The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-04-02
OFFICIAL. !
Proceedings Of Board Of County Conn
81 missl0ners of Mile Laos County.

E Board of county commissioners Of
Mile Laos county met pursuant to
adjournment with all members of the
board present. Meeting called to
order at IL O'Clock a. m. by Chair
man Warren. n.
Moved and unanimously carried
that 81 200 of the 1914 state road al
lotment, plus 81, 500 Of the 1914
county road and bridge fund, be APP
propriated and spent on state road
No. 4, job No. 4, under the super
vision of r. G. Dunn of Princeton
and that the county auditor be in
structed, authorized and empowered
TO draw auditors warrants on said
appropriation in payment of freight
charges for crushed rock to be used
on said job.
Moved and unanimously carried
that the maintenance plan for state
roads in this county as suggested
and recommended to the board by
Engineer r. M. Cooley be adopted
and that r. NJ. Cooley be appointed
as head of the county state road
maintenance department..
On motion board adjourned until
one O'Clock p. M.
Board recOnvened at one O'Clock
p. m. with all members present.
The petitions of A. Morehouse and
the Foreston Mercantile and Live
Stock Co., asking to have certain
lands owned by them set off from
school district No. 20 and attached
to school district No. IL, came up for
a hearing and after considerable dis
cussion by all parties interested the
matter was laid over, it having been
suggested as practical solution Of
the problem that districts No. IL
and No. 20 consolidate.
In the matter of the school petit
tion of Gust johnson the board
made and adopted the following final
order, to-wit:
Whereas; the petition of Gust
Johnson, freeholder of school dis
trict No. % in this county, with the
approval of the county superinten-
dent endorsed thereon, representing
that he is the owner of the lands
hereinafter described, which are
situate in said school district, and
that said lands adjoin school district
No. IA, and asking that his said
lands may be set off from said dis
trict No. % to said district No. IA
the school house in district No. II is
only about one-half mile from petit
toners residence, whereas the
school house in district No. % is
about three miles from said resi-
dence and that petitioner has four
children OF school age," was pre-
sented to the county board of this
county, at a session Of said board
hnl
1914, for the action of said board
thereon; and
Whereas, it was thereupon ordered
by said board that hearing should
be had on said petition at session
of said board commencing on the 24th
day of March, 1914, at the county
auditors office in 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 a 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 dis
| notice, at least ten days before the
time appointed for such hearing, and
by giving two weeks published
Union. a duly qualified newspaper,
in said county, and
Whereas, at the said session OF
said board commencing on said Oath
day of March, 1914, proof of the due
publication, posting and service OF
said notice of hearing as therein
directed and required, more than ter
days prior to said last named date,
having been made and filed, said
petition was publicly read and con.
sidered by the board, with every.
thing which was said by said in.
terested parties for or against grant
ing the prayer Of the petitioner anC
being satisfied from all the evidence
produced at such hearing that the
ALLEGATIONS of said petition are true
and said board being Of opinion thai
the prayer of said petitioner should
be granted,
It is hereby ordered and deter
mined, that the following described
lands owned by him, to-wit: The
northeast quarter of the northwest
quarter Of section one ~, township
| Will ny 'o6ftu \OD, IduSe twenty -Sl1
| (26), be, and the same are hereby sci
off from school district No. % tt
said school district No. ii and sale
lands are hereby made part of sale
last named school district for all Dur
poses whatever.
By order of the county board.
Dated the oath day of March, 1914
J. f. WARREN.
| Chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners, Mile Laos County
MINI.
| Attest: .
W. G. DOANE. County Auditor anG
| Ex- Oficio Clerk of Board.
| (Oficial Seal)
In the matter of the school petit
ton of T. D. Rowland the boarC
made and adopted the following fna
order:
Whereas, the petition of T. D.
Rowland, a freeholder of school dis
trict No. % in this county, with the
approval of the county superinten
dent endorsed thereon, REPRESENTING
that he is the owner of the lands
hereinafter described, which are