Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1917 — City Council Proceedings. [ARTICLE]

City Council Proceedings.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening and the following business was transacted: I. N. Hemphill et al file remonstrance on oiling of North Fiont and Angelica streets- Petition asks that North Front from Angelica to Susan and Angelica from Van Rensselaer to Front be left out when oiling takes place. On motoin remonstrance sustained and streets ordered left out. In matter of hau’ing coal. On motion price was raised to 40c a ton from railroad station to light plant. In matter of oiling certain streets. Petition of Ed J. Randle et al. Comes W. Frank Osborne, city engineer, and presents plans and specifications for the oiling of streets, as petitioned for by E. J. Randle et al, which plans council approves- Comes M. Leopold aryl presents Resolution No. 141, which was read and on motion ru'es suspended and said resolution was put on its passage. April 9 was fixed as the date for hearing remonstrances and clerk ordered to give notice by publication. Ordinance No. 180, an ordinance appropriating for band- was introduced and read and rules suspended and ordinance put on its passage. For sewer on W. Washington street. City engineer directed to prepare amended land and specifications and comes now W. F. Osborne, city engineer, and files estimate of the proposed sewer and the council rects clerk to give two publications of the adoption of the amended plans and specifications and .fixes March 26 as date to hear remonstrances on the amended specifications. r The regular claims were read and avowed-