River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-12-22
REsoLUTIoN

JOHN CARLSON.
RESOLUTION
Appropriating Money for Aid in repair
ing a highway in the Town of Isa-
belle.
Resolved, That there is hereby APP
dollars to aid the Town of Isabelle in
repairing the highway known as the
Old State Road at a point where the
floods have washed away part of the
approaches to the bridge on the east
side of Bay City, and at another point
on the same road where there has been
City y@SH0u' "99 . INC
Application and resolution for aid
to Mrs. E. w. Putney and son, poor
persons of the Town of Salem, was
presented and referred to Committee
to settle with Poor Agents.
APPLICATION OF TOWN OF SALEM
FOR AID TO MRS. E. w. PUT
NEY, A POOR PERSON.
To the Honorable County Board OF
The Town Of Salem respectfully
Putney is now and has been for more
than twenty years last past a resident
of said Town OF salem; t daad she Is Is "a q
town some four or five years ago; that
she has one child, to-wit: son, named
ty years of age, and is and always has
been feeble minded and unfit and I'M
able to earn any income whatever; that
Mrs. Putney owns small piece of land,
of which about two or three acres are
tillable; that she lives on this land,
and since the death of her husband has
managed, by her own labor, the aid and
assistance of her neighbors and lit
tie aid from the Town from time to
time to support herself and her SAID
son; that her health is failing rapidly,
and that unless she receives more pub
lie aid from this time on, both she ana
her said son will become County
charges; that it would be much better
and cheaper for the County to pay her
two dollars $4,000 a week and let her
maintain herself and her son at her
home in said Town, than to be compell-
ed to support either of them anywhere
else, and that the son is of such dis
position that he could not be kept at
the Poor House or anywhere else by
the County, unless it would be in an
Insane Asylum or Home of the Feeble
said son can be cared for where they
are with an allowance from the Coun-
ty of $500 per week
The authorities of the said Town
therefore respectfully suggest that it
would be proper and wise to authorize
the County Poor Agents to furnish
not exceeding two dollars $4,000 per
week, and for that purpose the follow
ing resolution is offered and recon-
H. e. CARPENTER,
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of the Town of Salem.
RESOLUTION
To provide for aid to certain poor per-
sons in the Town of Salem.
Resolved, That the County Poor
Agents be, and they are hereby author
lied to furnish aid to Mrs. e. W. Put
ney and her feeble-minded son now re-
siding in the Town of Salem, to the
amount of two dollars (S2.OO) per
necessary to provide said persons with
proper food and clothing.
Sup. Fitzgerald presented the fol-
lowing resolution, and the same was
on motion accepted and adopted.
RESOLUTION.
Resolved, That the County Treasur-
er is hereby authorized to pay to the
May LIST, 1911, such sum not exceeding
One Hundred Dollars as such Superin-
tendent shall have expended for travel
ing expenses in his official duties. Such
amounts advanced to be Endorsed on
the bill the County superintendent files
with the Auditing Committee of the
County Board.
The following resolution was &C
copied and adopted:
RESOLUTION REQUIRING THE Elk
AMINER OF THE BLIND TO Elk
ANIME MARY LARSON OF
MARYLAND.
Resolved, That the County Examiner
of the Blind, be and he hereby is or
horter in the Town of Hartland and
examine a blind person of the name of
Mary Larson, the expenses of such ex-
animation to be paid by the County.
JOHN CARLSON,
M. c.. PIERCE,
Special Committee on the Blind.
Report of Building Committee was
read and on motion properly made,
the same was accepted and adopted.
REPORT OF BUILDING COMMITTEE.
To the Honorable the County Board of
Pierce County:
The Standing Committee on Build
tngS respectfully reports:
That they have had the situation of
the several county buildings under
consideration and find as follows:
That the old barn upon the Poor
House Farm needs a new roof cover
ing, and that it should be provided
with one during the coming spring or
summer.
That owing partly to the fact that
the poor people at the Poor House are
of greater age on the average than in
quite feeble that better arrangements
should be made for their convenience
and comfort. That there are no ade-
quate convenienceS for bathing or for
general toilet purposes
That the building as now planned
would not require any great change in
plan to give places where proper con-
Veniences could be placed. We recon-
mend, therefore, that proper bath and
toilet rooms be put in and arrange
mentS made for sewage and sufficient
water supply. For this purpose we
recommend an appropriation of seven
hundred and fifty dollars. The work
to be planned and executed under the
supervision of the Poor Agents.
That the several porcheS to the Poor
House are showing the effects of age
and weather and are now in an unsafe
condition, and the roofs, floors and
steps should all have attention, and we
recommend that they be fully repaired
before the next meeting of the County
Board.
That there are no suitable arrange
ments for caring for the sick at the
Poor House, and that a room should be
arranged to be used for a sick room
apart from the vicinity of the quarters
of the general patients, and we there
fore recommend that the Poor Agents
have such room provided for if prac-
tlcable before the next meeting Of the
County Board.
That all of the other buildings we
find to be in a good condition except as
to some repairs incidental to weather