Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-06-18
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Regular June Session of the Board Of
Supervisors of Howard
County.


p. NJ, Monday, June Bird, 1907.
Supervisors w. 81. Keune, j. a.
Watson and W. G. Fox, and c. l..
Terry, county auditor and clerk Of the
board, were present, and meeting was
called to order by Chairman W. q.
Keune
The board proceeded to equalize the
1907 assessment in the different towns
and townships, and the following
changes were ordered made in said
assessment:
Albion Township
Land increased per cent.
Steers year old increased 20 per
cert.
Forest City
Land increased per cent.
Colts year old increased Is per cent.
Colts years old increased 20 per
cent.
Horses increased 20 per cent.
Steers l year old increased 10 per
cent.
Steers 2 years old increased 20 per
cent.
Sheep increased Is per cent.
Chester Township
Land decreased 2 per cent.
Oak Dale Township
Land increased per cent.
jamestown Township
Land increased 10 per cent.
Colts year old increased 10 per
cent.
Colts 2 years old increased 10 pc,
cent.
Steers / year old increased Is pei
cent.
Swine increased 20 per cent.
Saratoga Township
Land increased per cent.
Heifers year old increased 10 per
cent.
Steers year old increased 10 per
csnt.
Howard Center Township
Land decreased 6 per cent.
Vernon Springs Township
Land increased 10 per cent.
Paris Township
Land decreased per cent.
Horses increased 10 per cent.
Heifers / year old increased Is per
cent.
Steers year old increased 10 per
cent.
Sheep increased 20 per cent.
Howard Township
Horses decreased 10 per cent.
Cows decreased 10 per cent.
On motion board adjourned until s
O'Clock a. NJ, Tuesday, June 18th, 1907.
Second bay.
Board met at o'clock q. M, Tues
day, June 4th, 1907, with all members
present.
On motion j. E. Wells was appoint
ed oyerseer Of the poor in Cresco for a
term OF one year from and after June
LIST, 1907.
The price to be paid for sprinkling
the streets around the court house was
fixed at $500 per month for period Of
either five or six months, and the
county auditor was authorized to issue
warrant on the county fund each
month in payment of same.
Board settled with G. l.. Ter
ry, county auditor, finding he has col
lected fees in his Office since last settle
ment amounting to $1,000, which
amount has been paid to the county
treasurer, as shown by receipt No.
ll4l on file in his Office.
The school fund loan for $500 made
by the county auditor to Jennie
Shugrue was approved.
Board settled with G. L. Terry,
county auditor, finding redemption
money remaining in his hands to the
amount Of $4,000, which amount was
produced and counted as required by
law.
The bond of tie Exchange State
Bank OF Lime Springs as county de- !
pository was approved.
The bond of Peisen-Welch Co., tax
ferret contractors, was approved.
On motion the petition of Helen C. |
Alleman for cancellation of the 1906
tax on $4,000 of the taxable valuation
OF the s. rs #, of N. so #. of lots IA, Is.
10, block II in Cresco. was granted.
The petition of Lawrence Breen for
q refund of the 1905 tax on $4,000 Of
the taxable valuation of Lot 2, block
12a, Baldwin's addition to Cresco, was
laid over.
The petition of Albert Trana and
Bruno Herplink asking for consent
highway forty feet wide, commencing
at the northeast corner of section 8,
township 50, range -, west of the 9Th
+. M. and thence running south
about one-half mile and termina.
ling at the southeast corner of the
northeast / Of said section 3, was
granted.
The petition of William Sayers, ct
IL, asking for consent highway sixty
tx feet wide, commencing at the south.
'ast corner of section 30, township 90.
ange ID west of the 9th p. M, and
hence west about one mile and termi.
ating at the southwest corner of said
ection 30, was granted. i
The petition Of Peter W. Haaf ct al,