River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-12-09


Dated this 8th day Of November < T. D.
1902
o. J. HOHLE.
County Clerk
The Board adjourned until o'clock
this afternoon on motion of Sup.
Fitzgerald.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Board was called to order pursuant
to adjournment
All members answered to roll call.
Journal read and approved.
Petition from Town of Martell for
additional appropriation for bridge
aid was read and referred to Commit
tee on Roads and Bridges.
PETITION FOR BRIDGE AID FROM
TOWN OF dARTELL.
To the Honorable the County Board of
the County of Pierce:
Your petitioner, the Board of Super
visors of the Town of Martell respect
fully show that under the provisions of
the resolution passed by said County
Board at it's last annual session whereby
The sum of fifteen hundred dollars, the
same being one half of the estimated cost
thereof was appropriated by said Board
to said town to aid in erecting bridge
across the Rush river at Section ID in
said town, the said town has under the
hid and supervision of the County Com
nittee on Bridges erected said bridge in
/ good and substantial manner as the re-
port of such bridge committee Will show
THAT after the contract was let, upon a
more complete examination of the places
where the abutments must be placed it
vas found that on the west end the place
where the abutment must be built was
If such a nature as not to afford a
proper and sufficient foundation and 1t
became necessary to preserve the integ-
rity of the bridge to drive piling and put
n additional amounts of concrete.
That by reason of this the cost Of the
bridge was actually and necessarily in
creased to the amount OF three hundred
md ninety dollars, the items of such eX-
pense having been kept and which can be
exhibited to the County Board if deemed
necessary.
That your petitioners feel that in view
Of the system Of county aid adopted, that
it is proper that one half the actual cost
IF any bridge erected under county SUI
pervision should be borne by the county
and they therefore pray that this Board
appropriate the sum of one hundred ana
ninety-five dollars to reimburse the said
town for one half of the amount actually
and necessarily expended by such town
in erecting and completing such bridge
over and above the original estimate.
Dated November 10, 1909.
Chairman of the Supervis ors of the Town
of Martel.
Certified list of applicants for re-
lief for blind was read and referred to
special committee composed of
Sups Carpenter, Condit and Kline.
LIST OF NAMES OF BLIND PERSONS
APPLYING FOR RELIEF.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors
of Pierce County, Wisconsin:
carfifU following
named blind persons have made appltca-
ton for relief from the County, as pro-
vided by Chapter 2S3, Laws Of 1907, and
that all such applications have been nled
With the Examiner of the Blind:
John Sandstrom. Town of Salem
Louisa Howard .... Town of Hartland
Elsie Belle Gossett. Town of Maiden Rock
Gunder Stangfeld. .........: Town OF salem
William Krerner Town of Diamond Bluff
Carl Nelson. City of River Falls
Hanna Hendrickson. 80. Town of Gilman
Dated, Ellsworth, Wis, this LIST day OF
NY 7iHDei' 80 o. j. HoHLE.
County Clerk.
Application for Ferry license at
Prescott was presented and referred
to the following special committee;
Thos. Manion, Giebler and Skidmore.
APPLICATION FOR FERRY LICENSE.
To the County Board of Supervisors of
the County of Pierce, in the State OF
Wisconsin,:
The undersigned hereby makes an APP
plication for a license to keep a ferry
on Lake Saint Croix, from he City of
Prescott, in said County of Pierce and
State of wisconsin, to the Town Of Dem
mark. in the County of Washington and
State of Minnesota, for the term of ten
years. and he hereby represents ana
states. that he is the owner of the land
in said City of Prescott, through which
the highway adjoining the said ferry
runs.
Dated November 9Th. A. D. 1863.
CHAS. r. PAGE.
Proposals of Bank of Prescott and
Of the Farmers and Merchants State
Bank of River Falls was read.
PROPOSAL FOR COUNTY DEPOSIT
TORY FUND BANK OF PRESCOTT.
To the County Board of the County of
Pierce. State of Wisconsin:
The Bank of Prescott, of the City Of
Prescott County of Pierce and State OF
Wisconsin. hereby proposes and makes
offer that f the said bank be designated
the depository of the County .unds Of
Pierce County, for one year from the
first day of January next, it viii pay
interest on daily balances at the rate Of