The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-07
CITY COUNCIL NOTES.

The council met in regular session
Monday evening. Isselmann was the
only absentee.
Two policemen, one for day service
and one for night, were added to the
department. The chief has been ask
ing for three men. The total is now
eleven.
Action on the matter of the adoption
of the general charter as whole was
deferred by formal motion so as to
keep the proposition properly alive for
future action.
The council accepted the bid of the
Studebaker Co. for motor street oiler
for $3.50. 1t was not the lowest bid but
the street committee thought the pro-
ceeding would stand legal tests and the
contract was authorized, Schiller
now wants an automatic street sweeper
and cleaner for paved streets but no
action was taken on it. The purchase
of motor truck for street work was
put off indefinitely.
Streets oiled last year will be oiled
again but other streets will be oiled
only upon petition of abutting owners.
Miss Jane Pollock, local registered
nurse, has accepted the position Of city
visiting nurse.
The city indigents cost Sl263.81 dur
ing February.
The Board OF Public Works had on
file the annual recommendations for
sewers for the year. Sewers so recon-
mended can be ordered by majority
vote and others require three-fourths
vote.
The annual deluge OF claims for re-
funds of taxes upon improper assess
ments began. w. H. Pauly paid $50
income tax at Milwaukee which was
also included in his taxes here. K. G..
Nash and Mrs. Endress both were as
sessed for the same automobile. There
were several other petitions for re-
funds.
The City attorney was instructed to
take steps to oppose the petition OF the
local gas company for revaluation OF
the plant for rate making purposes.
The matter is pending before the state
railroad commission.
A new plat of Michigan Heights,
south OF the city, on the lake front, is
= up for adoption aud the real estate
operators offer the city public ground
with 12l feet OF lake frontage and a
depth of 46 feet.
New specifications for motor truck
and pump prepared by special COM
mittee were adopted. The former
specifications we're rejected as not leav.
ing room enough for real competition.
Phone TO Baker street for Sherlock
and Watson. We have a mystery that
calls for an AL deducer. Schenian re-
lated the outline of the plot. A poor
charge lately deceased and buried at
city expense was reputed to have a
thousand dollars sewed into the hem of
skirt she always wore. The house
was found ransacked and the skirt torn
to shreds plainly indicated that some
one who had heard of the hoard had
visited the place ahead of the city re-
representatives.. On Schenian's recon-
mendation the appointment Of an ad-
ministrator for the deceased woman
was authorized so that some one would
be authorized to search for property
belonging to the departed poor charge.
1t will be some search after the start
the fugitive has. Some of the alder
men treated the missing thousand with
unseemly levity, forgetting the oppor.
tunity our two new patrolmen will
have TO demonstrate what new blood
will do to our astute detective depart.
ment.
Spring registration of voters was
dispensed with.
BY request O'Donnell introduced an
ordinance providing penalty for ex-
hibiting immoral, obscene or violent
scenes. There WAS no provision for a
censorship board which apparently
necessary adjunct will probably be
added before the matter comes to a
vote. The matter is an echo OF the
recent attempt to show Theda Bars as
Cleopatra in the city.