Beloit City Government report

©1900 Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

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MAY 7. - Regular Meeting

Council Chambers.

Beloit, Wis., May 7, 1900.

Regular meeting.
Mayor SMITH presiding.
Present - Ald. BUCKERIDGE, CLARKE, CUNNINGHAM, DAY, GARDNER, GESLEY, HANSEN,

HELM, LEDELL, MERRILL, MUELLER, NEEDHAM, POLLOCK, SHARP - 14.

Absent - Ald. HEWITT - 1.
The minutes of the meeting of April 16th were read and approved.
Ald. BUCKERIDGE, for the Health committee, presented a bill of A. HANSEN for quarantine expenses for

$24.00, which was allowed and ordered paid by the unanimous vote of the Council, the ayes and noes being called.

The following bills having been audited by the Clerk and payment recommended, on motion were allowed and

ordered paid by the unanimous vote of the Council, the ayes and noes being called:

H. J. QUACKENBUSH, labor cemetery $13.50

A. H. LIVINGSTON 21.00

Y. R. BRAND, janitor city hall 12.00

Pay roll of city officers and firemen for April 744.86

H. B. TALMADGE, rent First ward polls 5.00

W. B. STRONG, rent First ward registration place 6.00

Y. R. BRAND, labor elections 4.85

Bird LEFFINGWELL, labor elections 3.00

P. N. JENKINS, tables elections 2.50

W. HAMLIN, rent Fifth ward polls 10.00

Robert JACKSON, labor elections 6.50

T. C. WINN, rent stove, & c., elections 4.50

S. L. EVANS, drayage elections & c. 5.65

Beloit Electric Co., lighting for elections 9.10

Beloit Electric Co., E. Side fire sta. March 6.55

Beloit Electric Co., E. Side fire sta. April 6.55

Gamewell Fire Alarm Tel. Co., supplies Fire dept. 7.55

Edward SALMON, oats, bran & c., for fire dept. 27.80

L. DeGROFF & Son, oats & c., for fire dept. 10.00

F. C. WALROD, watching fire station 2.00

Mrs. N. BERG, laundry fire dept. 4.00

Eureka Steam Laundry, laundry fire dept. .88

Geo. B. MERRILL, drayage fire dept. 1.70

Beloit Lumber Co., lbr. and coal fire dept., streets & c. 130.88

Drs. A. C. and E. C. HELM, services STROUD case 10.00

ROBINSON Bros., boarding patrol horse 12.00

Beloit Electric Co., lighting jail for March 2.00

Beloit Electric Co., lighting jail for April 2.00

R. R. CALDWELL, surveying streets 12.70

P. EVERSON, labor streets 17.25

C. ALLEN, labor on streets 13.50

Jesse POMEROY, labor 25.50

J. F. DeBOIS, labor on streets 11.25

H. HASEMAN, labor on streets 22.75

A. C. STEVENS, labor and team on streets 43.50

J. McNALLY, labor and team on streets 25.50

T. GUNDERSON, labor and team on streets 34.50

A. M. BELDING, supt. street work 48.00

G. W. PERKINS, sidewalk inspector & c. 18.50

Geo. DONNER, cleaning streets 100.00

Bills of the Beloit Electric Co. for street lights for March and April, each in amount $313.35, were referred to the

Street Lights committee.

Ald. SHARP presented the following petition, which was granted:

To the Honorable Mayor and the Common Council of the City of Beloit: -

We, the undersigned, property owners on Highland avenue between Eighth and Hackett streets, do

hereby petition your honorable body to order a grade established on Highland avenue between Eighth and Hackett streets and order said street macadamized and charged to abutting property owners.

Henry J. LOVE, D. E. DEMING, J. H. QUALMAN, Wm. SAMP and 15 others.

Ald. CLARKE presented the following petition, which was referred to the Street Lights committee:

To the Honorable Mayor and the Common Council of the City of Beloit: -

We, the undersigned residents and taxpayers of South Race street and vicinity of the City of Beloit,

respectfully petition your honorable body for the erection and maintenance of an electric light, to be located on the said street at a point directly south of the Milwaukee elevator.

MAGILTON Bros., Albert MEAD, Henry PRIEN, L. DeGROFF and 16 others.

Ald. LEDELL presented the following petition, which was referred to the Street Lights committee:

To the Honorable Mayor and the Common Council of the City of Beloit:

We, the undersigned petitioners of the Fifth ward in the City of Beloit, and residing in the immediate

vicinity of Vine and Middle streets in said ward, respectfully petition your honorable body that you cause to be erected an electric light, and the same maintained, at the inter- [continue to Page 10]

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