The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-08-07
REGULAR Meeting OF
The COUNTY SOLONS
Much Important Business was
Transacted
HOME GUARDS DIsBANDED
One Hundred and twenty-five
Thousand Dollars Allotted to
the County by State Road Com
mission.

The county commissioners met
in regular session in Arcadia, on
Monday.
After transacting some business
Of but little general interest, the
following matters of Importance
were duly attended to:
The clerk was instructed to adj
vertise for a dredge for use in
Special Road and Bridge District
No. 6.
A petition signed by Amos
McNamee and thirty others, ask
ing that certain territory in the
eastern part of Commissioners
District No. 3 be constituted into
a special road and bridge district,
was presented; and, upon motion
by Whitten, seconded by Coker
and carried, same was referred to
a committee of two, Messrs. Whit
ten and Coker, to ascertain If the
said petition is signed by the
requisite number of qualified vot-
ers who are freeholders residing
within the territory described in
the said petition, and if the said
petition in all respects conforms
to law.
A communication from Hon. M.
NJ. Smith, chairman of the State
Road Department, enclosing the
following resolutions adopted by
said Department was read:
Resolved that the sum OF
$125,000.00 of State and Federal
Aid, or as much thereof as may
be necessary, be apportioned for
the construction of that portion
of State Road No. 2 in said Desc
to county, between Bowling Green
and Wauchula; all work and the
expenditure of all funds to be un-
der the supervision and control Of
the State Road Department as
provided by law.
Resolved, that the sum of
$1O0000.00 of State and Federal
Aid funds, or as much thereof as
may be necessary, be apportioned
for the improvement of State Aid
Road No. 7, in DeSoto county,
said funds thus apportioned to be
used in conjunction with $67 900
of county or district bond issue
funds for the completion of said
road to the Okeechobee county
line; all work and the expenditure
of all funds to be under the super
vision and control of the State
Road Department, as provided by
law.
The clerk was instructed to
acknowledge receipt OF same; to
express The appreciation of this
board to the State Road Depart
ment, and to request tnat the
State Road Department cooperate
in the planting OF trees along the
said highways.
Upon motion by DurraEce, $500
was appropriated for an exhibit
at the State Fair at Jacksonville.
Moved by Whitten and carried,
that this board will join the board
of county commissioners Of Lee
county in a petition to the State
Read Department asking that a
cross-state Aid Road be dcsignat-
ed from Fort Myers, via LeBelle,
Citrus Center, Moore Haven and
the south shore of Lake Okeecho-
bee, and that such State Aid be {
appropriated to same as the i'm
portance of this highway justifies. '
The Tax Collector filed his final t
report for 1918, and same was ap-
proved by the board. S
The sheriff was authorized to
have toilet and shower bath in
stalled in the Jail.
Farm Agent Seasons reported ,,
that the farmers Of the county are
each day making more use of the
demonstration work in the way of /
calls for help in spraying and car :
Concluded on page six) "