Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-19
COUNTY BOARD.
Fall Meeting in Session Nearly All OF
the Past Week.

The county board of Marathon coun-
ty met on Tuesday morning with all
/ members present. F. F. Chesak, chair
man, presiding.
The Tuesdays session was brief,
adjourning to give the members a
chance to make reports and to pay a
visit to the various county institu-
tions.
Wednesday morning A. L. Kreutzer
addressed the members of the board
making plea for the sufferers OF the
| forest fires of Minnesota. After some
discussion $3.50 was appropriated for
this worthy cause. The Soldiers Re
! lief Committee of Marathon county re-
ported that it had expended the sum
| of $2,OS2,5S for relief of soldiers OF
| this county.
| The matter of identifying the
grounds of Rib View Sanatorium was
taken up and it was voted to make
| the improvements as recommended In
| the way of planting shrubery, etc.,
and the sum of $500 was appropriated
for this purpose.
| Mrs. E. F. Stookum, secretary and
| field agent of the Humane society, sub
| mitted her annual report and recon-
mended that a nurse be employed by
| the county to make visits to the sick
and afflicted in the county.
Ira S. Parker, assessor of incomes,
submitted his report, and addressed
the members and discussion follow
ed which was a benefit to all interest
ed.
The state highway Commission sent
| in a. communication which was read,
urging that preparations be made to
resume the work of improving the
roads of the county, inasmuch as the
war had ceased and soon the men
would be returning and it would as
sist in providing work for the unem-
| ployed AS a result the recollmeuda-
ton made in the report of the commit
tee on roads and bridges was adopted
and appropriations to the amount of
$4,000 for new machinery; $1,000 for
the purchase of gravel pits; $4,000
for the maintenance of the county
highway system and $4,000 for the
trunk line system were made. Other
appropriations brought this sum up
to 1000, also $19,622 was appropriat-
ed as the county's share in the build
ing of bridges.
it's report on the assessor of incomes
relative to the value of real and per-
sonal property in the county, which
was adopted the board making reduc-
ton of 40 per cent. on the various
items.
1t was voted to give the county
highway commissioner an assistant,
and to provide separate office for
him. This was made necessary by
the increased work entailed by the
new federal law.
1t was voted to pay the expenses
of the county judge to the annual con-
vention of County Judges.
1t was voted to authorize the finance
committee. to borrow 100000 to meet
expenses of the county until taxes
were paid.
A resolution was adopted, relative
to the visit of one, of our soldier boys
who is in the aviation department of
our government:
Wausau, Wis, Nov. Is, 1918.
Whereas it is understood that
Capt. Bennett H. Mo1ter, Marathon
county boy in the aviation service of
the United States, is about to make
trip in an airplane from Wilbur
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, to Detroit,
Michigan, and
Whereas, we believe that if this
fight could be extended so that he
might visit his home city, Wausau, it
would be of material benefit to the
people of Marathon county, therefore
be it
"Resolved, that the Commanding
Officer of WILDER Wright Field, be, and
he is hereby requested to grant per
mission to Capt. Bennett A. Molter to
make the flight from Detroit to ,Wau-
sau, that suitable demonstration
may be made of the pride Marathon.
county takes in one of it's young citi-
zens. If
Board of Supervisors,
Marathon Co., Wisconsin" !
At the meeting Thursday, Eric Her
manson of Elderon was elected mem
Der of the board of trustees of the
Marathon County Asylum and home
and hospital. The other candidates
were Herman Ramthum and Ben
Lang and c. A. Radtke. M. T. NC
Cullough was reelected as member
of the board of trustees of the county
training school for teachers.
The board elected the trustees for
Bib View Sanatorium as follows:
H E. Marquardt, for three years; JUS
tin Means, for two years, and Carl
Schewe, for one year.
H. G. Eggebhecht was reelected
member of the county school board,
and Geo. Halder as janitor of the court
house. The salaries of the coming
year were fixed as follows:
County Judge, per year--------$3,50 500
Janitor, per year--------------1 LOO
Co Supt. per year--------------2 ,2OO
Deputy Supt., per year--------' 1,2OO
Highway CON-, per year. 1000
The county superintendent was
granted the sum of $775.00 for the
yearly expenses of his office.
On Friday the Annual Tax Budget,
amounting in the aggregate to $685.
610,39 was adopted.
A resolution was adopted turning
the present office of the Sheriff to the
highway commissioner. The sheriff's
Office to be transferred to the county
Jail building.
The banks of the city were desig-
mated as county repositories also the
State Bank at Mosinee, each to pay,
on daily balances of over $1,000 two
per cent.
The bounty OH woodchucks was,
abolished. 1t was shown that the
county had paid out Sill, $3.50 on 49,
422 woodchucks willed.
A. G. Burg, county field agent, ad-
| dressed the board along the lines of
his work and recommended the rails