The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-08-05
SPARKS IS NOT HERE
He Fails to Meet With Board
of Supervisors Friday,
NO COURT HOUSE THIS YEAR
Board Appropriates His $500. Motif
ing Further to be Done Until septem-


Der Session.
The Board OF Supervisors met in
special session on Friday las. Tor the
purpose Of ta.Aing up the matter OF the
new court house with contractor
Spares After waiting until Saturday
noon for AIR. Sparks TO appear the
board adjourned until the regular SEES
sion in September. By not fulfilling
his contract Mir. Sparks, forieits his
$500, 90 and this the board has appro-
priated,
Its now quite evident sha. there
Will not be any work done toward q
new court house This year. New bids
will have 10 be advertised for and q
reletting OF tie contract viii take place.
All this viii take s!me, and should the
board be successful III getting q new
contractor, before The material, exc.
can be secured the winter wa We well
advanced, ana the WORK undoubtedly
laid over until next spring.
The board doubted the legality OF ad
vertising for bids al any but Il regular
session. so that the Reimbursement
cannot be made before September 7th,
and il is safe to say that no contract
will be let before November, and that
no real work will be attempted before
the frost IS out Of the ground next
spring
The board should now attempt to
loan the S15000oo lying idle, as the
money will not be needed for some time.
It is now the opinion of a majority OF
the board that it will be impossible to
build the court house according to the
present plans and specifications within
the limit OF the appropriation, There
is talk OF leaving off the tower, and il
was informally decided that the next
advertisement shall call for bids on
stone, on pressed brick with stone trim
mings and on pressed brick with terra
Gotta trimmings.
The meeting served to throw addi-
tional light on the careless methods of
the board. All day Friday they sat like
pack of Kindergarten pupils, crying
for legal advice to help them out Of
their middle. Whether 10 meet as an
adjourned session. or special ses-
sion was the question. and the special
sessionist finally won the day. While
deputy Stueber neatly cut the Gordian
Knot OF legal difficulties by simply and
quietly adding the necessary words 70
the record The attorneys gave the
board some advice as to the strict and
regular way of adjourning, and John
Cook sat back and said Il told you so. .
1t would seem that board that doesn't
even know enough to adjourn properly
sets q new record for incompetency a.
mong Iowa supervisors.
The whole proceeding would have
been laughable had it not been pitiful
to see five grown men sitting around
Aot "a ioAi ous VI Ing w iSoh away
from their own stupidity.
Itreminded one OF the wise men of
Gotham who sat down to talk and got
so interested that their legs got all
tangled up. When they wanted to go,
they could not tell whose legs were
whose, and so they were obliged to sit
all day. Finally, they laid their dilem-
ma before passing stranger, who
promptly belabored their shins with
his cudgel and suddenly they found
their legs Ii was in some such way
that the board found its legs" and
proceeded to business on Saturday af-
ter wading knee deep all day Friday
in Codes and Iowa reports" and ad.
vice of Counsel.
Had the board adjourned properly in
June, and then adjourned from time to
time until ready to act, the readver-