Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-17
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

NOTICE OF ELECTION.
WHEREAS, the Town Board of Supervisors
of the Town of Eagle River Villas County, Wis
conSin on the Bird day Of A pri, 1905, duly passed
and adopted the following resolution:
STATED WISCONSIN
County of Villas Town of Eagle River
Special meeting OF the Board of Supervisors
of said town, held at the village of Eagle River
in said town, at the town hall, in said village.
on the Bird day of APRIL 1905, at 3 o'clock III
the afternoon.
WHEREAS, the said town Of Eagle River
contains and has contained since January 1st,
1895, an unincorporated village, having epopu-
lation of more than 1000 inhabtMnts, being the
village of Eagle River in said town; and
WHEREAS, the annual town meeting Of said
town. held on the first Tuesday of April 1897,
duly passed resolution, comforting upon said
town all powers relating to villages which are
conferr6d upon village boards by Chapter
Forty (40) Of the Wisconsin Statutes, Sxcept-
ing these the exercise of which would conflict
with the STATUTES relating to Town and Town
Boards, and said resolution has been duly re-
corded in the records of said town, and was
duly passed and adopted by the electors and
legal voters of said town; and
WHEREAS, there is conferred upon said
town by virtue of Subdivision Thirteen I3) OF
Section TIC, Subdivisions Ten l1oI, Twenty
two l22 and Twenty-six TO OF Section 1913.
and Section 942 and 943 of the Wisconsin
Statutes for 1913, and by Chapter 3l2 OF the
GeneralLaw Of Wise 0nson for 1903 and the act.
amendatory thereof and the General Laws OF
the state of Wisconsin,; the power to install
water works for fire protection. and further
to purchase all necessary apparatus for the
extinguiShment of fires, the erection OF engine
houses for the protection from fire. and to
erect lamp posts and lamps and provide fortho
lighting of any portion OF the village or streets
thereof by gas or otherwise and to issue the
bonds Of said town for the purpose OF meeting
the expense thereof and
WHEREAS, the Eagle River Light s. Water
Company Is the owner OF an electrct light
plant, consisting of a one and two story solid
brick building with boilers. engines and
dynamoS and u system of poles and wires for
lighting the streets of the said village OF Eagle
River by electricity, and also machinery for
generating power to pump water through the
mains Of said village of Eagle River for lire
prot ection, and has entered into contract
with said Tow n.of Eagle River for lighting by
electricity the streets of said village of Eag.e
River and pumping water through mains IN the
streets of the said village of Eagle River for
fire projections; and
WHEREAS the said Eagle River Light &
Water Company has submitted to the Town
Board of the town of Eagle River, and filed
with the Town Clerk Of said town. prop' 81
ton in writing of the following tenor toy -.
To the Town Board of Supervisors of the
Town of Eagle River, Villas County, Wisc{ ns4n:
Gentlemen: The undersigned, EAGLE RIVER
LIGHT AND WATER COMPANY, a corporation duly
organized under the laws OF the State OF Wis
consin, and the owner of an electric light fran
chise for the planting Of poles and stretching
l
Sid town of Eagle River. and the owner of al,
electric light plant in the said village OF Eagle
River which is being operated under q con-
trf CT with the said town of Eagle River for
the furnishing of electric lights for lighting the
streets in the sal; village OF Eagle River and al
sowith the permission of the said town of Eagle
River furnishing electric light for private use.
said contract being entered into and said fran
chise granted by the said town Of Eagle River,
pursuant to authority vested IN said town by
resolution duly passed and adopted at an an
nual town meeting by the ectors OF sad
town of Eagle River, comforting upon the said
town of Eagle River and the Town Board of
said town pursuant to Subdivision Tnirte N
(13( of Section 776 of the Wisconsin Statutes for
1898, all OF the powers of the village boards as
contained in Chapter Forty (4U of said S at
utes. does hereby. pursuant to request Of
many of the taxpayers of said town of Eagle
| River submit the following proposition: FIRST,
to sell and convey by good and sufficient BED
of conveyance with covenants of warranty and
against membranes, with abstract show .ng
title, in fee simple, in the undersigned, Ea gle
River Light and Water Company. the follow
ing described piece or parcels Of land, situated
in said town of Eagle River, described fol
| lows, tO-Wit:
The certain piece or parcel of land bounded
as follows: Commencing at the Northwest
corner of Lot numbered Four ~ in Block num-
| bered Two C2( of Fingers Addition to the vii
| running thence North along the west line of
said lot numbered four "a in said block extend
| ed to the south bank of the Eagle River: run
ming thence northeasterly along the south
bank of said Eagle River to the right of way of
tine Chicago g Northwestern Railway Com
+ pany; running thence southerly along the west
| boundary line of said right of way of the Chi
cago & Northwestern Railway Company to the
point where the north line of lot four ~ in
! block seven ~ of Dickinson, Cook and Tam
bling's Addition to the village of Eagle River
extended crosses said west boundary line of
said Chicago & Northwestern Hallway Com
pany right of way; thence westerly along said
/ extension of said north boundary line Of said
lot four az in said block seven ()~to- the
northwest corner of said lot four AZ block
seven ~; thence south along the west line
Of lot one o. in block two % ofFinger's
Addition aforesaid, to the northeast corner
Of lot numbered two III in said block
numbered two LII in said Fingers Addition;
running thence west along the north line OF
lots numbered two III, three L3l, and four [A
in said block mbered two [2l IN said Finger S
| Addition to the place of beginning, together
with the one two-story solid brick building used
as a power house and electric light plant stu
ated thereon: also,
The certain piece or parcel of land bounded
as follows: Commencing at the northwest cor.
ner of lot numbered four [4l in block numbered
| two ca of Fingers Addition to the village of
| Eagle River: running thence north along the
west line of said lot numbered four az in said
| block extended to the southern bank, of the
Eagle river: running thence seuthwesterly
along the south bank of siad river to the point
where the north line of said lot numbered four
! "a in said block mbered two (2l of FIJI ger s
Addition to the village OF Eanle River extend
ed west, crosses said south bank of said Eagle
/ river: thence east along said extension of said
north boundary line of said lot four (4 to the
| place of beginning.
: Second, to sell and convey by good and sufi-
Gent conveyance all of the boilers, dynamos:
engines and all machinery and equipment OF
| emery name and nature situated in the solid
brick building hereinbefore described and
used in connection with the operation of the
/ electric light and water plant operated in SAID
| building and not owned by the said town OF
| Eagle River.
Third, to sell and convey by good and suff-
| Gent conveyance with covenants OF warranty
[ and against membranes, the electric poles
and wires stretched thereon throughout the
streets of the village of Eagle River in said
tawn of Eagle River and used by the under
signed, Eagle River Light g Water Company,
| in lighting the streets of said village of Eagle
River and in furnishing lights to private per-
sons in said village.
Fourth, to cancel and surrender up to said
of Eagle Riker all franchises held by SAID
Eagle River Light & Water Company for the
operation of an electric light plant in said vii
lage of Eagle River, and to cancel and surrend-
er up all contracts for the lighting of streets
tween said Eagle River Light & Water Com