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Beloit City Government report

©1900 Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

Page 54

September 3. - Regular Meeting.

Council Chambers.

Beloit, Wis., Sept. 3, 1900.

 
Regular meeting.
Mayor SMITH presiding.
Present - Ald. BUCKERIDGE, CUNNINGHAM, DAY, GARDNER, GESLEY, HELM, HEWITT,
LEDELL, MERRILL, MUELLER, NEEDHAM, POLLOCK, SHARP - 13.
Absent - Ald. CLARKE, HANSEN - 2.
The minutes of the meeting of August 20th were read and approved.
Ald. NEEDHAM appeared and took his seat.
The following bills having been audited by the clerk and payment recommended were allowed and ordered paid by
the unanimous vote of the Council, the ayes and noes being called:

A. H. LIVINGSTON, labor cemetery $33.75
John VOSS, labor cemetery 31.50
G. H. ROSENBERG, hardware cemetery 8.84
Pay roll of city officers and firemen for August 799.89
I. E. GOODALL, weed commissioner 10.00
D. H. FOSTER, supplies 3.65
F. C. WALROD, watching fire station 2.00
Geo. DONNER, hauling manure 2.25
Police Tel. & Sig. Co., battery zincs 30.00
E. R. BUCKERIDGE, straw fire dept. 4.08
Fred SMITH, labor alarm system 10.00
Mrs. N. BERG, laundry fire dept. 4.00
Mrs. N. J. FLINT, sewing fire dept. 2.00
W. H. WHETSTONE, oats fire dept. 28.78
J. S. KENNEY, harness supplies fire dept. 12.32
Beloit Electric Co., lights East side sta. 6.55
Beloit Electric Co., lighting jail 2.00
ROBINSON Bros., boarding police horse 24.00
G. M. APPLEBY, cash paid special police 15.00
A. S. JACKSON, curb on Mechanics Green 75.70
Beloit Elect. Co., lighting streets 336.75
E. A. HURLEY, labor on streets 14.25
W. ENGEBRETSON, labor on streets 7.95
H. HASEMAN, labor on streets 33.25
Jesse POMEROY, labor on streets 34.50
P. EVERSON, labor on streets 33.75
H. SKJONNE, labor on streets 37.50
Eber JOHNSON, labor on streets 26.25
P. AMUNDSON, labor on streets 8.25
H. WARD, labor and team on streets 67.50
T. GUNDERSON, labor and team on streets 68.10
A. C. STEVENS, labor and team on streets 66.60
H. RESER, labor and team on streets 70.50
S. M. GRAVES, labor and team on streets 6.00
F. KRAUSE, labor and team on streets 3.00
M. ADAMS, labor and team on streets 6.00
C. D. ELLIS, labor and team on streets 37.50
Hugh McGAVOCK, building road Liberty street 100.00
A. M. BELDING, Supt. street work 63.00
A. M. BELDING, cash paid labor 9.50
Geo. DONNER, cleaning streets 80.00
R. R. CALDWELL, surveying 59.25
G. W. PERKINS, inspection of sidewalks 29.60
PURINGTON Paving Brick Co., brick 67.50
Beloit Lumber Co., lumber 75.37
Beloit Lumber Co., coal at crusher 6.23
D. E. DEMING, labor and team on streets 9.00
A bill of R. J. HARTSHORN for $10.00 for cleaning vault was referred to the committee on Health.
Ald. SHARP, for the police committee, reported on a bill of George DONNER for $10.00, recommending that
$6.00 be allowed.
On motion the report of the committee was adopted and the bill allowed in amount recommended by the unanimous
vote of the Council, the ayes and noes being called.
The Mayor announced that during the repairing of the city jail the rear end of the city hall would be used as a place
for prisoners and that he had appointed W. H. HADLEY to take charge of same.
On motion the appointment of the Mayor was approved.
Application for license to keep two billiard tables and one pool table was received from M. J. BARRON and
referred to the License committee.
Ald. HANSEN appeared and took his seat.
Ald. POLLOCK presented the following petition which was referred to the Judiciary committee:

To the Mayor and Common Council of the city of Beloit:
The undersigned respectfully petition your honorable body to change the name of West South
Bridge Street to Shirland Avenue. Signed by property owners on said street.
        W. M. BRITTAN, per R. K. ROCKWELL,
        Miss K. PETERS, per W. H. QUINN,
        H. E. GESCHKE, Ella B. GESCHKE,
        E. D. ADAMS, A. C. METCALF,
        E. S. R. METCALF, John RYAN,
        John BLUNT, John BAKER,
        Ellen LAFFIN, John HALEY,
        Tom HALEY, Wilhelm GRIMM,
        H. SCHEIBEL, G. F. HAYES,
        Jacob F. KEVAR, George T. ROBINSON,
        Mrs. E. KERWIN, M. L. RYAN,
        L. RASEY, Frank FRAMBOLDT.
    Ald. POLLOCK presented the following petition which was referred to the Aldermen of the Fourth ward:

Beloit, Wis., Sept. 3, 1900.

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the city of Beloit:
We, the undersigned persons owning property in the east part of the block on Highland avenue,
between Eighth and Adams streets, would respectfully inform you that the street grade, as es- [continue to Page 55]
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