Switzerland County, Indiana, Commissioners’ allowances appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 12 Dec 1889 – Page 5, Column 3

LIST OF ALLOWANCES.
The following is the list of allowances made by the Board of Commissioners of Switzerland County, Indiana, at the December term, 1889:

PAUPER EXPENSE.

Reported by Trustee and Overseer of Poor of Jefferson Township.

• Loring & Clendening, clothing for Hawes Redd, $6.50
• Loring & Clendening, clothing for Joseph Lientz, $7.50
• C. V. Thiebaud, goods for Joseph Bullock, $1.00
• C. V. Thiebaud, goods for Mrs. Nancy Schenck, $6.00
• C. V. Thiebaud, goods for Mrs. Simpson, $12.00
• P. T. Hartford, goods for Joseph Bullock, $1.50
• Wm. Smith, digging pauper grave, $2.00
• W. S. Kincaid, meat furnished Henry Wells, $1.00
• F. L. Grisard, goods for Simeon Leach, $10.60
  F. L. Grisard, goods for G. I. Taylor, $9.75
• F. L. Grisard, goods for Mr. Hewitt, $9.40
• F. L. Grisard, goods for Mrs. Bosaw, $7.00
• F. L. Grisard, goods for Mrs. Mary Smith, $3.10
• F. L. Grisard, goods for Mrs. Henry Lock, $3.00
• F. L. Grisard, house rent for Wm. Daily, $6.00
• F. L. Grisard, house rent for Mrs. F. Coleman, $6.00
• F. L. Grisard, goods furnished Joe Redd, acct. Joseph Peelman, $13.00
• Mrs. Louis Schroeder, house rent for Henry Lock, $6.00
• Mrs. Lucy Detraz, rent for Mrs. John Orem, $6.00
• Fred. Saberton, rent for Nancy Schenck, $3.75
• Dr. A. G. Craig, rent for Simeon Leach, $3.00
• U. P. Schenck, rent for Mrs. Mark Smith, $6.00
• Montgomery Patton, rent for Henry Wells, $6.00
• Mrs. Goodwin, house rent for Miss Tague, $1.75
• Mrs. Julia Wolf, keeping Bennie Barker, $10.00
• Shaw & Detraz, goods for Mrs. Geo. Saberton, $2.00
• A. J. Schenck, goods for Miss Agnes Boggs, $8.41
• A. J. Schenck, goods for Mrs. Henry Lock, $2.00
• Joseph Thamann, allowed for keeping tramps, $0.50
• George N. Reeves, goods for Hawes Redd, $2.00
• George N. Reeves, goods for Sarah Miller & child, $14.00
• Noah Martin, 1 qr allowance, $10.00
• Mary Gottamiller, keeping John Gottamiller, $10.00
• S. S. Told, coal for Mrs. Henry Lock, $2.35
• S. S. Told, coal for Mrs. Noah Martin, $1.80
• S. S. Told, coal for Mrs. John Orem, $3.55
• S. S. Told, coal for Mrs. Nancy Schenck, $1.00
• P. C. Holland, coal for Mrs. Simeon Leach, $3.45
• P. C. Holland, coal for Mrs. Saberton, $1.80
• P. C. Holland, coal for Mrs. Bosaw, $1.00
  P. C. Holland, coal for Mrs. Henry Lock, $3.20
• P. C. Holland, coal for Mrs. Nancy Schenck, $2.18
• P. C. Holland, coal for Alger Butler, $1.00
• George Haskell, coffin for Jennie Miles, $3.00
• C. O. Thiebaud, school books for poor children, $15.56

Reported by Trustee and Overseer of Poor of York Township.

• J. M. W. Langsdale, goods for Margaret See, $2.50
• J. M. W. Langsdale, goods for Nancy Clements, $3.00
• W. C. Robinson, goods for Hettie Chaise, $4.00
• W. C. Robinson, goods for Margaret See, $3.00
• George N. Reeves, goods for Sarah Burk, $7.00
• W. C. & S. L. Benedict, goods for Nancy Bosaw, $2.50
• John I. O’Neal, flour for Calvin Fredenburg, $3.00
• Indiana Fulton, keeping Sallie Nipper, $10.00

Reported by Trustee and Overseer of Poor of Posey Township.

