The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-12

CLOSE CONTRACT
WITH SHERIFF
Board Finally Accepts
Maintenance Contract
With Sheriff.
AT ORIGINAL FIGURES
Vote Is Fourteen to Three to
Accept the Report of the
Sheriff's Committee.

With only three dissenting votes
the county board of supervisors on
Tuesday afternoon voted to accept the
report of the sheriff's committee on a
contract with Sheriff Frank "Baldy"
Willems for the remainder of his term
to provide for the maintenance of
prisoners and other expenses in con-
nection with the operation of the Of
fee. The contract Is on the basis of
$4,000 a year or for $6,694.24 from
September 1, 1925 to January /, 1927
Under the terms of the contract the
sheriff will pay the matron at the
rate of $1,000 year, will pay the
undersheriff all except 5000 of his
salary and the remainder will be for
the maintenance of prisoners at the
county Jail.
No Report on Fees.
This is the contract which when pre-
scented drew hot attack from Super
visor Jake VanBendegon, who secured
delay in its acceptance to secure a
report on fees received by the sheriff's
Office. No report on these, however,
was available and when the question
was called in the afternoon session,
it was passed without much debate.
The members of the board held that
the terms of the contract were largely
in keeping with the contract made with
the sheriff of the old board.
The vote on the acceptance of the
contract was as follows: ~
Ayes: Supervisors Brook, Bacon,
Spartz, Robinson, Zerfas, Wicks, Prid-
dis, REodes, Grosvenor, kohs, Filben,
Rcders, Elsen and Berquist.
Noes; Supervisors Kersting, Van
Bendegon and Surerus.
On motion Of Supervisor Roders
resolution was passed for the naming
of committee to set the salaries of
county officers for the terms starting
January /, 1927. This committee was
named by Chairman Priddis, to be
composed of Supervisors Spartz, Ber-
quist, Rohr, Bacon and Wscks.
A resolution was also introduced by
Supervisor Roders that a committee
be named to look into the advis-
ability Of renting or purchasing de-
tention home for the use of the
couny. This committee was named
as follows: Supervisors Surerus, Rhodes
and Van Bendegon.
Petitions for the paving Of Highway
80 from the Fox River bridge to the
county line and of the paving of
Highway 83, the Antioch Twin Lakes
road, were received and placed on file.
A petition for the graveling of the
Antioch-Trevor road was presented by
Supervisor Wicks, but later withdrawn
to be presented later in the session.
Tells of Highway Program.
County Highway Commissioner
John Herzog appeared before thu
board and outlined some Of the diff
ficulties which must be met in map
ping out the highway program for Ke-
nosha county this year as a result Of
the changes in the road tax laws. He
showed how Kenosha county would be
short large sum and how bond
issue might be the only way to tide
over until another year would bring
more money from state funds.
County Clerk Iva Russell was unan-
imously reelected county agent for
another year. Miss Russell presented
her report on the work of the county
agent for the past year, showing in
addition to the routine business how
the furniture of the old courthouse
had been disposed of under her direc-
ton.
An invitation from the Racine coun-
ty board to make the annual visit to
the joint teachers training school at
Union Grove and to the Racine coun-
ty asylum on Thursday was accepted.