Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1906 — STILL NO REPORT ON BOOKS [ARTICLE]

STILL NO REPORT ON BOOKS

Clty ; Council Meeting Monday Night, But Little Business Was Done. At the regular meeting of the common council Monday night all members were present except Councilman Williams, who has been slightly under the weather from a cold that settled in one of his eyes. No report had yet been filed by the experts who were employed to audit the books of the city treasurer for the past four years, and nothing bad been heard from them since their taking of the papers and figures made in the investigation to Indianapolis to prepare the report from, except an acknowledgment of the $362.50 allowed them at the last previous meeting “onaccount." Iftbesl2.so per day is still going on in preparing their report it may be necessary to throw the city into the hands of a receiver or negotiate a “temporary loan” to tide over. The city treasurer presented his report from September Ist to December loth, showing the following condition of the funds: ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. Receipts 15.16X.02 Expenditures 3,755.29 Balance on hand —51,712 73 WATER FUND. Receipts $1.8X5.78 Expenditures 1.033.94 Balance on hand —585179 CORPORATION FUND. Receipts $88.04 Balance on hand —BB 04 Orders presented and unpaid for want of funds 12.925.84 ROAD FUND. Receipts $1,102.78 Expenditures 1.081.53 Balance on hand —s2l 25 Orders presented and unpaid for want of funds $56 74 PUBLIC PARK FUND. Receipts $25.69 Balance on hand 25.69 The superintendent of the light plant was instructed to install lights between Elm and Vine streets, the parties who want lights to pay a year’s rental in advance in order to get the lines extended. The clerk was instructed to present a bill of SSOO to the city school board for part payment of heating school buildings this season. The following claims were allowed: CORPORATION FUND. W S Parks, marshal $ 30 00 Charles Morlan. clerk 25 00 Lyman Zea, night watch 25 00 Rensselaer Lumber Co. lumber 8 40 S C Irwin, assisting auditing city bks.. 96 25 Barbee Wire and Iron Wks. supplies.. 400 ROAD FUND. Ed Randle, work on street 75 Wort Murray, same.. 3 90 O S Baker, trimming trees 5 00 Aarou Claspell, sawing lumber 50 W H Eger, merchandise 530 J E Bislosky, feed........ 16 65 Chester Zea, labor for city 43 33 WATER FUND. Well Abbott, salary 30 OO Conrad Kelluer, rebate on water 96 John Hordeman, work on main 7 20 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. CS Chamberlain, salary SSO 00 Lem Huston, same 30 OO Ed Hopkins, same 30 00 John M Knapp, horse and wagon 3 75 II F King, biacksmithing 4 40 John Albertson, shoveling coal 3 50 Roy Thomas, same 3 50 Conrad Kellner, rebate on lights 6 75 Louis Wildberg, same 11 70 Ray D Thompson, balance insurance.. 15 Tom Hoyes, work on Hue 17 13 WH Eger, merchandise 39 39 Allis-Chalmers Co, rep engine 4 00 Western Electric Co. supplies 44 99 National Coal Co, coal 4163 Shirley Hill Coal Co, same 223 75 Moses Leopold, freight 76 64