Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1917 — City Council Met in Regular Session Monday Evening. [ARTICLE]

City Council Met in Regular Session Monday Evening.

. Mayor €. G. Spitler. all members of the council,. City Clerk Morlan, City Attorney Moses Leopold, Policeman Vein Robinson, Superintendent of Light and Water Plant C. S. Chamberlin, and City Engineer W. Frank Osborne, were present at the firm session of the Rensselaer city council held in the assessor’s room 3t the. court house Monday night. Mayor Spitler read a very interesting paper he had prepared and which is published in this it.sue of The Republican, i ; , Attorney Leopold was instructed to see that the delinquent'pool table tax was paid gt once. . The matter of. street signs was discussed nnd it was .finally decided to ook further into tlye matter and possibly have them made by the manual training pupils of the Rensselaer high school. Some definite action will be taken at once. A large list of claims were allowed. The council thenadjournedand the board of finance, consisting of Councilman Frank Tobias, chairman, Frank King and H. W. Wood, convened and, proposals from the banks of the- city were approved as follows: First National Bank with capital and surplus to the amount of SBO,OOO, to be allowed a maximum of SIO,OOO of the city’s funds. The State and the Trust & Savings Banks, with capital of $60,000 each, were allowed not to exceed $7,500 each. This allotment is based upon a possible city fund in total of $25,000.