have LETT that tor
y0ur further consideration. We hought
the material for lining the @all IN Ch1cago'
and George Mccarthy {. Co. did the work.
total cost SS23s5 The contract Tor covering
the ce2ling Of the county court room was lei
to the BrO0ker Bros; total cost so % The
contract for drinking fountain ana laying
drainage pipe from the same we let 70 llsg-
Ter Bros: total cost S21.53 The contract Tor
repairine the monument we let to Homricn
4 Lehner. total cost SIR. We contracted
with the Grant County Telephone Company
for telephone service connected with the
court house Tor IS per month. We let the
contract of Jail physician to DrS. Seaman
and Strong on their bid OF ss3 We mad one
bid for ss5 but il only stated medical attend
auce ana drugs The bid we let the con-
tract on included all surgical work and
dressing, and tor that reason we deemed u
the lowest bid You directed your chair
n an to employ competent accountant 70
investigate ana report upon the records.
certificates and returns OF marriages, births
and deaths since January /. 1898. | ern-
plOyed for this work w. ]. Brennan and
W r. McGonigal. 1 employed two because
we found that two would get along with the
work relatively faster than one IN handling
and comparing the large heavy books in
theRecorder's ONCE. The total cost of carry
ing out the work as ordered by your hon
orabIe body foots up TO 81 0S5.73, leaving on
had OF amount appropriated for same.
S2l9.27. Respectfully submitted.
r. 3. SHOWALTER. Chairman
G. F. DICKINSON Co. Clerk.
The following towns have made applica-
ton for conn zssions upon the part of the
county to act with them in building bridges.
They having complied with the law by
which they are entitled to act. / have APP
pointed for the town OF Liberty, G. p. HIM.
OF Fenuimore. and W. s. Webb, of Lancas-
ter: for the town of Platteville. George
McFall. OF Harrison. and J. W. Morrison, of
Lima. for BeetOwn. D. f. Brown, Of Bloom
ington. and ". :. Webb. of Lancaster.
Respectfully submitted.
r 3 SHowALTER, Chairman.