The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-06
joint. YULE TO QUITELEADER
Veteran Chairman Tells His Friends
That He VIII Not Accept Another
Term and Honor Will Go To One of
the Solons From the Rural Towns.

The Kenosha county board win meet
in special session on May 18th. A
formal petition asking that the board
be- called for organization and for
such other business as may be before
it was fled with the county clerk to-
day and it was signed by large ma
| jority of the members of the board.
The petition was circulated on Thurs
day and it was signed by practically
all of the city members and a number
of the members from the rural towns.
1t is certain that the board at this
meeting will take up the question of
the tuberculosis sanatorium. The COM
mittee in charge of the building of the
| new institution will be slow to act
without some formal sanction of the
board which will pass on any bills for
extra work which may be presented
following the completion of the build
ing.
Of course the matter of first interest
to the members of the board is the re-
organization. After he had signed the
call for the special meeting on Thurs
day John T. Yule, veteran supervisor
from the second ward and for the past
two years chairman of the board, eff
fectually disposed of any plan that his
supporters on the board might have had
to make him chairman for another
term.
''I am not going to be chairman of
the board again. said Mr.. Yule. FfI
have served in this position for two
years and there are lot of other good
men that can take up the work and
make good with it. / am appreciativei
of the kind things that some of the
members of the board have said of met
and of their efforts to put me at the,
head of the board for another year,
but am not a candidate for the posi-
ton and would not accept it..
Members of the board know that
when Chairman Yule says "No" he
means emo" and they are already
casting about for new material for the
craftsmanship of the board. It is prob
able that the Craftsmanship of the board
will be given to one of the members
from the rural towns in the county.
The city members would have a ma
jority of the members of the board,
but there is no desire on the part Of
any Of them to bring this majority
into play in the reorganization and it
is probable that all of the city mem
bers will vote for some one from the
towns William Luke of Wheatland,
one Of the oldest and most active of
the members of the board has been
suggested for the office. He has made
no effort to secure support from the
members, but it is understood that he
would not be adverse to taking the
honor. Supervisor Upsos of Bristol has
also been mentioned by the members
of the board and it is understood that
a number of the members have ex-
pressed a preference for John p.
Spartz of the town of Paris. All of
these men are seasoned members Of
the board and any one of them would
make very acceptable chairman.
At the meeting for reorganization
the standing committees of the board
to serve during the year will be named.
1t is not expected that the board will
be in session for more than one day.
There is little business of Importance
pending as everything was cleaned up
at the January meeting and other adj
journed meetings of the former board.
At the meeting of the special commit
tee on the tuberculosis sanatorium to
be held week from tomorrow it is
probable that report will be prepar-
ed by the committee with the under
standing that it will be submitted to
the board at the special session.