Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-07-20
BOARD PROCEEDINGS

bOAND ffLOCEEDlINIS
Manchester, Iowa, June 81. 1921. State
of Iowa, Delaware County, SIS.
The Board of Supervisors met as per
adjournment, all members being pres
ent.
This being the date set for the
County Board of Equalization, the
Board proceeded to equalize the differ
ent township and corporations, and
raises were put upon the different
classes of live stock in the following
townships and corporations; mules in
Colony township be raised so per cent.
sheep in Delhi township be raised IS
per cent; steers / year old in Elk
township be raised 35 per cent: bulls
in North Fork Township be raised 5 per
cent; bulls in Richland township be
raised 15 per cent; stations in Coles
burg Corporation be raised so per cent. /;
in Delhi Corporation, steers / year old
be raised 40 per cent. and bulls be
raised 10 per cent; bulls in Delaware
Corporation be raised so per cent; in
Earlville Corporation, bulls be raised
so per cent. and horses 25 per cent. /;
horses in Edgewood Corporation be
raised so per cent: and bulls in Mason
vile Corporation be raised 20 per cent.
A motion was made, seconded and
carried that the Auditor be ordered to
figure the raises on the live stock men
toned and add them to the townships
and corporations listed above.
1t being the duty of the Board of
Supervisors to appoint local REGISTRARS
for the different townships in the
county for registering births and
deaths. the following were appointed
for a term Of four years: Richland, N.
M. Rowley of Dundee; Honey Creek, +.
Il. Pilkinton of Edgewood; Elk, A. M.
Taylor of Greeley; Colony. ]. r. Grimes
of Colesburg; Bremen and Oneida, Carl
Laxson of Earlville: Delaware, Milo
and Prairie, Clerk of the District Court,
Manchester; Collins Grove. VIM. Bar
clay of Manchester; Delhi A. A.
Schmidt of Delhi: North Fork, ]. M.
White of Hopkinton; South Fork and
Union, w. r. Reeve of Hopkinton;
Hazel Green and Adams, F. L. Houston
Of Ryan.
A motion was made. seconded and
carried that this meeting adjourn until
Wednesday, June 2sth. 1921.
The minutes of this meeting were
read and approved.
w. E. NOBLE, Chairman
ROBERT FISHEI., Auditor.
Manchester Iowa, June 29th, 1921;
State Of Iowa, Delaware County, S.
adjournment, all members being pres
emit
This being the date set for the letting
of crawling the Grant Highway. grad
ing and draining the Cannon Ball or
Primary Road No. 10 and 2S bridges
and culverts, this meeting convened at
1000 o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose of
letting the contract on graveling the
Grant Highway or Primary Road No.
5. There were eight bids received, c..
F. CLANCY of Waterloo; Cass, Cawley
q Cass of Manchester; Hughes Con-
struction Co., of Des Moines: Harrison
Transportation Co. of Des. Moines;
Dyers & Wilson of Peoria, Ill; w. R.
Shipman of Sioux City; c. G.. Sigwald
Of Minneapolis, Minny and G. H. Klamp
of Algona, Iowa. The bids were opened
and after due consideration by the
Board of Supervisors and the County
Engineer and District State Highway
Engineer, the contract was awarded to
C. f. CLANCY of Waterloo, he being the
lowest bidder. His bid was as follows:
loading. hauling and spreading the first
mile, SO cents and each additional one
half mile ~ 1-2 cents and all rock that
has to be crushed, cost plus Is per cent.
A motion was made, seconded and
carried that this meeting adjourn until
100 o'clock p, M. when bids will be
opened for the grading of Primary
Road, No. 13.
The Board reconvened at 100 o'clock
there were 8 bids received on grading;
C. c. Barnes Co. of Des Moines; Hus-
ham & Stewart of Omaha, Neb.: w. r.
Shipman of Sioux City; Ritzinger &
Cameron of Sigourney; Hughes Con-
struction Company of Des Moines; Cam
eron e Joyce & Company of Keokuk;
w. r. Grinnell of Dennison, Iowa; Rus
sell Condor of Omaha and Beyers &
Wilson of Peoria, Illinois. After due
considera ton by the Board of Super
visors, County Engineer and District
State Highway Engineer, motion was
made, seconded and carried that the
of the contract be held up UNI
til Saturday, July End, as Beyers & Viii
son being low bid, the Board was not
that they were responsible bid
ders and wished to have time to look
up their rating.
There were six bids received for
labor laying tile on Primary Road No.
10; Harrison Transportation Company,
Des Moines. Iowa; Mankato Construc-
ton Company. Mankato. Minnesota;
Chas. A. Arnold of Ryan; VIM. Brig
man of Manchester; M. q. Calhoun of
Center Point and C. H. Hildbrand of
Belmond. Iowa. After due considera-
ton by the Board of Supervisors,
County Engineer and District Engineer,
the contract was awarded to G. II.
Hildbrand at his bid, he being low re-
sponsible bidder. 25054 feet inch
tile 7.95 cents, SO feet s inch tile IL
cents per foot, 2625 feet 10 inch tile
12 cents per foot, / type A tile intake
$4,000 and 8 type B tile intakes at
$23. 90 each.
There were six bids on tile for Pri-
mary Road No. 49,: Mankato, Construc-
ton Company, Of Mankato, Minnesota;
Rockford Brick G. Tile Company. Rock