Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-11-06
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
TOWN OF ELLENBORO

To the Legal Electors of the town of Ellen
boro. Grant county, Wisconsin:
Notice is hereby given that a special
election will be held for said town on the
THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER, 1912,
For the purpose of submitting to the legal
electors of said town the question whether
the said town shall accept the proposition of
The Chicago Short Line Railway Company.
a Wisconsin corporation, a copy of which
proposition is as follows. to-wit:
PROPOSITION.
To the Town of Ellenbero, Grant County,
Wisconsin:
THE CHICAGO SHORT LINZ RAILWAY CoM-
PANY, a corporation duly incorporated I'M
der the laws of the state of Wisconsin. for
the purpose of constructing, maintaining
and operating a standard, ordinary gauge
electric railway, with overhead transmits
sion ines for its power. with it's central
power plant to be located in the city of Lam
caster, in said Grant County, Wisconsin, for
the public use in the transportation of per-
sons and property within the counties of
Grant and Lafayette. in the state of Wis
consin, and within the state of Illinois, over
the following route, to-wit:
From and to the city of Lancaster, Grant
County, Wisconsin, extending through the
townships of South Lancaster, Beetown.
Glen Haven, Bloomington, Patch Grove, Mt.
Hope. Mt. Ida. Fennimore, Liberty, North
Lancaster. EllenbOro and Lima, and touch
ing Ii City " AdAICdSICIs Ii Villages Vi
! North AndOver, Bloomington, Patch Grove,
Mount Hope, Mount Ida, Fennimore and
Sitter IN said county. or as near thereto as
tt1ay be practicable, said line passing through
the township of Platteyille and the city of
Platteville. in Grant OuntY traverSing the
county of Lafayette through the townships
of Elk Grove, Seymour. Darlington, Shulls-
burg Monticello, New Diggings and Benton,
reaching the cities OF Darlington and ShullS-
burg and the village of Benton by proper
extensions or branch lines, thence in a
soutneaSterly direction through the state of
Illinois to the city of Chicago, the terminus
of said railway,
desiring aid and being DESTROYS that said
town of EllenborO make a subscription to it's
capital stock, pursuant to the statutes in
such case made and provided, to be paid in
municipal bonds to be issued by said town
of EllenborO, hereby makes the following
proposition to said town of EllenbOrO, purSu-
ant to section 945 of the Wisconsin statutes
of 1898 and the several acts amendatorY
thereof and supplementary thereto:
First: That said town of ~Ellenboro sub
scribe for two hundred 1900 shares
of the capital stock of said railway ompany
of the par value of Twenty Thousand
(20,O00) Dollars in the manner and at the
time provided by statute under this agree
ment; such subscription to be payable ia
seventeen Q0 interest-bearing coupon bonds,
/ eight 90 of such bonds to be of the de
nomination and face value of Eleven humid
dred fifty Ql50) dollars, and the remain
ing nine 90 bonds to be each of the
denomination and face value of Twelve
hundred Q200) Dollars, making in all the
amount of Twenty thousand GO, OOO)
Dollars at par value, numbered consecutive
ly from one % to seventeen az both in
elusive, not payable before maturity at the
option of said town, to be issued by said
town of Ellenboro, made payable to said
railway company or bearer, and TO mature
as follows:
Number one ~, for $1150 to be PAYABLE on
June list, 1916.
Number two ~, for $115O to be payable on
June lSt. 1917.
Number three (3), for S1150 to be PAYABLE
on June 1St, 1918.
Number four ~, for $115O to be payable on
June 1St, 1919.
Number five (5), for S115O to be payable on
June 1St, 1920.
Number six (), for $115O to be payable on
June 1St. 1921.
Number seven "a for S115O to he pavable on
June 1St, 1922.
Number eight () for $115O to be payable on
June 1st, 1923.
Number nine G) for $1,000 to be payable OH
June 1St, 1924.
Number ten QO for $1,000 to be payable on
June 1St- 1925.
Number eleven I'D for $1,000 to be nayable
on June 1St, 1926.
Number twelve az for $1,000 to be PAYABLE
on June list, 1927.
Number thirteen Q9 for $1,000 to be pay
able on June list, 1928.
Number fourteen IA for $1,000 to be nav
able on June 1St, 1929.
Numbe fifteen ISL for $1,000 to be navable
on June list, 1880.
Number sixteen 1851 for $1,000 to be paw
able on June 1St, 1881.
Number seventeen II for $1,000 to be paw
able on June lSt, 1892.
Each OF said bonds to draw interest at the
rate of four and one-half [4h1 per centum
per annum, payable annually on the first
day of June in each and every year from