The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-11-23
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER %. 1900.
THE COUNTY BOARD IN SESSION.

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A Lively Time Over the Equalized Assess
ment Report. rs
The November term of the county
board of supervisors convened at the
county clerks room in the court house
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. D. L..
Bear occupied the chair.
Supervisor @. e Langworthy read the
annual report of the trustees of the
county asylum and aims house. which
report was adopted.
w. J. Mcintyre strongly urged the
necessity of erecting separate hospital
on the county farm for such of the pa
tents as cannot, with justice to the &C.
cupants of the regular wards, be pat in
with them. Some of the patients are
afflicted with disgusting and mildly con-
tageous diseases and should be kept in
separte building. He introduced reso-
$4,000 for the erection of separate
building.
Supervisor Eager made majority re-
port of the committee on equalization of
taxes. The report called for radical
changes in the assessment, raising Be
lott, Edgerton. Milton and few towns
to the expense of other towns. After
discussion. ia which several took part,
the report was read and made a special
order of business for Wednesday at 2
o'clock.
On motion Of Supervisor Whittet
ballot was taken on a trustee to ill the
unexpired term of K. Killam. Ira Jonos
and L. G.. Whittet were appointed tellers
and 35 votes were cast, OF which w. j.
Mcintyre received So, T. B. Bailey l, and
J. z. Gleason l. Mr.. Mcintyre was de-
clared elected for the unexpired term of
one year.
The ballot to elect successor to G. E.
Lang Worry as trustee of the county farm
for the full term of three years, resulted
in G. E. Langworthy receiving 3d. P. G.
Wilder 3 and J. e. Gleason /.
On motion of Supervisor Whittet L.
M. Nelson was unanimously elected
janitor of the court house for one year.
Supervisor Smith moved that the sal
airy of the superintendent of poor for the
southern district of Rock county be
raised from $3.50 to 5000 per year. After
some discussion ballot was taken, re-
sulting in 19 to Is in favor Of the 5000.
The election of successor to Geo.
Appleby for superintendent of the poor
in the southern part of the county re-
suited: Appleby 30, Simon Smith 4,
Bailey and blank l.
A motion that the sum Of ST., 200 be
transferred from the general fund to the
county agents fund was unanimously
carried.
On motion of Supervisor Whittet the
chair appointed committe of three of
which the district attorney should be
one. to confer with the incoming sheriff
regarding the salary of the sheriff. The
chair appointed as that committee L. @.
Whittet, Almeron Eager and w. A.
Jackson.
The special order of business for II
o'clock Wednesday was resolution pre-
sented by Supervisor Cunningham in re-
gard to building an addition to the
county hospital for the insane which
was as follows:
THAT there be and there hereby is
levied the sum of four thousand dollars
or so much thereof as may be necessary
to be used in the construction and fitting
up of a hospital at the county asylum
under the direction and supervision of
the trustees"
The resolution was carried by vote
of eighteen to seventeen. The vote was
a tie and Chairman Bears voting in the
affirmative carried it.
The majority report of the committee
on equalized assessment came up on
special order at p. m. A minority re-
port not SO radical in it's changes of val
uations, was presented and substituted
by vote of 81 to II. BY adopting the
minority report the assessed valuation
of GAINESVILLE was lowered fifty thousand
dollars Beloit was raised one hundred
thousand, Edgerton five thousand,
Evansville five thousand and Clinton
was lowered ten thousand. The report
as adOnted is as follows: