A GOOD LIVE SCARE

(10 January 1901)

Last Tuesday, at the request of Supt. J. R. Graber of the county infirmary, Commissioners Doak, Mann and Reppert, in company with P. Holthouse, Henry H. Meyer, T. H. Ernst, John Myers and Clark J. Lutz, made an inventory of the personal property belonging to the county and located on the county farm, and their report show the following:

Hay tedder, grain drill, ground roller, clover gatherer, two sulkey plows, disk borrow, corn planter, binder, cutting box, six shovel plows, five harrows, three breaking plows, bobsleds, mower, reaper, sleigh, spring wagon, road wagon, miscellaneous tools, scales, wind mill, grain sacks, harness, wagon wash house, slaughtering outfits, and copper kettle, which figures a total of $752.20. In addition, there were 1,700 bushels of oats, 150 bushels of wheat, 26 tons of hay, thirty acres of corn fodder worth $1,141. The wood ready for use amounts to 340 cords valued at $265. The livestock consists of seventy-four head of hogs, fifty-one sheep, five turkeys, 800 chickens, forty head of cattle, four horses, all of which are valued at $3,118. Kitchen furniture and range, dishes and table, refrigerator, kraut cutter, chair and desk, eight heating stoves, sewing machine, invalid chair, eighteen lamps, chairs, carpets, barber chair, and thirty-four bedsteads and bedding which are valued at $576.50. The supplies on hand are shirts, overalls, underclothes, hoods, aprons, towels, jeans and mixed suits, hats, suspenders, cotton flannel sheeting, flannel, ticking denim, shirting, calico, yarn, batting, socks, mittens, thread, meal, rice coffee, soap starch, lemon essence, tobacco and oil worth $142.20 Besides this there is on hand ready for consumption produce raised during 1900, vinegar, beans, corn, lard, apple butter, tobacco, syrup, chow-chow, fruit, pickles, sauerkraut, sausage, catsup, grape wine, apples, potatoes, turnips, onions, pork and beans valued at $810.75. A recapitulation of the above totals shows the value of all personal property to be $6,985.65. The improvements during the past year are enumerated in a new well and wind pump, farm scales and scale house, new roof on cell house, ditch and stone arch, clearing ten acres of ground and 500 rods of tile ditching, all of which cost the sum of $1,191.75. It will no doubt be a surprise to many of our readers to know that nearly $7,000 worth of personal property is on the county farm. It shows Mr. Graber to be the aggressive farmer he has always been reputed to be and a manager of affairs and business who’s equal is seldom found. Everything appertaining to the farm is in first-class condition, and those who were present upon this invoice day are loud in their praises of the business management in vogue there.