The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-17
SUGGESTS BUY
TARBELL INDEX
County Board Committee
Would Accept Chance to
Save County $4,000.
TARBELL IS VIGOROUS
BULLETIN.

The County Board this after
noon voted to lease for a term of
two years, with provision for an
additional year, the entire second
story of the Flanagan building
on Main street, recently purchased
BY Judge George W. Taylor. The
rent is to be $3.50 month.
The special committee of the County
board in charge Of the installation of
the proposed tract index, showed will
ingness todsy to bargain with Charles
A. Tsrbell FOR the purchase of the
tract index which he has made in years
of service as an abstractor, or to buy
copy of the Tarbell index for in
staliation at the county building. A
resolution providing for an examina-
ton of the Tarheli index by two dis
interested experts with view Of
leading to the purchase Of it, was pro-
posed to the board by the members Of
the special committee. This commit
tee in report to the board said that
there had been no objections made to
the plan at meeting called, but that
Mr.. Tarbell had expressed the idea
that the county did not need the index
and that the expenditure of very
large sum for it would be i'll advised.
TarbeiI Is Vigorous.
On the invitation of the board, Mr..
Tarbell came to the court house this
morning and gave his ideas of the
whole tract index plan. His talk in
dictated that he believed chat the
county needed a seventy thousand dol
lar tract index just about as much as
it headed another flag pole in the front
yard Of the county building. Mr.. Tar
bell declared that he did not desire to
be regarded as a protester against any
fair expenditure Of the public money,
but he said that he did not believe
that the general public of Kenosha
county would be comensurately bene-
fitted for the cost of the proposed in
dex. He reiterated his statement that
the index would be Of especial value
to only small number of people in
the county and suggested that, other
departments of the county were much
more in need of more modern methods
for handling records. Mr.. TarbeIl
ness to sell his index or a copy Of it,
and this matter was not proposed to
him during the session.
Mr.. Tarbell declared that his onlv
idea was to be fair to the people Of
Kenosha county and that it was this
idea that caused him to raise the cues
ton as to the need of the index.
He. asserted that his views were
shared by many prominent business
men OF the county and that these men
had not appeared on account of the
fact that they did not want, to be
classed as collectors" to the instaIla-
tion of the tract index.
Members of the board were evidently
somewhat in doubt as to whether the
county should go ahead with the plan
of installation. Many of them ap
peared to like the resolution which
suggested a purchase of the Tar
bell index provided it met the de-
mands Of the county.
Judge Taylor appeared before the
board this morning and offered to the
County Board the entire second floor
of the building known as the "Flanni-
gan Building on Main street with the
idea that the rooms could be used
to house homeless officers of the
county. The board went to look over
the building at the noon hour.
At the session this morning the
board recognized the need of more
service for the clerk of the municipal
court and resolution was passed pro-
viding for an assistant clerk at a
salary of $1,000. The board further
recognised the service rendered by
Clerk Wattles and ordered an appro-
priation Of $500 to him as additional
paw for last years wnrk