The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-21
Silver Lake Man Is Elected Su.
pervisor of Assessments by
the County Board
HENSGEN FOR COUNTY AGENT
Board Refuses to Heed Warming From
Civic Federation and Elects One
of Its Own Members on Ac-
count of Good Service

widely known throughout the county,
was elected supervisor Of assessments
TO succeed William II. Harrison by
the County Board at its session this
morning. The election came only
after battle of FIVE ballots, in which
it looked as if the Board would be
deadlocked over the selection of sue
cessor to Mr.. Harrison. There we're
three avowed candidates in the field:
Mr.. Harrison, Mr.. Dalton and James
Fl. Charles, but from the first it was
evident that the race was between
Harrison and Dalton. On the first
formal ballot the present supervisor
had eight votes, but after this ba1lo-
his strength fell off and two Of the
votes went to Charles and remained
With him until the last ballot, when
one of the men who had been voting
for Charles switched to Dalton and
gave him the votes necessary to elect.
The retirement of Mr.. Harrison h
been eagerly sought by some of the
people of the county, and the election
| of Mr.. Dalton will be hailed with JOY
| by these people. The new supervisor
| of assessments is widely known
| throughout the county and is man
who is we'll acquainted with the val
ues of real estate in the county. He
| has been connected with the assess
ments of the town of Salem for sew
| eral years and should be an expert on
| The assessment work. Mr.. Harrison
| has done much to bring the assess
ments of the county up to their proper
place, and if Mr.. Dalton continues his
work the new man will meet with ap-
probation in all parts of the county.
| The County Board took slap at the
| Civic Federation this morning when
| Michael Hensgen was elected to the
Office of county agent regardless of
1.-THE protest that had been made in the
l,nape of the Federation on Tuesday.
lat that time the Board took up the
lmatter of e1ecting an agent and SUI
| pervisor Blood stated that in his opin-
| ION the Board had no right to elect one
| of it's mem bers to the Office or to any
| office where he would have the privi-
lege of passing on his own bills. Mr..
| Hensgen at once stated to the Board
| that he was not a candidate for the
Office, but that he had been advised
| by the district attorney that he, had a
right to hold the Office. Mr.. Blood
| stated that the members of the Civic
Fedora ton had looked into the mat
/ ter and had taken-it up with the Fed
Grafton attorney. This seemed TO
i have settled the matter for this morn
ing when the Board voted on the cleo,
ton of a county agent, Mr.. Hensgen
got twelve of the fifteen votes cast.
He accepted the Office. In e1ecting
Hensgen the mem ers of the Board
declared that they had voted for his
reelection only because he had made
an excellent officer. The report OF
Mr.. Hensgen recently filed showed
that he had managed the Office in
such way that it had saved the
county many dollars during the years
he had been acting in the capacity Of
county agent.
The compensation of the county
agent was placed at $500 year an6
So, 500 was appropriated for his uses
; The salary of the supervisor of as
i sessments was placed at $3.50 per day
/ and the limit of days was placed al
: $50.
: The County Board refused to re
ward the district attorney for his yea
t shown in Office during the year just
D closing. Unknown to the district at
S torney supervisor moved that the
e sum of $500 be appropriated as extra
: pay for the attorney, and IN asking
+ the appropriation he declared that Mr.
e Baker by his zeal in the Office haC
d saved the county thousands of dollars
e during the year. When the question
ii was put to vote the motion was los
J, by vote of 9 to and the appropria
). ton was not made.
g It is probable that the matter will b.
brought up in so1 e other form late
: in the week and that an effort will b.
: made to increase the salary of tn,
district attorney at the session of thu
: Board next year. Most of the mem
)" bers of the Board appreciate the fac
that the present salary of the attorne,
j. is all too low for the work demanded
of him.
The parsimony of the County Boart
in declining to make an appropriation
: for the district attorney will be bette
!, understood when it is stated that thu
: attorney receives total salary of 500
a year and that of this amount h,
pays out $672 for Office rent and stem
: lographer hire, so that his net salar.
from the county is just $228. For Thu
sum the district attorney during tn
year now closing has tried in Circui
Court more than sixty cases, to sa.
nothing of the number that have beer
= tried in Justice Court. He has beer
! forced to give up more than tw'
! hundred days to the work of tn
: county.
n In this connection is should be SAT-
4L,+4to "a a;+c+. a the ca11rfv hui1dfu9