Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-10
ONLY ROUTINE AT
PRESENT SESSION
OF COUNTY BOARD
Poor Physicians for Rock Island
and Moline Selected by
Supervisors.
PUT PRISONERS TO WORK
Plan Suggested to Have Men Take
Care CT Court House Lawns
Bethany Home Visit.

The board of supervisors is finding
but little to do outside of routine mat
ters At the session this morning the
bonds of the ovsrseers of the poor for
Rock Island and Moline were accepted
AMI ordered filed The board accepted
an invitation to visit Bethany home at
3 O'Clock this afternoon.
Supervisor Sleight brought up the
matter of having the Drury Toll Road
association pay toll for road inspection
up to Jan. IS, 1912. Supervisor
Wright asked that the matter of fur
Their space for the Historical society
at the courthouse be referred to the
committee on public expenditure with
power to act and this was done.
YESTERDAYS SESSION.
1t was decided yesterday to instruct
the sheriff of Rock Island county 10
bring forth the prisoners inearcerated
in the county bastile at various inter-
walls and allow them 20 exercise them
selves by pushing one of the county's
lawn mowers over the spacious lawns
that surround the court house and the
other county buildings. A few of the
board members feared that the priS-
oners would escape from under the
watchfuI eyes of their guardians but
the majority decided that at present
! there were numerous individuals in
the Jail that were considered old resi-
! den.ers and who would not escape
I from their free meals if they were
given an opportunity. 1t seems as
/ though last winter a number of the
I prisoners were signed as snow SHOW
/ elers and after their task of tiinging
/ the beautiful white from the sidewalks
/ was completed they were glad enough
. to get back within the warm jail. At
present there are a number of bad
! chara cters in the Jail and it is not the
intention of the authorities to allow
/ them the privilege Of assisting ir
, keeping the lawns in order
ADDING MACHINE.
After discussing the matter Of pur-
chasing a new adding machine for use
in the court house. for several min
utes, it was decided to gran the com
tigate the cost of the various ma
chimes The board is loath at the
present time tC spend several hundred
dollars for a machine and the ad
visibility of purchasing cheaper
machine costing in the neighbOrhood
Of $45 or $50 is being considered. The
committee will reach decision before
the close Of the meeting.
DR.. A. T Leopold was appointed
as poor physician of Moline and South
Moline and DR.. A. n. Mueller was ap
pointed to a similar position which in
cludes Rock Island, South Rock Islanc
and the Rock Island county Jail. The
reports of the county poor physicians
were read and approved by the mem
bers of the board.
The resolution presented by thu
states attorney, asking that a sum o
$4,000 be appropriated for the employ
men- of such a number of assistant
as was needed to help him in the mum
erous cases that are allotted to him 70
prosecution, was laid over until thi
afternoon. The resolution asking tina
an Appropriation be made for a stenoe
rapher to be employed in the state
attorneys Office was treated in tn
same manner.
, The judiciary committee was il
! ! structed to meet with the states a
o torney and discuss the matter of al
n pointing election judges and clerk
, and also of choosing the next gran
+ jury.