Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-17

COUNTY BOARD.

4 board, Fred Burmeister, of the town of
Berlin, was granted a pension of SiOO
per year in compliance with state law
fitting his case. He is totally blind
w. K. Chellis, register of deeds, asked
that the chair appoint committee of
three to look into the working of the
new.law requiring town clerks to re-
port marriages, births, deaths, acci-
dents, etc, direct to the secretary of
state, instead of through the register of
deeds Office. This he did, be said, at
the request of other county officials in
the state, it being the intention to ask
the next state lesiglature to repeal the
law. The chair appointed as such
committee, Messrs. A. E. Beebee, I. j !.
| Edmonds and j ohm Braasch
| At recent meeting OF the city coun-
Gil committee was appointed to con-
| fer with a committee of the county
| board relative to establishing and
maintaining a fire engine house for
the joint benefit of city and county.
When the matt was put to the county
board it was voted down.
The committee on equalization sub
mitted a report which was adopted
The valuation of the county was placed
at S4 332 900 for personal property and
| SO, 24S 600 for real estate. or total of
S27, $780, 600. OF this sum the city of Wau-
sau bears nearly one-quarter or s., 7,464,-
900.
A special committee reported 10 favor
of fixing the salary of the janitor of the
court house at 5000, he to do all work
connected with his duties without any
additional money for hired help. Some
Of the members protested, saying that
the county ought to pay for keeping the
walks clear of snow in winter, but their
protests were voted down.
1t was decided to secure from an in
IDENTITY company bond for the incom-
ing county treasurer, the same to be
paid for by the county
Supervisor Herman Vetter of the vii
lage of Marathon, informed the board
that he had decided to celebrate his
election as county treasurer and invited
the board to be his guests in the village
on Thursday evening. His invitation
was accepted.
In view of the fact that the county
treasury Is empty, provision was made
for borrowing $4,000 from the banks
antil such time as taxes are collected.
Henry Belke was reelected court
house ianitor. There were five other
being as follows: II Belize, 30; Aug.
Raasch, 8; +. E. Schneider, 5; A.
Mcdonnell, 10; A. f. Ziebell 2; II
Schroeder, l.
Anton Mehl was elected to succeed
himself as asylum trustee for period
of three years. Other names presented
for the same position were Hugo Peters,
w. w AlberS, + &. Zimmerman, Ed.
Heiman, John Treu and Carl Schroeder
Upon motion unanimously carried the
clerk cast the ballot of the entire board
for the reelection of Jos. Burger and
Carl Nieman as members of the agri-
cultural school board, and IL. j. Blanch-
ard and A L. Kreutzer as members of
the training school board.
Messrs. Beebee, Edmonds and
Braasch, a special committee, reported
10 favor of adopting petition to the
state Legislature for the repeal of the
present law providing that town clerks
shall report vital statistics instead of
the register of deeds The report was
unanimously adopted.
The board visited the asylum and
poor house Thursday afternoon.
A resolution was passed providing
for an assistant for the county superln-
tendent of schools for year instead of
nine months out of the year.
A-number of residents of the town of
Wsusau Getitioned the board to take
from the town of Texas ten sections of
land and add them to the former town,
so as to make the town of Wausau
more nearly square. The judiciary
committee. to which the matter was
referred, reported unfavorably and the
proposition was killed.
The salary of the supervisor of assess
ment will be $500 after Jan. l, instead
of 5000 as at present.
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ported that it had insufficient funds to
install a central heating plant for the
asylum and new county poor house
The board, at a previous meeting,
appropriated $4,000. The committee
received two bids for the work, both
considerably in excess of that figure,
and on Friday an additional appropria-
ton of Sl5, 600 was asked for. In urg-
ing this appropriation the committee
stated that at present the asylum is
heated in way in violation of the board
Of controls orders in the fact that
81 cam boilers are not allowed in an
asylum building. 1t was pointed out
that it is question of only short time
when the state board will order the
boilers taken out. When vote was
taken the resolution was lost by vote
of "a to %. As it was plain that some
OF the members did not fully under
stand the matter, the resolution was re-
considered and was carried by vote OF
Al TO 5.
The four banks of the city were desig-
mated as repositories for the county's
money, which it does not at present
have.
The finance committee submitted a
report on the estimated receipts and
expenditures for the coming year
From it we take the following figures:
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS.
From county ASYLUM. .S23, 800 90
Other sources. s. 1000 90