Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-11-15


An Ordinance to prevent chickens
and other domestic fowls from running
at large, read and referred to Commit
tee on Health, Rules, and Ordinances
| Alderman Hanson spoke briefly re
garding the unsafe and i'll lighted
roads or streets in Washington High.
lands, urging protection for wayfarers.
Your Committee on Finance, to
whom was referred the following bills
and payrolls:
Milwaukee Water Works, $500.
E. D. Hoyt. $4,000
A. w Hebbring, $1121.
A. V. Brigham, $12.77.
Semi-monthly payroll of Laborers.
$1O3S.45.
Payroll of Election officials, $4,000,
beg leave to return same and recon-
mend that said bills and payrolls be
allowed and ordered paid
No separate action being asked, on
roll call said bills and payrolls were
! allowed and ordered paid
The Committee on remaining streets
i recommended the name of Fifty-sec-
ond Street from Wells Street to Blue
Mound Road be changed to Wood Ave-
nue.. On molten of Alderman De
Swarte, the matter was re-referred to
| the same committee for further action.
/ The Committee on Streets returned
the communication from Mr. E. D..
Hoyt, asking for the restoration of
names of North Main Street and West
Main Street, and asked for a general
discussion.
After going into the matter very
fully. it was moved by Alderman De
Swarte that the question be laid over
until a subsequent meeting.
Alderman Hanson rose and re-
marked that he would not like to make
any change in the name of the street
at this time.
On motion RI Alderman De Swarte,
three to call on MI. Hoyt and ask him
to withdraw his objection TO the name
of street as it is the unanimous wish
OF the Council that the name shall
| stand. The Chair announced the APP
pointment of the following committee:
Aldermen De Swarte, Wood and Han
son. and thanked the members of the
Council for the stand they had taken
Your Committee on Judiciary, TO
whom was on the 5th day of Novem
Der. 1918, referred the monthly report
of Health Commissioner, DR. E. F. Pet
III,
ices were held in one of the local
churches on Sunday, November 3rd
1918, contrary to the orders of the
State Board of Health then existing,
with reference to public meetings on
account OF influenza epidemic, beg
leave to report that we have investi-
gated the alleged violation and are in
| formed that permission was given
| Archbishop Messmer to hold services
| in the Catholic churches of his diocese
on said date, by Governor E. L. Phil
ipp. Whether the Governor of this
State had the legal right to issue such
order is not for this committee to de
termine However, the local congre-
CATION evidently felt that they were
entirely within their rights and that
there was no intention of violating any
order of the State Board of Health,
and that our local Health Commission
er is in no way to blame for such serv-
ices having been held.
On motion of Alderman De Swarte,
the report was accepted and ordered
published in full in the Council pro
CO udings and in the official paper, by
the following vote: Ayes, Aid. De
Swarte, Hanson, Hayes, Krafczyk,
Marquardt, Notbohm, Whip, Wood g
Noes, none.
Alderman Wood rendered his resig-
nation as Chairman of the Committee
on Municipal Progress.
Alderman Hanson asked that the ac-
ton on the matter be postponed for
two weeks and subsequently withdrew
his motion making this request, out of
Difference to the feelings of Alderman
Wood
The resignation was accepted unani-
mously to the personal regret of the
Mayor, who stated he thought it was
also to the regret of each member of
the Council
The Committee on Health, Rules
and Ordinances reported back the
Ordinance to prevent chickens and
other domestic fowl from running at
large, and on roll call said Ordinance
was lost.
Whereas, the City Clerk of the City
of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, has submit
ted to the Common Council the report
of the Board of Public Works in and
for said City, in the matter of the i'm
provement of that portion of Fifty
Fifth Street from the North line of
Lot Twenty-one CID Block Ten (10)
Graystone Park Subdivision to the
Blue Mound Road, and of Eighth Ave
nue. from East Milwaukee Avenue to
Lake Street, in the Fourth and First
Wards of said City, in which portions
of streets sanitary sewer mains have
been laid pursuant to directions Of the