The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-11-23

county patients, $7,702.08; Ozaukee
county, S2,39S.27; Door county, sl,56S.'
IS; Kewaunee county, Sl,66S.29; Calu
met county, $709.45; Shawano county
$485.46; Villas county, $20S.47; Clark
county, $33.S7; Oconto county, S244.59
Portage county, s34l.Ol; Langlade
county, S341.36; total from state, $2l,.
1880; from various sources, s4,S59.26
total due asylum, S26, ,609.06.
Present worth OF asylum property
Inventory $144, ,695.82
Amount due 26,609.0
Cash on hand 5,209.54
Total value $176.5l4.4 AZ
Acknowledgment in the report is
made of able assistance rendered by
| District Attorney Healy in the collec-
tion of old claims.
DR.. Falge, the county physician, in
his report stated that there were twelve
deaths at the asylum the past year and
that four of these were due to consum-
p.ion
The report of the county superin-
tendent of schools submitted was com
prehensive, covering in detail all mat
ters pertaining to the office. The total
amount paid for teachers wages the
past year was S62,620. There were
SITS children enrolled in all the schools
and the average daily attendance was
1874.
Two new buildings were erected dur
ing the year at Kiel and Cooperstown.
The superintendent recommended
that S4OO be appropriated for clerk
hire in his office; that S25 be appropri-
ated to meet expenses of the county
graduating exercises and that $l35 be
appropriated for the next annual.
The report of the training school
board shows cash balance Oct. 81, of
1852. The total expenditures for the
period covered, from June 30, 1910 to
oct. 81, I'LL, was vt, 2O3.l4.
OF a total of 235 graduates from the
school 80 are at present teaching in
the county. The board recommends
that $500 be levied tor the year, which
is an increase of $500 The board also
recommends that second assistant be
employed for the whole year.
At the Friday afternoon session
Henry Wernecke was reelected as a
trustee of the county asylum by un-
nimous vote.
John Hoyer was reelected janitor
without opposition.
The repairing OF the court house
roof cost SS, 726.7S according to the re-
port submitted by the court house roof
committee.
The committee appointed at the
spring session to secure designs for the
decoration of the court house submit
ted its report Wednesday. The COM
mittee recites that nine different pro-
positions from as many different bid
ders were received.
The following persons and firms pre-
sented propositions for the doing of the
work:
Associated Artists, Milwaukee.
Conrad Schmidt, Milwaukee.
q,
Liebrig & Co., Milwaukee.
Odin j. Oyen, La Crosse.
Mathieson, Milwaukee.
VIM. G. Andrews g. Co., Clinton.
Lee Decorating Co., Chicago.
A. Thiel & Co., Chicago.
The committee states that the de-
signs and propositions were carefully
examined, and recommended "that the
designs furnished by the Associated
Artists of Milwaukee be accepted and
recommend that contract for the de-
corating Of the court house be awarded
to said Associated Artists and that the
Chairman of the County Board and the
County Clerk be authorized to enter
into contract with the said Associat.
ed Artists for decorating the court
house as per the designs furnished by
them for the sum of Ell ight Thousand
Dollars.
The report was adopted by vote Of
"a to 8. Following is the vote:
Ayes-Alfson, Allie, Brandt, Han
sen, Hynek, Last, Lundberg, Lyken,
Meany, Muth, Petzka, Pfeffer, Schu-
bert, Schulze, Schwake, Spencer,
Stretch, Torrison, Vetting, Kleiber,
Wilke, Willott, Wilsman-4.
Nays-Kowalski, Laun, j. Lorfeldt,
David Lorfeldt, Luedtke, Rathsack,
Schetter, Zych-S.
Protests from the various unions of
the city against awarding the contract
to the Associated Artists of Milwau-
kee, alleging that the company did
not employ union men, were, on mo-
tion, received and placed on file.
At the Tuesday forenoon session Su-
pervisor Rathsack, Socialist member
from the Sixth ward of this city, in
troduced a resolution recommending
that the county board purchase the
Holy Family hospital and convert it
into ''home for indigents, tuber-
culosis sanitarium, work house for
wife deserters, chronic idlers, habitual
drunkards, tramps, ETC." The resolu-