Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — THE COMMON COUNCIL. [ARTICLE]

THE COMMON COUNCIL.

Geo. Hopkins, Jacob McDonald, John Hodsbire and H. C. Smith have resigned as members of the fire department, while John Rush has passed the physical examnimation, served his month’s probation and has been accepted as a member. The ordinance requiring the owners of lands abutting on or over which the Iroquois river flows, within the City of Rensselaer, to remove from the bed of such river, all willows, weeds or obstructions, which in any way retards the flow of said stream, passed the second reading. An ordinance to prevent teaming and heavy hauling and also to prevent the running of traction or other heavy engines over and upon streets and alleys of the city of Rensselaer at certain times of the year and declaring an emergency, was introduced and read and on motion the rule relating to the second and third readings of ordinance was suspended by a twothirds vote of the Council and the ordinance was put upon its passage. Those voting in favor of the adoption of ordinance were: Councilmen Murray, Dean, Eger, McColly and Giver. No one voting in the negative. An ordinance was declared duly adopted relating to the obstruction of the streets by continued failure to remove ice and snow therefrom. The following claims were allowed: John S Ramey, work on street $ 14 47 Joseph Rosen, hauling gravel .... 22 60 Geo D McCarthy, same.................. 22 87 J A Ramey .......... 5 60 James Wood, same 2 13 Wm. Huffman, same 18 00 J A Grant, same 13 31 A B Daugherty, same 10 00 Kelley Cadwallader, same 4 40 J HDaugherty, same ■*.. 640 Cliff Passons, work onstreet 75 Wm Moore, same 3 75 Harry MoGee, same 12 50 Osa Ritchey, same 3 75 John Moodemiller, same ( 2 10 Chas. Borntrager, wk on catch basins 50 Wm Towers, work on street 1 20 Iroquois Improvement Co.,crushed rk. 300 Wm Woodworth, work onstreet 1 20 Jos H Hoover, same 120 Wm Dixey, same 37 Wilsou Brinley, hauling gravel 3 20 Wm Beck, work on street 13 72 Monroe Allman (Ellis A Murray) wk st 195 Road fund appropriation from Corp’n 900 00 Thomas McGowan, salary for Octobtr 45 00 J W Childers, same 20 00 Hunt Bros., mdse 1 40 Same, same 4 74 CS Chamberlain, sal'Oct A exp to Chgo 67 50 Peter Giver, salary for October 38 25 Lem Huston, same.... 45 00 Chester Zea, (Wm McCord), wk at L P 225 Landy McGee, (J F Warren) wk on line 16 90 Louis Haag, same 1 35 E W Hartman, same 8 45 Sayler-Bules Lumber Co., 4 cars coal A delivering 219 80 Gen’l Electric Co., electric supplies..... 31 54 D E Hollister, salary October 45 00 Globe Oil Co., gaskets 11 83 Subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat.

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