Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Captain T. A. Moore, of Camp Taylor, came thia morningto accompany the selectmen to Louisville, Ky. J. C. Gwin, Joseph P. Hammond and Henry Toben went to Indianapolis to attend the (Republican state convention. Mesdames William and Rufus Knox came down from Chicago this morning for a visit with relatives here. , A. J. Wilson and daughter, Frances Wilson, who had been visiting the family of Henry Kiplinger, left this morning, the former going to Muncie and the latter to New York city.

Mrs. Charles Grow and son, Charles, left this morning. They will visit Mrs. Grow’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Paxton, of Wabash, and her sister, Mrs. Robert Russell, of North Manchester. Harry B. Overesch, a junior lieutenant in the United States navy, a graduate of Purdue university and for four years city engineer of Lafayette, has been appointed city manager of the new war city which the government is building in connection with the navy yard and army embarkation station at Norfolk, Va. Senator Jones, of Washington, Saturday introduced an amendment to the emergency agricultural bill making the country “bone dry” during the war. The amendment provides that no beer or wine shall be manufactured so long as the war lasts. Penalty for the violation of the law is made $5,000 or two years imprisonment.

ordhtance no. is?. An ordinance requiring property owners to cut trenches on the public sidewalks and providing for a penalty and creating a lien for failure to comply with ordinance. Section 1. Be it ordained by the cammo n council of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, that it shall be unlawful for any .person, flnm or corporation, who may own real estate in said city to permit sod to grow up to and upon the sidewalk adjacent to any such real Section 2. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning real <sitate in said city to cut andmaintain a trench 4 inches in width and 2 inches in depth on each side of any sidewalk adjacent to said real estate in order to prevent the accumulation of water thereon. Section 3. It shall be the duty of tihe city marshal, after the taking effect of this ordinance to notify all the property owners, in writing, to cause said trenches to be constructed along all sidewalks in said city as provided in Section 2of this ordinance. Said notice shall state the name of such owner or owners of any such property, together wiitih the description of the property adjacent to the sidewalk to be trenched, and any person, firm or corporation who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance within ten days after receiving said notice ehall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five dollars. Section 4. Upon failure of the owner or owners of any lots or parts of lots or tracts of land in bhe city of Rensselaer, Indiana to cause any sidewalk to be trenched as provided in section 2 hereof within ten days after receiving notice as provided in section 3; it shall be the duty of the city marshal to cause said work to be done at the expense of the owner or owners of said property, and the costs thereof Shall constitute a lien on the property adjacent to where said labor is preformed . It is hereby made the duty of the city marshal to certify to the city clerk the expense of constructing any such trenches, and it is hereby made the duty of the said clerk to cause the costs and charges so certified to be placed upon the tax duplicates of said city as a tax against said property and collectable as other taxes are collectable by law. Section 5. It shall .be the duty of the city attorney to prepare the form of notice to be served by the marshal as provided in section 3 of this ordinance in order that this ordinance may be effectually enforced.

Section 6. This ordinance shall be In force and effect from and after Its passage, and publication for two consecutive weeks in the Evening Republican, a daily newspaper printed and published tin said dity, the first of which publication shall be on the 28 day of May, and the last on the 4th day of June, 1918. Approved by me ,thls 271 th da y May. 1918. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Mayor. This ordinance passed in council on the 27th day of May, 1918. and approved by 'the mayor of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, on the 27th day of May, 1918. CHAS. MORLAN, City Clerk. State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss: I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Ordinance No. 187 passed by the common council of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, on the 27th day of May, 1918. Witness my hand and official seal this 28th day of May, 1918. CHAS. MORLAN, City Clerk.

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