Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1911 — SMITH & KELLNER AWARDED CONTRACT FOR BRICK ALLEYS. [ARTICLE]

SMITH & KELLNER AWARDED CONTRACT FOR BRICK ALLEYS.

Record of the Proceedings of the City Council at Regular Meeting Monday Evening.

The city council was in session until midnight Monday evening, the session being devoted to business and story telling. The city attorney was. Instructed to execute a contract with the Monnett Home and Fred Phillips for the extension of the water main to the Monnett Home, they to pay $lO5 each for such extension and they to be credited with such amount on water rentals. A water rate of S2O per year was made to the Monon railroad for water at the stock yards. Smith & Kellner were awarded the contracts for the improvement with brick,of Monnett and Leopold alleys. The contract price for the Monnett alley is $965.26 and for the Leopold alley $1,120. The clerk was instructed to give notice of the preliminary assessments on the Kurrie sewer. - Frank Morrow, et al., presented a petition for a street light. Same was referred to the light committee. Milt Roth petitioned for'the establishment of an alley in Block 9 of the original plat of Rensselaer*. The city attorney was instructed to prepare aresolution for the same*. This is the alley in the rear of the business houses on the north side of the public square. It seems the alley has no legal existence, and the petition is for the purpose of having it legally established in order that it can be Improved. The ordinance pertaining to the building of the new school building was passed to third reading. The ordinance providing for the regulation and control of the water works and electric light plant was passed to third reading. The mayor was authorized to sign a contract with the General Electric Co. for light meters. The following claims were allowed: ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. C. S. Chamberlin, salary $50.00 Mell Abbott, salary 30.00 Dave Hadte, salary 30.00 W. M. Lee, work on furnace.... 1.00 Scott Chesnut, work on line... 10.75 Western Elec. Co., electric sup. 46.67 Wabash Valley Coal Co., c0a1... 54.18 Jesse Gates, hauling coal 13.56 Wm. Lyons, work on boilers.... 7.00 Ray D. Thompson, freight 2.14 CORPORATION FUND. Geo. F. Meyers, 5a1ary......... 62.50 Geo. W. Hopkins, salary 20.00 D. E. Grow, salary 20.00 W. H. Kreider, salary 20.00 C. J. Dean, salary ;.... 20.00 A. G. Catt, salary 20.00 Chas, dorian, c1erk............ 25.00 Moses Leopold, attorney 50.00 M. D. Gwin, sec. bd. of health.. 31.90 Rens. Fire Dept., sal 2nd quar. 71.75 Geo. Mustard, marshal 30.00 Frank Critser, night watch 25.00 Ray D. Thompson, city treasurer 75.00 ROAD FUND. Chester Zea, salary.... i 25.00 Harry Swartzell, hauling sand.. 4.25 O. S. Baker, mowing weeds.... 2.40 Elmer Matheny, unloading stone 1.60 John Gray, mowing ....... 7.50 John Hordeman, work on sewer 4.60 Monon C. Stone Co., car stone.. 25.55 Ray D. Thompson, frt on stone 18.25 Firman Rutherford, removing bridge 33.00 Electric Light Fund, part principal & Interest on loan. .1080.00 WATER FUND. T.T. E. Malone, salary....' 30.00

Thomas M. Honan, attorney general, has been asked for an official opinion by the state board of education concerning the 15 per cent allowed dealers in school books where old books the firms under contract to supply recently adopted text books, contends that the discount should not be allowed the dealer where old books are given In exchange. The state board takes the stand that the discount applies both in sales without exchanges and sales where exchanges are made.