Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — The Town Board. [ARTICLE]

The Town Board.

The Town Board held its regular monthly meeting Monday tight According to the able and facetious Town Clerk, they allowed 320 claims, ordered side walks all o'er town and bought street lamps for every corner not already provided with one, and an extra lamp for Makeever & 'Williams’ coal house! A new side walk was ordered along four blocks on Plum Street, in Leopold’s addition; also a new walk on Elza street, from the corner of the Church of -God, and continued on Jackson street to G. H. Brown’s residence, in Newton’s addition. The walk along the entire east side of River street, from J.. M. Hopkins’ residence to W. C. Shoad’s was condemned and ordered 1 replaced with a new one. Sixteen new street lamps were ordered, at the same price paid for the others, namely 5C.25 each. on board cars at Indianapolis. Bid 3 for cleaning, filling and lighting the street lamps for a year, were opened. Bids were received from Frank G. Henkle, W. L. Richison, Burt Hutson, W. IT, Myers, Jas. H. Fisher, J. H. Peacock, Henry Wood and Abe Sinqsl son. The bids ranged from $95 a year from Henkie to S2OO a year from Wood. Henkle got the contract The claim of Mrs. S. A. Hemphill for S2OO for damages done by the flooding of her cellar and outhouses, during the high waters in Make-em-self, was laid over until the next meeting. A committee was appointed to memorialize the County Commissioners, now in session, for an iron bridge, with stone abutments, across the raging Make-em-self, on street. Tlie dimensions of the prayed for bridge are the somewhat paradoxical ones of 10 feet long and'so feet wide, and its estimated cost, SGOO. The Commissioners are asked to follow the precedent they have established in Remington, by paying all the cost of the bridge, except $75, which the town will pay. The Commissioners having, on Tuesday refused to make the bridge a special meeting was held Tuesday night, at which it was decided t-o ask them to, at least, assist in building a stone arch bridge, or a wooden bridge, with heavy stone abutments.