Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1919 — CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS [ARTICLE]

CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

Austin Avenue Improvement and Alley Assessments Confirmed. At it he Regular meeting of the city council Monday evening all anembers were present but there was not very much business done, except to confirm the assessments on the Austin avenue improvement and the alley in Thompson’s addition. In ithe latter, Remonstrators Mrs. Alda Parkison, Mrs. Ascue and Levi Clouse gave notice of appeal to the circuit court. The petition and bond of the Farmers & Merchants National bank, asking to be designated as a depository of city funds, was granted and the treasurer ordered notified of said action. All of the banks of Rensselaer are now city depositories and the funds are divided between them. While no record was made of this matter, it was discussed before the council that Contractor A. 8. Keene of Wheatfield had two carloads of fine rock on the siding here to be used in completing, the Home avenue and Grove street Improvments. This rock, it was said, was from Kankakee and was not screenings, as required, but a sort of pea rock and fully as coarse as rock heretofore put on for a top dressing and which would not pack and was the cause of these Improvements being rejected several weeks ago on complaint of the property owners affected. It was the opinion of the council that the contractor would not be permitted to- use this rock, The Democrat Is Informed. The usual batch of claims were allowed.