Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1918 — COMMISSIONERS COURT NOTES [ARTICLE]

COMMISSIONERS COURT NOTES

Contractor George Stalbaum was allowed $943.40 on the F. J. (Slight stone road. Superintendent of construction, by Ord Yeoman, files final report in the Edward 7 P. Lane ditch. Report approved And superintendent allowed $93.90 for his services. Superintendent discharged and cause dropped. Drainage commissioners granted until first day of - December term to file report in the A. I. Sargent ditch. Judson J. Hunt appeared and waived service in the Thomas Dimon ditch. Contractor W. B. Peterson was allowed $525 for painting poor farm buildings. i Grant Davisson, trustee of Barkley township, and George Foulks, trustee of Milroy township, were granted permission to extend additional poor relief for hospital expenses of sl2 and $69.50, respectively. C. B. Steward, who was the duly appointed delegate to the state meeting of the Board of Charities and Correction at Evansville last month, made his report to the board, • and among other things, said: “Especial emphasis was put upon the necessity for preparing our home institutions for the additional burdens they will soon be compelled to bear in caring for our disabled soldiers, arid I would suggest that 1 your honorable board give consideration to the question as to what shall with the large number of tubSejilar, maimed and diseased boys who will soon be returned to their homes, many of whom will be without means of earning a living.” Requisition for supplies for poor farm was approved and notice ordered given for bids. Interest on coqpty funds for the month of October amounted to $642.03, the five depositories reporting as follows: First •National Bank, Rensselaer, $158.26; The Trust & Savings Bank, Rensselaer, $154.81; State Bank, Rensselaer, $141.25; State Bank, Remington,' $140.38; Bank of Wheatfield, $47.33.

Charles Schleman went to Logansport today to attend the Indiana association Aberdeen-Angus sale, and expects to buy a few head unless the prices are prohibitive.