THE WEYAUWEGA CHRONICLE

Saturday, November 20, 1880

 

COUNTY SEAT

 

 

     There is a new aspirant for the location of the county seat.  The town of Royalton comes to the front and offers $6,000 towards the erection of county buildings; at least that was the proposition made to the Board of Supervisors last Tuesday by a representative from that town.  We don’t know any reason why that is not a good location.  It is not quite as near the center of the county as Manawa, but the location is a better one.

     We understand this question of the county seat was to come before the Board on Tuesday evening.  Another thing is pretty well settled among the members, and that is, a location for the county seat will first be permanently settled upon before any appropriations will be made for county buildings.  This is good sound policy.  First let us locate the place for the county seat, and then we think there will be no objection to voting an appropriation to build the necessary buildings for the use of the county.

     Since the above was in type there has been a new turn to the whole affair.  Waupaca comes before the board and offers $7,000 towards building a court house.  The board accepted the proposition and also voted to raise $8,000, making $15,000 in all.  We understand that $3,000 is to be raided by direct tax, and the remaining $5,000 is to be procured by the sale of lands belonging to the county.  Whether anything was done to procure a title to the grounds on which the court house now stands we do not know, but presume there was not.