Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-06-10


quire the City to make the outlay
of money for the purchase of the
right-of-way. l would, therefore, rec.
ommend that the petition be de-
MED.
Adolph Painter"
On motion, the report of Alderman
| Painter was accepted.
Aldermen Roenius, Chairman OF
the Waterworks Committee, reported
recommending that the petition OF
M. C. Jacobson, ct al, for water
main, be left over until the matter
of the sewer on the Street be taken
UP as it is understood the petition is
to be presented for a sewer on the
Street upon which the Waterman is
petitioned for.
On motion, the report of Alder
man Roenius was accepted and ac-
ton upon the petition for Waterman
was deferred until the petition for
sewer is ready to be acted upon.
Alderman Roenius reported upon
the petition of Earle Pease and Geo.
w. Mead for a Waterman in the
Street connecting Second and Third
Streets between the residence prop
critics of E. w. Ellis and Geo. L.
Williams, recommending that tie
petition be granted if the cost OF
5 the construction would not be out
of proportion to the amount of rev.
enue to be derived from the water
users.
On motion, by unanimous vote, the
Clerk calling the roll, the petition OF
Earle Pease and Geo. w. Mead was
granted and the Waterman or~ete-
constructed, with authority to the
Board of Public Works to ad-
Vertise for bids and let the contract
for the work providing the expense
i of the construction exceeds $4,000.
There was presented the pet-ticn
of Fred G. Henke and five others
praying for the construction OF a
sewer on Seventh Avenue, beginning
| at the intersection of said Seventh
| Avenue and Fremont Street and
thence South on said Seventh Avenue
to connect with the sewer now con-
structed on High Street and, on mo-
ton, the petition was referred to
the Sewer Committee.
There was presented the pet ticn
of J. o. Winger, and II others, p az
ing your honorable body to put in
and maintain small arc light at he
corner of Fourth Street and Biz b
Street and, on motion, the same was
referred to the Committee on Gener-
al Business.
There was presented the petition
of w. H. Barnes and others for the
construction of a sewer OF su-taD-
size to be laid in the Third Ward,
commencing at the intersection OF
Witter and Elm Streets, running IN
a Southerly direction along the GEN.
ter line of Elm Street to the center
line of Dewey Street, thence in a
Westerly direction along the center
line of Dewey Street to Third Street
and thence across the land of B. M.
Vaughan to the Wisconsin River and
also petitioning that the Waterman {
said Elm Street be extended from its
present terminus at or near Chest
nut Street to Dewey Street. On
motion, the petition was referred to
the Sewer Committee and to the
Waterworks Committee.
Alderman Briere was excused for
the remainder of the meeting.
There was presented the petition
of F. J. Wood, and IA others, pray
ing that in the work hereafter to
be done in the widening of Vine
Street that the Council cause the
said Street, where it connects with
High Street, or Third Street South,
especially the portion of said Third
Street to be lowered in grade so as
to make less descent in Vine Street
than at the present and has here
tofore existed. On motion, the oeti
ton was referred to the Street Com
mittee and the City Engineer.
There was presented the petition o,
Taylor and Scott Company praying
that the ditch on the line between
Stange-Ellis Lumber Company ant
the Badger Box & Lumber Company
be extended to Seventeenth Avenue
and on motion, the petition was re
ferred to the Finance Committee.
There was presented the petition
of A. Celmer and two others praying
your honorable body to cause to be
constructed sewer to start at the
junction of Grand Avenue and Tenth
Avenue, running thence North one
block on Tenth Avenue, and, on mo
ton, the same was referred to the
Sewer Committee.