Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-04-24
lIIlVE
BUSINESS
City Commissioner Meet il Reg
ular Session and Transact
Considerable Business.
PASS SEVERAL ORDINANCES.
Telephone Company Wont aPlay
Ball. Unless il is Permitted
to Raise the Rates.

" AAutoG SkAhSs FANAtS0s "
The city commissioners met In reg
ular session last Monday evening with
all members present except Commits
sioner Gountryman, who was absent
from the city.
City Auditor o. NJ. Lane read a com.
munieation from the Dakota Central
Telephone Company, refusing to ac-
cept the rates proposed by the com
mission several weeks ago. AT the
present time the city commissioners
and the telephone company are as far
apart as when they started couple
of months ago 1t seems to be the
sense of the commission that the
rates already in vogue are sufficiently
high to pay a good big dividend on
the Investment if the telephone COM
pany should install an automatic sys-
tenn. The commissioners say thy
have gone over the proposition thor
oughly and figured the matter up one
side and down the other and they can
not come to any other conclusion.
The commissioners evidently feel that
they do not wish to impose an extra
expense on the people Of Watertown
when in their opinion the rates all
ready established are sufficient to de
rive a good profit for the telephone
company. Mayor Wagner is very en-
phatic on the matter and positively
says that he will never vote to raise
the present telephone rates in this
city. ss
Ordinance A3S relating to circus Ii.
censes was passed to the final reading
and adopted by a unanimous vote OF
the commissioners present. Ordinance
A39 was also adopted after some
slight amendments in regard to the
peddling of fruit, this being an ordi
nance relating to peanut and popcorn
wagons.
L. q. Spicer and others from the
north side appeared before the com
mission asking as to how they should
proceed to secure the privileges OF q
sewer in their neighborhood. The
n,stter was referred to the city en-
gineer and the commissioner OF va
ter and sewers to investigate and
make some recommendations to the
| board
The city auditor was instructed tc
advertise for bids for street crossings
and sidewalks to be built by the city
during the coming year, the bids te
be opened at the meeting on May S
The bond of the StJyer Constructor
company in the sum of $4,000 for the
construction of cement work in the
city for the coming year was APPROX
ed and on motion duly filed. A peti
tion for the construction of cement
side walk on Fourth street N. e. was
received and the same was referred
to the commissioner of streets and
alleys.
It being deemed necessary to install
an extra hydrant for use in sprinkline
the street somewhere In the south part
of town the commissioner of streets
and he engineer were instructed to
secure another meter and to sec ttii1til
such hydrant was installed.
Bids were opened for the fiber con-
.duits which it is proposed to lay in
the streets of the paving district for
the running Of electric wires. There
We're two bids submitted but the bid
of the Electrical Engineering COM
pany Of Minneapolis being the lowest
they were awarded the contract of
supplying approximately $4,000 feet
of the fiber conduit for the use Of the
city.
a resolution was passed ordering
all poles removed from the streets
within the present paving district and.
another resolution calling for the con
struction Of lateral storm sewers was.
also presented and read for the first
time. The final action on the sewer
resolution will come on May 5. The
specifications for the construction Of
curb which had been prepared by the
eity engineer were approved and ad-
opted by the commission