The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-10-18
SUPERVISORS ARE
NOW IN SESSION
Immense Amount Of Business to
be Done. Big Drain Mat
ter Discussed.

immense Amount OF Business to
be Done. Big Drain Mat
ter Discussed.
The board OF supervisors convened for
the annual October session last Monday
at p. m. The entire board was present,
and proceeded at once to get down to
business
This is the first meeting OF the board
since the death of Supervisor Dillman.
For many years be had been an honored
member, beloved by all, and his absence
cast gloom over the entire board. The
county clerk and janitor made beauti-
full wreath filed with flowers and placed
! it on his desk, where it remained during
! the entire session of the board.
The report of the judge of probate was
read and on motion was accepted and
adopted
The report OF the soldiers relief COM
mission was presented as follows:
Balance on hand Oct. l9, '06 -. ; 29684
Raised on rolls IN 1906 ...... ll53.06
Total. ..................Sl 445.5O
Paid out on 206 orders ...... Sl225.59
Leaving balance Oct. '07. .......5 224 81
The commission have assisted 80 fam
lilies, approximately 200 persons.
On motion the report was adopted
with the exception of that portion rela-
tive to the raising of money, which was
referred to the finance committee.
A resolution was presented by Super
visor Spencer requiring the county drain
commissioner to make an annual item
lied statement of the expenses OF his
office to the board The resolution as
passed and the commissioner given until
October 23 next to file the report for
1907.
TUESDAY.
The annual report OF the auditor gen.
eral, giving an temized statement of the
various amounts of the state taxes to be
raised this year, was read and placed on
file. 1t shows the amount OF state taxes
to be SAT 1887 80.
Moved by Supervisor Waber, seconded
by Supervisor Kennedy that the request
of the probate Judge for the appoint
ment Of probate register be granted.
The yea and nay vote being called for
resulted as follows Yeas 3, nays Is.
Motion was therefore lost. Several other
requests of the probate judge relative to
the appointment of guardians for insane
patients, etc, were granted
The report of the Jail inspectors was
J received and placed on file. 1t showed
that there had been 50 prisoners con.
fined in the county Jail since last Febru-
airy. The board complimented the sher-
iff very highly on the condition and
management of the Jail.
On motion of Supervisor Burger,
.Burse Merriman was appointed agent
for INDECENT soldiers in Bangor township.
On like motion of Supervisor Virgins,
Frank Cooley was appointed such agent
for Bloomingdale township.
On motion Of Supervisor Spencer, $500
which had been wrongly assessed to the
Kibbie Telephone Co. OF South Haven
was stricken from the roll, and on like
motion OF Supervisor Conway, $500
assessed to Erastus Osborne of Hamil-
ton was stricken from the roll.
The report of the committee on foot
ing rolls was adopted 1t showed that
the total assessed valuation Of the coun-
ty to be Sl6,0O3,653
WEDNESDAY.
The report of the superintendents of
the poor was accepted on motion Of Su-
pervisor McAlpine.
: The hour having arrived for the elec-
tion of member of the board of school
Q examiners, the roll was called and Rob-
i ert b. Taylor was placed ia nomination
by Supervisor Gault. There being no
other nomination he was unanimously
+, elected on motion of Supervisor Ken
nedy.
n The committee appointed to draft
, resolutions on the death of the late p. j
, Dillman reported the following, which
, was adopted by rising vote:
;. RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, Since the last meeting Of
/ this board, the Grim Reaper has gath
t cred in our honored and we'll beloved
r brother, Peter j. Dillman, while he was
g yet in the midst of the activities Of an
y honorable, useful life; and
J. WHEREAS, we, his brother supervisors
. Of this board, desire to express our ap-
d probation OF his nearly a quarter OF a
8 century of most valuable service as
b member OF this board, as we'll as our ad-
miration of his noble and unsullied
character. Therefore
RESOLVED, that by the death OF our
q brother, this board has lost one of its
most valued members, one who, from
= his large experience, was thoroughly
equipped for ;he duties OF the Office he
so long and so worthily filled. and to
u whose wise counsel we we're ever ready
II to listen and give heed.
RESOLVED, that we realize that not
VI only has this board lost valued mem.
b Der, but each OF US has lost close per-
l. sonal friend, his family loving husband
and kind father, and the community a