Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-22
CONCRETE ROAD IS
BOARDS DECISION
OVER 100000 AVAILABLE
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
HIGHWAY TO SOUTH
Session is Full of Work and Plans
For Coming Year-A. L. Kreutzer
Speaks

Since its reorganization last Tues.
day and the election of F. J. Gaetzman
as chairman, and George S. Cook, oi
Unity, as vice chairman, the county
board of Marathon county has been ex.
tremely active. Perhaps the most out
standing of its actions is the decision
to construct a concrete road to the
south OF Wausau, replacing the disin-
tegrated granite road which now ex-
tends between Wausau and the village
of Rothschild. The board having voted
S24, 800 a total of $$102,000 is now
available for this project.
At the Wednesday melting of the
board, F. F. Mcneil, Grand Rapids
district highway engineer, explained
the necessity for road improvements
and also presented the plans of the
Wisconsin Highway commission. II
was declared that more money had
been used throughout this part of Wis
consin to repair roads than it would
have cost to construct permanent high.
ways. Disintegrated granite, which il
was thought would make an excellent
and permanent road, has been found
to be inadequate. Concrete is now be-
lieved the only thing for country
roads.
Resolution
The resolution was as follows:
WHEREAS the State Highway
commission through it's Division En-
gineer has notified the County Clerk
that the sum of $102, 100000 of which
this county must provide one-third
will be expended in 1919 or as soon as
possible thereafter under the provi-
sions of Chap. IT'S Laws of 1917, fol
federal and state aid construction or
a project beginning at the disinteg-
rated granite road in the south por-
ton of the village of Rothschild and
then extending along Trunk Highway
No. 10 in a northerly direction as far
as the funds available will construct
This determination is hereby approved
and the sum of $34,00000 is hereby
appropriated to pay the county's share
OF the cost of said construction, and
WHEREAS, the units of govern
ment through which the road passes
and other interested persons have
agreed to pay $9,500.00 of the coun-
tvs share of this project to be shown
IN resolutions to be presented to this
board, and Therefore, be it
'RESOLVED, that this money be
accepted and used to pay a portion of
the county's share of the above con-
struction, and Be it further,
"RESOLVED, that the chairman OF
clerk are hereby directed to borrow
when needed $24,500.00 to make up
the remainder of the countys share
OF the cost Of the above construc-
tion, and said amount to be placed
in the tax roll of this county for 1920
Signed:
GUST DOERING,
VIM. KUEHN
HENRY HAMANN
Record Discharges
w. w. Thayer, supervisor of the
town of Plover, introduced a resolu-
tion which will make possible the
free recording of the discharge of any
soldier, sailor or marine at the county
register of deeds Office. A resolution
to this effect was passed and money
already paid to place the same on
record was authorized to be refunded
to the individual concerned. The
measure met with the approval of the
board.
The resolution introduced by w. w
Thayer is as follows:
WHEREAS, the soldiers, sailors and
marines are now being discharged
from the service of the worlds great
war, and
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that some provisions should be made
to preserve record of their discharge
and other documentary evidence OF
service, proof of which may become
very necessary in years to come,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
that the Register of Deeds be and is
hereby authorized to procure a suit
able book of records in which may be
recorded all such evidences of service
that our discharged soldiers, sailors
and marines may desire, and
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, that
no fee be charged for recording such
papers and that any fee heretofore
charged any soldier, sailor and marine
for recording his discharge or release
from service in the late war, shall be
refunded to such person by the County
Treasurer of Marathon County, and
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED that
the Register of Deeds be and is re-
quired to Immediately furnish the
County Treasures with a certified list
of the names of all such soldiers, sail
ors and marines and the amounts they
have paid for recording such papers
and a refund shall be made according
to such certificates.
w. W. THAYER,
Supervisor Town of Plover
Assistance Annreeiatad