The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-09-12
Session Of Kenosha County Board
To Take Up important Mat.
ters of Public interest
GOOD ROADS W0RKAFEATURE
Members will Also Discuss Some Plans
for Increasing Accommodations
at the County Jail-Must
Act in Near Future

County Clerk r. H. Jones is busy
making preparations for the annual
meeting of the Board of Supervisors
which takes place beginning the
second Tuesday ia November and It
is expected that the session will be
one of the most important ever held
by that Board. Many matters of i'm
portance are slated to come up but of
prime importance will be the plan for
an enlargement of the Kenosha coun-
ty jail and a plan for the building of
better roads in the county.
The repair of the jail is we'll nigh
Imperative and Supervisor Hensgen,
who is also county agent, will lay the
matter before the Board. During the
past few months the jail has been
crowded to the doors and it is certain
that with the constantly growing bust
ness Of the Criminal Courts of the
county the present building is 60
ing to be all too small. Seven men
have been sent to the state prison and
other institutions within a month but
the Jail is still crowded and before the
Circuit Court sits it may be necessary
to send prisoners to some other coun-
ty. Sheriff Pfennig has not been
kicking on the jail but he will second
any plan for enlarg or for the
building of new jail. The present
Jail has outlived it's usefulness but
there is grave doubt as to whether
the County Board would be willing to
appropriate money for the erection of
a new building at this time.
Nearly ali of the mem bers of the
Board are planning to 60 to Milwau-
kee next week to attend the Good
Roads convention, and it is thought
that they will see from the work done
at this convention the necessity of
making some provision for building
roads in this county.
Chairman Jordan is very much in
favor Of the good roads movement,
and there is little doubt but that If he
is elected to his Office for another
term he will urge that something of
positive nature be done. 1t is claimed
that the Board is not IN a position to
dictate to the different towns the work
to be done, but a wholesome discussion
of the matter on the floor of the Board
will undoubtedly do much toward
showing the members from the diff
terent towns the work that can be
done with small expenditure of
money. This matter has been hang
ing fire for several sessions of the
Board. 1t is possible that the Board
may decide to purchase some road
making machinery for use ir the diff
ferent towns. This has been done in
other counties and has resulted in the
roads being greatly improved.
The County Board of Rock county
at it's meeting last year took lead IN
this line Of work by purchasing sew
eral rollers and road making machin-
cry and as result of the purchase
the towns of Rock county have spent
more than hundred thousand dollars
on roads this year, and the county is
said to have the best country roads in
the state.
Another matter that will come be-
fore the Board is the matter of travel
ing Libraries for use in the county,
This matter has been before the Board
for two years and the State Commits
sion is still ready to put in the IL
braries if the Board is willing to take
care of them.