The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-18

Below zero weather seemed to put
pep and ginger into the members of
the Common Council on Monday night
and they kept the new leaf turned over
with the beginning of the new year
clean Monday night and clamped down
the lid on the council meeting before
10 O'Clock. While there was not a
great deal of accomplishment at the
meeting, the aldermen were at least en-
titled to credit for getting it over
with quick.
The only matter of real interest was
the extension of the "olive branch"
to the Board of Education, When the
council was about to adjourn, the ques-
tion of the proposed new school for the
north side of the city was brought up
by Alderman Bounsall who sought to
have the council reconsider its action
in referring the proposed bond issue
for the school to the people. Alderman
Bounsall declared that he was. in favor
of referendums for bond issues but
that the school board was going to be
considerably handicapped in getting
the new building ready if it was forced
to wait until after referendum to
make its plans. He suggested that the
council call the school board as it's
guests at q special meeting at which
the many questions relating to the
schools could be taken up and with the
special plan of discussing the proposed
new building on the north side of the
city. He held that many children in
the city would be on half time even
after the opening of the new Lincoln
School and that for this reason every
possible action should be taken to ia
cilitate the work of building the school.
He held that the school board should
be instructed to get set of real school
house plans which would become the
property of the board and which might
be used for building future school
buildings in Kenosha.
The olive branch extended by the
alderman to the school board was in
no way a "white flag" as he declared
that he was ready to battle against
extra vagrancies and vagaries of the
school board as much as ever. He in
sisted, however, that he did not be-
lieve that the council should delay the
building of the new school After a
considerable discussion the motion to
reconsider the action was withdrawn
and instead a motion providing for
a conference between the two boards
was adopted. The conference is to be
held week from Wednesday evening.
Vt is pretty certain that at this con
ference the members of the council will
consent to a change in the program
which will make it possible for the
board to proceed with its plans for the
new school at once.
Ready to Meet Way.
Mayor Pfennig, chairman of the
special railway committee, notified the
council that conference on all rail
way difficulties had been suggested by
Vice-President Way of the Wisconsin
Gas and Electric Company. He said
that the offer of Mr.. Way would be
accepted and that conference would
be set just as soon as a day could be
agreed upon. The members of the
council did not give the mayor and
city attorney any instructions as to
how the matter was to be handled but
several of the aldermen expressed a
desire to be present at the conference.
The city win have well worked out
plan for future development of the
traffic problem of the city when it
meets the operators of the company.
Decorate the City Hall.
After nearly year of talking it
over the council finally decided to dec
crate the City Hall from the basement
to the council chamber and the con-
: tract for painting the interior of the
building was given to Adolph Stevens
at his bid of 1910. The aldermen had
expected to pay much bigger bill In
fact some of them had limited from the
first that it would cost from between
three and four thousand dollars to re-
decorate the building. The hanging
gardens will probably be a thing of
the past within the next month as the