The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-09-27
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
Of The Board of County Commission
ers of Blue Earth County, Mimi;
Special Session
Mankato, Mimi, Sept. 10th 1907.

Board of county commissioners of
Blue Earth county met and was called
to order by the chairman, Mr. Madi-
gan.
| Minutes of tl8S last session were APP
proved
Hearing on the potion to change the
Lake Crystal school district No. 10
by adding thereto territory from sever
al other districts was called at 2
o'clock p. m. Fully interested people
were here and full hearing was Civ
en-.
Board adjourned until 9 a. m. Sept.
ll7th 1907.
| Mankato Sept 18th 1907.
Nine a. m. Board convened, all mem
bers present.
favor of Barney & Radichal $460.SO
was on motion approved.
Estimate on ditch No. Ia, Davis,
favor of John T. Davis for 100000
was on motion approved.
Com. Young moved that Hickory
street on the court house property
be boulevarded, curbed and guttered this
fall, the curb now in use to be replaced
by cement curb and the stone curb
sold. Motion carried
0. O. Juliar and C. w. Chamberlain
applied for auctioneers licenses, hav-
hing paid the fee required, on motion
of Com. Schultz the same were al
lowed and licenses ordered issued.
Petition by Ole S. Olson to be set
over from district No. Is to district
No. So was received and read Date
of hearing set for Tuesday Oct. %,
y. p. m.
Estimate ditch No. l3, Ludwig Han
sen, $5S9.65 was presented by engineer
Brooks. On motion TIE same was ap.
proved.
Estimate ditch No. Is, Barney &
Radichal, $4,000, was presented by
Engineer Brooks on motion the same
was approved
Mankato, Sept. 18th 1907.
In the matter of d. A. Reed and
others to enlarge school district No.
49,
The said not. being approved as to
form by the county attorney, upon
the opinion of the attorney general
of said state, in that the county SUI
perintendent of school has not endorsed
the same with his approval or disap-
proval of the same, stating his reas-
ons therefore as provided by law.
Now therefore, it be resolved by said
board of county commissioners that
we refuse to act on said potion. Reso<
luton adopted.
The following applications for cor
rection of assessment were received
read and on motion approved. NJ. Flat.
ley, Mary Brannigan, E. A. Tiffany,
Frances Klingel, John f. Miller, F. c.
Busse, w. R. Barnes.
The following bank bonds were re,
Iceived and approved, viz: National
Citizens bank, Mankato, one hundred
thousand dollars, HI. A. Patterson, VIM.
L. Hixon, Felix X. Meagher, Chas. E.
Thomas, Aug. G. Meyer, Thos. R.
Coughlan, Nicholas Weis, Adelbert
Veigel, Geo. w. Sugden, Lorin Cray.
Wise, Mic Peterson, William Thomas,
August G. Meyer, Thomas R.
as bondsmen.
The, State Bank of Good Thunder,
$4,000, John G. Graham, Richard l..
Houck, Frederick H. Morlock, Michael
Mountain, August T. Graf, as bonds
men.
First National Bank, Mapleton. $40
10000 Martin NJ. Pratt, William Stree
bel, Robert b. Hanna, Lucas Troendle,
John r. Norton, as bOndsmen.
First National Bank, Mankato, $780,
10000 Geo. NJ. Palmer, Leo S. Lamm,
Frederick NJ. Currier, John Nyquist,
John w. Andrews, as bondsmen.
The Mankato State Bank, $780,
10000 John c. Noe, Frank Fowler,
Geo. T. Boynton, Thomas A. Sherk,
Nicholas Juliar, Martinus o. Sundt,
Tina G. Harrington, John R. Thomas,
George B. Owen, as bondsmen.
First National Bank, Lake Crystal,
$2O,OOOOO Joseph J. Mcclure, Charles
Fox, George w. Norman, Henry c.
Mclean, William r. Cullen. George E.
Austin as bondsmen.
Com. Schultz moved to have the
county surveyor make survey of a
route as proposed by the petition pre-
sented to the Board March 2Sth, 1907,
for new road up the Rapidan Mills
hill on the east side of the river also
to appoint a committee to view the
ground together with the engineer
at a date to be decided upon by the
surveyor. Carried.
The chair then decided to name the
whole board as such committee and
| did so.
This same committee to visit the
proposed change of road in Lyra, three
and one half miles S. w. of Good
Thunder and near the Cable Mills
bridge.
The following resolution offered by
Com. Young was adopted.
Resolved, that the county of Blue
Earth cooperate with the city of
Mankato in establishing. ready for
maintenance if desired, some system
providing for employment of prisoners
under sentence of the courts also to
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