Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-11-14


GANIZATIoN.
J. p Chandler, G. L. Eversoll. Henry
Gore, Edward BETTER, Bartell Smith
COMMITTEE on PRINTING.
JAS. Edwards, Hugh Matthews, F..
W. KlinkhammeF.
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.
Thos. Mcdonald, c. w. Patterson,
Bartell Smith.
COMMITTEE on GENERAL CLAIMS.
John Kelley, H. NJ. Roberts, p. Nc
Namara, VIM. Leighton, A. G. Stephens.
F. G. Bennett, Thos. Treloar.
COMMITTEE on PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
John NJ. Gardner, F. w Klink-
hammer, H. NJ. Roberts. S. \. Vanetta
j. A. Black.
CON. on CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
E. c. Thomas, j. j. Wenzel, Edward
BETTER, Robt. Henderson, Hugh Math-
ews, p. Mcnamara, f. c. Bennett. A.
c. Stephens, T. H. Brewer.
COM. on HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES
VIM. Leighton, David Farris. Henry
Gore, A. T. Moore, G. l.. Eversoll, Thos.
Treloar, n b. Britten.
COMMITTEE ON COUNTY ROADS.
A. L. Brown, John Schneider. n. b
Britten. Jacob Schreiner. John Kelly.
Report of trustees of asylum and
county home received and referred to
committee on charitable institutions.
Report of Chair man Lowry and
County Clerk Grilfis was read and re-
ferred to committee on public build
ings. The report as presented is as
follows:
To the Honorable County Board of
Grant County:
We. the undersigned chairman of the
County Board and County Clerk
would respectfully report that in
carrying out the resolution made by
the committee on county property at
the last session of the Board we have
as recommended placed in the Jail
two new water closets and have paid
for them the sum of $50 33. We also
caused to be erected a storm shed over
the north door of the Jail at the cost
of $3.50. In attempting to carry out
/ the recommendation of the Board in
regard to the arrangement of the
| Jail barn we found that the sills and
| ioists under the then north addi5io
| to the barn were not sufficiently strong
! to hold up floor for horse barn nor
was it wide enough for horse stable.
We were obliged to put in new sillS
and joists and did SO, re-arranging the
barn so that the horses should stand
on the north side and opened car
riage door into the old stable at the
end of the drive way. In making
these repairs we discovered that the
braces in the main building had spread
and in order to prevent further spread
ing and the subsequent falling of the
roof we caused iron rods to be put
through. And we also caused the
driveway from the barn to the street
to be graveled. We also raised the
neck of the cess pool about two feet
and put an iron cover over it as it APP
peared that much service water got
into the cess pool as it stood. The eX-
ira work that had to be done in MAX
ing these changes necessitated over
running the recommendation. The
carpenter work upon the barn has
been paid for at a cost of $3.50. The
crawling of the road way has been
paid for. the cost of which for labor
and material was SIS The lumber bill
is unpaid and has been presented as a
general claim against the county.
Daniel DOYLE was hired as janitor and
y
the sum of $500 for his services. The
cost of cleaning the cess pool has far
exceeded the amount which the com
mittee of the Board last year estimated
would be sufficient to keep it empty.
Every precaution has been taken to
prevent clean water running into these
cess pools and as the season has been
dry we cannot lay the rapid filling of
the pool to surface water. We have
found it necessary to clean these cess
pools on an average of about once in
two weeks. The cover has been kept
locked down so that the cess pool
could not be used by any person as a
catch all for waste material but it fills
rapidly and when full the only alterna-
tive is to clean it as any overflow would
run at once upon neighboring property
and create nuisance for which the
county would be liable. We would
recommend the sinking of these cess
pools far enough into the rock to strike
a crevice which will carry off water
that runs in. The suggestion that has
been made that the two cess pools be
connected would afford little or no re
lief
We have paid for the cleaning of this
cess pool until the contingent fund
was exhausted. The amount that re
mains unpaid is presented as a general
claim against the county. The privy
vault at the rear of the court house
became foul during the summer and
we were obliged to have it cleaned,
which we did at a cost of 5000. We
did not carry out the recommendation
for the building of the roof over the
south door of the jail for the reason
that the steps were in such poor re
pair that il seemed necessary that they
should be repaired before any roof
should be built
All Of which is respectfully submit
ted
E. VI. Lowry, Chm,
T. H. GRIFFIs, CIk.
Petition Of Dan Doy.e for janitor-
ship for ensuing year read and re-
ferred to committee on public build