Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-12-31
E. C. MCCORMICK,
A. J. HAMER,
MI AAyD D~nG

hANh BOSS.s
The foregoing petition is true and
correct in ali respects.
JOHN w. JERRETT.
County Commissioner.
These petitions were all referred to
committee on bridges and ferries.
A communication from the State
Board of Agriculture was read and re-
ferred to the committee on charitable
Institutions
A communication from the Wiscon-
sin Anti-tuberculosis Association was
read and referred to the same COM
mittee.
A communication from the State
Highway Commission was read as fol-
lows:
Madison, November Z, 1913.
Mr.. e. E. Mccoy
Lancaster. Wisconsin.
Dear Sir:-Inasmuch as there will be
a vacancy in the office of county high
way commissioner in Grant county, the
Wisconsin Highway Commission has
held an examination at the county seat
in accordance with law, and has care
fully examined the one candidate for
the position of county highway com
missioner who presented himself.
The names of those qualified for the
position and their relative standing in
ability to conduct the work are as
followS:-
Relative standing, 1 name, Adolph
Wepking; address, Lancaster; percent
age of 100 merited, 70.
In accordance with law the county
board must elect as county highway
commissioner one of the first two men
on the above list, unless one of them
shall refuse to serve, in which case the
third man may be elected, and so on.
For full provisions as to the cleo
flOn, term, salary, ETC., of county high
way commissioners see Bulletin Num-
InTOo 11oic ci0
81 and 30. Yours very sincerely
WISCONSIN HIGHWAY COMMISSION
BY A. r. HirSt
State Highway Engineer
Referred to committee on State and
county highways.
Two other communications from the
State Highway Commission were re-
ferred to the same committee.
A communication from the Commits
sloner of Insurance was read and re-
ferred to the committee on Public
Property.
Four Bridge petitions from the town
OF Ellenboro were presented as fol
lows:
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors
of Grant County, Wisconsin:
Gentlemen: - Your petitioners the
supervisors of the town of Ellenboro,
in said county, respectfully represent:
That at the annual town meeting,
held in said town on the 1st day of
April, 1913, it was voted to build a Gull
vert on the highway running east and
west near the residence of Henry Jamt
in the southwest quarter Of the north
west quarter of Section Twenty-Five
(22), in said town of EIlenboro. and
upon petition duly presented to the
Chairman Of the County Board asking
for county aid to build said culvert, the
said Chairman appointed j. H. Wagner,
the chairman of the town of Liberty, as
the county commissioner to act with
said town in the letting and acceptance
of said culVert.
That on the 22nd day of May, 1913,
the said town board, together with the
said highway commissioner, met at the
location of said culvert and let a con-
tract to William Mcmahon for the con-
struction of said culvert for the sum
of Three Hundred and Fifty-nine
(S359.O0) Dollars. That said culvert has
been built, accepted and paid for.
That the said town of Ellenboro at
the last meeting of the County Board
was equalized in excess of the sum of
$500, 100000.
Your petitioners therefore pray that
the County Board will, at its session in