The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-02-12

Fesbruary 9th, 1914.


Common Council of the City of Keno
sha, held February 9th, 1914.
Called to order by Mayor Head.
Present: AID Roberts, Sullivan,
Marlatt, Shearer, Hegeman, Ihomey,
Filben, Anderson, Kisten, Mueller,
Rauen, Loef, Willems, Joachim, Bruins
and Barth.
City Improvement Bond No. 1901,
amount $4S.00, which has been paid by
the owner and to be cancelled by the
Finance Committee, was presented.
On motion of Aid. Thomey, the bond
was referred to the Finance Commit
tee for cancellation.
/. A remonstrance was presented
signed by Peter Lippert and IL others
demonstrating against the granting of
the ordinance or franchise to the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Com
pany for the laying of the tracks over
the proposed route until all damages
are settled with the property owners
AUDITING on said right-of-way, OF
adjacent thereto.
On motion Of Aid. Thomey, the petit
ton was held in reserve until action is
taken upon the ordinance.
2. The following was presented:
To the Honorable Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Kenosha:
The petition of the undersigned re-
spectfully represents and shows to
Your Honorable Body:
That the City of Kenosha, in the
County of Kenosha and State of Wis
consin, is municipal corporation or
gained, existing and incorporated I'M
der a Special Charter granted by the
legislature of the state of Wisconsin
by Chapter 1913 of the Private and Lo-
cal Laws of the State of Wisconsin for
the year 1857 and the several acts
amendatory thereof and supplemental
thereto.
That your petitioners constitute and
are upwards Of one-half of the resi-
dent electors of, in and residing upon,
and are upwards of one-half of the
actual bona fde owners in fee simple,
absolute, of the following described
piece and parcel Of land, and of more
than one-half of all the taxable prop
erty Of every name and nature therein
and thereon according to the last tax
roll, to-wit:
All of the southeast quarter of sec
tion thirty-six (36) town two (2)
north of range twenty-five (22) east,
not now included within the limits of
the City of Kenosha, and the south
one-half of the southwest quarter of
section thirty-six (36) town two (2)
north of range twenty-five (22) east,
all now being in the Town of Somers,
Kenosha County, Wisconsin, and all
of section one a. town one a. north
of range twenty-five (22) east and
section six (6) and fractional section
five 60 of town one CD north of
range twenty three (23) east, not now
included within the limits of the City
of Kenosha and being a part of the
Town of Pleasant Prairie, in the
County of Kenosha and State of
Wisconsin.
That said territory and real estate is
taxable property and lies next imme-
diately west and south of and adjo;n-
ing said City Of Kenosha, and now con-
stitutes parts of the Towns Of Pleas
ant Prairie and Somers, County Of Ke-
nosha and State of Wisconsin.
That your petitioners, and each and
all Of them, desire that said territory
and real estate hereinbefore described
be annexed to and made a part of the
City of Kenosha, Kenosha County, in
the State Of Wisconsin in the manner
provided by law.
WHEREOF, Your petitioners pray
that said territory and real estate
hereinbefore described, and the whole
and every part thereof, be annexed to
and made a part of the City of Keno
sha, aforesaid, and that Your Honor
able Body take such steps at once as
are required by law for the annexation
Of said real estate and territory, and
the whole and every part thereof, to
said City of Kenosha, and thus your
petitioners will ever pray.
Dated this goth day of October,
A. D. 1913.
The above petition was signed by
Louis Limpert and 274 others.
On motion Of Aid. Marlatt, the petit
ton was received and referred to the
Committee on Judiciary for examina-
ton.
3. A petition was presented from
the Board Of Health, by Geo. w. Har-
rington, Secy., stating that at a
special meeting of the Board of Health
of the City Of Kenosha, the matter
was brought before said Board relating
to the apparent serious epidemic of
smallpox which the City of Kenosha
is facing, the serious situation is main
ly due to the fact that inhabitants of
the houses, as well as the patients
themselves when suffering with the
disease in a mild form have circulated
among large bodies of people at pool
rooms, moving picture shows, dances,
and barber shops, and it would seem
advisable, in view of the various facts