• S. Howe & Co., supplies for A. J. Boyd, $5.00
• E. E. North, supplies for Mrs. John Gurley, $5.00
• E. E. North, supplies for Mrs. H. Peters, $10.00
• E. E. North, supplies for Mrs. Frank Emerson, $2.00
• E. E. North, supplies for Mary E. Barnes, $6.00
• E. E. North, supplies for Jacob Hodge and wife, $10.00
• E. E. North, supplies for John Banks, $2.00
• Green Brothers, goods for Christian Icenogle, $5.00
• J. W. Love & Co., goods for Mrs. Paschal Lamkins, $4.00
• J. W. Love & Co., goods for John Banks, $3.00
• Wm. Gockell, goods for Sarah Jones, $5.00
• Harris & Galbreath, goods for Mrs. H. Gillis, $10.00
• Erastus Moore, goods for Mrs. Frank Emerson, $1.70
• G. B. Wade, goods for Mrs. Frank Peters, $5.00
• G. B. Wade, goods for Jacob Hodge, $5.00
• John Wood, coffin and burying pauper John Hood, $6.00
• Oscar Bradford, coffin and burying drowned man, $5.00
• Demas M. Ricketts, care of John Andrews last sickness, $12.00

Reported by Trustee and Overseer of Poor of Cotton Township.

• S. R. Heath, goods for Mary Merrill and family, $20.40
• James H. Gibbs, goods for David Tibbetts, $14.00
• James H. Gibbs, goods for Harry Humphrey, $8.00
• James H. Gibbs, goods for Indiana Johnson, $3.00
• Chas. O. Potter, goods for John Andrews, $5.49
• Jacob Hizer, keeping Elias Brown and wife, $15.00
• Thomas Lawton, keeping Ben Pelsor, $10.00
• Mary Richmond, keeping Hugh Pelsor, $8.00
• Hugh S. Pickett, keeping Lena & Lula Pelsor, $20.00
• D. P. Oak, keeping Henry C. Graves, $10.00
• H. M. Faudre, keeping Orville Bosaw and May Johnson, $21.25
• Cyrus Tinker, keeping Chester Pelsor, $10.66
• U. H. Stow, keeping Amanda English, $10.00
• Wm. Carnine, keeping pauper children, $17.20
• Thos. Reynolds, taking 2 children to poor house, $3.00
• Wm. Hanna, keeping Edith Miles, $10.00
• E. G. Seymour, coffin for Scott Manser’s child, $5.00
• John H. Robbins, keeping Joseph Israel, $8.00

Reported by Township Trustee and Overseer of Poor of Pleasant Township.

• James H. Gibbs, provisions for Mrs. M. D. Lientz, $9.00
• James H. Gibbs, provisions for John Courtney, $8.00
• Miss O. H. Ricketts, goods for Mrs. McDaniel, $10.00
• Mary Rogers, goods for Anna Bray, $10.00
• John Steele, goods for Jane Nelson, $10.00
• John Steele, goods for Wm. Sutherland and wife, $21.49
• John Steele, goods for Ed Clark, $1.50
• Rosa Copher, keeping Ed LeClerc, $6.00
• Joana Pierce, house rent for Wm. Sutherland, $4.50
• Taylor Stepleton, 6 cords wood for Mrs. M. D. Lientz, $9.00

Reported by Township Trustee and Overseer of Poor of Craig Township.

• Nicholas Webber, keeping Sarah Adams, $10.00
• James Cooper, keeping Jane Cooper, $10.00
• Larkin Turner, for keeping Wm. Turner in sickness, $10.00
• Geo. D. Madary, school books for Rachel Roberts’ children, $0.25
• Robert Stevens, clothing for Rachel Roberts’ children, $12.20
• Geo. D. Madary, school books for Elijah Davis’ children, $0.45
• Otis S. Waldo, goods for 2 orphan children kept by Alex Tilley, $2.04
• Hall & Fallis, provisions for Ostrander family, $10.40
• Enos Protsman, keeping Oliver Protsman, $15.00

County Asylum and Poor Farm Expense.

