The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-04-20
Proceedings Of City Council
City Of Bemidji
April 3rd, 1911.

Proceedings of City Council, April 3,
Council met in council rooms in city
hall at o'clock p. m. \ quorum being
present, meeting was called to order by
vice-president Bisiar
Roll call showed the following alder
men present.
Klein, Moberg, Smart, Roe, Bisiar,
Brown, Crippen.
Absent: Bailey, Johnson.
Minutes of the last meeting were read
and approved
The following bills were read and on
motion and second were allowed:
Wartield Electric Co.. lighting
stl eets, buildings, ETC., March $474 35
Warfeld Electric Co.. current
library, March. .,........ 1915
Wartield Electric Co., current
poor farm. March. ... 800
Warfield Electric Co., pumping
contract, March ....... 40. 90
w. G. Schroeder, merchandise
poor and poor farm. .......... 543
w. &. Schroeder, merchandise
city hall NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 266
Northern Grocery Co., merchan-
disc poor farm February and
March 1912
Falls & Cameron, wood poor. S.75
Lunn & Co., merchandise, poor
Iafm 8.84
SiidS' A>duS TO- IIlefCHdHulSe poor $50
Nj. If. Cunningham, material and
labor, city hall. 1880
\. E. Hazen, sheriff, boarding
city prisoners, March. ...... 11S co
County of Beltrami, rent poor
farm LIST quarter, 1911. 1910
Given Hardware Co., merchan-
disc street and city hall. $500. 645
Houghton Mifflin Co., books, IL
brary Observation-Disclosures. 25 90
Winter & Co., wood, library. 500
NJ. p. Smith, coal, library. w 10
w. Begsley. shoeing, fire de-
r H i1.,!ums ma; t,o,,o+ 60. 4'oo
prisoners ................ $50
r.. Cell, interest on $25,OOO.OO
bonds, due April LIST. OPT ST
Municipal court report for week end
ing March 25th, showing $40 90 paid
the city treasurer was read and on mo-
ton and second was accepted.
Ordinance No. 51-"Regulating res
taurants eating houses and lunch
saloons was read the third time and
passed by the following vote: Ayes
Klein, Moberg, Smart, Roe, Bisiar,
Brown, Crippen. Nayes: None. Alb
sent: Bailey, Johnson.
Ordinance No: 52-"Regulating and
fixing the retail liquor license fee at
$1,000 90 was read a third time.
Communication from the Assist
ant Attorney General Smith was
read relative to the legality
of this ordinance and the same failed of
passage by the following vote: Ayes
None. Nayes: Klein, Moberg, Smart,
Roe, Bisiar, Brown Crippen. Absent:
Bailey, Johnson.
Bids for the official printing were now
opened and read and were as follows:
Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Co., 1S
cents per folio of $50 ems, nonpareil,
for the first insertion, and two cents per
folio for additional insertions, to be
published in the Bemidji Daily Pioneer
Rood and Marcum, 20 cents per such
folio for the first insertion and 10 cents
FOR additional Insertions, to be publish
ed in the bemidji Sentinel.
The bid of the Bemidji Pioneer Pub
fishing Co., was accepted on motion and
second, they being required to furnish
a bond in the sum of 100000.
Bids for the burial of city paupers
We're now opened and read and We're as
follows:
j. p. Lahr s17.25 each.
M. e. Ibertson, $500 each
r. F. Murphy, SIS SO each.
The bid Of r. f. Murphy was accept
ed and he was required to furnish a
bond in the sum of $500. 90.
Application for plumbers license was
made by Doran Bros. and same was
granted on motion and second.
Moved and seconded that a committee
of be appointed to meet with the city
attorney Tuesday the 4th, at 2:3O p. M,
to draft new liquor license ordinance
or resolution. Carried.
The Chair appointed Aldermen Mo-
berg. Crippen, Roe, Brown and Klein as
such committee and on motion and
second the mayor and Mr. White and
Mr.. Flesher We're asked to meet with
this committee. ..-
Police report for the month of A.arch
was read and ordered filed.
Requisition for one half ton of hay
made by the fire department was al
lowed and clerk instructed to purchase
same. ~
There being no further business it
was moved we adjourn.
Adjourned.
Attest: Approved: -.. .
Geo. Stein, l.. F. JOHNSON,
City Clerk. '.Er- President.