Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-01-11

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Fred Borchardt, composing a special
committee to fix salaries and fees for
the county officers for the coming
year, reported in favor of fixing the
same as follows:
County clerk. 81, 800
treasurer. ............. LOO
Sheriff, salary ..... 1000
board OF prisoners. 49,. 1890
Surveyor and coroner .. All fees
District attorney. ............... 1880
Clerk of court. $500 and fees
The report was adopted.
On Thursday report signed by
Herman Hedrich, Ed Protze and
Martin Marquardt was read and APP
proved. They comprised a committee
appointed to look over the records in
Judge Miller's Office and take an in
ventory of stock.
Reports of various committees on
matters of minor Importance were
read.
The public property committee was
ordered to make an appraisement Of
all county property and make record
of same.
The public property committee re-
ported in favor of accepting the
proposition of Henry Lake & Sons of
Chippewa Falls to improve the court
house grounds and keep the same in
condition for two years. The report
was adopted and the committee will
enter into contract with that firm.
The committee on roads and bridges
made report covering the work of
road and bridge building. ~
Jos. Roehl, superintendent of the
county poor house, reported on the
affairs of that institution.
Upon motion of Supervisor Lang
the care of John Werden, pauper,
was transferred from the town of Nc
MILAN to the county.
The committee on poor was in
structed to confer with the asylum
trustees regarding the maintenance
of patients at the county home hos
pital.
The protest of residents of the
towns of Emmett and Mosinee was
taken up. Atty. II. Fl. Manson ap-
peared for the town of Emmett pro-
testants and endeavored to have the
matter left to the voters of thattown,
but the board ruled otherwise.
Co. Supt. Wenzel Pivernetz sub
mitted his annual report. This showed
that total of s247, 1920 had been col
lected in the various school districts
in the county, and 1872, 959.4l was
paid out, leaving S54, 1929 on hand.
There are 1910 children between the
ages of four and twenty. During the
year 3, 924 attended school twenty-four
weeks or more. There are SIS teachers
in the village schools and 1Sl in the
rural. As to sex there are % male
teachers and 2l3 female. There are
AS districts furnishing free text
books. There is one blind child re-
ported and four feeble minded.
The committee on agriculture re-
ported. The committee favored re-
modelling barn No. 4 on the fair
grounds, so that it will conform with
the plan of the other barns. 1t was
recommended that the county appro-
pirate $500 towards arranging for the
fair next fall and that the county
clerk be instructed to issue an order
for $3.50 when the secretary of the
fair presents an itemized bill of ex-
pense for remodeling barn No. 4. The
report was adopted.
The supervisor of assessment was
instructed TO engage All assistant-an
expert-to make an assessment in the
month of Nay of all the lumber and
log stocks on hand in the county, his
pay to be 81 per day.
The county clerk was instructed to
return for correction all assessors re-
ports which are faulty.
A resolution to gouern the letting
of printing jobs was passed. 1t can
be found elsewhere.
Supervisor Manson stated that the
cost of the new county poor house
complete was s58, $50, including furni-
ture and heating plant.
Supervisor Plowman brought the
election of Louis Cook as county
supervisor of assessment before the
board. 1t had been claimed that in
asmuch as Mr.. Cook had resigned as a
member of the county board to be-
come a candidate for the Office he now
holds, he was ineligible TO hold such
Office. Such was the construction OF
the law as given by the district attor-
ney. The matter was left with the
judiciary committee which reported
| that Mr.. Cook could not hold Office
and recommended that the board
elect someone to I'LL the place Super
visor Goetz moved that the report be
tabled and that the election OF Mr..
Cook be submitted to the state tar
commission for confirmation. His
motion was carried.
Philip Menzner Of Marathon City
submitted written invitation to the
members to attend the farmers insti-
tute and cooking school in that village
Quite q number Of the member;
stopped of there on their way home
The cost of the session was 81 ,056- IS
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