The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-04-19
TOBIN WITHDQAWs APPEAL
Attorneys for Town Agree to Pay Costs
and the Attorneys Fee of Protesting
Property Owners Bonds to Go
to Chicago Company.

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representing the town of Pleasant
Prairie and Patrick I'll. Tobin and
others, swept away the last obstacle in
the way of the building of the Sheridan
Road from the city Of Kenosha to the
state line on Monday afternoon and
later in the afternoon the committee
of the County Board opened bids for
the $4,000 worth of bonds issued by
the county to secure the completion Of
the building of all the roads on the
state highway system in the. town of
Pleasant Prairie. The committee will
recommend the sale of these bonds to
r. M. Grant and Company of Chicago
at price of $40, 1929 and accrued inter
est and it is understood that they are
to be delivered to the buyers 50 that
the money will be available within a
fortnight.
The final fight over the sufficieney Of
the election to vote the Pleasant Prai-
rie bonds took up several hours of the
time of the attorneys on Monday and
concessions were made to the protest
ing property owners in order to get the
whole matter of good roads in Pleasant
Prairie cleaned up. These included the
agreement to pay the attorney who had
represented the property owners in the
court hearings and the court costs.
The total of this amount will be only a
little over a hundred dollars and it is
understood that the Pleasant Prairie
Town Board will not be asked to pay
the amount, but that it will be raised
among the road boosters in the city
and county and paid at once.
Under the stipulation, which was
signed by Attorney R. V. Baker, who
represented all of the protesting own
ers, it was agreed that there should be
no appeal from the order of the court
directing the sale of the town bonds.
The whole ended with a good feeling
which will probably be reflected in all
people of the town boosting the good
roads scheme. The county bonds were
directly effected by this stipulation on
account of the fact that they could not
be sold until there was assurance that
the town bonds which had been sold
some time ago would stay sold. The
money on the Pleasant Prairie bonds
will be available at once, as they are
all ready for delivery. The town will
have more than $4,000 for ex-
penditures on roads during the coming
summer months.
1t is expected that the contracts for
the construction of all of the roads
will be let within a fortnight and with
the expressed provision that all the
work is to be completed by the first
day of November of this year. Sew
eral big construction companies have
had agents in the city for several days
waiting to make bid on these
contracts.
There were five bids for the county
bonds and the highest bid, that of 1870
premium made by the Hanchett Bond
Company of Chicago, was thrown out
because that company had not stipulat-
ed that it would pay the accrued
interest and the premium. The full
list of valid bids follow:
R. NJ. Grant and Co., Chicago. .$45, 1929
Merchants and Savings, Bank
chicago ........... 45,301
First National Bank, Kenosha.. 45,26S
Cummings -Pruder & Co., Toledo 1924
After the opening of the bids the
county highway committee members
declared that work on the roads would
be started before the first of May.