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• A s i i . . . . . • > " . , . * . ' . *b£3^^8MES #IDII*8DAY, MARCH F, 1887. J.TANSLTKE, Editor. THIS PAPER GKO'1 °PN MHtSfrL A OO/S Newspaper Advertising Ktmn (lOSprooe Street), wnere advertising KFRIWUNEW YORK- I^At Elgin, Monday, Buttti rul«d *&!•• and strong at 31 ceatl. No was sold. tigrTmn Rev. Henry Ward BrtCfHST died at 9:30 o,clock Tuesday morning, having remained uncomcious all day Monday and all Tuesday night. The funeral wtll take place in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Thuradafr to- norrew. » tSyFuller'e resolution In regard to tbe convict labor amendment did not pass. If it had the State would have saved probably a million dollars. The plan of working the convicts on State ttCttuot will, of course, result In a dead less, and the convicts be no better eared for than they are under the pres­ ent system, which is self-sustaining. Work dene on State account must be marketed somewhere aid necessarily tone In competition with work done •IHltsIde.--Ex. last week of lands belonging t<* tjto estate ot Leonard Doollttle. Caseius D. Doollttle pnrchased the homestead farm containing about 'four hundred and twenty acres. Mrs. Callsta F. Doolittle purchased a tenant farm lying near Avon Center, containing about one bundred and thirty acres. Harley llendee has moved into Morrill house, at Hainesville. B. W. Clark has hired the Shoe Shop and residence owned by D. S. Hook, in Haioesvills. Charles Boyce has hired the Robert Nelson farm near Fort Hill Cwuietery. There are to be several other changes this spring but they have not yet materialized. William C. Howard told several tons of pressed hay to I*. Grady, which was shipped from Gray's Lake last week. A. M. White sliippe 1 two gear loads of cattle from Gage's Lake to Chicago last week. a&*Mentlon is made in the Boston > Traveler of a Connection t man who "was born In the seventh year of the Oentury, on the seventh day of the! nonth. on tbe seventh day of tbe week, kod tbe seventh hour of the day, and la and has be«n a seventh-day Bap-1 list.'" This Is satisfactory so far as it j goes, but the Traveler fails to state whether Its Connecticut friend was the seventh son of a seventh dahghter, I whether his favorite poem is Word- worth's *'We Are Seven," or whether,! when he MUM to tabernacle in the lesh his address will be the seventh heaven. It is well to be thorough In MM Information. Uo rogue e'er felt the halter draw ; ' \VUh good opinion ot the law. ^ The usual attempt is being made by oar State Legislature to repeal tbe law requiring town officers who handle imblic money to report to their con- stituents through the newspapers ^ what they du with it. Three reasons are given for repeal- tag it. •' .. One Is that it cost something to pub- '[ {Uh the report. But we can't see how anyone who has fairly observed tbe working of the law can doubt that It r saves the people many times its cost. Nothing conduces so much to economy and fairness in the expenditure of Money as the assurance that all outlays Must be published In detail to be ex- ^ amlned by all the taxpayers. Defalca- lions and losses of the public funds, ^ fppecially of school funds, were far ^ y pore common before this law was en­ acted than they have been since. The argument of economy Is on the other •ide. Tbe amount saved is many times fhe expense of publication. Tbe real reasons for abolishing the law are two. One that it involves f' aome labor for the public officer to | . wake out an itemized report annually *nd labor of a kind that some town ^ Officers especially dislike. This is the § argument of laziness and it is not frorth answering. The other is that '\y they do not like to make public tbe method in which they dispose of pub- | lie funds. ; Tbe road commissioners _ ^Who give fat jobs to friends or rela­ te lives; the managers of poor farms who ^% ase their money unwisely; the school jT-. treasurers who have more money in ?/•. their hands than they are willing to ;; f $ave koown, all find that a published ft port sets people talking and not !'\< > ••'fry* *o a complimentary manner, w..... about the moda ln which thalr money ' Is spent. ' But all this is more than answered fpl by the fact that the people have a tight to know all these things, and the < public officer, who handles public jnonev, ought to be willing and even ^ • anxious to make public showing of the |j,' Way in which ho expends tn.