The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08


ties provided. In the event that said
bcArd Of supervisors do not meet IN
time to adjourn as aforesaid. or hav-
ing met failed to adjourn as aforesaid.
We hereby petition the county clsr:;
Of Platte county. Nebraska. {" csn g,
special meeting Ct the board OF .U-
pervisOrs If said county 10 meet .; thc
time and for the purpose aforesai:.
Signed by j. p SckOl and fiftyrour
others.
Moved by Supervisor Schwarz that
the notice be placed on hle and the
road and bridge committee. Including
Supervisor Smith. be directed to pro-
coed to Osceola on the l4tn day of
September. 1909, to he present at the
opening Of the bids. Motion carried.
On recommendation Of the judiciary
committee the following bonds were.
on motion. approved by the board:
c. c. Doody. overseer road district
No. %. Lost Creek township.
Garrit Schultz. Overseer road district
No. e. Shell Creek township.
Herman Lutzke. Overs-er road dis
trict No. %. WOodville township.
Earl F. Ernst. Oversesr road district
No. 80. Columbus township.
Arnold Nyneller overseer rasd dis
trtct No. 33. Columbus township.
John Mostek. ovsrsser road district
No. Fl. Burrows township.
Jos. Gever. Overseer road district No.
5l9. Burrows township.
.irmin Dobbins. Ovsrseer road dis
trict No. 20. Burrows township.
The following bills on recOnme nda-
ton Of the committee on roads and
bridges. were on motion. allowed On
the county road and bridge funds as
follows:
Fred Groth. account Humphrey
township -.................. Is
H. G. Bender. account Granville
township ~
c. G. DOody. account Lost Creek
township %
Martin Burns. account Lost
Greek township (claimed So. 90
Samuel Mueller. account Of City
OF Columbus ................ IS %
Samuel Mueller. account Of City
OF Columbus ................. Is IS
The following bills were. on motion.
allowed by the board and the clerk di-
rected to issue warrants in payment of
the same on the 1908 county general
fund:
Adam Smith. supervisor. SER
vices as supervisor. ..........$ 10 90
NJ. E. Clother. supervisor. ser
vices as supervisor. .......... 10 so
e. A. Peterson. supervisor. ser
vices as supervisor. ..... II 80
= Cchnro S,,ne ryfSnr
a. supervisor. Observation-Disclosures. &c co
W. NJ. Pollard. supervisor ser
vices as supervisor. .... L. IL
Louis Schwarz. supervisor. ser
vices as supervisor. ........ &c 10
Moved by Supervisor Schwarz that
the local coal dealers present their
bids: for the coal needed the coming
winter. by the next meeting Of the
board.
The following was presented:
To the Honorable Board Of Supervisors
Of Platte County. Nebraska:
Gentlemen
The undersigned owners of land to
be benefited by the widening and deep
ening Of the drainage ditch. in Lost
Creek township. known and designated
by prays your honorable board to pro-
reed and cause without unnecessary de-
lay the widening and deepening Of
said ditch. as the law provides and in
accordance with the survey. estimate
and specifications heretofore ordered
md made and now on file in the office
Df the county clerk. Your petitioner
ID one Of the largest land owners to be
Affected and benefited by the proposed
and he. together with |
other land owners to be benefited. are
now and have been for several years
past greatly damaged and our lands
almost valueless by the flow
Df waters thereon through the crop
ping season. Said lands comprising
many hundreds Of acres adjacent to the
said ditch. could be brought to the
highest productive capacity by the pro-
posed improvement. while the cost to
the land owners for making the same
would be comparatively small to the
benefits to be derived.
CT. CARRIG.
Columbus. Nebraska. August e5. 1909.
Accompanying said petition was a
bond conditioned for the payment Of
the costs n by law provided.
Moved by Supervisor Smith that the
prayer Of G. ]. Carrig be granted by
the board Of supervisors and the clerk
be instructed to advertise for proposals
for doing the work. in the Official pa
pers Of the county. Motion carried.
On motion Of Supervisor Smith the
board Of supervisors now adjourned
until September Is. 1909. at : o'clock