The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-07
CITY MAY BUY
COUNTY BLDGS.
Board Acts to Confer With
City on Sale of Pres
ent Courthouse.
IS FIRST YEARS WORK
Board of Supervisors Complete
Organization for the
Present Term.

When Kenosha county moves out OF
the old court houses and the jail
building which county officials have
occupied for years and moves into the
new court house and Jail, the city OF
Kenosha may move into the buildings
which are vacated. This project was
presented to the county board of sup
ervisors at the Tuesday afternoon ses-
sion of the board and was voted on
favorably when the board adopted
motion to appoint committee Of five
to confer with the city council rela-
tive to the proposal.
County Clerk Charles L. Holder
ness presented the question to the
county board, explaining that he had
been in conference several times with
city officials and had discussed the
proposed purchase of the present
court house building, the municipal
court building and the present sher-
ifs house and county Jail.
An Aid to Both.
It is declared that the transaction
would be an aid to both the city and
the county. 1t is necessary for the
city to acquire part of the present
court house site and part of the
municipal court building site for the
widening of Sheridan road and the ar
rangement suggested would furnish a
use for these sites in the interim. 1t
has been suggested that the court
house could be used as the school ad-
ministration building, the county
jail as the police office and the muni-
cipal court building to be used as
deemed advisable by the city until
such time as it is torn down.
Such deal would no doubt aid the
county in securing a more favorable
price for the property in question as
the city has some use to which the
buildings could be put.
Complete Organization.
The county board on Tuesday after
noon also completed the work of or
ganization for the new term by the
naming of the standing committees of
the board. Three committees had va
cancies to be filled by election as fol-
lows:
New Building committee - Super
visors Kersting and Filbin were named
as the new members with Supervisors
Zerfas, Priddis and Spartz as hold
over members.
County Farm committee Super
visors Robinson, Elsen and Brooks.
tee Supervisor Bacon. elected to fill
the unexpited term made vacant by
resignation of former Supervisor Fred
Becker, now custodian of the new court
house. Supervisor Grin Wicks and
former Supervisor Luke are the other
members of this committee.
Accept Committees Report.
Chairman Priddis named as the COM
mittee on committees Supervisors Ba-
con, Wicks, Spartz, Rohr and Roders.
Their report on standing committees,
naming the members of the various
other committees, was accepted. The
committees were thereby named as
follows:
Finance committee Supervisors
Bacon, Berquist, .Surerus.
County Treasurer committee Sup
ersisors Zerfas, Filbin, Wicks.
County Buildings and Paintings Ac
counts committee Supervisors Rod
ers, Surerus, Brooks.
Assessment committee Supervis-
ors Surerus, Wicks, Elsen.
Municipal Court Account committee
- Supervisors Elsen, Brooks, Roders.
General Bills committee - Super
visors Robinson, zerfas, Priddis.
County Clerk committee = Super
visors Brooks. Bacon, Rohr.
District Attorney committee - Sup
ervisors Rohr, Rhodes, Spartz.
Road and Bridge Account commit
tee Supervisors Berquist, Kersting,
Van Bendegon.
County Agent committee Super
visors Grosvenor, Van Bendegon, Ter
fas.
Official Bonds committee-Supervis-
ors Priddis, Grosvenor, Kersting.
Register of Deeds committee - Sup
ervisors Kersting, Rohr, Filbin.
Sheriff committee Supervisors Fill
bin, Roders, Robinson.
Inquest Cases committee Super
visors Wicks, Elsen, Bacon.
Judiciary Accounts committee - Sup
ervisors Rhodes, Spartz, Grosvenor.
Taxation committee - Supervisors
Van Bendegon, Priddis, Berquist.
County Superintendent committee =
Supervisors Spartz, Robinson, Rhodes.
Veterans to Use Hall.
A request of the Spanish American
War Veterans of Kenosha, to be allow
ed to use the Memorial hall in the new
court house as the gathering place for
their regular meetings, was requested.
This has also been granted to the Fred
S. Lowell Post of the Grand Army of
the Republic, Kenosha's Civil War vet
Grams.
A picture of the county board, to be
used in the memorial book to be pub
lished when the new court house IS
dedicated, was taken by Arthur Prid-
dis, who has been designated as the
official photographer for this book.
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CAUSES FOR PIG LOSS.
Lack of exercise for brood sows
and too much corn in their ratiohs