River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-07
Council Proceedings.

Council Chamber,
City of River Falls, Wis.
June /, 1906.
Regular meeting of the Common
Council.
Council convened at s o'clock p.
m. Mayor White in the chair.
Aldermen present: Williams. Ell
lott, Freeman and Pratt.
Minutes of meetings of May 18th
and 10Th read and approved.
Finance Committee reported fol-
lowing claims approved:
E. Buck, salary electrician, ..........,$ so 90
Lyman Chinook, salary, .............. % 80
N. Rock, ............... 20 90
W. Campbell, 8 ............... II so
w. Patterson labor, wiring, etc...... 20 90
E. Buck, expenses-trip to st. Paul.. 90
Kettle River Quarries Co, for stones 100 %
1Or crossings. Observation-Disclosures,
w. S. Davis, agent, freight on same. % 81
E. Pratt, pauper aid, Observation-Disclosures. 2 90
Eunice Thomson, expense at park, 49,. IS
F. j. Savage, street work, ............. Is 80
Ray Hyatt, salary marshal. .,.......... 25 90
Bills allowed, all voting aye.
Proposals for iron water main
taken up and considered, and bids
of The Steam Fitting and Plumbing
Supplies Co. for one carload of iron
pipe at $3.50 per ton accepted, and
the clerk was directed to order a
carload of iron pipe and the neces-
sary supplies for putting in the pipe
line on Union Street.
c. G. Knowles in behalf of the
Park Board requested an appropri-
alton of two hundred dollars for
park purposes.
On motion voted that that an or
der be drawn in favor of John Bur
nett for certain expenses incurred
in the Memorial Service on May 80.
On motion voted to reconsider
the action of the Council made May
10th, providing for putting down
soft cement walks at Lund's and
Thelander's places of business and
on north side of Walnut Street.
Question then recurring to the
original motion to lay such walks,
the original motion was laid on the
table indefinitely.
On motion voted that the propo-
sition of John Shorn and Carl
Yocum to put down cement walks
in front of their respective resi-
dences, the city to furnish the sand
and gravel for foundation of the
same and for the cement work, was
accepted.
On motion voted that all previous
action of the Council in relation to
the walks in front of the business
lots Of Thelander and Lund and the
residence lots of Dodge and For
syth on Walnut Street be rescinded.
On motion voted that the City put
in a gravel walk on north side OF
Pine Street east of Fourth Street.
On motion voted that the City
purchase Is h. p. electric motor
for use in operating the rock crush
er and such other use by the City as
may be advisable. All voting aye.
On motion voted that the clerk
order 5000 feet of oak lumber from
S. F.. Petry. All voting aye.
The following resolutions were
then read and on motion each was
adopted. All voting aye.
Resolved, That sidewalk ten
feet in width with curb be built ex-
tending in front of Lund's and The
lander's lots on Main Street provid-
ed that the owners of said lots pay
one-half the cost of the same. Such
walk to be built according to the
specifications drawn by the City
Engineer to be approved by the City
Council.
The City Engineer shall set the
grade stakes for the same.
Passed June /, 1906.
Approved June l, 1906.
Attest: F. M. WHITE,
ALLEN P. WELD, Mayor.
City Clerk.
Resolved, That a sidewalk four
and one-ha1f feet in width, extend