Switzerland County Commissioners’ Allowances – Mar 1883

The Switzerland County Commissioners’ allowances appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 15 Mar 1883 – Page 4, Column 6

LIST OF ALLOWANCES
Made by the Board of County Commissioners of Switzerland County, State of Indiana, at their March Session, 1883:

 

Mrs. Julia Wolf, for keeping poor boy, $6.00

Peter Pelsor, for keeping Ben Pelsor, $10.00

Dicey Estes, for keeping orphan children, 2 qrs, $30.00

David Dyer, taking pauper to poor house, $2.00

Levi H. Smith, for keeping Mrs. Mills, $10.00

Morrison L. Brown, services as overseer of poor, $58.00

Dan’l McIntire, for keeping Delilah Jackson, $5.00

Noah M. Martin, for self and family, $10.00

James W. Love, services as overseer of poor, $20.00

David B. Lee, services as overseer of poor, $15.00

James Curry, keeping paupers at poor house, $530.16

John Jester, services as overseer of poor, $12.00

Wm. C. Armstrong, services as overseer of poor, $30.00

Jas. C. Kincaid, sundries for paupers in Vevay, $13.30

Silas Told, coal for paupers in Vevay, $29.66

F. J. & A. J. Siebenthal, flour, &c., for paupers in Craig Township, $1.75

John Jester, paid F. Higgins for keeping Jones, $10.00

John Jester, sundries for Wakefields, $3.55

Z. I. Yonge & Co., for Caroline Sheets, Craig Twp, $3.00

U. P. Schenck & Son, for Wakefields, $9.58

O. D. Cunningham, for Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Perkins, $16.00

O. S. Waldo, for Ostranders, $3.10

Vaughn & McCreary, for J. W. Miller, $15.00

Vaughn & McCreary, for C. Fredenberg, $5.00

John I. O’Neal, for McClelland, Fredenberg and Miller, $18.53

Ira Cooper, for Mary McClelland, $12.00

U. P. Schenck & Son, for Boggs, $34.67

U. P. Schenck & Son, for Mrs. Floyd, $3.00

Lewis, Simmons & Long, for Wainscott, $40.92

Lewis, Simmons & Long, for Mrs. Day and Mrs. Cole, $12.70

Z. L. Yonge & Co., for Wainscott, LeClerc and Lamunion, $20.25

Hall & Lewis, for Jennie Hinsley, $6.25

Bledsoe & Beymer, for Mrs. McLelland, $15.60

Bledsoe & Beymer, for Mahala Wheeler, $18.00

Bledsoe & Beymer, for Rachel Burk, $10.00

Bledsoe & Beymer, for Mrs. Edrington and Ross children, $12.00

Jacob S. Shadday, for John Peelman, $5.00

Jas. S. Knox, hauling Tandy to cemetery, $1.00

Benjamin Cole, for Mollie Moody, $19.50

Annabel Simpson, nursing Wakefields, $21.00

Vaughn & McCreary, for Joe Benedict & family, $30.00

Albert Morrison, for Martha Manuel, $1.75

T. B. McGregor, for J. R. Blodget, $3.50

J. P. Marsh, for W. R. Sutherland, $1.30

J. J. Belden, for poor, Pleasant Township, $13.90

Levi Orem, for Martha Manuel, $8.50

Josiah Orem, for Martha Manuel, $10.25

F. B. Cunningham, services as overseer of poor, $18.00

Shaw & Detraz, for sundries for Jennie Hinsley, $6.25

Henry Todd, for feeding transient paupers, $1.50

Simpson & Brown, for Oliver Keith’s family, $10.00

Wm. M. Patton, for coffin, robe, and hauling Wainscott, $11.00

Julius Blach & Son, for clothes, Clarence Blodget, $3.00

Wm. Smith, for burying Tandy & Wainscott, $4.00

Woolen & Craig, surgical operation on Barnes, $30.00

A. Benedict, for Nancy Bosaw and Mary Boyd, $9.21

 

Hartford & Dalmazzo, advertising delinquent, $87.60

Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., $44.20

Hasseman Journal Co., $58.66

W. B. Burford, $146.00

W. J. Baird, $42.25

 

James R. Hart, salary, &c., $240.25

W. C. Robinson, salary, $200.00

W. C. Robinson, percentage, $215.30

John Gill, $437.45

Robert T. F. Abbett, $18.00

Dr. A. G. Craig, $103.85

Julius Muret, $17.50

L. C. Buck, $17.50

Robert Scott, $17.50

W. S. Tower, $10.00

 

O. P. Burns, repairing tables, Recorder, $1.00

C. Goldenbrug & Son, stoves, &c., $13.20

John W. Boyd, stoves, &c., $7.10

U. P. Schenck, sundries, Sheriff, $3.35

Z. I. Yonge & Co., sundries, Sheriff, $1.05

W. C. Robinson, office expense, $1.97

Shadday & Bear, gate latch, $1.00

John Gill, office expense, $3.74

R. T. F. Abbett, desk Clerk’s office, $55.00

R. T. F. Abbett, office expense, $2.70

John Henry, binding Reveille, $2.50

 

John Melcher, 50 bushels coal, jail, $6.50

F. J. Moxley, work at jail, $12.00

 

The following allowances were made to the Township Trustees, to be taken out of the several Township Funds:

  • Morrison L. Brown, $158.00
  • W. C. Armstrong, $211.00
  • James W. Love, $170.00
  • D. B. Lee, $94.00
  • F. B. Cunningham, $48.50
  • John Jester, $133.00