Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-05-02
PASSES FIRST READING
ORDINANCE RAISING SALOON liz
CENsE TO 81, 900 GIVEN FAVOR
ABLEsvoTE BY COUNCIL

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A regular adjourned meeting Of the
city council was held Thursday eve
ming, with all the aldermen and about
$50 citizens present. The large amount
of work on hand kept the council busy
until after midnight.
Asresolution was passed to close the
alley in block 16 Of the original town.
site Of Little Falls, Mr.. and Mrs
Cooley having withdrawn their oh.
jections. ss y $500 szt
A liquor license was granted to I.
Gottstein with s. Trebby: and g: A.
Sprandel as sureties. Alderman Hall
voted against the license.
VIM. Burns, who was forced to
vacate the-Victor theatre some time
ago, asked the council for q refund Of
$18 on his license, but motion was
passed refusing this.
John Love was granted permission to
connect the sewer at the home Of E. P.
Adams on Fourth street northeast. w.
H. Ryan was also granted q permit to
connect the sewer with the Schleusener
house on. Second street southeast.
The bids for the city deposits were
received and as all bids were the same
it was decided to divide the deposits
between the three banks.
The Transcript Publishing company 8
bid for city printing at Is cents per
folio for the first insertion and IS cents
for subsequent insertions was accept
ed.
w. H. Ryan and the Little Falls
Plumbing & Cycle company were grant
ed plumbers licenses, John Wetzel and
j. K. Martin as sureties for the form
er. The bonds of the latter were to
be filed later.
Bids will be received for the street
sprinkling on May Is. A motion was
made and passed to leave the district
to be sprinkled the same as last year.
The quarterly report Of the city
treasurer was read and left to the
auditing committee for reference.
An ordinance fixing the salary of
the city assessor was, given it's final
reading. The ordinance provides that
the assessor shall receive salary of
$500 for all odd numbered years and
$3.50 for all even numbered years. This
will do away with the work of fixing
his salary every year.
Alderman Kaliher introduced an
ordinance prohibiting splitting or
throwing refuse on sidewalks, or in any
theatre, church or public hallway in the
city. The ordinance was unanimously
passed and was given it's final read
ing. ~...
Another ordinance was introduced
which would require the proprietors Of
all saloons to remove or close all card
rooms, chairs and benches, except those
behind the bar, and that all curtains,
shades or blinds Of any description be
removed after closing hours, with one
light burning, giving the public full
view of the interior of the place: No
action was taken on this ordinance and
it was left over to the next regular
meeting of the council.
: The chief of police matter was taken
up at this meeting, E. A. King repre-
senting the defendant. After consider
able discussion which was rather heat
ed, the aldermen voted to leave the
matter to the next meeting. ..
The high license question came up
for the last thing on the program and
the public was called to discuss the
matter. N. N. Bergheim, DR.. L. NJ.
Roberts, Rev. L. L. Harris, F. A. Mel
son and Rev. Frank Atkinson spoke in
favor of high license while Chas. syl-
veste1, T: G; Gordon and F. W. Lyon
we're opposed to the change, stating,
that If it was but proposition
for the elimination Of the undesirable
saloons, they could be eradicated with
out raising the license fee from $500 to
$1,000. The first reading was given the
ordinance, the vote being to 3: Carl
son, Loucks, Kaliher, Peterson, White
and Parshall voted for high license and
LaFond, Hall and Brown voted against
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