Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-23
COUNTY BOARD WAS
STRONG FOR ECONOMY
Turned Down Nearly All APP
preparations Proposed.
Large Amount of Routine Business was
Transactnd and, Session Ended
on Saturday Morning.

The county beard adjourned Saturday
afternoon after weeks hard work al
though little outside the regular
annual business of the organization
was accomplished.
Among the more important ma tiers
that came up for consideration was
the report of a special committee APP
pointed at the last session of the board
to visit different asylums Of the state,
IN order to ascertain how the Grant
county institution compared with
them. The committee recommended
500, 900 be appropriated for the con-
struction of new asylum.
A. D. Conover, or the state board
Of control addressed the board We'd
nesday evening advising the building
of new asylum for the insane and to
use Inc present asylum building for a
county home
Action upon this report was de-
ferred until Thursday evening and
then it was tabled. At tne same ses~
sion resolutions to instruct our legis-
lative representatives to support the
Glenn Park bill; TO draw from the
permanent road fund to regrade GER
tain roads; to appropriate money for
the payment of brick and sand used in
the court house; to investigate the adj
visibility of establishing a county
school Of agriculture and domestic
science-all we're tabled or voted
down.
The Glenn park resolution was re-
considered at the Friday evening ses-
sion however. and adopted.
Herman Grimm was elected to sue
coed himself as a t,ustee Of the
asylum and county home for the term
Of three years at Wednesdays meet
ing.
A prospective improvement in the
interior appearance Of the court house
was made Impossible Tor the coming
year by the motion of Henry Mink Of
Waterloo, to strike out an item in the
report providing for frescoing the
walls and ceiling, His motion carried.
Mr. Mink also moved that 5000 be in
serted in the same report in place Of
$500 which is the janitor's present
salary. This was lost.
At Saturday s session the chairman
called the attention Of the board to a
certain chapter in the state statutes
regarding an appropriation for the
PlattevilIe Safe Mining Trade School.
After considerable discussion the
board concluded that the school was
a state institution and should there
fore receive its support from the state.
At the sesseiun Friday evening the
board elected roa l commissioner
and supervisor of assessments. The
balloting on the first resulted in the
election Of Adolph Wepking to sue
coed himself. The following is the
number Of votes cast for each candi-
date: Adclph Wepking, 20; Eugene
Whitmore, Il; Henry Roberts, Z;
George Alcott, and Lorenoz Ding
man, l.
The committee on education re-
commended that the annual salary Of
J. c. Brockert, the very efficient coun-
ty superintendent Of schools, be in
creased from $1,000 to $780, The
board. without a dissenting vote,
decided upon the increase-a we'll de-
SERVED commitment
JAS. Foley, of Boscobel, was elected
supervisor of assessments to Succeed
0. J. Arnold, resigned. He received
40 votes and his opponent, Lincoln
Abraham. of Bloomington received
eight
The salary of the road commits
sioner was fixed by the board at 81, 600.
H. E. Carkhew was elected vice
chairman of the board of supervisors.
Quite an amount of other business
was transacted including the adoption
of the regular reports, appropriations
for bridges etc.