Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — The City Council [ARTICLE]

The City Council

All members present except the mayor. A certified copy of circuit courts appointments of city commissioners, namely, James T. Randle, Henry Grow, F. French, J. M. Wasson and L. Strong, was filed and ordered recorded. D. M. Yeoman was granted permission to make a vitrified brick walk in front of his Franklin street property, instead of cement, as previously ordered. The city attorney was ordered to draft an ordinance prohibiting traction engines from traversing the streets in soft times, and also requiring their owners to protect crossings and bridges with planks, when passing over them. An. ordinance was introduced requiring land owners to keep the river bed clear of willows and other obstructions. An ordinance was adopted requiring land owner to keep the Fisher ditch, in the northwest part of town, clear of obstructions. The committee on garbage boxes was granted more time to investigate. Reluctant owners on Franklin street were given until spring to to make their cement walks. The railroad was ordered to construct a vitrified brick crossing over the railroad, on the east side of Franklin street.