The Switzerland County Commissioners’ proceedings appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 16 Jun 1881 – Page 4, Column 1
COUNTY BUSINESS.
At the meeting of the County Commissioners last week among other business transacted was the following:
R. D. Gullion and others petitioned for the vacation of a road in Pleasant Township. There being no remonstrance the petition was granted.
The following persons were employed as Physicians for the poor for one year:
- Pleasant Township—Dr. P. C. Helland, $50.00
- York—Dr. G. W. Hewitt, $25.00
- Posey—Dr. E. M. Cheever, $60.00
- Cotton—Dr. R. G. Simpson, $23.00
- Jefferson and Craig, including inmates of the poor house—Dr. T. J. Griffith, $113.00
John Gill, Auditor, presented a report for the year ending May 31, 1881, showing the financial condition of the county. Amount in the treasury, $13,529.63.
The report was found correct and approved.
Stanwood D. Kyle was appointed to a scholarship in Purdue University.—The Auditor was ordered to give him a certificate to that effect.
The sealed bids and proposals for keeping the poor farm were then opened. There were several bids. The contract was awarded to James Curry, for two years, commencing December 7, 1881, at $50 per head for each inmate. He gave bond to the amount of $500—Robert A. Knox, Daniel Trafalet and F. M. Griffith.
Wm. C. Robinson, County Treasurer elect, filed his bond for $75,000.00. Sureties: Lemuel Bledsoe, John Andrew, Shelomoth Stow, Howard Stow, Robert Miller, Cornelius Miller, U. H. Stow, R. A. Harris, C. R. Clark.
Americus Benedict, County Treasurer, presented ordered amounting to $25,580.73, which he had redeemed since his last report. Compared with the books of the Auditor, found correct and cancelled.
In the matter of the petition of W. P. Hall, Wm. Norisez and others for a change, vacation, and relocation of the “Tardy hill road.” Ebenezer Phillips, Abraham Montayne and John A. Cunningham, viewers, presented a report recommending that the request of the petitioners be granted. The report was accepted and approved and the viewers discharged.
Wm. R. Protsman, by his attorneys, filed his remonstrance against granting the request of the petitioners. David Shull, Jacob Meyers and Thomas F. McCreary were appointed re-viewers. They will meet at the Auditor’s office July 20th, and after being sworn proceed to examine the road. They will report to the Commissioners the first Monday in September next.
John W. Vanosdol, H. Myers, Cornelius Hizer and Wm. Clevenger, petitioned, asking that the Commissioners declare the Allensville, Center Square and Vevay Turnpike abandoned. Granted. The Auditor was ordered to notify the Trustees of the Township through which the road passes, to take charge of the road and attach it to the proper road districts.
The Auditor was ordered to advertise for sealed proposals for the construction of an iron fence around the Court House square.
The Auditor was also ordered to advertise for bids to construct two stone abutments over Log Lick Creek at Beaty’s Ford.
Licenses to retail intoxicating liquors were granted to W. P. Davies, Thomas Delaney, Henry Schewe, Geo. W. Fallis, Vevay; James P. Krutz, Florence.