Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-01-07
COUNTY BOARD PROCEEDINGS.
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Continued from last week.
7 ay roll for nine months, the time to be specified
BY the County superintendent; further. that raid
deputy be paid out of the general fund ron the
time of appointment until January 1907.
On motion OF Mr.. Blanchard the resolution
above, and submitted by the said ,ecial com
mite. was adopted.
Mr. John Ringle moved that each Chairman of
committees make an estimate of the Amount Of
money needed for his department and Ike re-
port Of same to the Fins;-se Committee. Motion
carried.
10 the Board of Supervisors of Marathon
county:
The undersigned Chairman of Town RingIe in
said county respectfully reports. that at the June
meeting Of the County Boari the sum of 500 o.
was appropriated to be expended in opening
road from RIBgle Station TO Town Pike Lake.
That pursuant thereto the town board of town
hlngie has let contracts ON the road designated
amounting to 1851. That said contracts are CON-
plrted and the jobs accepted Dy said board.
November II. 1901. Respectfully,
& l.. Wyatt.
On motion carried the above report was ordered
p.ae ed on file
The following report was then read:
To the Honorable County Board Of Marathon
County:
GenIlemen:-Your Committee on Agriculture
would respectfully report that the appropriation
to the Marathon County Agricultural Society
was wisely expended, and we recommend that
an order De drawn in favor of said Society and
III 1t the same be paid
The County Fair was, in all of its departments
a complete success The showing OF agricult IRA |
products and of live stock was such that men
who visit every pert Of the state were loud in
their praise of this county
The officers of the County Fair were careful
and painstaklng and TO them is due in large
measure the showing made The Marathon
County Agricultural Society should have the full
support Of every citizen and tax payer of the
county. 1t is doing good work and the County
Board can well afford to show a spirit of liberal
ity with reference to it. Respectfully submitted.
Mat Mess
I'D. Brehm
Geo Erickson
A j. TorgersOn
Peter OIesOn
On motion carried the above report was ac-
eepted ana ordered placed on file; and the Chair
man and Clerk be instructed to issue order IN
priation,
The following report was then read
To the Honorable County Board of Marathon
County:
Gentlemen:-Y our Special mmittee to whom
was referred the question OF site and plans tor
the County School of Agriculture and Domestic
Economy. would respectfully report az follows:
The Committee. after careful consideration, feel
school should be lett to the board that will, of
necessity, be responsible for the ultimate success
of the school. second reason for this recon-
incubation is that your resolution suggested the
ACCESSIBILITY OF combining under roof the
Training School for teachers and the County
School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy,
suited with reference to the building which sili
house their school.
Your committee found that definite plans for
the proposed building could only be secured at a
considerable cost, and that when such plans were
prepared they might not meet the full approval
OF the two boards referred 10 above Plans of
other buildings we're examined and it is the
opinion of State Supt. Harvey, Dean Henry and
the University Archi ect that the proposed build
ings can be erected at cost from ten TO thirteen
thousand dollars.
The committee further reports that the az nual
cost of the school viii not exceed five thousand
o.laIs, OF which the state pays one halt or two
thousand FIVE hundred dollars.
Finally, your committee would report that the
idea of the proposed school If one that grows in
the minds OF men who rive it impartial consider
alton, and your committee frhly believes that
provision should be made at once for the organi-
zatien and maintenance If the school.
Respectfully submitted
G., S. Gilbert
Matt Mess
Jacob kiehl
Resolved:-First That there is hereby estab-
lished IN accordance with chapter 28S, laws of
1901. q County School OF Agriculture and Do
nestle Economy.
Second, That there ID hereby appropriated for
building purposes the sum of Twelve Thousand
Five Hundred tsl2,500) dollars out of the general
fund of the county, said sum to be disbursed by
the county treasurer rs hereinafter provided,
Third, That there is b. repy appropriated for
the maini enance of said school the SUN of Two
Thousand Five Hundred lS2.5lOI dollars. said
appropriation to be an annual al preparation to
be raised by couAty tax each year and to be
carried en- the books of the county treasurer as a
seperate fund known as the Agricultural School
Fund
Fourth. That the Agricultural School Board to
be hereafteT elected provided by law is hereby
directed TO act jointly with the board OF the
Marathon County Training School for Teachers
in the selection of proper site of not less than
three nor more than twenty acres and cause 10 be
erected thereon suitable buildings to house sid
County School of Agriculture AID Domestic
Economy and the Marathon County Training
School for Teachers.
FIFTH, That the County Treasurer of Marathon
County is hereby directed 20 dsburse the build
ing fund hereinbefore provided upon the proper
order of tbe building committee of the two boards
DESIGNATED.
sixth, That the buildings herein provided
shall be for tn joint use OF the Mara hon County
Training School for ! eac hers and the Marathon
iounty School of Agriculture and Domestic
Economy. and shall be made the JOINT super
vision of the two boards OF the schools designated,
the cost of the equipment. fuel, heating, JAM or
and care 10 be paid equally out of the funds of
the two schools
seventh That the Board of the Marathon
County School of Agriculture and Domestic
Economy shall from time to time report TO the
County Board the progress and condition of said
school and they shall every endeavor TO
make such school a complete success IN accord
ance with the letter and the spirit of the law
the establishment OF said school.
G. s. Gilbert,
Jacob kiehl.
Matt Mess.
Mr.. Gilbert moved that the foregoing resolu-
tions and report of committee be made special
order OF business for Friday next at O'Clock
a. IN. Motion was carried
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