Switzerland County, Indiana, Commissioners’ proceedings appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 7 Feb 1901 – Page 5, Column 3

County Business.

Thomas Land, Walter Lock and C. C. Morrison, County Commissioners, met in regular session last Monday, adjourning Tuesday.

J. P. Orem, County Treasurer, reported payment of Bond No. 2, Free Gravel Roads in Cotton Township; $329.00. Alos payment of interest coupons on above bonds no. 2 to 4; (inclusive) $7.41 each. Bond and interest coupons cancelled by Board. Also for Free Gravel Road Bonds in Pleasant Township, 1 to 6–$500 each; No. 7, $130. Also payment of interest coupons, 54 at $25 each, and 6 at $6.50 each. Also for Free Gravel Road in York Township (Dorrell Road) payment Bond No. [?], $500, and 10, $152. Payment interest coupons; 6 at $25 and 6 and $7.60. Scott Road, payment Bonds 5 to 7 (inclusive) $500 each, and 8, $377. Interest coupons; 27 at $25 and 9 at $18.75. Also Free Gravel Roads in Jefferson Township; payment Bonds Nos. 18 and 19, $500 each, and No. 20, $4.50. Interest coupons; 17 at $25 and 6 at $22.50.

The County Auditor reported the following bonds and interest coupons outstanding and past due: [See newspaper.]

Wm. B. Streeter, State Agent Board of Charities, was given permission to take away from the County Orphan Asylum and place in homes the following children: Hester Courter, Nora Boggs, Pearl Boggs, John Taylor, and Bert Vandever, and that Claudie Wright would be removed later. That homes should be found for the Beatty children and Glenn Vandever, among their relatives without expense to the county, or otherwise they would be placed in homes by the State Agent. That application should be made for the admission of Ethel Richards, George Taylor and Daisy A. Smith to the School for feeble minded children. In case Ethel Richard be not admitted to said school for feeble minded, that she be returned to the Orphans Home in this County from the Orphans Home at Plymouth, Illinois.