The Switzerland County, Indiana, Commissioners’ allowances appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 24 Jun 1876 – Page 4, Column 4

State of Indiana, Switzerland County, SS.
Allowances made by the Board of County Commissioners at their June Term, 1876:

 

CORONERS’ INQUESTS.

F. J. Hollcroft, fee, $5.00

S. D. Armstrong, witness fee, $1.50

Charles Mead, witness fees, $1.50

Smith Worstell, Constable’s fees, $2.20

William Cunningham, fee, $5.00

William Cunningham, box and burying, $12.00

William Cunningham, paid Constable’s fees, $2.00

James McClanahan, Constable’s fees, $0.90

William Bosaw, box for child, $2.37

Marion Reeves, box for adult, $5.00

A. Benedict, fee, $5.00

Roland Bliss, Constable’s fees, $1.15

Roland Bliss, box, &c., $6.00

J. D. Works, services at McBride’s Inquest, $10.00

 

PAUPER EXPENSE.

John H. Daubenheyer, for coffin, $7.00

Matthew Worstell, quarterly allowance, $431.80

Clara J. Worstell, making quilts, &c., $19.40

S. R. Tinker, coffin, &c., Harriet Gibson, $8.00

William M. Patton, two coffins, $11.00

Charles H. Sage, sundries, $48.75

C. W. Johnson, sundries, $15.00

Bristow & Lock, coal, $6.50

E. M. Cheever, salary as Physician, $15.00

B. F. Graves, salary as Physician, $15.00

P. C. Holland, salary as Physician, $20.00

P. S. Sage, salary as Physician, $20.00

R. A. Jamieson, salary as Physician, $22.50

G. W. VanPelt, salary as Physician, poor house, $40.00

McCreary & Land, Flour, $1.00

Harry Krutz & Co., sundries, $6.50

John Chatelin, coal, $20.20

H. Raudry, digging grave, &c., H. Gibson, $1.60

C. R. Heath, for Harriet Gibson, $10.00

U. P. Schenck & Son, for Mrs. Maxwell, $10.00

U. P. Schenck & Son, sundries for poor house, $11.33

Adrian Wolf, for keeping pauper child, $7.50

Noah Martin, for self and family, $20.00

Thomas Slater, for repairing cistern, $10.00

Samuel Wade, for coffin, $2.50

J. T. Whitlock, for 2 coffins, $14.00

Charles Summers, goods furnished Mr. Craig, $5.00

G. W. VanPelt, services previous to contract, $2.00

Pleasants & Thiebaud, burial clothes, McMahan, $8.85

James K. Pleasants, shingles for poor house, $18.55

W. M. Green, sundries, on J. N. Searcy’s order, $32.25

S. Howe & Co., sundries on J. N. Searcy’s order, $23.10

Simeon Orem, for keeping Mrs. Low, $10.00

R. F. Grisard & Bro., Hardware for poor house, $28.99

F. J. Hollcroft, 5 coffins, $33.00

O. S. Waldo, for provisions, $17.00

John Neal, for coffin, $4.00

John Holler, Shaving, &c., McMahan, $2.00

O’Neal & Shuff, lumber for poor house, $21.00

Ormsby & Green, goods for poor house, $12.00

Matthew Worstell, for am’t paid for grubbing, $48.00

William Smith, for digging 3 graves, $7.00

Mrs. Rebecca Marshal, keeping pauper, $3.00

Wm. Stoops, for sundries, $3.50

A. Mayer, to remove Stewart family, $5.00

Henry Stucy, Jr., work on fence at poor house, $3.00

John Moxley, keeping Rhoda Picket, $14.50

 

R. E. Hall, Assessing Vevay & Jefferson Township, $125.00

J. A. Lineback, Assessing York Township, $62.50

W. S. McNutt, Assessing Posey Township, $120.00

James McHenry, Assessing Cotton Township, $80.00

R. G. Simpson, Assessing Pleasant Township, $117.50

L. F. Works, Assessing Craig Township, $60.00

 

S. H. Pavy, repairing roof of Indian Creek Bridge, $6.00

Samuel Butler, care of Plum Creek Bridge, $3.00

James M. North, boarding hands and work on Grant’s Creek Bridge, $105.55

 

C. H. Sage, interest on borrowed money, $2.48

F. M. Griffith, interest on County Orders, $232.36

 

Bristow & Lock, coal furnished Jail, $6.90

J. K. Pleasants, shingles for kitchen of Jail, $10.75

James Kincaid, Sr., repairing cistern at Jail, $7.00

C. Goldenburg & Co., patent chimneys for kitchen of Jail, $2.83

 

Bristow & Lock, 1,000 bus. Coal, Court House, $115.00

Hail & Lewis, 15 yds India Matting, Court House, $7.60

F. A. Boerner & Bro., winding and keeping clock in the Court room in order one year, $5.00

James Anderson, coal oil, brooms, &c., Sheriff, $3.00

O’Neal & Shuff, lumber, gate, &c., Sheriff, $3.50

F. M. Griffith, coal oil, lamps, &c., $4.95

J. Armstrong, taking care Court House 3 mos., $10.25

John Gill, office expense from Dec., 1875, to date, $6.25

 

W. R. Protsman, 2 days as viewer, $3.00

Samuel Porter, 2 days as viewer, $3.00

Benj. Siebenthal, 2 days as viewer, $3.00

 

W. H. Wallick, Books and Stationery, $1.65

W. M. Burford, Books and Stationery, $116.50

David Braden, Books and Stationery, $4.00

Indianapolis Sentinel Co., Books and Stationery, $26.00

Indianapolis Journal Co., Books and Statinoery, $15.00

 

W. J. Bair, Public Printing, $12.00

Irvin Armstrong, Public Printing, $7.00

 

Jas. Armstrong, clothing for insane woman, $1.91

Ormsby & Green, goods for Mrs. Vanbriggle, insane, $15.67

John Armstrong, goods for same, $8.70

J. H. Netherland, fees in case of Mrs. Lambertson, insane, $3.80

W. S. Lambertson, fees for taking Mrs. Lambertson to Asylum, $25.00

 

Carter & Johnston, salary as County Attorneys one quarter, $25.00

Fox Scalps, $2.00

County Revenue to Attorney General for docket fees withheld in 1873, and interest, $98.58

F. M. Griffith, quarterly salary, $250.00

John Armstrong, fees, $109.69

John Armstrong, fees, $18.00

John P. White, drawing juries, $2.00

John Gill, quarterly salary and managing school fund, $476.88

W. J. Gibbs, 11 days as Commissioner, $44.00

David Scott, 9 days as Commissioner, $36.00

Wm. Stewart, 7 days as Commissioner, $28.00

 

Erroneous tax refunded to Catherine Hastie, $12.97

John Armstrong, criminal expense, $114.70

John Armstrong, summoning juries, $28.50

Chas. J. Robenstein, salary 6 months, $40.00