The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-06
TRANSFER SALOON LICENSE
City Council After Long Wrangle De-
cides to Put Another Saloon on the
West End of Grand Avenue-other
Council Business.

The city council had a little cele-
bration of the Fourth all its own and
there were some real fireworks in con-
nection with it too. The celebration
came at the close of the council meet
ing Monday night and as a result City
Attorney Calvin Stewart went out of
the council chamber like he had been
shot from skyrocket. He was peeved,
desperately peeved.
It all came over the fact that the
city council insisted on having the right
to employ its own stenographers and
pay them from it's own funds The
Stewart incident was one of the most
dramatic seen in council meeting in
some time. At a recent meeting of the
council, after an impassioned plea on
the part of the city attorney the coun-
Gil voted an appropriation of $50 a
month for the employment of a steno-
grapher with the understanding that
one-half of her time should be given
to the Office of the city attorney and
the other half to the work of other
city officials. This went well enough
until it was discovered that the city
attorney had put one over the council
and had employed stenogra pher at a
rate of $50 month.
The members of the council insisted
that any money appropriated should go
to the stenographer and to this end de-
ciled to employ Miss Gertrude Wade at
a salary of $40 month. Stewart in a
huff declared that he would not accept
such an arrangement and insisted that
the council make an appropriation to
him to hire stenographer. It was
shown to the council that the law of
the state provided strictly against the
increase of any official 8 salary and the
council voted to hire the stenographer
and if the city attorney does not de-
sire her services he will be forced to
struggle along as city attorneys in Ke-
nOsha have done for the past decade
and pay for his own stenographer. It
was after this action that Stewart left
the council meeting in huff and it is
expected that the next council meeting
will bring another kick from him.
The council by a vote of to z con-
sented to transfer the saloon license of
Joseph Dosemagen from 26O Main street
to 541 Grand avenue even after the
members had been advised that the
transfer was illegal. It is certain that
the case will find it's way into the
courts as property owners and the other
people interested have given assurance
that they will seek an injunction to
prevent posemagen doing business un-
der the license. The vote on the uues-
ton which came after long argument
was as follows: Ayes, Aldermen Pirsch,
O'Brien, Burt, Stemm, Wade, WilIems,
Saftig, and Wade. Nays, Aldermen
Marlatt, Rhode, Tully, Thomey, Filben,
Conforti and Werner.
The question Of the paving of Lake
avenue caused lot of trouble for the
council and half dozen petitions came
in. The street assessment committee
sent report to- the council recommend
ing that the street be improved with
asphalt, but this was held in allegiance
pending the action of the committee
on the new petitions. While the COM
mittee was given power to act in the
matter it is probable that il will in
sist on another report being mafie to
the council before final action is taken.
The council decided to oil the maca-
dam streets of the city and $500 gallons
of oil with an asphalt base has been
purchased for this purpose. Before
next Monday the streets will be cleaned
up and it is expected that the work of
oiling all of these streets will be com
pleted within a month.
The council passed a formal resolu-
ton suspending the rules and doing
away with the session scheduled to be
held on the third Monday in July and
the next meeting of the council will
take place on the first Monday in
August.