Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1912 — City Council Meets to Consider Various Matters. [ARTICLE]

City Council Meets to Consider Various Matters.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening, with all members present. A number of matters of importance came before them. The city marshal was instructed to put in a crossing on Elm street at the Intersection of Franklin. The city engineer was instructed to prepare plans and specifications for a sewer on the alley east of the Republican building between Washington and Harrison streets. The city attorney was instructed to prepare a resolution for same. A resolution was adopted for a sidewalk petitioned for by Charles Grow, et al. A resolution was adopted for the opening of a new street petitioned for by Fred Phillips et al. ' Ordinance No. 145 to regulate travel and traffic on the streets was introduced and passed to the second reading. . Preliminary assessments were made for the Franklin and Plum street sewer. A petition of C. E. Simpson. et al for a sidewalk on the north side of Cherry street was granted and the city attorney .was instructed to prepare a resolution for same. A numerously signed petition was presented by W. 8. Parks asking the city to improve the banks of the river north and south of Washington street on both sides of the river. The matter was referred to the Park committee and city engineer. The petition is as follows: To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana. Gentlemen: We the undersigned citizens of Rensselaer respectfully petition your honorable body to improve the conditions of the river banks on the north and south of Washington street in said city, especially the west bank on the south, and the east bank on the north, by ordering the removal of the junk pile that has been an eyesore for the past ten years, and on the south by the building of a cement wall sufficient to hold the backing of dirt on the west, which it is proposed under this petition to put in, from the bridge south to the north line of the Dr. Brown property, and use this space of perhaps 75x400 feet as a dump for ashes, dirt and unobjectionable trash, until same has been fllled, and then convert same into a public park, with shade trees, benches, etc., and making it a place of real beauty instead of the opposite, which it now is. The cost of doing this would be but a trifling sum, and we respectfully ask that you take such measures as are necessary to do this work, giving it your earliest and earnest consideration. The following claims were allowed: * Corporation Fund.' Geo. Mustard, sal marshal $30.00 Frank Critser, sal nightwatch., 30.00 -Rens. Band, street concerts.,... 50.00 Omar Osborne, assist city eng. 27.00 Rokd Fund. * Chester Zea, sal city teamster.. 30.00 Conrad Kellner, sewer. 1.56 Ed Randle, hauling stone 40.25 O. S. Baker, mowing weeds 2.50 Wm. Platt, unloading stone 2.00 Ray Thomas, same 2.00 Park Fund. Tom Cox. mowing parks 7.00 Electric Light Fund. C. S. Chamberlin, salary 60.00 Mel Abbott, salary 30.00 Dave Haste, same 30.00 Dick Hartman, work on line 25.00 Harry McGee, hauling gravel .... 2.00 Jesse Gates, hauling coal 48.63 Western Electric Co., supplies.. 25.38 Illinois Electric Co., same .... 55.30 Jas. B. Clow & Sons, same 2.67 Standard Oil Co., oil 46.52 Vandalia Coal Co., coal 221.98 Dave Hines, push cart 6.00 Water Fund. T. E. Malone, salary .......... 30.00 Geo. Mustard, Work water main.. 2.00 John Hordeman, same 3.00

Buy the boys knee trousers this week, all grades, all ages at 26c and 50c., C. EARL DUVALL. Go to the Ellis Theatre, Friday, August 30, and see that lively country play “A Pair of Country Kids”—you will surely get your money’s 'worth. ' ’ \ F Mr. Hansen has played on hundreds of organs and given dedicatory recitals all over the central west He is one of the leading organists of the state. In his musical experience he has committed to memory thousands of compositions and innumerable accompaniments for church and concert Bingers and he has the greatest repertory of any musician in the state The Indianapolis Star. At the Presbyterian church, Friday evening. August 30. Tickets on sale at Long’s drag store.