The Switzerland County Commissioners’ allowances appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 21 Dec 1882 – Page 4, Column 5
The following is a list of allowances made by the Board of County Commissioners of Switzerland County, at their December term, 1882:
John Jester, paid board for Jones boy, $10.00
F. B. Cunningham, for poor, Pleasant Twp, $44.45
Bledsoe & Beymer, for poor, York Twp, $38.00
Olliver Cunningham, for poor, York Twp, $26.66
Vaughn & McCreary, for poor, York Twp, $10.00
A. Benedict, for poor, York Twp, $5.18
Schrumpf & Told, for poor, York Twp, $8.00
John L. O’Neal, for poor, York Twp, $22.37
A. Benedict, for Nancy Bosse, $10.00
Wesley McHenry, transp’n pauper from county, $5.00
Henry Todd, keeping pauper family, $5.00
Dr. J. H. Shadday, moving pauper from county, $5.00
Wm. Smith, burying pauper child, $1.50
F. J. Hollcroft, coffin, burying clothes, Manuel, $9.50
N. N. Martin, for self and family, $10.00
U. P. Schenck & Son, for Boggs family, $25.66
U. P. Schenck & Son, poor hosue, $29.25
U. P. Schenck & Son, for A. Walden, $10.00
Thomas H. Downey, for Mrs. Hughs, $5.00
C. V. Thiebaud, for Bowman, $6.00
Golay & Stevens, for school books, $1.20
F. L. Grisard, for Mrs. Snyder, $11.97
John Gill, paid for school books, $2.10
Lewis, Simmons & Long, Manuel & Wainscott, $41.38
C. Anderson, Manuel, $5.00
Mrs. Kilgore, $12.00
J. C. Kincaid, Mrs. Wilson & Lewis, $5.70
A. Benedict, removing Stewart, poor house, $3.10
A. Benedict, for Jos. Benedict and family, $42.26
Z. I. Yonge & Co., Hinsley, Walden, LeClerc & Golay, $43.50
Thiebaud, Robinson & Co., for Wainscott, $12.00
Wm. Gockel, Jr., Sarah Jones & Robt Cotton, $12.50
James Curry, at poor asylum, $552.95
Union Furniture Co., table for asylum, $2.50
Mrs. Clara Worstell, making bed clothes, $30.00
F. L. Grisard, sundries for poor house, $6.95
Golay & Stevens, school book, $1.68
A. W. Brown, for A. J. Boyd, $6.10
Simpson & Brown, for O. Keith, $10.00
S. R. Heath, for Rills child, $3.14
Levi W. Smith, for keeping Mrs. Mills, $10.00
Peter Pelser, for keeping Ben Pelser, $10.00
W. J. Gibbs, for keeping Lydia Gibbs, $10.00
Mrs. A. Wolf, $6.00
John Gill, qr salary, $442.54
W. C. Robinson, qr salary, $200.00
R. T. F. Abbett, fees, $28.00
J. R. Hart, salary, $153.00
W. S. Tower, summoning Commissioners, $3.05
W. S. Tower, attending Com. Court, $12.00
Julius Mures, Commissioner, $21.00
Luther Buck, Commissioner, $21.00
Robt Scott, Commissioner, $21.00
Solomon McCallum, repairing, &c., $2.00
U. P. Schenck & Son, sundries, $6.20
W. C. Robinson, office ex., $4.59
Hiram Corns, ice, $4.75
F. L. Grisard, sundries, $1.30
Adam Warden, shelving Recorder’s office, $11.00
Golay & Stevens, ink, &c., $1.60
R. T. F. Abbett, office ex. & Board Health, $2.85
John Gill, office ex, $2.40
W. S. Tower, wood, &c., & taking care C H, $12.50
James P. Orem, cleaning papers, &c., $0.75
C. O. Thiebaud, lamps, inkstands & sundries, $8.95
J. W. Riley, painting in Recorder’s office, $4.50
Z. I. Yonge & Co., C. oil, $0.80
J. L. Thiebaud, sundries, $7.75
Hartford & Dalmazzo, printing, $11.75
Levy Bros., books and stationery, $42.50
W. B. Buford, books and stationery, $35.30
W. J. Baird, printing, $2.50
T. J. Gordon, abutments & fill, Markland, $413.50
Paid for 4 large cap stone, $69.50
Paid for getting out wreck old bridge Markland, $58.05
J. L. Burns, on Hog Run job, $1,477.64
John Gill, Superintending, $30.00
J. S. Knox, hire buggy &c., $18.65
Stephen Dibble, taxes refunded, $5.22
A. J. Green, boarding prisoners, $6.00
John Melcher, coal for jail, $3.25
W. S. Tower, boarding, &c., prisoners, $42.40
W. S. Tower, setting grates, $2.50
Dr. Wm. Freeman, examination, Green, $3.60
W. S. Tower, election expense, $10.50
R. T. F. Abbett, election expense, $14.50
J. A. Works, hauling G Jury poor farm, $3.00
Deficiency in school fund interest, $759.43