Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — THE TOWN BOARD. [ARTICLE]

THE TOWN BOARD.

The-Town Board at their meeting Monday night voted to lower the grade of the side walk oil Washington street opposite tfie public square, six inches. jjM They also ordered Hiat alU'cwnings on Washington street miltrl be raised to a height of not less than seven feet above the sidewalk. This order to take effect on and after April Ist, 1888. Thirty new rubbei fire buckets were accepted, for the fire company, at $1 apiece. They were made by Robert Bisseuden, and are the same size and pronounced just ns good as those which came with the hook and ladder truck. A small two-wheeled truck, was bought from N. Warner & Sons, for th 9 company to carry an extra cask of the chemical fluid for the fire engine. The directors of the Rensselaer Natural Gas and Oil Company made a proposition to turn over to the town, their lot, near the.school house, with the artesian well thereon, on conditions that the Boatd would make improvments necessary to prevent the lot returning to the original donor, J. C.Van Rens selaer, namely: it must be enclosed with a fence consisting,of iron posts with an iron chain, to keep out stock and entrances must be provided in thb shape of turnstiles, aud shade trees must be jp.lanted, , The estimated cost oftffese improvments is S3OO.