The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-25
WANT NO PROBATION OFFICER
Board by Close Margin Of Nine to Eight
in Secret Ballot Refuses to Give Mu-
nicipal Court Authority to Name
a Probation Officer.

Kenosha county is probably going to
have training school for the teachers
in the rural schools of the county. The
old question was revived by the board
this morning and revived in way
which met with lot Of support from
members of the board, both in the rural
districts where the greatest benefits
are to be conferred and in the city.
The Racine county board this morning
asked the members of the Kenosha
board to cooperate ip the opening of a
joint county training school to be To-
Gated at Union Grove.
The plan includes the use of several
rooms in the new joint high school at
Union Grove. A part of the expense of
building this building has been assess
ed against the town of Brighton in
this county and with the completion Of
the new school it is found that there
will be two and possibly three rooms
which will not be used for high school
purpose. Racine county supervisors
have suggested the use of these rooms
as training school for the teachers Of
the two counties with the understand
ing that the expense of maintaining
the training school is to be shared.
The details of the sharing of the ex-
pense have not been worked out, but
members Of the Racine committee will
come to Kenosha on Tuesday or We'd
nesday of next week to confer with the
members of the Kenosha board It is
proposed to have two teachers for the
training school.
Under the state law the state appro-
employment of teachers at each county
training school. It is thought that with
Racine county furnishing the building,
lighted and heated, that the expense
of maintaining will be almost entirely
taken care of by the appropriation
made for the school by the state.
Members of the Kenosha board believe
that the suggestion of joint training
school is an excellent one and one that
can be worked with profit by both of
the counties and at the same time meet
every demand for the instruction of
the boys and girls of the two counties
who may be anxious to prepare them
selves for this sort of school work IF
the plan for the cooperative inter
county school is worked out it will be
possible to open the new training
school early in the new year and
teachers from the two counties will
be able to attend summer sessions at
the school,
The question of the employment of
probation officer as has been strongly
urged by many Kenosha people and by
Judge Randall, went to its death at
the session Of the board this morning.
The members of the board did not go
on record on the question as when the
matter was taken up a secret ballot re-
suited in the plan being defeated by
a vote or 8 to 9. Supervisor Yule of
the second ward, offered a resolution
to give the judge of the municipal
court the right to employ either a male
or a female probation officer and Super
visor Tobin of Pleasant Prairie made
q motion that the board proceed to
vote by ballot on the question.
1t is just possible that the matter will
be taken up again at this session or at
the January session and in the mean
time the members of the board will
make study into the demands of the
county for such an official.
At the session of the board on Fri
day afternoon the Kenosha Telegraph
Courier was named as the official paper
of the county for the coming year.