The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1914-05-09
SYNOPSIS BOARD Of
SUPERVISORS PRO-
CEED|NGS FOR MAY.
Contract Awarded to South
ern Structural Steel Com
pany for Lining Jail With
Steel Plates at Cost of ST.
885-Mrs. w. B. Ruther-
ford to Succeed Late Hus-
band as Bayou Lacroix
Bridge Tender.

State of Mississippi, Hancock county
Be it remembered that a regular meet
ing Of the Board of Supervisors was be-
gun and holden in the City of Bay ST.
Louis at the Court House the first Mon
day of May A. D. 1914, same being the
4th day OF said month and the time and
place for holding said meeting. There
were present Wiley Smith, President;
H. S. Weston, J. E. Smith, n T Maui
fray and Joseph L. Favre, associate
members; E. Van Whitfield Sheriff of
said county and A. A. Kergosien,
Clerk of said Board.
Pursuant to an advertisement, in
viting sealed bids for the lining Of the
County Jail as per plans and speci1ca-
tions on file in the Chancery Clerk s
office. bids for the repair of the County
Jail as per plans on file prepared by
John Henry, were opened, sundry bids
were made among which bids was the
bid of the Southern Structural steel Co.,
of San Antonia, Texas, to do said work
for S1885,00 whereupon it was ordered
that the said bid of the Southern Struc-
tural Steel Co., of San Antonio, Texas,
be accepted being the lowest and best
bid received, providing that the work
could be completed within four months,
whereupon the said Company it's agent,
MrG L Youugblood, accepted said pro-
visions for said Company when it was
then ordered that said work of repair
ing said County Jail as per p rs now
on file be done by the Southern Struc-
tual steel Co. for S1885 90.
Said work to be completed within
four months. Ordered that The South
ern Structural Steel Co., of San Antonio
Texas, be required to give bond for
double the amount of their bid for the
faithful performance of said work and
that said bond given and filed within
thirty days from date.
Owing to the fact that the position of
Bridge Tender 1t Bayou La Croix has
been made vacant by the death of w B
Rutherford, there We're several applica-
tons for the filling of said vacancy,
which applications were considered and
after due consideration, it was ordered
that Mrs w B Rutherford, widow of
deceased, be and she is hereby appointed
to fill the position as per her applica-
tion from May tst, 1914, at the rate of
s25 90 per month, payable monthly.
Ordered that John Craft, County
Superintendent of Education, be allow
ed and paid out of the School fund for
his pro rata salary for the month of
April, 1914, as per his bill or file ex-
amined and approved to-wit: John Craft
pro rata salary for April, 1914, $4,000.
Ordered that Erastus Bonds be allow
ed and paid out of the Interest Fund of
Towdship 5 S R Ia for repairs on Crane
Creek Schoolhouse as per his bill on |
file, examined and approved, to-wit:
Erastus Bounds, repairs on Crane
Greek schoolhouse, 50 90.
Mr. D c Hanawalt, an attachee of the |
United States Bureau of Animal Indus |
try, located at Birmingham, Alabama,
appeared before the board and delivered |
an address on the nicety and benefits
of systematic dipping of cattle for the
eradication Of ticks, from business
standpoint and offering the co-oppera-
tion of the Federal Government in the
building snd superitending of vat con-
struction, dipping, etc.
The report of N T Mauffray and E
Smith, committee appointed at a
former meeting to view the contemplated |
route, beginlng at S. E. corner of the
land formerly assessed to E.. r. Davis,
now Dechaux, and where said corner