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