Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — The City Council. [ARTICLE]

The City Council.

The most momentous business before the Council at their regular meeting Monday night, was a petition signed by about 100 residents, asking that those dangerous and destructive creatures known as chickens be prohibited from running at large, within the corporate limits and also, presumably, from being staked on t in streets or alleys, or vacant lots. The Council was disposed to look favorably upon the prayer of the petition, and ordered the city attorney to scratch down an ordinance to prohibit the scratchers, provided he could scratch up a law that would authorize it. Superintendent Chamberlain made a report on the result of his investigation into the proposition to burn crude oil at the water and light plant. He reported that Lord Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company, would put crude oil here on the tracks at $4 35 per 100 gallons. This, according to the best data obtainable would be equivalent, in steam producing power, to soft coal at about $8 per ton, This will end the oil burning proposition. ' > The City Commissoners reported what lots would be benefitted by Clark street improvements, and were ordered to meet again March 16th to make the A permit was issued to the Protestant Methodist people to move the former F. W. B. church building to-its proposed new location, at the corner of Van Rensselaer and Clark streets. Some 14 claims were reported favorably by the finance committee and allowed by the Council.