Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — Town Board Proceedings. [ARTICLE]

Town Board Proceedings.

Monday night was regular Town Board meeting night. was an important and interesting session, and attended by many interested citizens. The petition of some of the property owners for a sewer on Cornelia street was referred to Messrs. Wasson and Porter,for investigation. In the matter of the electric light contract, the proposition, and also ultimatum of the Thomson-Houston company was accepted. The contract is for five years, at SI6OO per year. Seven arc and 60 incandescent lights are included, to run all night on the “Philadelphia moon schedule,” with the amendment that the lights are to be turned on when the moon is supposed to shine but neglects its business. It was as good a contract as could be secured, and much better tha n going without lights dr reverting to the semi-barbaric gasoline glims.

The question of the improvement of Washington street was discussed lenght. Some of the property owners, especially on the block between Division and Weston streets, an exclusively resident locality, protested against the imprdvexnentinthe manner and form ordered, and asked for a modification as to that block. On the basis of the only bid offered, the assessments upon the lots affected upon the block mentioned would nearly and in some cases quite equal the full value of the lots, without the improvements, and some of them are unimproved. The only bid for the streets and gutter work was from

Sayler & CO., and aggregated #4 55 per lineal foot, and would have been still higher had it conformed strictly to the specifications. John Jessen made the only bid for the sewer work and this wholly failed to comply with the specfications. Further consideration of this matter was deferred until next Tuesday night. It is probable that as a satisfactory compromise measure, the complete improvement will be carried out to the Make ever House, and from there eastward the guttering be despensed with, and the macadamized _portion be made somewhat' sgrtower. For member of the School Board, E. L. Clark, the present very efficient member, was re-elected; ■ The width of the street across the river known as a “Road” on the town, plat and sometimes called Willow street, was fixed at 45 feet. The tax levies for the ensuing tax year, for the various funds were fixed at the following sums on each hundred dollars assessed valuation: Corporation 50 cents; Special school 30 cents; Tuition2s cents; Road2s cents;Special Additional, for interest on school house bonds 15 cents; Sinking fund 15 cents? 1 Total on each SIOO valuation $1,60. Poll tax 25 cents.