Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-27
Coun Board Proceedings.
Eagle River, Wisconsin,
February II. 1918.

man Kamke. The following members
answered roll call.
Name Town
Chas. II. Kamke Arbor Vitae
Chas. A. Backstrom Presque Isle
Jno. r. Powell Pennington
Henry Rath Lincoln
VIM. Selves Elam beau
Frank Carter Eagle River
Moved and carried that recess be
February 10, 1918.
Eagle River, Wisconsin,
FEBRUARY Is, 1918.
The County Board of Supervisors of
Villas county met pursuant to adj
iournment, at o'clock a. M, and
was called to order by chairman Chas.
H. Kamke.
Following members answered to
roll call.
Name Town
Chas. H. Kamke Arbor Vitae
Chas. A. Backstrom Presque Isle
Jno. r. Powell Pennington
VIM. Selves Flam beau
Henry Rath Lincoln
Frank Carter Eagle River
c. A. Bent State Line
Resolution No. offered by Super
visors j. r. Powell
Whereas there is a shortage of
necessary seeds to supply the farmers
of Villas county with the seeds neces-
sary to enable our farmers to plant
the available acreage, and particularly
such shortage exists as to seed corn,
spring wheat, spring rye, and buck
wheat, and
whereas it is realized by this board,
as by all patriotic citizens of our
country, that the production of all
food should be increased to the great
est extent possible, and
whereas we, the members of the
county board of Supervisors of Villas
county, realize that it will be diff
cult and in some cases almost impos-
sible for our farmers to secure good
seed at reasonable prices, and wish to
render to our government in the
prosecution of the war every aid
within our power,
Now therefore be it resolved by the
county board of supervisors in adj
journed annual meeting duly assem-
bled that 8 hereby appropriated
the sum, H. - exceed 100000, to be
known as the county seed corn fund
for the purchase of such seeds as the
county committee on agriculture
shall deem necessary to provide the
seed to plant the available acreage in
Villas county, and that with such fund
such county committee is hereby en-
powered and directed to make pur-
chases of such seeds and in such
quantities and distribute the same at
cost to the farmers cf Villas county as
to it may be advisable,
Be it further resolved that the pur-
chase and distribution of such seeds,
including the persons to whom and
the terms which the same shall be
distributed shall be wholly within
discretion of said county committee
on agriculture to the end that the
that the best result in production of
food crops may secured, and
be it further resolved that the coun-
ty clerk and the chairman of the coun-
ty board be and they are hereby auth
orized and directed to issue county
orders in payment for seeds purcha sed
as herein authorized whenever bills
of account for such purchases are filed
with the county, but only when such
bills have endorsed thereon the APP
proval of the county committee of
agriculture, and
1t is hereby made the duty of the
county clerk to file all such bills in a
seperate file and present them to the
county board for audit and approval
at the first meeting OF such board af>
ter such payments have been made,
and
The county committee on agricul-
ture is requested to file with the
county clerk a detailed statement
showing what seeds purchased, the
prices paid for same, with the names
of the persons to whom distributed
and the terms upon which such seeds
may be furnished to the end that the
county board may take further actions
as may be required to protect the in
tereSts of Villas county in any monies
used for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated at Eagle River, Villas county,
Wisconsin, this 18th. day of Febru-
airy, A. D. 1918.
Signed, Jno. r. Powell
Supervisor.
On motion Resolution No 1. was
oil mann I1a,.S uot;nor