Beloit City Government report

©1900 Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

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October 1. - Regular Meeting.

Council Chambers.

Beloit, Wis., Oct. 1, 1900.

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

HELM, HEWITT, LEDELL, MERRILL, MUELLER, NEEDHAM, POLLOCK, SHARP - 15.

The minutes of the meeting of September 19, 1900, were read and approved.
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:

KEELER Lumber Company, lumber bridges $7.61

John VOSS, labor cemetery 33.75

A. H. LIVINGSTON, labor cemetery 31.50

Pay roll city officers and firemen for month of September 813.22

D. C. HEALD, labor, etc., park 13.62

O. D. ROWE, recording deed, etc. 3.25

J. F. PEASLEE, weed commissioner 22.50

R. H. SHARP, weed commissioner 20.00

F. C. WALROD, watching fire station 2.00

Beloit Lumber Co., lumber, fire department .82

L. DeGROFF & Son, feed for fire department 2.02

C. F. HARDY, supplies 17.97

Fred SMITH, labor, alarm system 12.00

Sam TIPPITT, labor, alarm system 23.25

Mrs. N. BERG, laundry, fire dep't. 4.00

W. HIBBARD, draying, fire dep't. 1.00

C. F. HARDY, broom for jail .35

H. W. TRAFFORD, horse blankets, police department 5.00

FERGUSON Bros., horseshoeing, patrol horse 8.80

ROBINSON Bros., boarding patrol horse 12.00

C. D. ELLIS, mowing Mechanics Green 3.00

E. V. TODD, typewriting 10.00

J. POMEROY, labor, street 29.78

P. EVERSON, labor, street 7.50

H. HASEMAN, labor, street 32.99

A. HANSON, labor, street 5.25

C. ALLEN, labor, street 10.05

M. ANDERSON, labor, street 10.50

W. H. HADLEY, labor, street 11.10

E. HENDEE, labor, street 4.88

H. SKJONNE, labor, street 15.98

E. JOHNSON, labor, street 29.70

A. STEVENS, labor and team, streets 59.40

T. GUNDERSON, labor and team, streets 59.40

C. D. ELLIS, labor and team, streets 46.20

S. M. GRAVES, labor and team, streets 45.15

H. WARD, labor and team, streets 51.90

H. RESER, labor and team, streets 52.95

A. L. BUCKERIDGE, engine on crusher 44.00

G. W. PERKINS, supt. street work 65.70

Geo. DONNER, cleaning streets 80.00

R. R. CALDWELL, surveying 50.00

YAGLA & BRYCE, sand .60

KEELER Lumber Co., lumber 89.43

Beloit Lumber Co., lumber 78.11

C.M. & St.P.R.R. Co., freight on brick 36.75

Beloit Gas Light & Coke Company, lighting streets, etc. 58.46

A bill of the Beloit Electric Co. for $326.99 for street lights was referred to the Street Lights committee.
Ald. BUCKERIDGE presented the following petition, which was referred to the Taxes committee:

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

Gentlemen: The undersigned respectfully shows your honorable body that his property in block 31

and bluff lot 40 in original plat has been assessed in both Sewer districts A and B, and that thereby your petitioner has been obliged to pay a double sewer assessment, the amount in each case being $15.00 or $30.00 in all. Your petition would therefore ask you to rebate to him one-half of said total or $15.00.

Respectfully,

C. F. RAU.

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

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

Gentlemen: The undersigned respectfully petitions your honorable body for permission to place a

wagon scale in the alley at the east end and near the northeast corner of our new freight house, the scale to be placed near the building so that it will not interfere [continue to Page 64]

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