The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-14
Motion carried and Board adjourned.
R. H. Jones,
County Clerk.
Morning Session.

November zofd, 1911.
Board was called to order by Chair
man Spartz.
Roll was called and all members
present except Supervisors Elsen and
Burg, both appearing later.
Minutes of yesterdays session were
read and approved as read.
Principal Smith and eleven teachers
from the Racine County Training
School visited the County Board and
| observed the methods in which the
county business is transacted.
The County Highway Committee re-
port was read by County Clerk Jones
and upon motion of Supervisor Barrows
said report was accepted and adopted
and spread upon the minutes of the
Board.
Report.
To the County Board of Supervisors
of Kenosha County:
Gentlemen:
| We, your committee who were chosen
to represent this Honorable Body as
| County Highway Committee for the
! year just passed respectfully report
that we have to the best of our ability
prosecuted the labors laid out for US
| to perform and although weather con-
ditions over which no one has control
and labor conditions brought about
principally by the existence of the ter
rible war now being fought across the
waters, there has been a good substan-
tial amount of permanent road work
done within our county during the
year.
Our committee was organized on De-
cember 10Th, 1916, with Mr.. George T.
Leet as Chairman and Russell FL.
Jones as Clerk and the meetings were
held from time to time at which times
machinery bills were audited and dur
| ing the year many matters came up for
discussion and settlement, all were sat
isfactorily disposed of as far as we
| know.
In addition to the regular amount
of road work we were given the duty
of control to certain extent over the
motorcycle patrolmen and at some
times during the year there were as
many as three officers employed to
patrol the highways and very effective
work was accomplished by them, but OF
course, the impossible cannot be ex-
pected of these men and even with
three Officers employed they could not
reach all roads of the county and
some speeders of course went wild on
the HIGHWAYS unmolested but at least
some of them were detained and pro-
secuted.
Tt was left to the discretion OF our
committee to dispose of the motor
cycles owned by the county as the OF
ficers are more careful of their ma
chimes if owned by themselves and to
this end one motorcycle was sold to
Mr.. w. r. Frazier for the sum of One
hundred Seventy Five Dollars
($175.00) and the other was used this
season and has now been sold to Mr..
Arthur Olsen for the sum of One Hun
dred Ten Dollars ($11o00) SO that now
Kenosha County does not own any
motorcycles and we, your committee DO
recommend that hereafter men be hired
who can furnish their own machines
and supplies and a salary paid these
men. if employed, sufficient to pay Tor
all necessities of the office.
We attended the road school at Madl-
son, at least part of the session and
a very great deal of good can be OBJ
tanned through attendance at these
meetings by listening to experience OF
others in the same line of work. The
committees from nearly all counties OF
the state attended this road school and
it affords ample opportunity to ascer-
tain methods used in larger as well as
weather counties than ours.
We have assisted Town Boards IN
bridge lettings and drawings or con-
tracts and have also entered into con-
tracts for county road work ourselves.
We entered into contract with the
Dunnebacke Co. for all cement neces-
sarv for construction during the year
1917. With the Christ. Peterson Con-
struction Company for the construction
of the Milwaukee Road for Pleasant
Prairie; with E. H. Merrick for the
construction of the Wilmot Road IN
Pleasant Prairie; with John Darrow
for the construction of the Sheridan
Road in Pleasant Prairie and with Geo.
r. Wade for the construction OF the
Somers Road in the Town OF Somers,
all of these roads were unfinished and
the work on each and all had TO be
shortened on account of the extreme
high costs of labor and materials and
none of them were completed owing to
the wet weather and shortness or
labor.
We have arrived at an agreement
| with the Root River Drainage district
for the care of bridge which was TO
have been built across the Burlington
Road in the Town of Paris by which
said drainage commission built TOUR
foot tunnel, sixteen feet underground
to be refilled and the old bridge done