Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-05-06
CITY COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS

PROCEEDINGS
Council Chambers, City Hall Bldg,
Willmar, Minnesota, April 9th,
1914.
Regular meeting of the City Coun-
Gil with Mayor Wellin in the chair.
The following members of the
Council were present on roll call:
Mayor Wellin, Aldermen Johnson,
Benson Martin, Kent, Sperry, Tjos-
void, Norman and Erickson, 9. Alb
sent: none.
City Attorney Stanford also was
present.
The minutes of the annual meeting
held April 10th, 1914, were read and
the same were approved.
On motion the Council took up the
hearing for vacating parts of Park
Avenue in First Ward in the City OF
Willmar, as advertised. The matter
was talked over.
There being no objection filed
against the vacation of portions OF
said street nor did any one appear
in reference to said matter, the hear
ing was on motion declared closed.
Alderman Johnson offered the fol
lowing resolution which was adopted
by the following vote: "Ayes', s;
Noes, none.
RESOLUTION.
Whereas, a duly verified petition,
proper in form and execution, accom-
panied by a plat of the ground, and
signed by J. l.. Johnson, l.. A. Void,
L. O. Thorpe and others, constituting
majority of owner on the line of and
within 300 feet of each end of the por'
tions of the streets proposed to be va
Gated, has been presented to the City
Council of the City of Willmar, Min
nesota, praying for the vacation OF
| those portions of Park Avenue in
Thorpe & Liens Addition to the City
of Willmar, hereinafter described;
| and,
Whereas, the City Council of the
City of Willmar. deeming it expedient
that the matter be proceeded with
has heretofore ordered said petition
to be filed with the City Clerk and
the City Clerk to give notice of the
time and place at which the City
Council would consider and hear said
petition; and,
Whereas, the City Clerk has hereto
| fore given such aforementioned notice
Of hearing on said petition, as in the
City Charter provided; and,
| Whereas, said hearing on said pc
tition was duly had at the Council
Chambers in the City Hall in the City
of Willmar on the 9th day of April
1914 at the hour of o'clock in the
evening of said day, at which time all
parties interested were given an op
portunity to be heard and nobody ap
pcaring in opposition to said petition:
Now Therefore, Resolved; That
those portions of Park Avenue In
Thorpe & Liens Addition to the City
of Willmar, shown on the plat &C
companying said petition by dotted
lines in red ink, and described as fol
lows, to wit:
All that part of Park Avenue lying
North of Lot of Block 1, in Thorpe
& Liens Addition to the City of Will
mar, Minnesota, being that portion
of Park Avenue commencing at thu
Northeast corner of Lot 1 and Bloch
1, in said Thorpe & Liens Addition
running thence Southwest, West ant
Southwest to the Northwest corner o.
said Lot of Block in said Addition
Also that part of Park Avenue
starting at the Southwest corner o
Lot 2 in Block in Thorpe & Liens
Addition to the City of Willmar
Minnesota, thence in a Southwestern!
direction along the North line of Parl
Avenue as extended distance of n
feet; thence in a Northwesterly di
rection and parallel to the West sid
of Lot of Block 1 of said Addition :
distance Of 270 feet; thence in :
Northwesterly direction and parable
to the West side of Lot of Block
in said Addition a distance of 20!
feet; thence in q Northeasterly direc
ton along the line of Park Avenue a.
extended a distance of 80 feet to tn
Northwest corner Of Lot 1 of Bloc]
of said Addition; thence in South
easterly direction along the West sid
of Lot of Block of said Addition
distance of 165 feet; thence in
Southeasterly direction along tn
West side of Lot of Block + of sal
Addition a distance of 285 feet to tn
place of beginning;
! Be and the same is hereby vacated