The Cairo bulletin., 1912-03-06
LINV|LLE Wants
SPR|NkL|NC JOB
Garbage Contractor Proposes to
Take Contract Retailers Want
Meat Inspector


contract OF sprinkling and sweeping
the brick paved streets and take up
all the sweepings for $3.50 per
day. His offer submitted In writing
was read before the city council at
its meeting last night,
Linville is the man who was re-
Gently awarded the contract for the
collection of garbage for 1912 for
The total sum of s1,555. His offer Is
specified follows:
His Honor Mayor Parsons and Mem
bers of the City Council:
| will sprinkle, sweep and take
Up all sweepings behind the sweeper
IN the following streets ever night:
Ohio street from Second to Four
teenth; Commercial avenue from
second to Fourteenth street; Wash
ngton avenue from Second to Gen.
.er; Second street from Ohio to
Washington avenue; Eighth from
ohio to NJ. & O. depot, and the fol-
owing streets twice week as fol-
ows: Commercial from Fourteenth
o Thirty-fourth, including Thirty
fourth to Washington avenue:
Washington avenue from Center TO
Thirrg-fourth street Monday and
Thursday nights; and Poplar from
mouth to Thirty-fourth and Sycamore
rom Center to Thirty-fourth every
Tuesday and Friday nights: Wal
tut from Fourth to Twenty-eighth
md Twenty-eighth and Twenty
irst from Commercial 10 Holbrook
avery Wednesday and Saturday
lights. | will do all the above work
n good shape and furnish my own
weeper, sprinkler and dump wagons,
cams and labor for $1750 per day.
WILLIAM sLINVILLE.
The council will take up the
proposition later.
The Cairo Retail Merchants Asso.
iation asked the city council last
light to appoint an inspector of
meats at salary of SIS per month
nd to pass an ordinance requiring
Il dealers in fresh meats to pay $50
year license. Ordinances covering
hese propositions were offered. The
ouneil referred the ordinances to-
he ordinance committee and the
BOARD of health to report at the next
meeting.
The knights Of the Mystic Krew
ent a formal invitation TO the mayor
md members of the city council, in
hiding the city clerk to attend the
lnnual banquet which takes place
.onight The invitation was prompt
ty accepted
According to the recommendation
If the police, jail and fire committee
he council voted to transfer the
Tram shop license Of John f. Chap
nan at 2701 to the Andrew Lohr
Bottling Co.
The petition of the Cairo Brewing
o., for transfer of saloon license
rom 1915 Poplar street formerly
conducted by Rudolph Brown to
2S01 Commercial avenue was
granted.
Building permits for five story
building to be used as family hotel
On Washington avenue near Ninth |
street was presented by Chris Beck,
also petition from Mrs Lucy Al
Grant to build an addition to 221iI
Pine street, were referred to build |
ng committee.
The Shafer Lumber Co. at Tenth |
treet near the Mississippi levee asks
for L. plug in that vicinity. Re-
erred to police, Jail and fire commit
tee. -4
The bond of Claude Jones as city
fireman, with Otto Schulz and M. j.
Mahaffee as sureties was approved.
Cairo City Gas Co. asked permits
ion to tear up the brick pavement
m Washington avenue near Sixty
itreet in order to repair leak in
he gas main Granted
The salary bill of $3,t3433 was al
owed
The petition for an arc lamp on
railroad street between Eighteenth |
nd Twentieth streets was intro
uced by Alderman Kelly, 1t was
eferred TO street committee who liz
0 report on same at next meeting.
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