The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-02-19
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
County Board of Supervisors
KENOSHA COUNTY WISCONSIN,

IIY, WISCUNSIN.
, court certificates, and statement of
the county of Kenosha resources at this
date.
I respectfully request that my book
accounts and vouchers be examined,
audited and allowed by your Honorable
Body as provided by law.
Respectfully submitted,
Philip Hartman, Jr.,
County Treasurer
For list of County Orders, County
Treasurer s Orders, Circuit Court Ger
tifcates, Municipal Court Certificates,
County Highway Commissioner s Or
ders and list of Tax Sale Certificates
owned by the County, see the County
Clerks files.
Report.
We, your committee to whom was re-
ferred the amounts of County Treasurer
Philip Hartman, Jr., respectfully report
that We have carefully compared all or
ders surrendered by the County Treas
urer with the stubs Of all order books
surrendered to us and find the same to
be correct and recommend the orders be
filed with the County Clerk for the use
of the Auditor in making his annual
audit of the books of the county AS
per certificate of the repositories and
the checking account of the County
Treasurer, the following are on hand:
First National Bank Deposi
tory Account .......... $I4, 45877
The Merchants and Savings
Bank Depository Account. 14,4599S
Cash on hand in open account 6,24661
Total amount on hand. =. $35, 1886
We further recommend an appro-
priation of $4,000 for deputy hire for
the County Treasurer, amount expended
for same for the year 1913.
We further recommend that the list
of County Orders, Court Certificates,
County Treasurer S Orders, Municipal
Court Certificates and County Highway
Orders not be printed in the proceed
ings of this board
Respectfully submitted,
Michael Hensgen,
Joseph F. Bishop,
L. r. Grosvencr,
Committee.
Supervisor Kline moves to accept
and adopt the report Of the committee.
Voted as follows:
Ayes Supervisors Eppers, Epson,
Spartz, Tobin, Kline, Hartnell, Herzog,
Luke, Grosvenor, Yule, Scott, Burg,
Bishop, Link.
Noes Supervisors Schwan and Hens
gen.
Report of committee adopted and
100000 duly appropriated.
Report of Purchasing Committee.
We, your committee, to whom was
referred the duty Of purchasing or
rental of road machinery, respectfully
report that we met at the Office of lie
Highway Commissioner in the City of
Kenosna on the 2Sth day of February,
and decided to receive bids upon the
building and purchase of a portable
shed for machinery and stable, on the
Sth day of March we met again and
accepted the bid of e. Schroeder for
this shed, which bid was $265.0O for a
complete shed set up on the spot desig-
mated by the committee in the Town Of
Paris, which was the lowest bid sub
mitted.
On or about the 25th of April we met
in the Town of Paris and accepted the
portable shed and we also met on the
9th of April and decided that we would
investigate an outfit with view of
renting same of the Austin Western
Road Machinery Company.
On Arril''11th and 18th we went to
Milwaukee and were taken to Hartland,
Wisconsin, and inspected this outfit
and decided to rent same with the
privilege Of applying the rental on the
purchase price providing the County
Board at this session see fit to pur-
chase the same.
This outfit, for which we were to paw
one-third of the purchase price as. rent
al, consisted of the following machin-
cry;
One second hand single cylinder 10
ton roller, one Austin Giant second
hand grader with offset hitch complete,
six No. 2 Western Standard Wheel
Scrapers, six No. 2 drag scrapers with
runner, one No. s Western road pillow,
one Western No. Z road pillow with ex-
ira share, one Standard Austin grader,
four one-half yard Austin Contractor s
dump wagons, one Western road drag.
All this machinery to comply with rules
and regulations laid down by the Wis
consin Industrial Commission for the
safety of men, and to be furnished to
the county at Somers, Wisconsin, for
the purchase price of Twenty-Six Hun
dred Sixty Dollars ($2,660.00) one
third due in thirty days after accept
ance and the balance ON or before De-
cember LIST, 1913, and in the event that
the county should decide not to buy
this outfit then to load same properly
on cars and pay freight to point not
farther distant than Harvey, Ill.