The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-01-08
THE NEW TOWNSHIP OF HAYLAND.
1t Is Organized From Township 1926 ant
Will Elect Officers january 9th.

1t Is Organized From Township 1926 and
Will Elect Officers january a7th.
The old board of county commission
ers met for the last time on Monday
and closed up it's affairs. The sessions
OF the board continued during the day
and it was close to supper time when
the board wound up it's business. Be-
fore it adjourned the veteran member,
John McCool, who has been on the
board for the past twenty-five years
was called upon for a speech in honor
of the closing of his long and faithful
service, and the .Greenbush commits
sioner did not disappoint his fellow
members on the board, for he made
them speech in which he briefly al
luded to his term of service on the
board and the growth and development
OF the county since he was first sworn
IN as commissioner. He hoped that
the members of the board would al
ways remain true to Mile Laos county
and their country, and above all things
to be honest in the public service and
the discharge of their public duties. -
The new board settled down for bust
ness Tuesday morning. Robert S.
Shaw, who succeeds John McCool on
the board as the representative from
the town of Greenbush, was sworn in
and took his seat at the table and set
tied down comfortably in the chair to
help the board look after the affairs of
the county. - Commissioner Deans who
was reelected was also sworn in and in
addition to this he was also elected
chairman Y OF the board for the next
The board was obliged to reject the
Greenbush school petition for the or
ganization of a new district out of dis
tricts 2, 4, and 10, because sufficient
notice had not been given to the resi-
dents in district No. 10, and so the
board will have to hear the petition at
some future meeting
DR.. Armitage was elected county
physician by the board, and the salary of
Janitor Clark was increased.
The salaries of the county officers
were not changed.
The board received the petition of
twenty-five freeholders living in town.
lship 1926 for organization, as regular
township to be known as ''Hayland. )"
The name did not strike the board as
being the best in the vocabulary but
nevertheless it is euphonious and sug-
gestive of new-mown hay and ''Maud
Muller' and the board had no choice
in the matter and so 'Hayland" will
go echoing down the corridors of Time
as the latest civil division of Mile
Laos county. The board designated
January 9th as the time and the home
of Alfred F. johnson as the place
where the first township election of
Hayland should be held. The town.
ship of Hayland lies directly north of
Borgholm, and is being rapidly settled
up with an industrious class of people
who will be welcome into the organized
household of Mile Laos county. g..
| The board has decided to make a
change in the tract index in the regis
ter of deeds office, and will have some
new tract index books made, and will
advertise for bids for transcribing the
old and mutilated records into the new
books which will be made so that re-
cords will be kept classified by forty
acre tracts. The old records were
kept classified by quarter sections, and
required considerable time to ascer-
tain the transfer history of forty.
The board adjourned yesterday after