The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-11-30
County Board Appropriates
$500 for Permanent Me-
mortal for Soldiers.
COMMISSION TO EypEHD FUND
Board Spends Half a Day Discussing
the Proposition to Build Tuberculosis
SanitariuIn and Listens to Reports
Of State Leaders in Fight.

At It's regular session this morning
the kenosha County Board formally
made q provision for the erection of a
permanent memorial to the soldiers and
| sailors from Kenosha county who took
part IN the war of the rebellion and to
TINS end 5000 was appropriated and this
Will be expended under the direction
OF the commissions named three years
ago of which William H. Harrison of
the town or Randall, is the chairman,
and Frank 1. Lyman, of Kenosha, the
/ secretary. The resolution providing for
the appropriation of the funds provides
that an accurate historical record of
the services of every man enlisting
from this county shall be prepared. 1t
is the plan to have these records done
in India ink and framed and hung in
the various rooms of the court house.
The resolution provides that no more
than 5000 shall be expended in any one
year. The members Of the commission
were agreed on the provisions of the
resolution and it was offered by Super
visor John 7. Yule and unanimously
adopted by the members of the board.
Work ON the memorial will be started
at once and it is probable that a por-
ton Of the work will be completed this
year.
In keeping with the resolution pass
ed on Wednesday Chairman Pacey this
morning named Supervisors Herzog OF
Somers, Shuart Of Bristol and Yule
and Mungen of Kenosha to serve with
him ON a committee to designate a
county highway system and the report
of this committee will probably be pre-
sented to the board before the end of
the week.
The board received a communication
from Judge Belden reducing the fees
to be paid to Walworth county for the
trial of the Gibson case from 1912
to 1910.
Following a report of the committee
which had investigated the jail the
board ordered the county agent to at
once proceed to the installing of q new
metal or composition roof on the build
ing with the understanding that thu
cost will be paid out of the general
fund
Nearly the entire time of the board
on Wednesday afternoon was given
over to the discussion of the problem
of caring for patients in the last stage
of consumption. Miss i. L. NJ. Tate,
field agent for the Wisconsin Anti
tuberculosis committee, addressed the
board at length showing conditions as
they had been found in the county and
indicating the great demand that there
exists to secure some way OF changing
these conditions and giving proper care
to consumptives. She told of investi-
cations she had made and of those made
by the local committee in the fight
against the white plague and urged
early action for the building of a san
itariIm in the county.
DR.. j. w. Coon, superintendent OF the
State Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Wales,
followed her and gave a very interest
, ing talk on the work that is being done
by that institution. He illustrated his
talk with number of lantern slides
showing the buildings of the institu-
ton and giving scenes from che Afe
Of the patients at the institution. Or.
Coon impressed on the minds OF the
members of the board that the ins5itu-
ton was doing a great work In savlng
the lives of people taken when in the
incipient stages of the disease, but he
also impressed the fact that the inst1tu-
ton was all too small to make it pos
sible for it to take patients in the
advanced stages. He strongly Joined
lin the demand for the erection OF
county sanitariums declaring this to be
one of the greatest humanitarian works
ever started in the state.
City Heath Officer DIR. J. B. Spald-
ing also appeared and spoke IN favor
Of the erection of such an institution.
The plan TO have a joint institution
built for Racine and Kenosha counties
was Knocked IN the head as the speak
ers declared that under the new state
law no power was given for the cree
ton of joint institutions and that
every county must act independently
There is, however, no objection to the
doors of these institutions being open
ed for the reception of patients from
other counties.