Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-12-18
CITY OF WAUWATOSA.

CITY OF WAUWATUSA.
The territory which now comprises
the City of Wauwatosa was incorpor-
ated as village in the year 1892, and
was thereafter governed by president
and board of trustees until the year
1897, when by the reason of the laws
passed by the Legislature of that year,
the population being in excess of 1900,
the village board passed resolution
declaring that the territory within the
village boundries should become city
of the fourth CLASSIFYING and deter
mining the number and boundries of
the wards into which the city should
be divided and determining that the
name of the city should be 'Wauwa-
tosa.''
The resolution further provided that
the first city election should be held
on the 95th day of May, 1s97-named
the three inspectors of each ward who
pursuant to law should conduct the
election for the first city officers, and
at which election the following per-
sons were elected as the first city
officers:
E. d. Hoyt, Mayor.
Myron Gilbert, city clerk.
II. e. Loveland, treasurer.
A. f. Kellogg, assessor.
L. q. Wheeler, comptroller.
William Split and Clinton Colt,
justices of the peace.
William Split, police justice
William Won Baumbach and w. j.
Underwood, aldermen First Ward.
James Lefeber and Chas. A. Breed
aldermen Second Ward
F. w. Kalfahs and L. C. Rogers,
aldermen Third Ward.
Fred Yehle and w. c. Picker, alder
men Fourth Ward.
r. M. Brown, Vernon Kinney, S. S.
Leonard and John Armstrong, super
visors.
Immediately after the election was
held the result was certified to the
Secretary of State and the patent
issued creating the City of Wauwatosa
as one of the first, if not the first city
to take advantage of the law
1t will be observed that the first
Common Conncil of the new city was
an unusually strong body--made up as
it was of men who for years had been
interested in the locality and men who
gave their best efforts in starting the
work of public improvements which
since that time have developed in this
suburb one of the really attractive
residence suburbs of Wisconsin, and
which within the past few years has
attracted in increasing numbers, who
are DESTROYS of establishing their
homes in attractive, healthy and de-
sirable locations.
BY reason of the fact that such
numerous additions have been made
TO the former population especially
in the past five years and because they
are quite generally inclined to be
pleased with their present location it
occurs to the writer that brief re-
view of the improvement work begun
and completed SINCE the city was in
corporated may be of interest to the
readers of the Wauwatosa News and
in accordance with your invitation to
write of the City of Waawatosa along
the lines indicated the undersigned
rather gladly accepts your suggestion
as privilege and will endeavor in the
next and succeeding issues Of the
paper to relate some of the details of
improvement work in this city which
in aggregate cost will reach figures of
which many of our people are not en-
tirely aware-but from which when
fully advised thew may fiud reasons
with which to satisfy themselves and
TO persuade their home-seeISing friends
that Wauwatosa now is and for some
time has been municipality a progress
sive community.
CHAs Il. PERRY, Mayor.
Wauwatosa, Dec. Is, 1911
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