Switzerland County Commissioners’ allowances appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 23 Sep 1880 – Page 4, Column 5
A list of allowances made by the Board of County Commissioners for Switzerland County, at their September term, 1880:
FOR PAUPER AND POOR HOUSE.
Jonathan C. Ricketts, for Mix, $14.60
Jonathan C. Ricketts, for Ida Gudgeon, $1.55
Jonathan C. Ricketts, for A. Keith, $4.28
John Riley, coffin for Ida Gudgeon $5.00
Danner & Co., pump for poor house, $9.75
Ben Cole, for Mrs. Moody and Mrs. Kesner, $21.60
Mrs. Wolf, for keeping child, $10.00
James Andenson, for Joe Redd and Mrs. McClannahan, $4.50
R. Galbraith, for Mrs. Bain, $5.00
N. H. North, for C Icenogle, $5.00
W. F. North, for James Harmon, $6.60
Love & Boyle, for J. B. Juda, $10.00
H. J. Harris, taking D. Jones to poor house, $5.00
Isaac F. Banta, for poor of Craig Township, $54.60
James S. Knox, taking Boyd to poor house, $3.00
Peter Pelsor, keeping Ben Pelsor, $10.00
J. M. Froman, rent for Mrs. Kilgore, $9.00
Nancy Schenck, nursing Mrs. Bagwell, $17.50
Cain & Bonner, for Noah Martin, $5.00
Kincaid & Brother, provisions for Joe Redd, Mrs. Martin and Betty Smith, $8.00
Wm. M. Patton, coffin for negro child, $3.00
Levi H. Smith, for keeping Mrs. Mills, $10.00
S. R. Heath, for keeping Mrs. Merril, $1.88
J. H. Gibbs, for keeping Mrs. Gills, $10.00
W. J. Gibbs, for keeping Lydia Gibbs, $10.00
Noah Martin, $15.00
B. W. Simmons, sundry persons on Trustee Brown’s orders, $48.50
Nancy Higgins, for keeping Thomas Higgins, $23.60
Matthew Worstell, for keeping poor house, $370.60
John I. O’Neal, for J. Miller and Mrs. McLelland, $10.25
Amos Farwood, for Mrs. Farwood, $10.00
Nicholas Keith, for Betty Hinman, $9.50
Bledsoe & Beymer, for Mrs. Farwood and Mrs. Buck, $38.00
Clendenning & Kincaid, for coffins, $20.00
O. D. Cunningham, for R. Hinman and J. Jones, $19.00
J. H. Baird, for J. N. Miller, $10.65
McCreary & Snyder, for Indiana Hinman, $7.80
Wm. H. Scott, for A. Keith, $4.82
Dempsey Gullion, for Mrs. Wheeler, $6.50
A. Benedict, for Polly McLelland, $6.86
John Gill, for Jennie Jones to Cincinnati, $2.00
A. Benedict, for Mrs. Kilgore, $10.00
Fred Plew, for keeping Frank Jennings, $37.00
O. S. Waldo, for poor house, $12.00
John Smiley, for conveyance to poor house, $1.00
U. P. Schenck & Son, for old man Boggs and wife, $22.97
U. P. Schenck & Son, for Joe Redd and Mayhew, $17.50
U. P. Schenck & Son, for Eliza Orem, $5.40
U. P. Schenck & Son, for Amanda Mayhew, $5.00
U. P. Schenck & Son, for straw for bedding poor house, $6.50
John L. Thiebaud, medicines &c., $3.65
James Boyd, repairing gutters, $5.00
Ben Morris, keeping Depper child, $6.00
A. Benedict, for Cary Hampton, $11.50
Scott Carter, for J. Jennings, $5.00
COUNTY OFFICERS’ FEES AND SALARIES.
Jacob Banta, sundries as Commissioner, $3.00
John Gill, salary as Auditor, school fund and filing papers, $485.51
A. Benedict, salary as Treasurer, $200.00
R. S. Northcott, salary as Superintendent, &c., $187.20
William Stewart, eight days as Commissioner, $28.00
D. R. Drake, eight days as Commissioner, $28.00
Julius Muret, eight days as Commissioner, $28.00
John P. White, eight days as Sheriff, $16.00
BOOKS, STATIONERY AND PRINTING.
Irvin Armstrong, advertising, $14.60
Levy Brothers, stationery, $41.10
W. B. Burford, stationery, $61.75
Indianapolis Journal Company, stationery, $12.55
W. J. Baird, advertising, $5.70
ROADS AND BRIDGES.
J. C. Ricketts, two days viewing road, $3.00
Wm. Cunningham, two days viewing road, $3.00
Jacob Baker, one day viewing road, $1.50
U. P. Schenck & Son, spikes for bridge, $2.40
Thomas J. Gordon, laying floor Sand Run, $10.00
Thomas J. Gordon, balance stone work Sand Run, $74.96
COURT HOUSE EXPENSE.
R. T. F. Abbett, office expense, $6.60
D. C. Weaver, repairing lightning rod, $3.00
A. Stow, glazing, $1.20
F. L. Grisard & Son, sundries, $8.90
U. P. Schenck & Son, cement, $0.50
Hiram Corns, ice, $12.82
John L. Thiebaud, coal oil &c., $1.05
John P. White, taking care of Court House, $10.00
John Gill, office expense, $3.55
ASSESSING.
Jonathan McMakin, assessing, $66.00
Joshua Means, $48.00
CRIMINAL EXPENSE.
U. P. Schenck & Son, blankets for jail, $4.50
Wm. Rowin, bringing prisoner to jail, $5.00
John P. White, receiving, boarding and discharging prisoners, $4.80
R. T. F. Abbett, election expense, $3.80