Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-11-29

ten building will, from business
standpoint, amount to little. The
board will look after your interests
as well as their own.
An adjourned meeting of the board
TO be held the third Tuesday in Janu-
airy will perfect the preliminaries.
Give the matter your encouragement
Judge Clementson who knows as
well as the county board the insecur-
ity OF the records, etc. gives it as his
opinion that in case OF fire, and the
loss of the records, it will cost every
property holder at least 500 to again
prove his title TO his property.
Times Review The proceedings of
the Grant County Board of Supervis-
ors, which We publish this week in
supplement form, will be read with
more than usual interest this year,
especially that part relating to the
contemplated erection OF a new court
house. Very few of the general pub
lie were aware that the matter was to
come before the board, and we think
that body showed wise judgment in
not rushing the thing through at this
session and exercising what the people
would almost sure to accuse them of
had they done so-snap Judgment.
1t is wei TO use considerable delibera-
ton and therefore the plan of appro-
priating $1,000 for the purpose of de-
fraying the expenses of a committee
to visit different buildings in the state
iSs 81 10
$4,000 is considerable sum of
money, and although, it is true, the
expenditure of that sum for this pur-
pose will prove no hardship TO the
county or to the individual taxpayers.
whose yearly rate will be increased
by only very small per cent, scarcely
noticeable, yet it is better for the
board to ascertain first the prevailing
sentiment among their constituents
and find out whether the people, orat
least a majority of them, are in favor
of going ahead with the improvement.
If presented to them in the proper
light and without the appearance of
being forced through as if fearful of
their antagonism, we incline to the
belief that the project will be favor
ably received by those who are willing
to pay slight additional tax to have
a substantial, commodious and con-
venient building in which the valuable
records of the county will be perfect
ly safe, and which will be pride for
generations to come. And if it is
erected it will forever preclude any
hla HiNri sion Of hf+ ~ H.,
is more to be desired than anything
else. But go slow, gentlemen, 90
slow.
Flatteville Journal: If all goes well
and the taxpayers do not get a streak
of penny wise and pound foolish
economy, Grant county will have II
new court house. 1t certainly is
needed. The present structure is in
adequate in every particular. 1t not
only is too small but the vaults are in
secure and do not afford sufficient
protection to the records deposited
therein. At the meeting of the coun-
ty board last week the committee on
public buildings, after careful investi-
gation. reported that o new court
house, in their opinion, was neces-
sity. The whole board concurred
with them in this opinion In case
the present building should be de-
stroyed by fire, it is certainty that
all the county records would be lost.
Then, In order to prove title to their
property, it would be necessary for
the taxpayers to go into court, which
would cost them many times more
than their share in the new building
would. The only wise course to pur-
sue is to build a new court house and
build it quick.
Grant County News: AT the recent
county board meeting the subject of
a new court house for Grant county
was brought up, and the following
committee appointed to investigate
the question, procure and submit plans
and report to the board at meeting
to be held the 3rd Tuesday in Janu-
airy:
Ed NJ Lowry, chairman; Jas. JEFF
rey. Georgetown; John NJ. Gardner,
Platteville: +. G. Muflley, BoscooeI;
Warren Johnson Lima; Samuel Birch,
Bcetown; f. W. Klinkhammer, Cass-
VILE. Jacob Bremm er, NJ scoda.
II is little less than a disgrace for
historical old Grant county with an
assessed yaluation Of $4,000, 900 10
compel the county officials to keep
the county records in such delapi-
dated building with unsafe vaults as
the present court house. where fire
would mean their certain destruction.
At present the records are kept in
faulty and insecure vaults in rickety
apartments.
The only opposition the move will
meet in the south part of the county
is based on the supposition that the
county may some time be divided and
that the people of the south do not
wish to pay for new building for the
north.
This should have no weight as the