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Rietbrock centennial
(1880-1980)
Town of Rietbrock is created July 18, A.D. 1880, pp. 13-14
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Town Of Rietbrock Is Created July 18, A.D. 1880 At a meeting of the Town Boards of Rib Falls and Rietbrock concerning the settlement between said towns, it could not be exactly ascertained which have been all the assets of said town of Rib Falls and therefore it was concluded by the two said Town Boards of Rib Falls and Rietbrock that the town treasurer of the town of Rib Falls, shall pay over to the town of Rietbrock one third of all the property credit, effects and assets now on hand or that shall be hereafter levied and collected upon the joint territory of said towns of Rib Falls and Rietbrock, according to the following order of the county Board, of the County of Marathon, to wit. The County Board of Supervisors of Marathon County do ordain as follows: That the Town of Rib Falls consisting of Township Twenty-nine (29) Range four (4) and five (5) East be and the same is hereby divided and all the territory embraced in Township Twenty-nine (29) North of Range four (4) East is hereby detached from the Town of Rib Falls and is hereby erected and created into a new town. Said Town shall be known under the name of Rietbrock. The first annual Town meeting in said new Town shall be held in the building known as the "Court House" situated upon the N East of the North West Quarter of the South East Quarter of Section Number fourteen (14) in Township number Twenty-Nine (29) North of Range Number four (4) East. The existing indebtedness of the present Town of Rib Falls shall be and the same is hereby divided pro. rata according to the last assessment of the present Town of Rietbrock, and all the property, credit, effects and assets now on hand and to be hereafter to be levied and collected upon the joint territory of said Town are hereby and shall be divided between said old Town of Rib Falls and the new Town hereby erected, pro rata, according to said assessment roll and the ordinary expenses only for maintaining the Town Government shall be borne out of the Common fund now on hand and hereafter collected. As there was a deficiency in the Town Treasury of the Town of Rib Falls during the office of Win. Klatt of about One hundred and forty ($140.00) Dollars and this sum had to be paid by the sureties of said Wm. Klatt, the Town Board of the Town of Rib Falls taking in considerating that the said Wm. Klatt died by accident, settled with the sureties to that effect, that they should pay only the part due to the Town of Rietbrock. The Town Board of Rietbrock then concluded to take only the sum of twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars, which should be paid by the Town Treasurer of Rib Falls to the said Town of Rietbrock. On motion the meeting adjourned sine die. Dated at Rib Falls July 19th A.D. 1880. Supervisors of the Supervisors of the Town of Rib Falls Town of Rietbrock C. Hanke P. Teusz A. Heise J. Myszka Win. Harder A. Jozwiak At a meeting of the Supervisors of the Town of Rietbrock on the 12th day of July A.D. 1880, con- tracts were let for building the following bridges. One bridge over the Black Creek between Sections 2 and 3. Contract taken by M. Milkowski for the sum of One Hundred and sixty-five ($165.00) Dollars. Bridge to be completed in two months. One bridge south of the foregoing contract taken by Albert Nowacki for Seven Dollars and fifty cents ($7.50). One bridge south of the foregoing between Sec. 2 and 3, con- tracts taken by J. Literski for thirty-one dollars and fifty cents ($31.50). On application made by six freeholders and residents of the Town of Rietbrock and six freeholders and residents of the Town of Hamburg to the town Boards of Rietbrock and Hamburg laying out the Town line between Townships 29 and 30 Range 4 East the said town Boards met at Kreutzersville Town 30 Range 4 East on the 24th day of July A.D. 1880. The proceedings of said meeting are recorded on pages 27 and 28. "ROAD RECORDS". At a spectal meeting of the Supervisors of the town of Rietbrock the following order was issued by the Supervisors of the town of Rietbrock to wit. Town of Rietbrock County of Marathon ss We the undersigned supervisors of the town of Rietbrock deeming the tax raised at the last annual town meeting insufficient to pay the debts of said town to hereby order that a special tax of Two Hundred and fifty ($250.00) Dollars shall be raised for the ensuing year A.D. 1881 on all taxable property personal and real in said town. Dated Town Rietbrock the 23rd day of Nov. 1880. Supervisors of the Town of Rietbrock P. Teusz J. Myszka A. Jozwiak At a special meeting of the Supervisors of the town of Rietbrock for the purpose of granting town license to Martin and Joseph Chesak, the said supervisors of the town of Rietbrock issued the following order:
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