The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-13
Of the County Board Of Cook
County, Minnesota

Grand Marais, Minnesota, April 4th,
County Board of Cook County. Min
nesota, met at 10 A. NJ this lth day
of April, 1922, being the regular day
set for said meeting.
Al members present.
The minutes OF the previous meeting
were read and upon motion duly made
and carried, approved.
An order of the COMMISSIONER of
Highways, locating the Trunk High
way, No: /, from Cross River, west to
The Statement of the Auditor and
Treasu,er Of the amount zs1u on hand ,s in
1922. was received and read.
The communication Of H. r. Loveioy,
rslntive to the alleged damage to
struction work on the Grand Portage
road, read and referred to the
County Highway Engineer.
communication was received from
rhas. Peterson, in Mineral Center, rel
htiye to the need of road int" his
place. The same was read and REFER
red to the Highway Engineer.
A petition was received from ANel
Oberg, at al relative to the Grand
eans wS rs the s"" ct"n "f the Il" st"te Hgh
way Department in making survey
OF the Trunk Highway in this county.
Upon motion duly made and carried,
H. b. Hicks were appointed members of
the County R"ard Of Health for the
year 1922.
Upon motion duly made and carried
the Chairman of the Board was re-
uueSted to cal Il meeting Of the Chair
men OF the different Town Boards OF
Cook County, to meet with the County
commissioners at =. NJ. May 2nd,
1922, to discuss cooperation between
the County and different towns in road
work.
Upon motion duly made and carried
the following is a schedule OF the WAg-
es t" he paid IVY the County for work
ON roads during the current year.
Common lAbOrer ................ 30c
special work .................40 40c
To'el'h'h ,..'''...'. .ioc
The applications of F.. w. Roedter for
Ahntement OF penalties on personal
property taxes, OF August J. johnson
FOR abatement of taxes and penalties
on real estate, or Maurits Nieminen for
rcfundment OF taxes paid on real es-
tate, and OF the Grand Marais Light
ana i'oWer Company, taxes paid on per
soma, t"n n property' ,r. we re recommended to
prevail
The application OF O. G.. Olson for
refundment OF the amount OF taxes
tax sale was upon motion rejected.
The application or Alger Smith and
Company for refundment Of taxes paid
on real estate was upon motion laid
on the table, pending invest ga tiOn of
the same.
IEnen n ,otions,any made s;s,ifI carried
the t Auditor was directed to sdvertise
County Board would receive sealed bids
for the purchase or two (2) Ford
Tr3Gss; nns niSo LIS two co steel dunn bodies
teen inch, and twenty (2W twenty-fo
inch corrugated iron culverts. The
Board reserves the right to reject any
Upon motion Guly made and carried
the the salary OF the County Highway m
beginning April lth, 1922.
o;ntn Grsna 1Eran Marais S5ats Bank rsiative to q
they have for saie. Same was read
but no action taken.
Upon motion duly made and carried
Olof Fredrickson for the sale Of est-
mates on standing timber in this
county, We're rejected.
The following resolution was pre-
sented:
Board of Cook County, Minnesota,
that the sum Of 100000 lie ap-
propriated from the County Road
of streets in the Village of Grand
Marais. work to be paid for from
such approximation to be done un-
der the supervision of the County
Highway Engineer, providing that
before the making of any improve
I ments, the cost of which is to be
paid out of this appropriation, the
streets or parts of streets so to he
improved shall he cleared of all
ohstructions of every nature and,
PROVIDED FURTHER. That
thereafter the proper authorities
shall see to it that the streets and
all parts Of streets so improved
shall not be used by private par
B" ties as storage grounds nor in any
other manner that will interfere
with the proper use Of the same.
Commissioner Bally moved the adop-
ton of the foregoing resolution which
motion was seconded by Commissioner
Allen and unanimously adopteu