The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-05-18
HANCOCK
HANCOCK COUNCIL TO HOLD
REGULAR SESSION TONIGHT

A regular, meeting OF the common
council will be held this evening. at
which n number OF matters of interest
win come up for action, among them.
:, e. likely. the annual appropriation
nm for the maintenance of the city for
the current year. Ordinances relating
20 this and To several sewer and other
assessments have been prepared by the
oitv attorney, Il. c. Condor, and will be
submitted this evening. The garbage
dispensation problem. which has been
under consideration for some time past
will probably receive an early settle
mont and an ordinance adopted COM
melting residents and householders to
Mace their refuse i'm cans to be pro-
vided for the purpose. There has been
some question as TO whether the city
or the individual householders should
nrovlde the cans, but some of the city
fathers are OF the opinion that the city
should get them, as otherwise II might
ne found difficult to compel people to
secure them, in which event the situa-
tion would be but little better than az
nresent. 1t is estimated that from fif-
teen hundred to two thousand of the
cans would be required. Specimen
carriage cans were recently obtained,
nv instructions of the council, and
selection will no doubt be made of the
sort which would give the better salts
faction here.
In
cation since the last meeting with ex-
merit accountants with a view to as
certaining what it would cost to have
one come to Hancock to look over the
municipal bookkeeping system and
suggest a suitable method for simpli-
flying it.
An official invitation to the city Of
fcals to participate in the Memorial
dav parole with the veterans and other
local military bodies. will probably be
received and accepted at this evenings
meeting.
-- - will be the first meeting held
under the now arrangement Of holding
council meetings on the first and third
Wednesday nights of the month instead
of on Mondays, which have been the
regular meeting nights ever since the
city was incorporated. Most of the
councilmen had engagements on Mon
day evenings usually which the coun-
cilmen find to interfere with their at
tendance at meetings, and vice versa
so that q change was decided upon.
The board of review Is again I'm ses-
sion today with former Supervisors
Fichkern and Ross acting as proxies
for Supervisors Turnkey and Harris.
They will not complete their work UNI
iii tomorrow evening. The rolls will
show total valuation of city property
of considerably in excess Of two mill
lion dollars, the largest individual val
uaton being that of the Hancock
Mining company which, ii is stated, Is
placed on the roll for something like
n million dollars. Several large prop
erty owners have appeared before the
board of reviews to object to their
valuations, and before the board adj
journs tomorrow it Is likely that some
slight changes may he made.
The amount of money that will be
raised by taxation this year, according
to the annual apportionment bill to
be presented this evening. will be APP
proXimatelv about the same of last
year, which aggregated s44,22S. There
will be about twenty-three thousand
dollars raised from liquor licenses,
making the total something a little
over sixty-five thousand dollars to be
apportioned among the general fund,
the sewer, fire, park, police. light. con-
tingent and interest and sinking funds.