By Joyce Wiese County Engineer Lyle Brehm gave the weekly road report saying the Bridge Crew is working to replace a culvert north of the Ridge road on M Avenue. The existing box culvert is being replaced with a railroad tanker shell. Brehm has purchased a couple of these tanker shells for this purpose. The road crew is still working on cleaning ditches near K Avenue and 380th Street. The road crew operators are working to try and get caught up on blading roads before bad weather. Work on the bridge on the west side of Elberon will most likely start early next spring. A bridge east of Elberon was replaced this fall and is now currently open. A utility permit was granted for work near Chelsea on Highway V18. Joyce Wiese, chairman of the Tama County Pioneer Cemetery Association, proposed changing the upkeep of Pioneer cemeteries to the Township Trustees. Letters have been sent to trustees, as well as Pioneer cemetery association members advising them of this change. At a meeting a few weeks ago with trustees and the pioneer cemetery members, it was approved to turn over the maintenance of the pioneer cemeteries to the township trustees. Trustees were invited to attend the supervisor meeting today, to voice an opinion. No objections were made. There are twenty nine pioneer cemeteries in Tama County with seven townships not having a pioneer cemetery, those being Buckingham, Clark, Crystal, Howard, Lincoln, Otter Creek and Tama. Carlton Township has two pioneer cemeteries, Mattingly and Conant. Carroll township has three, Fee Chapel, Wheaton, and Wiese (Wise). Highland township has one, Korns. Indian Village has three, Rouse, Asher and Dunham ( Butlerville). Richland Township has one, Day. Salt Creek Township has seven pioneer cemeteries, Flathers, Walton & Hancox, I.O.O.F., Wilkenson, Holan (Halupnek), Willey, Arbuthnot, and Chambers. Spring Creek Township has one, Union Grove. Toledo Township has one, the County Home Cemetery. York township has one, Dvorak. Each cemetery has a long history which can be found at the Tama County Museum. A letter will be sent out to township trustees to notify them to adjust their budgets to take care of these cemeteries. The Pioneer Cemetery Commission will still be active in that it will meet twice a year and will continue to monitor the cemeteries to see that they have been kept up as should be. County supervisors have allocated more than $50,000 in the past eighteen years to restore these cemeteries. Pioneer cemetery members feel it advisable to keep them in shape. Seventeen of these cemeteries have Civil War Veterans buried in them. One has the distinction of being a Freethinker, and one a member of the Greybeards during the Civil War. Union Grove Cemetery near Gladbrook has one burial, a veteran who was in the Indian wars of 1809-1812. Also a slave by the name of George Kuns, was buried here. The Pioneer Cemetery Commission has sponsored bus tours, programs for many organizations, and done a great deal of research for the history of each cemetery. Members of the Pioneer Cemetery commission are Joyce Wiese, Frank Adair, Toledo, Ardene Cross, Clutier, Dean Fisher, Garwin, Brett Miller, Gladbrook, Wendy Waterbeck, Chelsea, Steve Kesl, Elberon , Bob Hill, Dysart, and Cindy Richardson of Tama. This group will meet in May and November each year.