• Enoch S. Adams, keeper County Poor Farm and Asylum, presented to the Board his quarterly report of the names and number of inmates of Asylum last quarter, with the charges for keeping same, together with incidental expenses of Poor House, as follows, to-wit:
• Number of inmates 45: care and keeping same, $376.45
• School books for pauper children, $1.10
• Lumber and repairs for Poor House, $5.50
• Wm. F. Goldenburg, repairing furnace, etc., Poor House, $27.70
• James K. Pleasants, lumber for seats, $2.50
• Z. I. Yonge, muslin and bedding, $14.70
• C. V. Thiebaud, lime and brushes, $1.40
• Golay & Stevens, books for children, $4.00

Pauper Doctors’ Allowance.

• Dr. P. S. Sage, poor Dr. for Jefferson and Craig Townships, $42.50
• Dr. E. M. Cheever, for Posey Township, $27.50

BOOKS, STATIONERY & PRINTING.

• Wm. B. Burford, books and stationery, $134.82
• Sentinel Printing Co., books, stationery, etc., $50.00
• W. J. Baird, advertising and printing, $32.70
• P. T. Hartford, letterheads, envelopes, etc., $12.00
• Journal Printing Co., road and school laws, $3.60
• James H. Hitchens, Co. Atlas, Recorder’s office, $5.00

COUNTY OFFICERS’ FEES & SALARIES.

• Wm. Tait, 1 qr salary, $200.00
• D. N. Haydon, County Auditor, salary & fees, $500.30
• Jas. A. VanOsdol, Co. Supt., salary, $440.00
• Geo. S. Pleasants, Co. Attorney, $15.00
• D. B. Lee, fees in foreclosure school mortgage, $6.30
• Wm. H. Scott, 5 days as Commissioner, $17.50
• Orson A. Potter, 5 days as Commissioner, $17.50
• Wm. O. Marble, 5 days as Commissioner, $17.50
• Oscar Williamson, 5 days as Sheriff Commissioners’ Court, $10.00

BRIDGE & HIGHWAY.

• Orson A. Potter, superintending building bridge and abutment at Allensville, $18.00
• Wm. H. Scott, one day inspecting Allensville bridge, $1.50
• G. W. Knox, making fill and fence, Allensville bridge, $28.30
• Henry Myers, cutting ditch and making wing wall Allensville bridge, $7.00
• Americus Benedict, lumber, &c., Markland bridge, $9.58
• Mary Mennett, damages by change highway, $10.00
• John Jamison and John F. Brown, lumber for Indian Creek bridge, $19.76
• Simon Cossiart, hauling and repairing, Indian Creek bridge, $3.00
• Charles Markland, storage of iron bridge four years, $20.00

COURT HOUSE EXPENSE.

• Oscar Williamson, care of Court House and repairs therein, $38.40
• Wesley McHenry, raking leaves Court House yard, $2.00
• Hiram Corns, ice for Court House, $8.80
• F. L. Grisard, coal oil, etc., for Court House, $4.44
• E. P. Downey, four coal holds, $1.70
• Wm. F. Goldenburg, supplies for Court House, $6.40
• D. N. Haydon, postage and expressage, $2.85
• W. L. Fisk, set of chairs, $5.00
• Z. I. Yonge, Court House carpets, etc., $17.10
• Scott & Brown, coal oil, etc., $3.74
• D. B. Lee, Clerk, postage, expressage, etc., $10.80
• Wm. Tait, postage used notifying delinquents, $16.81
• Hall & Fallis, lamp chimneys, $0.20

CRIMINAL AND JAIL EXPENSE.

• Oscar Williamson, boarding prisoners and jail expense, $15.25
• Wm. F. Goldenburg, supplies for jail and Sheriff’s house, $6.25
• Elder & Bowen, repairing door locks county jail, $4.00
• C. O. Thiebaud, supplies for county jail, $2.65

JURY EXPENSE.

• Oscar Williamson, summoning Grand and Petit Jurors, $30.00

TAX REFUNDED.

• Enoch S. Adams, tax belonging to Enoch Adams, $4.02
• Clemens Demann, erroneous tax on lot No. 10, 9 years, $11.80
• D. N. Haydon, erroneous tax on 17 acres land for 3 years, $6.92

INSANE EXPENSE.

• Ohio River Telegraph Co., Mary D. Torrence, insane, $1.00

CORONER’S INQUEST.

• Dr. A. G. Craig, autopsy of babe of Amanda Hensley, $10.00