The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-11-23
DOINCS OF The COUNTY BOARD

The session last Thursday morning
was largely given over to hghwa,
highway commission was read show
ing the aid available for 1923 out o.
the total fund of S7S5,000 and AIDE
tailed report being submitted of al
the federal and state aid work com
pleted in the county to date. The
countyS share of the state fund is SCI
at Sl5,625. 90 and no further funds vii
be aavilabe during the year The al
lotment is based on the valuation OF
the county.
The detailed report on the state and
federal aid project No. 1913 on High
way II shows that the complete con
tract was 1925, 5,969.9i, with Si,5S9.l6
added for engineering costs, blueprlnts,
inspection and supervision costs, max
ing the grand total read Sl30,559.l0.
OF this amount the county paid $4,000
the state S41,909.10 and the federal
government $4,000. Project No. 225
on the same highway ran up a grand
total of SllS,72S.52 of which amount
the county paid Si7,26960, the state
S2l.35O.37, and the federal government
S5O,l09.l2. The third completed proj-
ect on Highway II make the total or
oll federal and state aid work com
pleted in the county more than $500
OOOand the county, state and federal
funds have shared about alike in the
expense, each paying approximately
$4,000.
The soldiers relief committee asked
the board for an appropriation OF SZ'-
600 for the coming year, the report
showing that Sl,254 was expended last
year.
Two propositions were received ny
the board on installation of electric
power elevators in the court house
from the S. Keller Elevator Co.. and
A. Kiekhefer Elevator Co., both of Mil
waukee. The former proposed to in
stall an elevator for S2,954, while the
latter's figures were S3,250 for switch
elevator and S3.760 for an automatic
control elevator. The bids were re
ferred to the committee on public
building and improvements.
Report of the trustee asylum board
was read by Secretary Wernecke and
recapitulation shows that tt'- total as
let's of the nst;tutioia amodHt - 'oZ6"'
3O4.5O; total expenses for the year for
administration, etc, were S44,o03.oo
and there was a deficit of $4,000 which
the trustees asked the board to make
ND with the usual annual appropriation
of this amount
In explanation of the deficit Mr.
Wernecke stated that inasmuch as the
county itself pays only for the care OF
twenty-three patients at the institution
out of the 2l0 inmates and since the
rest of the expense comes otu of
annual appropriation of $4,000 tins
amount had to show on the balance
sheet as a deficit.
Mr.. Wernecke advocated the pur-
chase of small strip of adjacent land
at the asylum farm to provide a drive
way as an outlet to trunk line II. This
matter will be determined at the spring
session after the trustees make re
port on the survey of the premises
The report was signed by W. j.
Ahrens. Louis Wiegand, and Henry
Wernecke, and Mr.. AhrenS was again
reelected trustee for period of three
years.
That the work of the county Judge
and the moneys involved in estates is
increasing from year to year was
shown in the report filed by Judge
Chloupek and referred to the commit
tee on finance.
The report showed that the follow
ing work was presented and passed
upon in county court since Nov. |,
1921 to Nov. l, 1922: 80 wills; 53 adj
ministrations; 70 releases of mort
cages, heirships; / sales of lands of
infants and insane; 26 committed as
tubercular PATIENTS; 9 adoptions, so
insane; 454 labor permits, II new
guardians of minors and insane who
filed bonds in the sum of S306,lOO
which excludes the East Wisconsin
Trustee company, being exempt from
giving bonds 400 guardians making
yearly reports and having in their pos
session money belonging to wards, the
sum of 1904, ,637 A; 1O9 bonds filed by
executors and administrators, the sum
of S75l,7O0; S959,929.6O claims filed
and disposed of; 1877 inventories witt
real estate appraised at S537,ls0.20
SI,42s, l03.54 personal estate inventor
led and appraised; l3l final de
crees entered and assigned to-wit
Sl,296,9 ,9490l personal property, S5t7,
6O195 real estate, total Sl,S4t,650.96
S9,909.l5 Inheritance tax determined
and paid to county treasurer; 1894 fee'
collected and paid to county treasurer
~ mothers pensions issued.