Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-08-20
Eagle River, Wis,
I1lv d 1910

July rs 4[1/s
Pursuant to the foregoing call
Of the county clerk for a special
meeting of the county board of
supervisors of Villas county: the
county board met in the office of
county clerk in the courthouse in
the village of Eagle River in spec
ial session at 10 o clock a. m. and
was called to order by chairman
Christensen. All members pres
ent.
Minutes of previous meeting
read and approved.
Motion made and carried that
the county agricultural agent be
instructed to send a statement to
each chairman covering the in
debtedneSS of each individual in
his town for seeds furnished.
Recess until 100 o'clock p. m.
Motion made and carried that
the county clerk be instructed to
buy and have on hand supply
OF state highway maps.
Report of the committee on the
board of prisoners was then read
and approved as follows:
To the honorable board of
supervisors of Villas county:
Your committee appointed to
investigate the claims of Charles
Hanke and of the Persohn Com
pany for the feeding of Villas
county prisoners begs leave
to report to this board that
they have written to numer-
Gus other counties to find out
what is customary in those parti-
GUAR counties and how they go
about it in arriving at the expense
paid to the sheriff for similar
work and services. We have let
tiers which we are attaching to this
part OF the report, and we note
that the counties of Florence and
Forest, two counties that are
practically the only counties in
the state similar to our own, not
only in size, but population, vo-
cation, and taxation as we'll. We
ind that one pays the sheriff
twenty-five cents a meal for each
prisoner, as shown by his docket
or record, while the other pays
the sum of one dollar and twenty
hye cents per day, and that the
sheriff does the best he can on the
gwen amounts in the line of dict.
We have also requested an
Official legal opinion from our
own district attorney as to said
pills etc. and his opinion speaks
tor Itself
Therefore in view Of the above
circumstances and the law we
hereby recommend to this board
that the bill of Person Co. be dis
allowed except for the amount of
Sl4.o9 as covered under page
dated 4-28, 1919 which includes
court house and Jail expense
which We believe proper and rea-
SSQnaole charges; and as to Charles
HankeS claim of S356.65 that the
claim be diSallowed except the
Two charges viz laundry for
prisoners at $500 and washing
blankets at S5.95.
In addition thereto in order to
cover the actual reasonable ex-
penSe of feeding the county pris-
Gners during said period and we
9Ind out one, viz, Joe Zellner
lrom January 9th to Feb. 9th
when ne was released, we recon-
meme that the county pay said
Snenft the sum of one dollar
gay or total of thirty-one dollars
VS5LOO.) In as much as other
counties similar to ours are paying
Tie sheriff 25c a meal for those
meals actually served to county
Prisoners. and SIPS a day. and
aIIer interviewing our own sheriff
N the matter, we do hereby
recommend that the sum of one
poIIar day be paid the sheriff
based upon his docket or records
N lieu of filing actual bills for
groceries, ETC., furnished or any
other method. and that any other