Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — STREET CONTRACTS TO W. F. SMITH & CO. [ARTICLE]

STREET CONTRACTS TO W. F. SMITH & CO.

Bid In Work Nonday Night of Macadamizing Weston, Dayton, Division and Scott Streets At the regular meeting Monday night of the city council bids were received for the macadamizing of Weston and Dayton streets from Harrison to Him, and Division and Scott streets from Washington street to the gravel road. This work is exclusive of the contract heretofore let for the township roadway, and which is 21 feet in width down the center of each of the streets named. The specifications for the streets Smith & Co. bid in call for 30 feet wide of macadam, on each side of the township improvement, and the price the contractors made on this was 76 cents a running foot on each side. The work will be done as soon as the weather permits. The street committee was authorized to put in sewers for emergency; purposes on any streets to take care of surface water. This action was particularly necessary in cases where in the improvement of streets the water is banked up along the sides of the| graded streets and stands there until it becomes stagnant. ! The city purchased a horse for thej street work and for the use of the| fire engine, the purchase being made of Newton Pumphrey and the pried being $75. One of the old horses had not been quite well for some time and he was sold to John Jones for $135. The city attorney was instructed to prepare resolutions to esablish alleys in blocks 19 and 20, 12 feet wide. The Ladies’ Literary Society presented a very reasonable request that the names of two streets in Newton & Clark’s addition be changed, and the request was referred to the streets and alleys committee. It seems that there are two streets in that addition named Harrison and Washington and that there are streets of thej same name down in the central part of the city, in fact our main business street is named Washington and the one parallel to it and the next street south is named Harrison. The ladies decided that the change should be made and they suggested the quite appropriate names and Warner, in respect to Simon Phillips and Norman Warner, two of the oldest residents of Rensselaer and who have lived and been property owners on these streets for more than a third of a century. The street committee will undoubtedly acquiesce in the request.