New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-04-22
Will Not Pave
North of Third
Property Owners Object To
Expense. Immediate Ac-
ton To Be Taken.
Important Gas and Meat
Inspection Ordinances
Adopted:

Last Tuesdaysthe old city council met
for the last time, approved the minutes
of the previous meeting and adjourned
"sine die The new council organized
by electing Theo. Mueller, President of
the Council and he re-appointed the
same committees that served last year
as follows:
Light and Water--Ruemke, Retzlaff
and Behnke.
Finance--Retzlaff, Pfaender and Ha
mann.
Streets and Sewers-Behnke, Ruemke
and Pfaender.
Fire Department-Pfa and Benin
Ike.
Parks and Cemetery--Ruemke and
Hamann
Buildings and Grounds--Hamann and
Retzlaff.
Mayor Fritsche who was present, sub
mitted the following list Of appointments
for the ensuing year,
City Attorney Henry N. Somsen
Chief of Police Adolph Klause
Night Police John Herzog
William Emmerich
City Engineer F. D. Minium
Street Commissioner Herman Shemann
Poundmaster and Dog Catcher
.-." Werner Juenemann
Inspector of Theaters and Halls
JOS F. Groebner
Member of Park Board N. Henningsen
all Of which met the approval Of the city
council No assessor was appointed at
this meeting. The city council desig-
mated the New Ulm Review as the official
paper of the city, reelected Jos. Koehler
as city scaler and re-appointed John P.
Bolstad as Superintendent of the Electric
Light and Water Station temporarily.
When the matter of allowing the
liquor licenses came up, some opposition
developed rather unexpectedly. Here
tofore it has been the custom to allow all
the applications in bunch and when the
usual motion was made, the opposition
was voiced thru Alderman Retzlaff who
was opposed to granting a license to any
saloon that has public dance hall in
connection with the saloon and also OBJ
jected to the manner in which some of
the saloons are being conducted. He
received very little support, however,
from the other members Of the council
and when it came to vote the following
were granted licenses without opposition:
August Boyer, Lorenz Girg, Otto F..
Oswald, John Zischka, Math. Sieben-
Drummer & Son, Jerry Reardon, New Ulm
Turnverein, Fred Williams, Henry Sci
fert, Emil Frenzel, Andreas Amann,
Anton Bartl, Bernard Esser, Frank J..
Memo, Woratschka g. Albrecht, Jos.
Martinka, Ernst Laue, Michael Ran
weller, Chas. Kretsch, Alois Gulden,
Christ Filzen and Matt. Petersen. Retz-
latf and Ruemke voted against granting
license to Jacob Fritz and Retzlaff
voted against the applications Of Anton
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A protest signed by II property owners
residing on Minnesota Street between
Third and Fourth North, Directing to
the paving Of that block was read and
filed and after some discussion the matter
was referred to the Board of Public
Works.
Ten bids were received in all for the
different sprinkling contracts and were
submitted by the following: Ed. Man-
derfeld, Otto Wiedenmann, Chas Ries,
J. P. Graft, Gust Fehlhaber, Herman
Bentzin, Gust .Bauermeister, P. J. Jutz,
VIM. Schreyer and William Gieseke. Ed.
Manderfeld had the lowest bid on the
sprinkling Of State Street and he was
awarded the contract for $500 per
month and $500 per day for sprinkling
outside of the sprinkling season. Otto
Wiedenmann and Charles Ries but in
identical bids for the sprinkling Of Wash
ington Street and on vote this contract
was awarded to Wiedenmann for $1,000
per month and $500 per day for extra
sprinkling. J. P. Graft was awarded the
contract for sprinkling Minnesota Street
for $lO2.5O per month, $500 per month
for hauling the hook and ladder truck
and $500 for sprinkling Broadway with
s.. SO a day for extra sprinkling.
Only one bid was received for the con-
crete work to be done by the city during
the year and the contract was awarded
to August Pullman. His bid covered
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