Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-12-06
LICENSE WITHDRAWN
COUNCIL ASKS BIDS FOR COAL
AND ALLOWS BUNCH OF
BILLS


- BILLS
The application of Julius Lemanczik
and John Maschke for license to sell
liquor in: the building on the West side
formerly occupied by Paul Lemanczik,
whose license expired Saturday, was
taken out Of the hands Of the council
Monday night by the withdrawal of
the bond by Julius Lemanczik, one of
the applicants. The former license was
held by Paul Lemanczik, who was con-
victed to selling liquor to minors. .
Frank Griffith appeared before the
council and asked that the alley back
of block 8, lots l and 2 be opened if it
was within the jurisdiction of the
council to. do 50. Mr.. Griffith said that
a neighbor had recently blockaded the
alley, which was the only means he
had Of having wood and coal delivered
to the house without violating the
boulevard ordinance. In the old plat
which was destroyed, but Of which a
copy was made the alley as plated
terminated in the river. But with pri-
vate labor and at private expense the
present and former owners of the
Griffith property built retaining wall
and made. a driveway along the shore
of the river. Recently Mr.. Griffith's
neighbor saw fit to block the alley
way with a pile Of wood and later by
stretching a wire across the driveway
which had been in use for 20 years.
The council instructed the street cont
mittee to try and arrange for peace
able settlement.
Acting on a suggestion made by
Chief Tourtillotte the council instruct
ed the street commissioner to put men
to piling rocks taken from the bed of
the river against the wooden retaining
wall which is built along the east shore
Of the river Just below the dam.
The Water Power company offered
proposition for the installation of d
red light On the corner Of First street
and Broadway east, which should be
used as police signal and which
would be turned on by central at the
telephone office when ever a police
call was turned in, the only cost to the
city being that of wiring, which was
accepted.
The bid of G.. H. Enke for $80.32 for
making new stairs leading into the
basement of the city hall for enclosing
the stairs ~, both sides with match:
lumber, ceiling in the stairway and
short corridor at the foot of the
stairs, was accepted.
The report of Phil S. Randall as
, Justice with the receipt Of the treasur~
er for ST. attached, was accepted.
| The allowance of Mrs. LEM for car
ing for Mrs. Freisinger was raised to
SIS.
The application Of the Swedish
Lutheran church for permit to ex-
cavate the street to put sewer in the
! parsonage was allowed with the stipu-
lation that the work be placed in the
hands of licensed plumber.
A resolution ordering the cancella-
tion of all outstanding and unpaid
orders issued previous to April l, 1907,
was passed. If any Of the missing
orders are presented they will be re-
placed by new ones.
! The city clerk was instructed to ad-
vertise for forty tons Of coal to be de-
livered on track in this city. One car
of 20-tons to be delivered Immediately,
the other by February l.
The street commissioner was in
structed to buy $50 cords Of rock fol
tho streets at a cord, also to ar
range with John Denis for weighing
the rock bought from the country on
the West side of the river. Each cord
of rock is to be $4,000 pounds. The
rock is to be delivered at the crusher
The brick masons union were given
permission to use the city hall for meet.
ings whenever they did not interfere
with any other meeting.
The following bills were allowed: