The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-06
COMMISSIONERS MEETING.


The board of county commissioners
met in regular session at the Court
house at o'clock Monday, January 2.
they Immediately pOunced upon n
pile of bills awaiting their opinion
and spent the afternoon and ell Tues
day sitting these, and the same will
appear in due time in the REGISTER
There were bills for work. for carry
ing election returns, for merchandise
for paupers, for burying purposes.
Among the unusual ones were noticed:
L. NJ. Bartels, l.20, knives and forks
for the jail, made necessary by the in
creased traffic; Charlie Christy $500,
nursing Fred Stewart two DAYS and
one night; Culbertson & Son, $1,000,
funeral of Randolph Washington.
The board is working itself up into
good figh ting trim to tackle the court
bills which will run into the thous-
ands of dollars.
Tuesday the board of county COM
missioners worried through mass
of bills. They also set aside the tax
sale of parts of lots and s in block
90 to Geo. A. Fry, it having been
enormously sold.
The right of constitutional exemp-
ton to the amount of 5000 was grant
ed to Mrs. A. Scott.
The following errors in assessment
were corrected: On lot Blk 8, lola,
reduced from 500 to $780,
Lot Blk Is, Moran school property,
error of sixty-two cents.
o. ID. Hartley, personal property,
Elm township, error S40.54. Lots 10,
II, II, Blk SO, Humboldt, error $3.50.
Blocks III, llS, ll9, l2O Geneva, error
S3.4S, no such lots on record
Lots 6, I, Blk 8, Alger's add. Hum
boldt, error $l.lS.
Lots 8, I, 8, Blk 8, Ayers add Hum
boldt error Sl.20.
Lot II, Blk 80, lola church, error
S1.O2.
Lot 70, Bk 81, lola church, error
$50.
Part swq seq Boughton's add lola
church error s "a,
The county health officers report
given elsewhere was filed.
Wednesday the board resumed the
weary grinding of routine business
and waded through a whole lot more
or less interesting matter, largely re-
bates of taxes.
The board approved the recon-
mendstiOn of the county sHperintend-
ent in the appointment of Miss Cliff.
ford Mitchell, of lola, and Mr.. Frank
Wood, of Humboldt, as assistant
county examiners.
Districts Nos. 6, II, 60. 10, 10, So, "a,
70 and 20 were designated as places
for holding the common school ex-
aminations and the following teach
ers were recommended and appointed
as examiners: Vide Fetherngill, &.
w. Smith, Mrs. f. H. Neville, G. w.
Cline, j. q. Roberts, A H. Newton,
Claude Stewart and J. w. Kelso.
A rebate in the tax on block lola
now occupied by the new school
house was granted amounting to
$40 OF.
The valuation on the eh of the neg,
22-26l9, was reduced 1850. Also on
the sh of the nwq of 22-24-2l in the
sum of S4O5. Both were enormously
valued.
\ rebate was allowed of the 1913 tax
on the west end of lot "'l'' in Bough-
toms addition.
That part of Pratt's addition to the
city of Hum boldt vacated by the leg
islature OF III was placed in the town.
ship for purposes of taxation instead
of in the city.
Blocks 10, 20, 33, "a west Humboldt
reduced to that of 1897.
A rebate on the personal tax of the
firm OF Hale d Priboth was allowed
that firm not having all it's stock In
this county on March |.
The resignation of Frank Delp as
constable in Carlyle township was
accepted.
A petition for II road beginning at
the 30 cor OF the neg of 9-25-lS thence
running west on the half section line
TO the sw cor of the same section was
received and Messrs. Jas. Drake, II.
| Purdom ana David Wilson were APP
| pointed viewers.
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