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The Herald Press
St. Joseph, MI
January 15, 1913


              Newaygo County Jail Will Have to Be Built
                 In $1,000 Installments
                 
              White Coud, Jann. 15 - White Cloud cannot have a jail
           and a sheriff's residence for Newaygo county for quite
           awhile, but it's going to have an excavation for both of
           these buildings in a hurry.           
              Jealousy among the towns of Newaygo, White Cloud, and
           Fremont as to the county seat has caused this peculiar
           situation, which came to a head yesterday afternoon when
           the county supervisors voted to borrow $1,000 - as much
           as the law allows them - to start the construction. More
           will be voted when Father Time makes it lawful.           
              White Cloud got the county seat away from Newaygo in
           April, 1910, by promising to furnish the county with a
           court house for a period of seven years. This building
           has been provided.           
              However, White Cloud did not agree to build a jail
           with its own money. So the county spent $270 in the con-
           struction of a lockup. Within a year state authorities
           condemned this edifice and since that time Newaygo
           counties prisoners have been sojourning in the Mecosta
           county jail at the expense of the Newaygo county tax-
           payers.           
              Subsequently the proposition to bond the county for
           $10,000 for a jail and sheriff's residence has been
           twice downed by the voters. Fourteen out of the twenty-
           four townships of the county gave a majority in favor
           of the bond, but the territories adjacent to and in-
           cluding the city of Fremont and the village of Newaygo,
           where the big vote is, went overwhelmingly against the
           bond.
              The Newaygo voters were put out over the loss of the
           county seat to White Cloud. Now comes to light the reason
           why Fremont has opposed it. Supervisor JOSEPH GERBER
           of Fremont yesterday introduced a resolution to submit
           to the voters the removal of the county seat to Fremont.
           The supervisors defeated it 19 to 7.
              Immediately following the defeat of the resolution
           Supervisor AUBLE of Barton township introduced the reso-
           lution to borrow $1,000 for the foundation of the jail
           and sheriff's residence which is to be constructed on
           the courthouse site, a pretty little grove covering a
           square in the village of White Cloud. It carried by
           the tight squeak of 13 to 12.
              The majority of the supervisors want the county seat
           to remain at White Cloud because it is the center of
           the county geographically and is a junction point of
           the Pere Marquette railroad. Therefore they propose
           to have a jail and sheriff's residence even if they
           have to do it piecemeal.
           
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