Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1897 — The City Council. [ARTICLE]

The City Council.

Tlie Firemen Resign In A Body. A special meeting of the city council was held Thursday evening. They took another hitch at the hitch racks and Messrs. Spitler, Porter, and Kight, the special committee heretofore appointed, were given power to act in the matter. x The matter of new heating apparatus for the school houses, whereby they can be heated with steam from the waterworks power house was considered in conjunction with the school board. Alter, Spitler and Robinson, the special committee, was directed to proceed, in Connection with the school board, to advertise for and receive bids for such an apparatus, and were given power to accept one of them if thought advisable. A rather sensational incident of the session was the receipt of a letter from the city fire company, in which the company offered their resignations, in a body. The resignations to take effect next Wednesday night. The letter was signed by E. M. Parcells, R. W.

Spriggs and E. P. Honan, acting as a committee for the fire company. It is understood that the firemen feel much aggreived because of the late action oLihe council in contracting for hose and other fire appliances without having first consulted the judgement of the firemen. A. T. Perkins of Rensselaer and Noble M. Gratner, of Kansas each presented a petition to be appointed city plumber, to have the work of putting in the consumers’ connections with the waterworks system. No appoinment was made.