The following are the allowances made by the Board of Commissioners at their regular session of the March term:
W B Schwartz services as clerk….32.00
“The Court Record,” Brazil Register (Brazil, Indiana), 2 April 1885, p. 1, col. 6; digital image, Newspaper Archive (http://newspaperarchive.com : 10 January 2014).
[Editorial note: For the sake of brevity, I did not transcribe the whole list. Payments by the Board included a majority those for the care, transportation and coffins for the county’s paupers.]


“…for the care, transportation and coffins for the county’s paupers.” Well, this is an insight into life in Indiana in 1885….long before the invention of the welfare state.