Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1902 — The County Commissioners [ARTICLE]

The County Commissioners

The oounty commissioners have been hard at work all the week, and did not get through with the business of the session until Thursday afternoon, too late to be fully reported for this issue. Ditch business, of which now there is a great pressure, has taken most of the time of the session, just as it is now the main business in the auditors office. The Burns ditch, in Barkley tp., took all of Wednesday, and part of Thursday. Three sets of viewers have passed on the ditch and still all are not satisfied. A compromise was hoped to be effected at this time. Wallace Shead, Harvey W. Wood, and Thos. J. Crockett were appointed reviewers in a ditch petioned for by Granville Moody and others, and remonstrated against by B. J. Gifford. Benj. Harris, F. M. Parker and Felix French were appointed viewers in a ditch petitioned for by A, McCoy, and others. The matter of cleaning the Marble lateral of the Wheatfield ditch was continued for service on new parties. The contract for poor farm suplies for another three months was awarded to B. Forsythe of the Chicago Bargain Store. The second report of the viewers and engineer in the South Barkley gravel road was approved. They estimate the total cost of the road at $17,413.10. As the road is about 8-1/2 miles long, the estimated cost is approximately $2,000 per mile. The former report was about 50 per cent higher. Reports of fees collected and turned into the treasury, for the last quarter, were as follows: Clerk $454.40; Recorder, $516.20; Auditor $72.75.