Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-17
GRANT COUNTY BOARD
CLOSES BUSY WEEK
November Sessions Terminated
Saturday Morning.
Credit Due Members for Very Speedy
Work Important Business Trans
acted What They Did and Why.

The county board closed up busy
week Saturday morning and adjourned
to their respective homes feeling that
they had 1abored well and earnestly
and were entitled to eat their Thanks
giving turkey in peace and quiet The
entire proceedings of the body would
make long report and will be pub
lished in full in the regular board pro-
ceedings. Summarized commencing
with Tuesday, the most important
matters were as follows:
Tuesday Session.
Referred several petitions to prop
er committees. Received report OF
committee appointed last year on pur-
chase of road machinery for county.
Elected J. w. Mauer of Fennimore, as
asylum trustee for three years to sue
coed himself. In the evening F. NJ.
Balsley of the state highway Office adj
dressed the body on highway matters.
County superintendent annual re-
port received.
Wednesday Evening Session.
Mr.. LOngbotham presented resolu-
ton for bonding county instead Of
levying direct tax for road purposes
as at present. (This resolution was
tabled and not acted UPON. Opened
bids on county funds from the Glen
Haven bank, State Bank of Fennimore,
and the four Lancaster banks. (The 4
Lancaster banks were later selected
by the committee as depositaries and
they will pay interest of per cent for
the first months of the year and 21A
per cent for the remaining months).
The board then passed a resolution au-
thorizing the school committee to en-
gage an additional supervisory teach
er. The honorable E. B. Goodsell adj
dressed the body on the so-called
mothers pension law, explaining that
it was obligatory for the board to pro-
vide funds for the carrying out of the
acts provisions. The judge placed
what might be an approximate amount
as $4,000, but explained that this was
a mere guess on his part The act
calls for the county judge to provide
assistance to children for sums UD to
SO for a child and not to exceed $40
for a family. Mr.. Knapp moved that
the county provide $100 for this pur-
pose. Motion was lost Mr.. Morse
moved that the county provide $4,000,
and this was amended to $4,000 by Mr..
Mcdonald and passed in that manner.
Professor K. L. Hatch Of the college
of agriculture addressed the board on
the subject of providing a county agri-
cultural agent. He spoke Of what had
been done and is being done elsewhere
and gave the cost of an agent at about
$2500 per annum this to include sal
airy and expenses. The cost to the
county would be about $500 as the
state gives $1,000 to each county es-
tablishing an agent The Smith-Leev-
er act passed in 1914 authorizes the
government to furnish each state with
certain sums and the college of agri-
culture is using this appropriation to
supplement the funds they have for
county agent work. The board took
no action upon this matter.
Thursday Evening Session.
Report of committee on printing
was adopted The county clerk was
authorized to pay all bills for printing
supplies, publication Of legal notices
upon proper proof of such service.
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newspapers having a general circula-
ton in the county to publish the pro-
ceedings of the board at a compensa-
ton of SIS. The district attorney was
authorized to proceed with the prose-
cution of the East End Mining COM
pany, corporation now dissolved, for
the collector of the income tax.
The case Of Sarah Malone, an inmate
Of the county farm, was next taken up.
Sarah Malone was committed from the
city of PlatteVille in 1908, her scalp
having been torn off in laundry acct
dent several years prior to her COM
mitment. 1t is necessary for a physi--
clan to dress the scalp daily and this
costs the county about 5000 a year. The
asylum trustees asked that the addi-
tiOnal expense be borne by the city Of
Platteville. Attorney Goodell of Platte
vile, made an address of some length
giving the city's side of the case and
asking that the county bear the ex-
pense beyond the So PlatteviIle agreed
to pay at the time Miss Malone was
committed. (The asylum trustees
were empowered by the board at the
Auoy oOooIOn " AISCIIuI6 SuCH dCIlOH
as they saw fit to recover the amount
due for the extra care of the patient.9
Committee on Common Schools.
A committee on common schools,
consisting of G. j. Ragatz, three years.
Mrs. Paul Humphrey, Patch Grove,
two years; David James, Montfort,
one year, was appointed. Rev. L. G.
CatchpOle of the ChiIdren's Home So
ciety of Wisconsin, addressed the body
on the matter of charity, and was al
lotted 500, the usual amount.
Friday Session.
Register of Deeds Thompson was al
lowed the sum of 50 weekly for an
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