Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1915 — PROCEEDINGS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS [ARTICLE]

PROCEEDINGS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Business Transacted at the Regular September Term of the Court.

The county commissioners at their regular September term transacted the following business: The contract for the Des Elms stone road in Gillam township was awarded to Thomas Callahan for $13,499. B. J. Moore filed a bid of $13,785. Hamilton Record was appointed superintendent and is required to file a bond of $5,100. The contract for a bridge repair in Barkley township was let to H. Gallagher for $747. W. V. Porter was awarded the contract for a bridge in Marion township for $547 and for one in Barkley at $542. u xv.l The contractor in the John Eck stone road was granted an extension of time to October Ist. A record was made showing that the election for the A. S. Barlow stone road in Wheatfield township carried by the vote of 97 to 17, but that the outstanding indebtedness of the township already exceeds the limit fixed by law, and for that reason the building of the road is continued for the present. f Henry M. Rayburn, petition for stone road. Established and ordered constructed without an election. Geo. A. Williams allowed SIOO attorney s fees, 20 per cent to be withheld until the completion of the road. Alva D. Hershman, petition for stone road. Established and auditor ordered to give notice of letting for October sth. John A. Dunlap allowed SIOO attorney’s fees, 20 per cent to be held back until completion of road. The contract for poor farm supplies was let as follows: Groceries, John Eger, $139.35; dry goods, G. E. Murray Co., $52.10; meat, Roth Bros., sl6. Contractors were allowed the full amount of contracts on the following bridges: Harry Gallagher $224.50, bridge in Carpenter; contractor on bridge in Keener, $599; John Daniels, $299, Union; W. V. Porter, S2BB, Union; E. H. Crowell $662, over Dexter ditch, Union. Contractor J. A. Schrieber allowed $560 on J. B. DeArmond s.one road, Kankakee; Moneyhan & Son, $3,477.60 on R. L. Bussell stone road, Hanging Grove; Taber & Hullihan, $8,300 on Lewis S. Alter stone road, Carpenter. Firman Thompson et al, petition for ditch; Oct. 5 set for docketing. Jesse Nichols, superintendent of poor farm, filed quarterly report for term ending Aug. 31, showing value of all personal property at farm at $5,460. The cash receipts for the quarter were $1,622.54, and expenses sl,167.43, leaving a net balance to the good of $455.11. Included in the erpenses is an item of $305 for extraordinary expenses for i.ew cement wash house. The superintendent s own quarterly salary is also included. There are but ten inmates of the poor asylum at present the lowest number in several years.