Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-07-18

IN. COUNTY. MINNESOT
!! The First Meetino os Of the County
Board.
Aslittle book in paper covers, tied
witha blue ribbon, reposes among
rheTecords OF the county auditor.
/ Il contains the proceedings of the
frsts board ofcounty commissioners
Of Morrison county. At the first
election held in this county, on April
IA 1856, Wm. Task, E. J.. Kidder
andsW ". Stebbins we're elected
lcomissio oners, and they met in their
! first session at Little Falls school
house, on May 1st, 1856.
At the same election N. Richard
son was elected register Of deeds
and clerk Of the board. Jas. Fergus,
who died q few weeks ago in Mon
Etana, was elected Judge OF probate:
The board organized by electing
! Wv Stebbine chairman The
moat important business was the
division OF the new county into elect
ionaand assessment districts. The.
first assessors were W. w. Tuttle
and John Frey. .:%..s
! The threed election, istricts were
Platte River, Swan River and Little
| Falls. ss.
| The board leased two rooms in the
1 Little Falls Hotel from n. Richard.
son, to be used for the general term.
of the .. S. district court for the
second district. w. B. Fairbanks
wasdistrict attorney at the time. :,
/ AT the meeting on May 2diudges OF
election were appointed as follows:
Platte-Duncan Mcdonald Rich
ard Lambert, John McGillas. =
/ Little Falls-Wm. Sturgis, s. M.
Putnam, W w. Tuttle. ~ =.
q Swan River-W. W: Stebbins, J.
T StillWell,I. Spears. :.
Several bills we're allowed. The
commissioners at that time got 81
q dayfor their pay instead OF s., the
Z present remuneration. Among the
bilis is one, s'for hauling books from
J st. Paul, $780," +.
On July 7th uhe board met again.
8 John Frey and ". W: Tuttle were
allowed $40 and $11respectiyely, S fol
8 Iservices as assessors, S. M.Putnam,
whose name is 80 familiar as the
lTmaker of the original townsite 81
! Little Falls, had bill OF S. for ser
), vices ass clerk. A license to sell liq-
I luors wss granted for $75. Jonathan
Pugh was sheriff at this time.
At the meeting July 28th a plan
for a courthouse was presented. and
.. rejected on Sept, 18th, when the
countyswas divided into three ROAD
districts, J. Pugh was allowed $50
for three months rent of the room
used by the register. : -
On Oct, 9Th the board allowed a
bill OF $25 presented by John Ault
for use Of his hotel for meeting
place. .-
At the meeting Nov. 4th, Jas. Hall
and others asked that a road be
build from Little Falls-~to ''Stone's
= M,lls''. JAS. Fergus resigned at
Judge of probate. and Chesmar
= Gould was elected to take his place
The courthouse proposition O
: VIM. Sturgis, to erect a building fo1
, $4,000, was accepted.
Eight bonds, of $1,000 each, wer'
). issued, payable yearly.
|" The records OF the meeting of Dec
q 3Oth says thatpersons having beer
9 taxed too high or through a mistake
le should have the privilege Of "swear
q ing it off, 49,
Deputy j. II. Sprague~ OF Lont
i Lake was doing soliciting work fo
> the A. O. u. W. in the city this week
}, Henry Rasicot has leased his land
n in Belle Prairie for three years tt
!: Mr.. Martin, and will move to tn
J, Icitv in the fall. - -~.-s
= Jesse Peterson has received $17.5(
i from the Northern Accident Associa
tion, for accident claim. Mr.. Peter
= son was injured while employed a
o. Cnno ndol,a hrink ward - -. - -,