Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — The City Council. [ARTICLE]

The City Council.

A regular council meeting was held Monday night. A new waterworks ordinance was adopted, to meet the conditions arising from tho expected greater cost of the waterworks. The change increases the fire hydrants from 67 to 68, and raises the city’s yearly rental from $1& to S2O per hydrant. The committee previously ap-

pointed reported that the old foundry was safe as a storage depot for oil aRd gasoline. It is understood that the Standard Oil Company will build a new brick or iron warehouse, soon.