Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-04-18
THE WEEKS O0INCS
At COUNTY CAPITOL
Activities in the County Offices
? Traced For Tribune
Readers.

The County Commissioners were in
session at the Court House Monday
afternoon and Tuesday morning of this
Audit was presented and approved.
The county auditor was instructed to
sign petition for the sprinkling Of
the streets on the north, east and west
Of the court house. The board extend
ed the time Of Miss Laura Oletta o.
<son at the state sanitorium for three
months, from April "a to July "a. 1t
was reported that the netting placed
last year at the outlet of Green Lake
had been tampered with again, and
damaged to some extent. Commission
er N. B. Johnson was appointed a COM
mittee to look into the matter and
have it repaired. A resolution was
passed whereby each member of the
board, constitutes himself committee
to look after state road work, each in
his respective district
Two petitions, one signed by A. C.
Skoog and the other by Alfred Fer
guson, asking to be set off from School
District 4S to 63 were read, and each
was set for hearing. A petition signed
by Joe Fangmeier ct al to form a new
school district in the townships of
Burbank and Colfax, the lands to be
taken from five adjoining districts
was read.
resolution was passed setting a
uniform rate for work on construction
and maintenance of state roads The
rates will be on construction work, soc
per hour, for man and team; for main
tenance they will be-foreman, Csc for
man and four horses: 55c for man and
three horses: 45c for man and two
horses; Csc for man alone. Each sum
is per hour
Commissioners G.. J. Swenson and
William o. Johnson were appointed a
committee for purchasing culverts for
!, the state roads this year. \ resolu-
son was passed whereby the wages of
men working on construction shall be
paid by auditors warrant on the last
day of each month; they shall be paid
on statements of the work, approved
by the foreman and road engineer.
number Of bills were allowed be-
1 fore the meeting adjourned
y The assessors of the county will
4 meet in the county auditors office on
4 Thursday, the 26th day Of April There
n will be no member of the state tax
II commission present at the meeting
4 this year. In regard to this County
i Auditor Nelson recently received a
Nj letter from Henry A. S. Ives, secre-
Istary Of the commission in which he
says, in part:
III ''This is to inform you that the tax
lstcommission will not hold a meeting
with the assessors of your county this
sVear. The commission feels that be-
tcause of the good showing heretofore
Y made in your county, and the fact that
bnly personal property will be assess
4 led this year, it will be unnecessary tc
n hold this conference"
Ill At the meeting of the County Board
y held on the Goth of March, H. l.. Wa
f. hell was recommended to the State
tfHighway Commission as Road Engi
= ~ to succeed c. J. Eastlund. Rati
IN of this appointment was re
I'D Monday afternoon, and the new
i .sineer entered upon his duties yes
.erday afternoon, going into the north
Sosn part of the county to do some sur
veying for road work.
Charles A. Forbes, Division Engi
neer, was in the city Tuesday morning
advising with H. l.. Wadell prior t.