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 HIST/OB'S OF GOODH1 E ( OUNTY 209 clerk, (i. W. Paige. The official record for L873 is incomplete; no one living remembers the remainder of the officers that year. At the seventeenth annua] meeting, held March 10, 1874, there were elected : Supervisors, .lames Parker, John Mohr, Matthias P. Ringdahl; clerk. G. W. Paige; assessor, G. W. Paige; treasurer, S. S. Worthing; just ices of the peace. W. E. Sergeant and H. Ahneman; constables. F. I). Worthing and Henry Tome. John Mohr failing to qualify, an appointment hoard met .March 28, 1874, and Henry Hahneman was appointed supervisor in his place. At the eighteenth annual meeting, held March 10, 1875, there were elected: Supervisors, James Parker. Henry Ahneman, M. P. Ringdahl; clerk, G. W. Paige; assess.)]-. <;. V. Paige; treasurer, S. S. Worthing; poundmaster, Henry Ahneman. At the nine- teenth annuaJ meeting, held .March 14. 1876, there were elected: Supervisors, C. H. Lcavitt, Giles Hayward, Thomas Halloway; clerk. A. H. Kellogg; assessor. Ladd Robie; treasurer, H. T. Per- kins; justices of the peace. Henry Ahneman. Fletcher Hagler; constables. Henry Tome. Charles Dickinson. May 1, 1876, Charles Edison was appointed assessor, vice Ladd Robie; who failed to qualify. At the twentieth annual meeting, held March 13, 1877, there Mere elected: Supervisors, Charles H. Leavitt ; Thomas Hal- loway, Knut Clementson; clerk, A. H. Kellogg; treasurer, H. T. Perkins; assessor. Charles Edison; poundmaster, J. C. Dickey. July 6, 1877. H. S. Perkins was appointed to the office of town treasurer, vice H. T. Perkins, deceased. At the twenty-first an- nual meeting, held March 12, 1778, there were elected: Super- visors, E. L. Swartout, George Newhouse, Geo. Reinhart ; clerk, A. H. Kellogg ; treasurer. A. B. Cron ; assessor, Charles Edison ; justices of the peace. Fletcher Hagler, Henry Ahneman ; con- stables. Henry Tome. H. A. Perkins. ROSCOE TOWNSHIP. Roscoe comprises township 109, range 16, and is bounded on the east by Pine Island, on the south by Dodge county, on the, west by Cherry Grove and on the north by Minneola. The south- eastern part is cut up into lots and is practically a suburb of Pine Island village. In natural features Roscoe very closely resembles the township of Pine Island. It has fine prairie lands, somewhat elevated in the north and descending in rolling undu- lations to the valley of one of the branches of the Zumbro in the south. The drainage is through the Zumbro and its branches in the south and a few creeks in the north. In the southern part of the township are tracts wooded with white and burr oak, sugar maple, elm and poplar. With running water, fine timber and