Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-04-25
COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Spring Meeting in Session From Tues.
day Until Friday.

AS was stated in the last issue of the
Pilot, the County board met on Tues
day at 10 o'clock a. m. and proceeded
to organize by electing Frank Chesak
OF Athens, chairman, and Frank
=. GaetzInan of this city, vice
chairman. The board then ad-
journed until the following morning
10 give the chairman an opportunity
to appoint the committees.
The board met on Wednesday morn
ing and the chairman appointed the
following standing committees which
were, on motion, approved:
Finance Erney, Goetz, Leak, Rit-
ger, Flatter.
Public Property-Runkel, Christie.
Schilling, Gaetzman, Ramthun.
Agriculture-Cook, Paronto, Kreig.
Zahn, Grammar.
Delinquent taxes-Beebee, Wettreau.
10y, Pauls, Woiitasik.
Printing and stationery - Ringle.
Schoeneke, Strebe, Hayes, Tr.v icki.
Judiciary-Daul, Janz, Brekke. Rit-
ger, Frederick.
Roads and bridges = Vogt, Hoge,
Kuehn.
Sheriff and justice acc'ts-A. A. Da-
mon, Haman, Marquardt, Detloff, Kuhl-
man.
General claims-Junk, JAM, Bandy.
Garske, Erney.
Per diem and mileage - Hedrich,
Hllber, Schoeneke, Trawicki, Amhaus.
Salaries and fees - Kronenwetter,
Dlttbrender, Genrich, Bauman, Wag-
ner.
Equalization - Doering, Felt, Mori-
settle, Blanchard, arker, Jeske, Plow-
man, Kysow, Rifieman.
Poor-Bessert, H. E. Damon, Eft
ringer, BOrchardt, Daul.
Education-Knoeke, Goetz, Hilber,
Ringle, Frederick.
The State Board of Control sent in
its approval of the site selected for
the tuberculosis hospital, and the COM
municatiOn sent in read to the board.
Bills were referred to the various
committees and an invitation accepted
to visit the county asylum and the
county home on Thursday afternoon,
when an adjournment was taken un-
til Thursday morning. The matter of
a new system of bookkeeping for the
county was discussed and the finance
committee instructed to install a new
system if it was deemed necessary for
the good of the county.
A special assessor on logs, lumber,
ETC., was authorized at a cost not to
exceed $4.00 day and no longer than
so days.
A stone Crusher which will not be
used by the county the coming season,
was voted to be leased to the Wis
consin Valley Electric company.
In the afternoon the members of
the county board visited the county
asylum and home and hospital. They
inspected everything carefully and
were very much pleased with condi-
tions. They remained to supper and
all together had most delightful time.
The board met on Friday at two
o'clock. A number of bills were al
lowed and an additional $4,000 voted
to the Sanitorium building fund.
$500 was appropriated to the Mara
thOn County Agricultural society for
the purpose of repairing fences and
building new toilet rooms. This was a
splendid thing for the county board
to do.
Jacob Reuter-, the violinist, with Mr..
o. Wehrley as accompanist treated the
board to a brief concert which was
greatly enjoyed.
The board met for it's final session
on Saturday morning at o'clock.
A. L. Cook county clerk was appoint
ed purchasing agent of the county for
everything ordered for the county.
He will give an order which will have
to be attached to the bill when rem
dered. By the new method bills are
paid each month instead of waiting
until the county board is in session.
There were a number of bills paid
and discussion on the highways and
the board ended its spring session and
adjourned at 9 o'clock.