Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — Frat Broke. [ARTICLE]

Frat Broke.

The Town Board, at its regular monthly meeting last Monday evening, allowed claims amounting to about S7OO in the aggregate, or enough, when cashed to leave next tonothing jn tho treasury.. Among, the amounts were >200.06 for -gravel purchased of the railroad company, SIOO to bt Michaels, of Bogansport, for concrete pi r)e for the Harrison street sewer; $107.50 to Thompson & Bro for supreme court fees, and other legal services, sl7 to F. W. Babcock for legal services, and a large number of smaller sums, for work on streets &C. $36.45 to the railroad company for freight on sewer pipes Ac. '" —: — , i 7 ——- It was decided to gravel Front street, between Washington and Susan streets. The office of the Board and their place of meeting will hereafter be in thebuilding now occupied as an ’office by F. W. Babcock and the towip-cierk, C. C. Warner. ~T 6 should be explained - that ■th-e fund from which the above allowances ere paid is the surplus brought over from last yea)-, rmd that the town treasury will soon ' be itusli again from the proceeds ' of this years taxes. ■ The legalises &c. above ’men ; tibned grew out of the litigation | resulting from tire action of a for--1 mer board in iiarrowing Van Rens I Felaer slreet, some years ago.