Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1918 — SEPTEMBER SESSION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS [ARTICLE]

SEPTEMBER SESSION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Commissioners Charles Welch, D. S. Makeever and H. W. Marble met in regular session Monday, Sept. 1, and completed the work of the September term on that date. In the matter of W. S. Lowman, assistant road superintendent, auditor is directed to notify said Lowman and his bondsmen to appear before the board on the first day of the October term and adjust matter of unpaid claims for work and labor on stone roads. As the county board of finance, the following report was made of interest paid on public funds by the several banks of the county for August, 1918: - First National Bank, of Rensselaer, $134.31. / The Trust & Savings Bank, Rensselaer, $126.85. State Bank, of Rensselaer, $110.14. State Bank, of Remington, $128.81. Bank of Wheatfield, $45.05. Contractor Walter V. Porter was allowed $331 inTulLon a bridge in \Carpenter township. No bids having been received for the repair of the'bridge over the Nesius ditch in Jordan township, the same was ordered re-advertised. . Geo. A. Williams was allowed $175 attorney’s fee in the Mary E. Bartoo ditch. , . Granville Moody filed objections in the William Folger ditch. In thfe A. L. Sargent ditch, the time for filing report was extended to the first day of the October term. Report was filed in the Thomas Dimon ditch, and cause was set for hearing first day of October term. Contract for 'painting buildings at at the poor farm was awarded to W. B. Peterson, of Rensselaer, for i$S25. Only one other bid was filed, that of C. E. Osborne, of Rensselaer, at $1,325, even SBOO more than Mr. Peterson-’s bid. , . - The salary of Lemuel Griggs, fireirtan at the county heating plant, was raised $lO per month, making his salary now S6O paid by the county and $25 paid by the hospital board, a total of SBS per month. The quarterly report of the poor farm superintendent showed the ex-

penses for the quarter to have (been >1,660.29, and the receipts >2,742.94, leaving a net surplus of >1,082.65. The receipts were from the sale of ten head of hogs at 18 cents per pound, $554.40; two calves at 10 cents per pound, >100; 989.11 bushels of wheat at >2.11 per bushel, >2,088.54. The .report states that there were thirteen inmates at the time, nine males and four females, and that there had been two deaths during the quarter