The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-04-07
COUNCIL MEETING.
The Village Council Met Last Mon
day Night and Transacted Con-
siderable Business.
A Telephone Ordinance Caused Quite
a Discussion--Actlon Postponed
to Next Meeting.

The village council met in regular
session last Monday night, all mem
bers being present. The minutes of
the last meeting were read and which
showed bills audited and allowed
amounting to $521.56. Mr.. Galley
started the ball rolling for the evening
by making motion to the effect that
the amount in the village fund of
about $500 be set over to the electric
light fund and paid on the blanket or
der of So, 100 given by the village to
the Citizens State Bank year ago.
The motion of Mr.. Galley also called
for the transfer of the next two saloon
licenses to the electric light fund and
the payment of the amount toward the
order, and also the amount due the
village from the next tax settlement.
This meant that the village treasury
was to be pumped dry for a partial
liquidation of the old electric light
fund order, and it did not take long
for the council to become involved in
a pretty hot discussion of village
finances. The thing was carried to a
point which entitled the question to be
classified with the knotty problem of
Chow Old is Ann?' Trustees Libby
and Craig and Recorder Borden OPP
posed the motion to thus strap the viii
lage. The recorder stated that there
was balance left in the electric light
fund of about 5000 and while this was
to the credit of that fund it would have
to be used to pay electric light orders
in order of their issue according to
recent State law. Mr.. Galley during
the discussion stated that it was all
rot to have two funds. the electric and
general fund, and thought that it
would be all right for the purposes of
bookkeeping, but not for the regular
transaction of business, but no action
was taken by the council to merge the
two funds into one. During the dis
cussion there was all kinds of Opin-
ions pro and con on whole lot of
matters not exactly pertinent to the
question, and President Cooney
seconded the motion for the purpose of
getting the council to make some dis
position of the question which was
finally put and was lost by a vote of
three to two. After this light began
to dawn on the council and motion
of the recorder that the balance in the
village fund should be taken and ap-
piled On the blanket order was car
ried. Trustee Libby made motion
that all that portion of the balance in
the electric fund remaining after all
electric orders were paid should be ap-
piled to the order and this motion car
ried also. The council appeared to
be very willing to place all money to
the credit of the order SO long as the
future payments into the village
treasury we're not anticipated and Or
dered paid on the order. The council
thought that some money would be
needed for street work and other pur-
poses. This ended the finance matter
for the time and there will be no more
trouble for a while.
Trustee Galley asked for permission
to pile wood on the vacant village lot
adjoining the power house and he was
granted the privilege.
An application for the appointment
as street commissioner by G.. G.. Tenn
pie was presented to the council, and
Ben Soule was present and also made
an application to the council for the
same position, and the council engaged
his services for the present season at
the rate of So per day for man and
team for actual time put in.
On motion of Trustee Craig the
salary of the recorder was fixed at the
rate of $3.50 per year. This brought
up the matter of bookkeeping and
Trustee Galley objected to having the
books and reports show list of as
sets each year which properly speaking
are not assets of the village. He did
not think that the bridges and the
crosswalks, etc., should be listed as
assets, and in view of the present con-
ditiOn of some of the new crosswalks
his contention was we'll taken. AS the
matter of assets was something that
came up only once year in the an
nual report the question was left for
subsequent action.
The next matter that came up for
consideration was the report of the
committee that was appointed to draft
an agreement or ordinance which
would give the Rural Telephone Co.
some tangible rights and status in the
village. AS was stated in the U n O n
last week the committee had thought
best to draft a general ordinance that
would apply in the future to all indi-
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