The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-01-07
VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 2
The COUNTY BOARD
Ole II. Uglem Elected Chairman and
G. e. Erickson Vice Chairman
for the Current Year.
Foss G. Cater and DR.. o. s. Swennes
the Newiy-Eieeted Members,
Take Seats on Board:

On Monday the county board of
audit-Messrs. Erickson, King and
Whitney-met and performed the
duties required of them by law, turn
ing over the treasurer's Office to Otto
Henschel, who succeeds K. 81. Burrell.
The following day Tuesday, the
board of county commissioners met
for their first session of the new year.
F. c. Cater of the First district and
DR.. 0. S. Swennes of the Fifth district
elected to succeed L. S. Libby and
T. E. Potts -took their seats on the
board. The board organized and
elected Ole b. Uglem chairman and
G. E. Erickson vice chairman for the
ensuing year.
The salary of the county attorney
was fixed at $3.50 per annum for the
next two years-an increase of $50 per
annum.
The salary of the county superin-
tendent of schools was fixed at $3.50
per annum.
Robert Clark, court house janitor,
received a raise of SIS per MONITOR
$40 per month hereafter.
Two hundred dollars was appropri-
ated for incidental expenses of the
county officials for the current year.
A jurors list was drawn and ap-
portioned in number to the five COM
missioner districts as follows: No l,
%; No. 2, 6; No. 3, 13: No. 4, %; No.
5, 8.
Sealed bids for the county printing
were considered and the Union
selected as the official paper by a
unanimous vote.
Bonds of the following officials were
presented and. approved: John F.
Peterson, court commissioner, 50, 600;
Robert 81. King, clerk of court, $1,000;
r. S. Chapman, county surveyor, $500.
Drs. S. 81. Olsen and 81. p, Bacon
of Milaca submitted sealed bids for
the Office of county physician, but
both were rejected, the board having
decided to appoint acs physician for
the year 1909.
Application was made by the super
visors of the town of Princeton for an
of OO-one-half of the
extra cost of the steel bridge over the
Rum river southeast of town, now in
course of construction-and the COM
missioners appropriated $500, pro-
vided that the town board appropriate
a sufficient amount to cover the full
cost of the additional span of fifty feet.
The hearing on the petition of C. C.
Eberhardt and others for the construc-
tion of ditch No. 10 was continued to
the next meeting of the board.
A petition to annex congressional
townships Al, range Is, and Al, range
q, to the town of Onamia was con-
tinued for hearing on March 9.
r. s. Chapman was appointed
engineer for county ditch No. 9, town
of Milo, an31 the viewers selected were
F. j. Holmes, Milaca; r. S. Shaw,
Greenbush, and E. r. Cilley, Prince
ton.
The county treasurer was allowed
5000 for clerk hire for the ensuing
year. ss
P. Bliss presented a petition pray
ing to be set off from school district
30 to ID. The petition was disallowed.
P. J. Erickson presented similar
petition and a hearing upon the same
was set for March 9, as was also the
hearing upon the petition of Henry
Greenwood to be set off from school
district 10 to 5.
Chairman Uglem appointed COM
mittee of twO-F. G. Cater and John
Dalchow-to ascertain cost of cast
iron and stone monuments for the per-
petuation of surveys.
The board adjourned to March 8.
The Parrots Response. 50
A certain old lady on shaving her
rooms painted had her favorite parrot