Beloit City Government report

©1900 Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

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January 7. - Regular Meeting.

Council Chambers.

Beloit, Wis., Jan. 7, 1901.

Regular meeting.
Mayor SMITH presiding.
Present - Ald. BUCKERIDGE, CUNNINGHAM, GARDNER, GESLEY, HANSEN, HELM, LEDELL,

MERRILL, MUELLER, NEEDHAM, POLLOCK, SHARP - 12.

Absent - Ald. CLARKE, DAY, HEWITT - 3.
The minutes of the meeting of Dec. 17th and 23rd, 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:

E. G. CADMAN, labor bridges $2.19

Beloit Lumber Co., lumber bridges, etc. 50.93

CUNNINGHAM Bros., lumber, etc., bridges, etc. 346.97

A. H. LIVINGSTON, labor cemetery 10.50

Fred W. WARNER, stationery, supplies 4.05

Pay roll of city officers and firemen for December 813.22

Beloit Gas Light & Coke Co., lighting streets, etc. 74.79

J. E. PARKER, weed commissioner 15.75

GESLEY Mfg. Co., wood, etc. 4.40

Geo. B. MERRILL, drayage elections 3.75

G. W. PERKINS, hay fire dept. 15.39

Beloit Electric Co., lighting E. S. stat'n. 6.55

FAIRBANKS, MORSE & Co., brass tubing .60

S. M. GRAVES, hay and straw fire dept. 3.41

L. DeGROFF & Son, horseshoeing fire dept. 5.20

McGAVOCK Bros., coal fire dept. 27.30

M. V. BURROUGHS, rug for fire dept. 13.39

F. C. WALROD, watching fire station 3 mo. 6.00

A. MERRILL, hay fire dept. 11.93

E. LIPMAN, supplies fire dept. 38.31

Chas. B. POLLOCK, straw fire dept. 10.50

W. H. WHETSTONE, oats fire dept. 43.12

Mrs. N. BERG, laundry fire dept. 4.40

WATSON & ANDRE, supplies fire dept. 26.60

John CLIFF, labor police court 7.84

P. D. BASFORD, labor police court 2.0_

GORDON Bros., supplies police dept. 3.83

Beloit Electric Co., lighting jail 2.00

ROBINSON Bros., boarding patrol horse, etc. 14.00

O. GRAVES, stove for jail 12.25

J. J. VOORHEES, labor 1.50

E. M. HOLLIS, labor streets 6.00

W. H. HADLEY, labor streets 2.55

Jesse POMEROY, labor streets 11.25

B. LEFFINGWELL, labor and team streets 4.20

T. GUNDERSON, labor and team streets 6.90

H. H. WARD, labor and team streets 20.40

G. W. PERKINS, supt. street work 27.90

Geo. DONNER, cleaning streets 100.00

R. R. CALDWELL, surveying 117.50

GORDON Bros., hardware supplies 35.08

WATSON & ANDRE, hardware supplies 1.85

LEONARD & YAGLA, sprinkling streets 3.00

Owen BAKER, Brooks St. sewer job 234.88

A bill of the Beloit Electric Co. for $31.72 for lighting election purpose was recommended for payment in amount of

$26.72 and allowed in that amount by the unanimous vote of the Council, the ayes and noes being called.

A bill of the Beloit Electric Co. for $371.90, for street lights was referred to the Street Lights Committee.
Ald. HELM, for the First ward, presented the following report on the petition for crosswalk on Central avenue

across Hubbard place:

Your First Ward Committee to whom was referred the within petition respectfully recommend that it be

granted.

A. C. HELM,
Chas. F. MUELLER.

On motion the report was adopted and petition granted.
Ald. HELM, for the Water Works Committee, reported the receipt of a number of letters in regard to the

appointment of an appraiser for the City in the matter of the purchase of the water works.

Ald. POLLOCK, for the Fire committee, reported recommending the payment of John CLIFF for $6.00 for

specifications for repairs to fire station. On motion the report was adopted and bill allowed by the unanimous vote of the Council, the ayes and noes being called.

Ald. POLLOCK presented the following resolution which was referred to the Street Lights committee:
Resolved, That a street light either gas or incandescent electric light, be placed near the northwest corner of the High

School building.

Ald. POLLOCK presented the following resolution which was adopted by the unanimous vote of the Council, the

ayes and noes being called:

Resolved, That the sum of ($5.00) Five dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to pay Mr. _. THOMAS

for maintaining an oil street light on Fifth street and that the City Clerk be authorized to issue an order for the same.

Ald. HANSEN presented the following resolution which was adopted by the unanimous vote of the Council, the

ayes and noes being called:

Resolved, That the sum of three thou-

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