The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-10
City Council Votes to Allow
School Board Funds to
Erect New Washington
School Building.
AWARD CONTRACT FOR CANS
Contract of Albert Prange for Construc-
ton of Sewers in Fair Way to
be Settled by the City and Attor-
ney for Edmund III. Prange.


ington school building, the City Council
took one of the necessary steps to
house the twenty-five. hundred school
children of Kenosha who are either
crowded out or just attending part
time. Consideration as to the method
of appropriating the necessary amount
of money preceded the vote, but it was
finally decided that the council should
put ON bond issue for $4,000 and that
the rest should be raised as the Com
mon Council sees fit and as the vouch-
ers properly authenticated by the prop
err officials.
Council was called to order by Mayor
John G.. Joachim at the usual time on
Monday night The petition of Roy
Scott for permission to erect weigh
ing machine at the corner Of Cameron
Court and Rowland avenue was re-
ferred to the committee on streets
and alleys.
The petition Of the Becker News
Company to be relieved from the order
of the city preventing it from selling
papers by public cutlery and to allow
the newsboys for that company to
announce the important items contain
ed in the papers being sold, was re-
ferred to the police committee.
The petition Of property owners on
Williams street iandx Fremont avenue
against the extension Of Lombard
avenue, was referred to the street as
sessnent committee.
The report of the city sealer, Felix
Meyer, for the month of September,
showed that he had inspected and seal
ed these articles: Counter scales, 23;
computing scales, So; wagon scales, 4;
spring scales, 1903; portable scales, 81;
platform scales, 100; auto pumps, 81;
weights, 296; that he had adjusted,
Counter scales, Q; computing scales,
6; wagon scales, /; spring, IA; portable
scales, 8; auto pumps, d. That ne had
condemned 26 spring scales and port
able scales THAT he had tried out and
found correct measures, ETC., as fol
lows: Flour and feed, IL; groceries, 81;
vegetables, 5; meats, 10; coal, 2; but
ter, 10, and had found incorrect, -four
and feed, dry goods, 8; groceries, 16;
vegetables, 6; meats, 8; coal, butter 3.
The city clerk reported that he had
collected accounts due the city as fol
lows: For street paving assessments on
Charles street, $3,145.44; assessments
on Tanck street, $1,938.44; assessments
on Superior street, $1,203.8S.
The city treasurer's report showed
balance on September 1, of $3.50, 098.73;
total receipts for the month, $9,206.30;
disbursements, 5,o39.73, leaving a
balance in the treasury at the beginning
of October of $115,05S.74.
The council voted to- convert the
100000 Third Liberty Loan bonds
which the city now holds, into Fourth
Liberty Loan bonds which draws one
fourth Of one per cent more interest
than the Third
Alderman Conrad Shearer, chairman
Of the finance committee, reported that
the council would need to tide the city
over between now and January l,
$142,075.78, and that the city account
in bank is now overdrawn.
The School Board asked for $4,000
month for the running expenses of the
schools until such time as the money
from taxes is available. The finance
$ committee was instructed to see the
banks and get the money.
The question of the erection of the
Washington school building coming up,
Alderman Sullivan moved that the
amount of money the School Board re-
quired be allowed and that the finance
committee be instructed to provide it,
provided the School Board got the gov
eminent permit to erect the building;
that $4,000 of this amount be raised
by bond sale and the rest as the coun-
Gil sees fit. An aye and no vote be-
in gtaken, the council voted unanimous
ly in favor of the motion.
The matter Of the Prange contract
for the construction of sewers in the
Guy, coming up, EDWIN II. FRANCE, the
present contractor, was called upon to
address the council in the matter Mr..
FRANCE introduced Attorney O'Connor,
from Milwaukee, who stated that he had
come to help adjust the matter. That
Kenosha was having the same troubles
in regard to having work done that the
rest Of the world was having just now,
with the exception that Kenosha was
not in as bad fix as the rest Of the
world. In regard to this contract he
stated that Albert Prange had bid on
The sewerage contract at $1,000 foot,
and that afterward he had been called
to the army and was now in France.
That afterward a new contract was
awarded to Edmund H. Prange at $4,000
foot, but that it was holding back
money due Edmund III Pranpe on ac-