The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-01-11
OFFICIAL.
Proceedings Of Board Of County Com
missiOners of Mile Laos County.

Auditors Office, Mile Laos County,
MINI. Princeton, January 2, 1912.
Board of county commissioners OF
Mile Laos county met in annual ses-
sion, at the Office of the county
auditor of said county, pursuant to
law. Full board present.
Meeting called to order by the
chairman at 1870 p. m. =
On motion duly made and unani-
mously carried, F. @. Cater was de-
clared duly elected as chairman of
the board for the ensuing year.
On motion duly made and unani-
mously carried, Ole Il. Uglem was de-
clared duly elected as vice chairman
of the board for the ensuing year.
The following standing committees
were duly elected for the ensuing
year: Poor farm committee, Uglem
and Cater; court house committee,
Dalchow, Cater and Uglem; road and
bridge committee, all members of the
board.
"A. B. Gramer, overseer of poor
farm, made an oral report to the
board relative to the condition of
farm and personal property and
county charges thereon. Said report
showed conditions on county farm to
be in good shape and said report was
satisfactory to the board. Mr..
Gramer then notified the board that he
would not continue as Overseer of
said farm after the lst day of March,
1912, unless the compensation of such
overseer be increased from $50 to $75
per month. The matter was taken
under advisement by the board.
The school petition of Katie I.
Libby came duly on for a hearing
and after due consideration the fol-
lowing order was made and unani-
mously passed by the board:
Whereas, the petition of Katie I.
Libby, freeholder of school district
No. 2 in this county, with the ap-
proval of the county superintendent
endorsed thereon, representing that
she is the owner of the lands herein
after described which are situate in
said school district, and that but one
quarter section of land intervepes be-
tween said land of the petitioner and
said school district No. l, which said
intervening land is vacant and un-
occupied and that she desires to be
set off, with her said lands, from
said district No. 2 to said district No.
l for the following reasons, to-wit:
''That the distance from petitioners
home to the school in distr let No. 2 is
about ~ miles and over roads that
are not as good as the roads to
school in district No. l, which school
is only III miles from petitioners
home. That in going to school in
district No. 2 it is necessary for petit
toner's children to cross the West
Branch of Rum river, whereas it
would not be necessary in going to
school in district No. l. That petit
toner has three children of school
age, to-wit: Thirteen, eleven and
eight years respectively, and that
next year there will be another one,
six years of age, to attend school,"
was presented to the county board of
this county, at session of said board
held on the 5th day of December,
1911, for the action of said board
thereon; and whereas, it was there
upon ordered by said board that a
hearing should be had upon said petit
tion at a session of said board COM
mencing on the I'd day of January,
1912, at the county auditors Office 10
the village of Princeton in said
county; and whereas, it was further
ordered in and by said order that
notice of the time and place of such
hearing be given by posting notice
of said hearing in three public places
in each of the school districts to be
affected by said petition, and by
serving upon the clerk of each of said
school districts, personally, a copy
of said notice, at least ten days before
the time appointed for such hearing,
and by giving two weeks published
notice thereof in the Princeton Union,
a duly qualified newspaper printed
and published at Princeton in said
county, and whereas, at the said
session of said board commencing on
said I'd day OF January, 1912, proof
OF the due publication, posting and
service of said notice of hearing as
therein directed and required, more
than ten days prior to said last
named date, having been made and
filed, said petition was publicly read
and considered by the board, with
everything which was said by said in
terested parties for or against grant,
ing the prayer of the petitioner, and
being satisfied from all the evidence
produced at such hearing that the
allegations of said petition are true
and said board being of opinion that
the prayer of said petitioner should
be granted,
1t is hereby ordered and determined,
that the following described lands
owned by her, to-wit: All of north
half (n15) of northeast quarter (neA),
lying east of West Branch of Rum
river, in section "a, township 36,
range q; and the said Intervening
quarter section of land, which is
vacant and unoccupied, and more
fully described as the northwest
quarter (nwA) of section 10, township
36, range rs. be and the same are
hereby set off from said district No. 2
to said district No. l, and said lands
and all of same are hereby made a
part Of said last named school district
for all purposes whatever.
Dated the I'd day of January, 1912.
By order of the County Board.
F. G. CATER,