The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-07
WOULD COMPL lie re ROAD WORK
Special Elections Planned for Both
Towns to Vote on Road Bonds Before
The January Session of the Co. Board
When Bonds Gould Be Issued.

The people of the towns Of Somers
and Paris are chatting over the fact
that another town in the county is going
to lead them in the matter Of complet-
ing permanent highways and people in
both of these towns are anxious now
to hit the road bond trail which has
been blazed by the town of Pleasant
Prairie. Paris from the inception OF
the road movement, has Wed with
Somers in being the real town for adj
vance in road work. Now Paris wants
TO clean up its whole plan for raod
building and be equal to Pleasant Prai-
rie by the end of the coming year.
Somers feels that it should have it's
system completed and advocates of
bond issues are busy in both towns
urging the town boards to call a special
election at which the question of
issuing road bonds sufficient to com
plete all work can be put up to the
people for referendum.
If anything is to be done to carry
out the plans for the completion of
the roads in these two towns in 1917
immediate action will be necessary.
The special elections to submit the
bond issue question must be held be-
fore the January meeting Of the
County Board While the board is
barred from making appropriations at
the January session there is no bar to
providing for an issue Of bonds at this
meeting. 1T is estimated that it would
take in the neighborhood of ninety
FIVE thousand dollars of county bonds
to provide for the completion of the
state highway system in the two
towns Somers has done great deal
of permanent work. The one black
spot in Somers is the uncompleted
stretch of road on the lake shore. The
people who have strongly urged the
bond issue for the town Of Pleasant
Prairie are just as anxious to have
the bonds issued for Somers. The COM
pletion of the Sheridan Road in Som
ers would be only small portion of
the expense for permanent roads in
that town. 1t is thought that plan
to complete all permanent road work in
the town would meet with more sup
port now, than it did when the referen-
dun was held in September and the
bond question defeated by few votes.
Tt Is just possible that the county
could not take care of the demand of
both of the towns in a single year
The limit for which a county may be
bonded in any single year for road
work is aone-ffth. Of one per cent, the
assessed valuation Of the county. With
total of over fifty millions this would
permit the county to issue bonds in one
year to the amount of little over
hundred thousand dollars. Of this
amount forty-fve thousand dollars has
been voted for 1917, so that the total
which can be added for that year
could be but ffty-fye thousand dol
lars. 1T is thought that it would be
an easy thing to make an agreement
in the two towns to have part of the
bonds issued for next year and the re-
mainder issued for the following year.
Tt is certain that other towns in the
county will start at once to investigate
the bond issue proposition and mem
bers of the County Board see a GER
tain completion of all the road work
planned in the county within the next
five or six years and all of it COM
pleted under the bond issue plan.
Tt is probable that the date for the
referendum elections in Somers and
Paris win be made public within the
next few days