-^ea- jnore Republican. Board of Supervlaora. The Honorable Board of Supervisors of McHenry County. Illinois, met .in special session on Friday, Feb. 25,1887, at 11 o'clock, •. M.. at the Court House, in Woodstock, as per eall of the Clerk. Meeting called to order by the chair­ man, H. S. Williams. The roll being called, all the mem­ bers answered to their names, except Supervisors Z. £. Goodrich and Shurt» lift. The Clerk read the eall for the spe­ cial meeting, to-wit: By virtue of a request of oyer one-third of, the Su­ pervisors, I, Wm. Avery, County Clerk, hereby give notice that a special meet­ ing of the Board of Supervisors of Mc­ Henry County, will be held at the Court House on Friday, Feb. 25th, at 11 o'clock. A, M., for ehE purpose of per­ fecting arrangements for building Jthe proposed new jail and residence for the Sherifl. Sup. Granger addressed the Board In relation to calling tbe special session, ail of which would be fully set forth in a report to be presented to the Board at its afternoon session. Sup. Richards moved that the Board adjourn until one o'clock, r. M., Sharp. Motion carried. AFTERNOON SESSION, 1 O'CLOCK, P.M. Board met pursuant to adjournment» Called to order by the Chairman. Members all present except Super­ visors Goodrich and Shurtliff. Sup. Granger presented the follow­ ing report to the Board and moved its a d o p t i o n , t o w i t : STATE OF IlfLINOlS. 1 VSfc McHenry County, ) Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors of McHenry county; \ Your special committee on < Jail and Sherifl's Residence begleave^to report. That in pursuance |to the instructions to your Honorable body, directing them what to do, they have contracted for the purchase of a site for tbe pro­ posed new iail and sheriff's residence. That for such purpose they have con­ tracted for the property known as the Donnelly property, for which they agreed to pay for the payment for a site and Jail atid Sheriffs residence and alterations and improvements in the court house building, the county clerk be Instruct­ ed to draw county orders on the coun­ ty treasurer, said orders to be counter- signed by the county treasurer, said orders not te exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and to draw Interest at the rate of five percent per annum. One-half of said orders to become due and payable on the 1st day of April, A. D. 1888, and the remaining halt to becomt due and payable on the 1st day of April. A. D. 18$!), and that said county orders be drawn converted Into cash at not less ??!*»} • h*?!? ?#'j; ts!hs ts assy bs nssufiii to pay for such a site, material, work and improvements. That the proceeds of all orders be paid into the county treasury, and paid out only on the order of the coun­ ty clerk, each and every order specify­ ing the purpose for which it Is given, no order to be drawn only in payment of bills duly certified to by the com­ mittee, unless otherwise ordered by the Board. Accompanying this report you will find bill for services and mileage of this committee. All of which Is respectfully submit­ ted. F. K. GBANGKR, ; . Chairman, w John H. PALMKK. • V . » . J . BECK. Sup. Barber offered the following resolution and moved Its adoption, to-wit: Resolved, That the special commit, tee on jail, shertlTs residence and ini provements in the court house, be rec­ ommended by this Board to employ Mr. R. J. Beck to superintend the pro­ posed work at a compensation not ex ceeding the sura of five dollars per day for each day actually occupied in so superintending. Resolution adopted. Ayes and nays being called for, re* suited as follows: Ayes,--Barber, Pat- rick, Lake, Cutter, Flavin, Richards. Sawyer, Lamb, Garrison, Mead, Alex­ ander, Granger, Palmer, Dike, (14;. Nays,--Fred Hatch (1), Resolution adopted. SJP, Dike moved that the special committee, supervisors Mid clerk be, allowed their usual per diem and mile­ age. Motion carried. Sup. Granger moved that tbe Board now Adjourn. Motion carried. H. S. WILLIAMS, Chairman. Attest, WM. AVERV, Clerk. COLLEGE In West McHenry, tj •' •' • . ,y Hiving purchased tbe Hardware Business of I. N. Mead; in West McHenry, would inform the Buying Public that he has just putin a full new stock of ' ' Purchased for Cash, all of which will fee §$>ld asvlowW the market will admit and furnish First Class Goods* A FULL For both Coal and Wood, of the best makes, always on hand. In short I will keep every thing-, in the Hardware line, to be found in McHenry county. Do not fail to call when in want of anything" in my line and fj£e what can be done. I have employed a first class Tinner, and alt '• r;'V • Will be done on short uoticevand specialty "Iff Butter Factory work, respectfully solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed. A A share of public patronage W* P, STEVENS, l?S;v fort Hill Procinct-Lake County : EDITOR PLAINDEALER.