The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-11-26
OFFICIAL
Proceedings of Board of County Com
missioners Of Mile Laos County.

Auditors Office, Mile Laos County,
MINI. Princeton, November II, 1908.
Board of county commissioners met
pursuant to adjournment, with all
members present.
In the matter of the hearing on the
petition of Chr. Carl Eberhardt and
others for public ditch in the towns
of Borgholm and Bogus Brook, in
said county, the said petition was
publicly read and considered by the
board, and after considerable discus
sion by parties interested for and
against the construction of said ditch,
the said petition was withdrawn by re-
quest Of the petitioners.
In the matter of the hearing on the
petition of E. C. Sovereign, the fol-
lowing order was made and adopted
by unanimous vote of the board:
Whereas, the petition of E. c. Sew
ereign, freeholder of school district
No. IA in this county, with the ap-
prevail of the county superintendent
endorsed thereon, representing that he
is the owner of the lands hereinafter
described, which are situate in said
school district, and that said lands
adjoin independent school district No.
Ii, and asking that his said lands may
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said district No. IS, for the follow
from his said land, whereon he lives.
No. IA: that there is swamp between
his said land and said school house,
making it impossible for petitioners
children to get to said school, except
in unusually dry weather, without
going long distance around: and
for the further reason that the school
facilities in said district No. Is are
much greater than in said district No.
IA, was presented to the county board
OF this county. at a session of said
board held on the 9Th day of October,
A. D. 1908, for the action of said
board thereon: and Whereas, it was
thereupon ordered by said board that
a hearing should be had on said petit
ton at a session of said board COM
mencing on the 18th day of November,
A: D. 1908, at the county auditors
Office in the village of Princeton, in
said county: and
Whereas, it was further ordered in
and by said order that notice of the
time and place of such hearing be
given by posting notice of said
hearing in three public places in each
OF the school districts to be affected
by said petition, and by serving upon
the clerk of each of said school dis
trlcts, personally, a copy of said
notice, at least ten days before the
time appointed for such hearing, and
by giving two weeks published notice
| thereof in the Princeton Union, a duly
qualified newspaper printed and pub
| lished at Princeton, in said county:
and
Whereas, at the said session of said
| board commencing on said 18th day
| of November, A. D. 1908, proof of the
due publication. posting and service
of said notice of hearing as therein
| directed and required, more than ten
days prior to said last named date,
having been made and fled, said petit
ton was publicly read and considered
by the board, with everything which
was said by said Interested parties for
or against granting the prayer of the
petitioner, and being satisfied from all
the evidence produced at such hearing
that the allegations of said petition
are true, and said board being of
opinion that the prayer of said petit
| toner should be granted, it is hereby
ordered and determined, that the fol-
lowing described lands owned by him,
| tO-wit: the south half OF the south
west quarter of section seven, in town.
ship thirty Height, range twenty-six, be
| and the same are hereby set off from
| said school district No. IA to said
school district No. -. and said lands
are hereby made a part of said last
named school district for all purposes
| whatever.
By order of the county board
Dated the 18th day Of November,
A. D. 1908.
c. E. ERICKSON,
Chairman of the County Board.
Mile Laos Co., MINI.
Attest:
E. E. WHITNEY. County Auditor
and Ex-Of6cio Clerck Of Board.
Official Seal)
In the matter Of the hearing on the
petition of J. A. Zandell, the follow
ing order was made and unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, the petition of J. A. Zand-
ell, freeholder of school district No.
20 in this county, with the approval
OF the county superintendent endorsed
thereon, representing that be is the
owner of the lands hereinafter de-
scribed, which are situate in said
school district, and that said lands
adjoin school district No. 81, and ask
ing that his said lands may be set If
from said district No. 20 to said dis
trict No: 81, for the following reasons:
lst. That he lives 215 miles from
the school house and the road to said
school house is impossible: 2nd. That
If he is set into school district No. 81
he will only be one mile from the
school house, over a good graded
road; 3rd. That if this petition is not
granted his children will be denied the
advantages OF an education: was pre-
| sented to the county board of this
county, at session of said board
held on the 9Th day of October, A. D.
1908, for the action of said board
thereon; and
/ Whereas, it was thereupon ordered
by said board that hearing should
be had on said petition at a session of
said board commencing on the 18th