River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-15


last spring election to erect steel bridge
within said town across Rush river at the
south end of socalled Broadway street
in the Village of Martell, where the pres
ent bridge is located, between the n. r.
of S E. Il and the S. e. II of n: b. OF
Section No IA, Township No II North OF
Range No II West. That said bridge
was estimated to cost Two Thousand Dol
lars Cs2, OOO) and that the said town has
provided by taxation for the pay
ment of One Thousand Dollars $1,000 be-
ing one-half of the estimated cost OF the
construction of said bridge, that the cost
of said bridge exceeds one-eighth of one
per cent. of all the taxable property in
said town, according to the last equallZed
valuation thereof, which is 1921 $4,000,
Your petitioners therefore pray that the
County Board of Supervisors for said
Pierce County shall appropriate one-half
of said sum required for the erection of
levied upon the taxable property of the
County which will, with the amount pro-
vided by said town, be adequate to defray
the total cost of constructing it.
We also pray that you will comply with
the provisions of Section 1919 of Revised
Statutes of 1898 and acts amendatory
thereto in regard to appointing a commit
tee duly authorized to act for said county
Dated at Martell Wis, this 7th day of
November, A. D. 1904:
O. M. LUNDGAARD,
O M. OLSON,
Supervisors of the Town of Martell.
Attest: j. P. AUsTERUD,
Town Clerk
Report of Committee appointed last
session on petition for discontinuance
of highway in Martell, was on motion
accepted and adopted.
To the Honorable County Board of Pierce
County:
Whereas, upon the petition of thirty
nine resident freeholders of said County,
twenty of whom reside In the town of
Martell, and nineteen in the town of Gill
man, for the disseminating of a portion
or highway, extending through the
Iown OF Martell, and along or near the
town line between the towns of Martell
and Gilman, in said county which portion
IS described as follows, to-wit: Commenc-
ing 60 chains North and 40 chains East
in Township 27, Range IT, in the county
road; thence North on u line 20 chains to
"a post in north line of section 25; thence
east on section line $3.50 chains to right
east, o22 chains to stake; thence north
Z deg. west, Is so chains across Rush river
TO post set on left bank at the end of
bridge across said river; and
Whereas your honorable BODY. on the
18th day of November 1903, at a regular
session OF your body, did duly refer said
petIelon TO US, the undersigned, three
members of your board, duly appointed
as committee on roads and bridges
WIN fuiI power to act in the premises.
NOW, Therefore, we, your said commit
tee, do hereby report as follows:
That due notice of the time and nlace
wherein your said committee would meet
70 ueclde upon said petition was made
ana duly signed on the goth day of De-,
hereto attached and marked Exhibit ga >;
Ihat said notice was duly published for
e enree successive weeks prior to the time
IlXed therein for said meeting. in the
q n
Ia HIS ald county, and that the proof of pub
ncatlon thereof is hereto attached and
marked Exhibit tB - so e'iio
That pursuant to said notice CO ,,,z
ana published as aforesaid. your com
mlttee did meet on the 22nd dav of Tan-
uary, 1904, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
W;n saan gay; at the residence of Ralph
Wlnger, in the town of Martell. in said
county; which was the time and Mace
LAeu therefor in said notice. and did then
aa 81; mere proceed personally to examine
that were oefo ana did near all reasons
t ti1ac were o1tered by parties interested
ehereln and did<decide upon said netition
shop,d dia not determine 6a that said highway
netiti io not OF De discontinued, but that said
Dated January 25. 1904
s. P. ROACH.
ED. MURPHY
w. j. FOLEY.
EXHIBIT "B."
o. Affidavit of Publication.
oCdle OF wisconsin,
County of Pierce
.. r, Shaw being duly sworn on oath
says that he is the printer and n1h1isbnr
oa r Inc ellsworth Record, a weekly news
paper printed and published at F1isuortb
IN Pierce County, State of Wisconsin AMI
Inat notice, of which the annexed nrint-
e eo motlce IS a copy, was published in said
once In each week, to-wit
Commencing Dec. 81, 1903. and ENDING
Jan. IA, 1904, and further, that the an
taken FROM hr1n1ee &c; copy OF such notice
newspaper in which the same was n,1h-
lished. was pun
c,,,uou, j. F. SHAW.
End day of JAN, 1904.
GEORGE THOMPSON.
Notary Public, Wis
EXHIBIT ga"
Notice by County Board, County of Pierce
Petition having been duly made to the
county BOARD OF supervisors of said Pierce
20, py thlrty-nine resident freehoIders
OF SAID county, twenty of whom reside in
the town of Martell and nineteen in the
town OF Gilman for portion of highway
70 De Giscontlnued portion of a highway
extending through the town of Martell
and along or near the town line between
the towns of Martell and Gilman in
SAD sa county unity which portion is describ-
eQ as tollOWS, tO-wit: Commencing 60
chains north and 40 cnains east of
the corner of sections 25 26, IS & Sc
IN township % range II, in the county
road: thence North one one-quarter line 20
chains to one-quarter posU In North line
or section 25: thence East on section 9.
$3.50 chains to right bank or Rush river;
thence North 10 degrees East, $40 chains
to q stake; thence North Z degrees West,
1850 chains across Rush river to a post
set on left bank at the end of bridge
across said river and the undersigned
three members of said county board hav-
lng been duly appointed committee with
full power to act in the premises.
Notice is therefore hereby given that
we, the said committee will meet at the
residence of Ralph Winger in the town of
Martell in said county on the 22nd day of
January, 1904, at 10 O'CLOCK a. m to de-
eide upon such petition. Dated this 10th
day of December, 1908
S. P. ROACH,
w j. FOLEY.
ED. MURPHY
Committee.
Report of Settlement by District At
torney in reclaim of Elizabeth Johnson
AGAINST county was accepted and
adopted.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors