The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-16
Council Proceedings
PROCEEDINGS

OF regular meeting of the common
council of the city Of Watertown, Wis
consin, held on the fifteenth day of
October, 1913.
His Honor, the Mayor, presiding.
All the members of the council
were present
On motion of Alderman Klemann
the minutes of the preceding session
were approved.
The resignation Of Ferd. Schmutz-
Ter as justice of the peace was pre-
sented and accepted.
To the Common Council OF the City Of
Watertown.
Gentlemen: BY virtue of the author
ity vested in me by section 925-31 OF
the Wisconsin statutes, I hereby ap-
point Albert Cavenagh to fill the va
cancy in the office of justice OF the
peace caused by the resignation Of
Justice Ferdinand Schmutzler, such
appointment being for the unexpired
term and subject to the approval Of
your honorable body.
Dated, Watertown, Wis, October
IS, 1918.
Charles Mulberger, Mayor.
On motion of Alderman Kerr the
appointment was confirmed.
A petition for an incandescent
street light in front of the German
Baptist church on Division street was
referred to the committee on street
lighting.
The Honorable Mayor and Common
Council.
Gentlemen: AS directed by the
board of education of this city, l
hand you herewith the school budget
for the year 1919, showing the amount
necessary to be raised by your hon.
orable body for the support of the
public schools of this city for the
year 1919.
October 2, 1918.
Respectfully,
Bertha Field,
Clerk, Board of Education
To the Honorable Board of Education,
Watertown, Wis.
Gentlemen: Your committee on f.
nance respectfully reports the follow
| ing estimate of receipts and disburse-
ments for school purposes in the city
Of Watertown from January LIST, 1919,
to January list, 1920, and recommends
the adoption thereof.
| Your committee further recon-
mends that the clerk Of the board of
education be instructed to forthwith
file copy Of this report with the
clerk of the city Of Watertown with
the request that the same be sub
mitted to the common council of said
city at its next session, and with the
timated that will be required for
school purposes for the above men-
toned period, towit: the sum of 1884,
105,80 be placed by said common
council in the tax roll for the year
I1918.
The items Of said estimate are as
follows:
| Expenses of General Control:
Clerks salary and taking
census -A---------------$ 6OO.OO
Incidentals and supplies
for rk----------- 5000
Salary of superintendent 100000
Salary of clerk to superin-
| tendent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1886. OO
Stationery, postage, report
cards, record cards, teach
ers' registers, etc. 5000
Telephone, telegraph and
express ---------------- 10000
Freight and drayage---- 1900
s 4,O61.OO
Expenses of Instructions: ..-
Salaries of supervisors of
subjects COMMUNICATIONS 3,45O.0O
Salaries of men teachers 10000
Salaries of women teachers 23,74O.0O
Text books---------------- 10000
Instruction supplies, maps,
| globes, dictionaries, etc $4,000
Chemical and physical la
boratory ------------ 10000
Material used in manual
| training and domestic
science ----------- $4,000
Commercial equipment 10000
Night school ------- $4,000
s34,O4O.OO
Expenses of Operation of School
Plant:
Janitors' wages---------- $4,000
Fuel observation-disclosures 100000