Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1918 — DOING OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS [ARTICLE]

DOING OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

The county commissioners met Monday in regular monthly session and transacted the following business, closing up the 'business of the term in’the one day’s session:' Contractor Walter V. Porter was allowed $338 in full contract price for a bridge in Carpenter township. Contractor A. E. Herriman was allowed $1,092 on the John J. Borntrager stone road. Charles Scott, superintendent of (the T. M. Callahan stone road, filed .final report, showing charges of .$16,509.62 and credits of $16,416,•88, leaving a (balance of $47.74 in his hands. Board ordered $25 costs paid to the auditor, $17.99 paid to .A. Halleck, attorney fee, and-balance of $4.75 paid to Scott for services. Report approved and cause dropped. The auditor was directed to notify the contractors on the Frank L. Hoover stone road and the Joseph Lane stone road to proceed with the -work or their contracts would be forfeited and the work resold. Viewers filed supplemental report in the Joseph Kosta petition for road improvement. Jacob Johnson, contractor, was aldowed $520 on the G. B. Parkinson stone road.

I. W. Moneyhun & Son, contractors, were allowed $1,512 on the W. L. Wood gravel roads in Union township. In the William Folger ditch, proof of notice of supplemental petition was filed and found sufficient. Cause was continued for objections. In the A. J. Sargent ditch petition the time was extended to first day of" September term for filing report. - B. J. Moore, contractor, in the John F. Zimmer ditch, asked for an extension of time and was granted one year’s extension. Contractor reported new buildings completed at poor farm and same were excepted. Specifications for painting 'buildings at poor farm were approved and auditor directed to give notice for opening of bid's on first- day of September term. , R. L. Bussell, recently appointed justice of the peace for Hanging .Grove township, declined the appointment. Lawrence McLain, son of Republican County Chairman, George H. McLain, and Manley Price, now employed in the Nowels restaurant, were appointed to scholarships at Purdue. Charles Morlan, court house janitor for the past fifteen or eighteen years, asked for another increase in salary, and the board raised same from S6O per month to $75 per month, the increase to date from July 1, 1918. Interest on county funds for the month of August was reported from the -various depositories as follows: First National bank, Rensselaer, $129.21; The Trust & Savings bank, Rensselaer, $125.94; State bank, Rensselaer, 8120.69; State bank, Remington, $143.87; Bank of Wheatfield, $49.69.