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Beloit City Government report

©1900 Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

Page 45

August 6. - Regular Meeting.

Council Chambers.

Beloit, Wis., Aug. 6, 1900.

 
Regular meeting.
Mayor SMITH presiding.
Present - Ald. BUCKERIDGE, CUNNINGHAM, DAY, GARDNER, GESLEY, HANSEN, HEWITT,
LEDELL, MERRILL, MUELLER, SHARP - 11.
Absent - Ald. CLARKE, HELM, NEEDHAM, POLLOCK - 4.
The minutes of the meeting of July 16th were read and approved.
Ald. NEEDHAM appeared and took his seat.
The following bills having been audited and payment recommended, on motion, were allowed, and ordered paid by
the unanimous vote of the Council, the ayes and noes being called:

I. E. GOODALL, Asses'r and Board Review $134.00
F. F. LIVERMORE, Asses'r and Board Review 144.00
C. CLEOPHAS, Asses'r and Board Review 134.00
O. P. SMITH, Asses'r and Board Review 144.00
G. SEEGMILLER, Asses'r and Board Review 144.00
Simon SMITH, Board Review 24.00
G. B. INGERSOLL, Board Review 24.00
A. H. LIVINGSTON, labor cemetery 39.00
John VOSS, labor cemetery 39.00
Payroll city officers and firemen for July 789.89
J. THOMPSON & Sons, rent hay market, &c 75.85
H. C. MILLER & Co., treas. receipt books 8.00
C. A. STILL, police dockets, dog tags, &c 16.50
O. D. ROWE, recording deed .60
Geo. B. INGEROLL, express and postage 2.55
Beloit Electric Co., lights East side sta. 6.55
F. C. WALROD, watching fire station 2 mo. 4.00
L. DeGROFF & Son, oats, &c, fire dept. 11.83
Mrs. N. BERG, laundry fire dept., 2 mo. 8.00
M. WEIRICK, hay fire dept. 12.62
D. H. POLLOCK & Co., supplies fire dept. 21.60
W. HIBBARD, hauling manure from fire sta. 2.00
DEAKIN & McLERNON, horsesh'g, fire dept. 7.20
E. KINSLEY, repairs for fire dept. 24.65
G. B. HANAMAN, horseshoeing, fire dept. 7.05
Bird LEFFINGWELL, hay for fire dept. 16.65
Frank PECK, burying dead dog 1.00
D. H. POLLOCK & Co., supplies health dept. 52.99
G. M. APPLEBY, spec. police 4th of July 21.00
Beloit Electric Co., lighting jail 2.00
J. A. PETERSON, sidewalks built 339.00
John SPELL, cutting grass Mech[anics] Green 2.50
Beloit Lumber Co., coal for crusher 12.38
Beloit Lumber Co., lumber streets 4.04
KEELER Lumber Co., lumber streets 23.50
KEELER Lumber Co., lumber streets 6.77
Beloit College Book store, supplies 4.05
Wm. HANNER, building walks 20.00
YAGLA & BRYCE, sand for streets 4.20
PURINGTON Paving Brick Co., brick 135.00
Jesse POMEROY, labor on streets 28.80
P. EVERSON, labor on streets 28.05
H. SKJONNE, labor on streets 16.20
E. A. HURLEY, labor on streets 23.25
James FERWERDA, labor on streets 30.90
H. HASEMAN, labor on streets 30.28
H. WARD, labor and team on streets 62.10
S. M. GRAVES, labor and team on streets 37.50
W. ENGEBRETSON, labor and team on streets 31.80
C. D. ELLIS, labor and team on streets 64.50
T. GUNDERSON, labor and team on streets 57.30
D. DEMING, labor and team on streets 33.60
A. C. STEVENS, labor and team on streets 59.40
Frank KRAUSE, labor and team on streets 30.00
H. RESER, labor and team on streets 62.70
M. E. ADAMS, labor and team on streets 30.00
J. W. McNALLY, labor and team on streets 10.20
J. W. McNALLY, engine on crusher 51.50
A. M. BELDING, Supt. street work 75.00
Geo. DONNER, cleaning streets 100.00
G. W. PERKINS, inspection of sidewalks 16.60
Robt. CALDWELL, surveying 37.50
CUNNINGHAM Bros., lumber streets, &c 26.58
    A bill of the Beloit Electric Co., for lighting streets, $322.65 was referred to the Committee on Street Lights.
    Ald. POLLOCK appeared and took his seat.
    The following petition was presented and referred to the Aldermen of the First ward:

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the city of Beloit.
The petition of Alice BRODER represents that she is the owner of the land on the west side of
Central avenue extending from Bushnell street to Chapin street. Your petitioner is desirous to build a tar side walk the entire length of the block. Your petitioner further represents that there are a number of trees on the terrace that she is anxious to save. Your petitioner therefore asks of your honorable body to grant permission to build the walk up to the curb line. Your petitioner further asks for a side walk grade on the west side of Central avenue between Chapin street and Bushnell street.
            Respectfully,
            Alice BRODER
    Ald. MUELLER presented the following petition, which was referred to the Water Works committee:

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the city of Beloit:
The undersigned property owners and residents on Central avenue and Bushnell street would
respectfully represent to your honorable body that we have no water privileges, and we further represent that it is necessary in a sanitary measure that we have city water; therefore, we petition your honorable body to order a water main laid in Central avenue between Chapin street and Bushnell street and then east on Bushnell street to Milwaukee road, and a hydrant placed there.

Alice BRODER, Martha B. ELDRED,
Chas. H. DEXHEIMER, James MULLEN,
James MULLEN, Jr. D. E. LANE,

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