Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-02

are a number of facts for court cases
to be heard
| drunken, reckless and careless motor
lists. Mr.. Joyner. of Atlanta, thought
the fines would take care of the eX-
pense Of the traffic cops Even some
members who had been themselves
''pinched' for speeding supported the
resolution.
Speaks ON Welfare Needs
Mrs. ChaS Eisenach. on behalf of
the County Welfare Committee, ap-
peared before the board. on invitation,
and explained the need Of county
nurse and the public health situation
in the county. advocating the employ
ment of public nurse. in compliance
with the law and on behalf Of the af-
fiicted. She did not stress advocacy of
the hot lunch i'll the schools and she
did not ask for any increased appro-
priatiOn over the appropriation made
at the last session of $4,000. but she did
ask that the salary for Il nurse be fixed
at 81 500 and that the expense appr0-
priation be fixed at $1,000, instead Of
$1,000. The report Of the Welfare
Committee was accepted and, on mo-
ton Of Supervisor HotZ. seconded by
Supervisor Jipson. the board adopted
Mrs. Eisenach's recommendations
Supervisor Joyner questioned some
Iof the expense items in bills of the
county supervising teacher in order to
get an explanations County Superin-
tendent Burns was present and he
made what appeared to be satisfactory
explanation Of the items referred to.
r. l.. Murch, Il citizen Of the town
gOrical questions to the board in re-
gard to the performance Of bridge
contract in said town, the bridge i'll
question being one constructed over
McDerm0tt creek. He intimated strong
ly that the contractor. H. $. McHugh,
received pay for more material than
was actually put into the bridge, the
excess being something more than $500.
However. Mr.. Murch failed to produce
any real evidence of any 0Tercharge on
tention was not sustained by the chair
man of his town. who saw the bridge
frequently during It's constructor, nor
from the road and bridge committee.
nor from the county highway commits
siOnGr. Half a dozen town chairmcn
sitting on the board praised the bridge
work done by Mr.. McHugh in their
towns. in seeming repr0val of the
charges made by Mr.. Murch. Mr. Nc
Hugh was present and he denied all
charges made The matter threatened
to become Il lOng-drawn-Out cOntr0-
versy and Supervisor Joyner thought
the board was spending altogether too
much time on il. On motion of Super
visor +. 5. Spear the matter was left
to the road and bridge committee to in
veStigate.
Pay Old Claim
A resolution was adopted appropria-
ting $500 as a refund to the town Of
Hawkins, on representations by Super
visor HOtz showing that that town had
expended about LOO on road work
for which the county had never paid
it's share. The matter Of adjustment
had been left over from the May meet
ing on account of irregularities in the
proceedings of the board of the town
of Hawkins.
4 petition for county aid to the 2X-
| tent of $500 toward the maintenance Of
the Ladysmith public library was ear
(nestly supported by Supervisor Man
| ley, following the reading of Il report
which showed that Il large part of the
circulation of the books of the library
was out through the county and the eN-
pense of such service could not ne
maintained without some aid from the
county. Supervisor Summerville spoke
in favor of the proposition, pointing out
! that school teachers from many parts
of the county secured the use of ref
erence books from the library without
cost, as do other citizens living outside
of Ladysmith. With permission of the
board, County Clerk Munroe. formerly
clerk of the library committee. spoke
for the proposition. explaining the
wide and free circulation of the books
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