The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-10-12


bid Of A. p. Hatch for hard surfac-
ing on division No. l, of the Punta
Gorda special road and bridge district
MT 81 80 per cubic yard delivered on
the road. be accepted and the attor-
ncy be instructed to prepare contract
for same.
The clerk was instructed to adver-
tiso I'm the Arcadia Daily News for
bids for the construction Of wooden
bridges in special road and bridge
district No. ., specifications for
which are on file in the office Of Phil
Lacey. engineer Zolfo, Fla, and the
hoard rescrvlng the right to reject
any and all bids. and requiring GER
fitted check Tor $500 to accompany
each bid.
Bv motion. second ana carried, the
petition Of +. c. Thornhill and elev.
on others. asking that a public road
ha established. as follows: Beginning
where the half mile line Of section
~. township p. and range 30 crosses
the Wauchula and Crewsville public
road and run south on said line 70
'utcrsect with the Zolfo ana Reuben
Wingatc public road then east on
said road onc-half mile. then south
on section line to Zolfo and Crewsvilla
public road
Miss Allie StIihbling, county home
demonstration agent appeared before
the board i'm behalf of an exhibit to
be made by the club girls Of the coun-
ty on October 18th, and requested
that an appropriation of S25 be made
by the county commissioners in this
behalf. Upon motion Of ID. l.. Skip
per- seconded by w. G. WelleS,
and unanimously adopted. her request
was granted, and a warrant for S25
was ordered 10 he drawn on the gen
eral fund Of the county for the
amount.
Moved by W. q. Welles. seconded
by w. NJ. Written and unanimously
carried that the petitions asking that
n road survey bc made in certain
parts Of districts .. and 4. in the
interest Of a road bond district pro-
posed to he voted upon. and the pc.
tition of r. F. Lewis and others filel
with the clerk Of this board on sep.
| temhor 3Oth, and asking that a road
bond election he called in certain
parts Of districts 2, 3 and 4, he laid
| on the table.
Correction OF the registration list
was then begun.
Thursday, October 9Th, 1916.
The correction Of the registration
list was then completed and the fol-
lowing names removed:
II. p. Porter, J. r. Sandlin, +,
S. Strobhar, NJ. V. Williams, W.'P.
Downing, D. Massman, T. G. Wiki
son, W. C. Cassidy, William @.
Crews. John Skipper. Frank Delrio, ].
A. Hendry, P. II. Honoh, G. c.
Heasley, ]. b. Huffman, ]. b. Kim
ball, II. A. LivinGton, N. G. Lang
ford, r. F. Ley. Sr.. ]. O'Neal. j.
S. Padgett, Jim Potter, ]. A. Rentz,
A. II. strickland, r. f. Smedley, G.
s. Tippins, c. B. Ward, J. r. Craig.
H. E. Absolute, H. NJ. Bass, d. n.
Barco.
A petition was filed asking that the
name Of Hon. Leslie Lewis be placed
| ~, tho ballot l., tho oorninry election ne
a candidate Tor constable for the sew
enth justice district. The petition
contained 80 signatures.
a petition containing 4s signatures
was presented asking that the name
Of G. L. Crews be placed on the Of
| fetal ballot for the November cleo
ton, as a candidate for justice of the
peace Of the Avon Park district.
A petition containing 80 signatures
was presented asking that the name of
A. W. Sargent be placed upon the
official ballot at the November cleo
tion as a candidate for justice Of the
| peace for district No. IA.
A petition was presented, containing
$50 signatures. asking that the names
of ]. Turner Butler, Martin Carabal-
10, ]. p. Garrison, Frank Harris,
Milton II. Mahry, Sr.. and VIII II.
Price he placed ON the official ballot
at the November election as candi-
dates for the offices of presidential
electors.
A petition containing 614 sigma
lures was presented asking that the
name Of Honorable Sidney ]. Cats
be placed on the official ballot for the
November election, as n candidate for
the office of governor Of the state
Of Florida.
Warrants: General, F. & F., Road.
Special Road & Bridge District No.