Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-01-13
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Grist of Bills s-4AllOWed-WillG Get Price
Of Maple Island Improve s
r the Fire Alarm System.

for good not being attached to bills
hereafter bills must have the order
attached. ...~-. .-ss-.->. .
Some Of the poor who were given
| orders during the month had
purchased, what was styled by some
of the aldermen luxuries, consisting
Of cramberries, rasins, shirts costing
$3.50 ETC., and an attempt will be
made to limit their purchases to
necessities only So ~ .sz .s,.z j 49,. .zs:
t'~~+ sFhe park committee consisting Oi
Aldermen Rider. Butler and Mahan
reported and recommended that the
city purchase Maple Island for a
park if it could be secured at a
reasonable figure. The report was
accepted, and a committee appointed
to get the price Of the property.
The council thought the bill for
flushing sewers every six hours was
to much but when the matter was
explained to them the bill was
allowed, and a resolution passed
that hereafter the sewers be flushed
every twelve hours.
The matter of making an assess
ment to pay for the sewers was
brought up and City Attorney Lyon
informed tke council that under the
present charter the assessment could
not be made till next fall and the
money would not be paid in until
January or June of 1894, but that a
change might be made in the charter
Aid. Mahan then made a motion tC
the effect that the city attorney be
instructed to see about making &
change in the city charter with
reference to assessments for sewers,
sidew alks or other improvements
which must be assessed to abutting
property and it was carried.
The matter of erecting frame build
ing inside the fire limits was brought
up and Chief LaFOnd was instructed
to see to it that no more buildings
OF this kind be erected in the fir,
limits.
The bill of Frank Stumpfforcar
for II. Osier, pauper was withdraw
as it had been allowed by the count.
com mmissioners.
| H. @. McGrane and J. H. Love o
| hose company No. 3 were appointed
fire police.
On motion of Aid. Butler it was
ordered that another night police
nan be added to the force, and th
mayor appointed William Tourtillot
as such officer.
Chief Lafond asked that three doz
en- caps with capes, four dozen rub
Der coats, six dozen pairs of mittens
five hundred feet of hose and twt
nozzlts be purchased for the fire dc
partment On motion the chief wa
appointed a committee to do tn
purchasing.
Considerable trouble has been eH
perienced with the fire alarm system
during the past year, and on motto
it was decided to turn it over to tn
Electric and Water company for six
ty days, at the end of which time tn
company will report to the counc
the cost of maintaining the same.
the council then deem it advisable
contract will be made with the con
pany to keep it in repair.
Our fire alarm system is very in
portant matter and we should eithe
have a first-class one or none at all.
Mrs. Artman, the widow of til
man who was murdered last fal
asked for aid from the city. She
not a resident of the city, but OF Ii
tie Falls town, and it was ordere
that the board Of supervisors be NJ
| tilted to care for her.
A plat of Pine Grove addition t
Little Falls was presented by N.
Clarke. but as there was evidentl
some mistake as to the dedication I
streets it was laid on the table.
The following bills were allowed:
P. H. Gross, goods to paupers $4:'
John Buerkel, hauling hOse.....
&c. KarnOWski, 3S cords OF
wood. Observation-Disclosures. 114
Hook & Ladder Co., service at
| Hie..... ............................. 90
Aug. Demler, service drying
! nose. Observation-Disclosures. 4.
Hamlin & Broder, repairs on
BRIDGE. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 8.
NJ. Coleman, boarding prison
efS........... Observation-Disclosures. ..
. c. Schmitt, work on jail.......... 2S.
John Buerkc], service at fire.. 2.
L. F. Electric & Water Co.,
hydrant rent for month of
December .............................. 2S6.
l.. F. Electric & Water Co., ,>3%
inch corporation cocks for
SeWerS................... {.
L. F. Electric & Water Co., arc
lights for month of December POS.
+. B. Stuart, conveying sick
man to hospital. l.
F. B. Stuart, services at fires. 9
G. NJ. A. Fortier service as
health officer six months...... 81
, Ii Electric & Water Co. lights
- for city hall. all........................... 10
Hose Co. No. 3, service at fires 45
z J. w. Berg, ballot boxes and
hardware for city................. 33
Hose Co. No. l, service at fires. 4S
Hose co. No 2, service at fires S6
= H. G. McGrane, repairing hose
cart No. "...............-:...... 4
Philanda Champion, boaetling
paupers.. ......................:.... 10
S. Vaughn, house rent to pau
per ...................>.......
. L. F. Electric & Water Co., re-
pairing alarm. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. j
Lauerman Bros, services as
Judge Of election first ward. 6
j. H. Geddes, service drying
~ hose ...................
- N. Dun, service at fire......,...... 3
g. w. Massey. insurance on
West side hose house...........
:. John A. Tcnolkin, cash paid
cleaning chimneys at city hall
w. +. krause, strap for hose
............................
j. w. Close, 1913 cubic yards of
earth at 12H cents per yard. 13(
e. n. Bottom, goods to poor...
G. 6. Simmons, drying hose.