People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — THE GARBAGE ORDINANCE. [ARTICLE]

THE GARBAGE ORDINANCE.

The following ordinance was passed by the city fathers at their session of May 25, 1895: Section 1. Be it ordained by the Board of Trustees of the Town' of Rensselaer, Indiana; that it shall be unlawful for the owners or occupants of any improved property, or the agent or owner of any unimproved or vacant lot or other property, to place or pile or permit, to be placed or piled or to burn or allow to accumulate any garbage, slops, bone, coal, ashes, stone, wood, manure or other offal, barrels, boxes, cans, rubbish, and other waste materials upon any of the streets and alleys of said town. That portion of this ordinance that relates to burning garbage shall be held to apply to streets and alleys in blocks 3, 4 and 9. of the original plot of said town. v

Section 2. That knowingly permitting or allowing any accumulations prohibited by Section 1 of this ordinance, by any property owner or agent or occupant of any property, or the placing by any person of any obstructions of any kind that in any way interferes with the free use by the public, upon any of the streets or alleys of said town, and allowing to remain for more than three days, except necessary building material used in making repairs or in the erection of new buildings, or without first obtaining a permit from the Board ol Trustees of said town, shall be deemed a violation of this ordinance.

Section 3. That each and every day that any of the obstructions defied in Section 1 except as modified by Section 2, are allowed to remain upon the streets and alleys of said town, after three days, or after notice, shall constitute a separate breach or violation of the provisions of this ordinance. Section 4. That any person found guilty of a violation of Section 1, of this ordinance, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum not less than ($1) one dollar, nor more than ($10) ten dollars for each offense. Section 5. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this ordinance, the same shall be in force from and after its passage and publication. ' Approved in Adjourned Session, May 21st, 1895. John M. Wasson. Attest: President of the Board. Charles M. Blue, Town Clerk.

Prof. I. C. Reubelt, who was recently tendered a school position at Royal Center, Ind., has had a more lucrative and higher place offered him as professor of the high school of six grades at Dana. Ind., at a salary df sßoper month. His long and earnest work in the Rensselaer high school is the recommendation that makes his services so eagerly sought. Jasper and Porter counties will jointly build a new bridge over the Kabkakee in Kankakee township. It will be 185 feet long. The contract was let at Hammond last Tuesday.