--Sioco my last monthly communication to your paper several of our esteemed fellow citizens have been called away by death. On Tuesday Feb, 8th occurred tbe death of Jeneatte Wigbtman aged about 80 years. Mrs. Wightman was native of Scotland and has resided in Avon since 1862. She leaves a husband and two sons to mourn ber loss. Died at Avon Center, on Saturday, February 26th, Emma A. Edwards, widow of the late Charles G. Edwards, aged 38 years. Sbe leaves three orphan children, one son and two daughters. Died at her residence,. near ,lFox Lake City." in tbe town ol Avon, on Monday, February, 28th, |Mrs. Harriet Gilbert, wife of Alvern Gilbert, Mrs. Gilbert leaves a husband and fonr daughters to mourn ber loss. I also hear of the death of James M. Dodge, of Milburu. Mr. Dodge was one of tbe early settlers In the town of Avoo, has held several offices of trust and honor and for several years past has been Secretary of the Mllburn Insurance Company. On Thursday, March 3d. 1887, Charles Christian died at his residence near Hainesvllle, aged over 80 yeais. He leaves a widow, two sons and one daughter. On the sick list|we have now Joseph P. Fox, who has been confined to his room for several months past, Joseph Wigbtman, Mrs, Kobert Nelson. Mrs. Walter White. Mrs. Peter Kelly, and several others. We bear of several obanges.ln resi- •ttite. At the sale * » « for which have agreed to pay the sum of four the suu) of four thousand dollars. The contract calls for a deed and fnll pos­ session of the premises on the drst day of March next. In further compliance to the iastruc* tions to tlnm given, your committee has entered into a contrast wltn A. L. Deane & Co., of Chicago, representing tlie Hail Safe and Lock Co. for all the jail work and fixtures demanded by the county. The contract calls for ten steel cells, and one iron-lined one, for use in separate room from other cells. The contract cails for a full and complete job, as contained in contract ana specifications. All of which is to cost the sum of forty six hundred dol­ lars. When yobr committee approached tbe question of taking down the Don­ nelly building and the still more im­ portant question ot the proposed new jail and sberifTs residence building, they met the propositions that con­ firmed them In the belief that it was advisable to call your Honorable Board together in this special session. It appeared to your committee that under preseot instructions to them, they were only at liberty to do tbe said work by contract, and by contract, they understood a letting to some per­ son or firm the job fjr the work. In order to do this intelligently a detail­ ed plan and specifications by a prefes sional architect would be needed. And then to protect the county, a supervis­ ion of the work by the architect would seem essential. The judgment of the committee is that there is a much more economical course to pursue. Economy demands that all of the suitable material in the Donnelly building be utilized in the construction of the new building. If this is to be done by contract, it opens a wide door for an imposition upon the county. The material in the Don nelly building may be. substantially wasted, or that which is worthless be used, subject to the caprice or whim of t b e c o n t r a c t o r a n d a r c h i t e c t . W b o ever eontracts to do the work, con­ tracts to do it as' a money making scheme. Your committee are ot the opinion are of the opinion the sur­ rounding circumstances are of that pe­ culiar nature, and tbe work to ne per­ formed is of that character and de scrlption as to make the interests of the county demand that much of the work be done by days work, rather than by contract. Your committee feel that, that sys tem whioh will secure the work the most substantially to the residents of our own county, and at the same time reduce the cost of tbe work to the least possible amount is the advisable system tor this board to adopt. 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