Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-04-04
new COUNCIL MEETS
RAPS OUT LOT OF BUSINESS IN
VERY SHORT TIME
AGAIN PRESIDENT.

Tuesday evening. Officers were elect.
ed, salaries fixed, the mayors message
was read and other business incidental
to the advent of the new council, was
transacted. Aldermen Hall, Moeglein,
Blake, Brown, Raymond, N. J. Peter
son, George Peterson, Henry LaFond
and G. W. Hogle were present. Alder
man Raymond is the new alderman
from the Second ward, succeeding j.
w. Falk, and Alderman Hogle from the
Fourth ward, taking the place Of F..
Farrow, deceased.
Election Of the council officials re-
suited in the return Of F. E. Hall as
president and the election of N. J. Pet
erson from the Third ward as vice
president. Geo. Moeglein has been vice
president for several years.
Mayor Bergheim read his annual mes
sage to the council, which was accept
ed and ordered placed on file. The
mayor also gave a resume Of an aver
age days work and he named nine diff
ferent matters which he attended to.
He also named thirteen volunteer or
CARNATIONS of which he, as mayor, was
a member. Commenting on why he re-
signed from the board Of directors of
was because he felt that he had too
much extra work to do and that he
could easily be spared by this organiza--
tion as there are II members on same
and the work can be done just as well
by five men. The mayors message ap-
pears in full in another column.
A. II. Vernon was elected city at
torney. His application was the only
one presented. D. M. Cameron, who
held this office last year, did not seek
reappointment.
VIM. Batters and R. H. Trask were
the only applicants for the positions Of
custodian and weighmaster and they
were reappointed.
Appointment Of city engineer was
deferred, as the council has been con-
sidering securing the services Of an out
side engineer. The application Of R..
R. Reilly for this position was read.
Charles LaFond was elected street
commissioner for the ensuing year. He
received five votes and Isaac LaFond,
who has held this position for a num-
Der Of years, received three. The new
street commissioner was the first man
to hold that position in this city.
George Kiewel, w. o. Beattie and
G. Rosenmeier were reappointed mem
bers of the board of public works.
Appointment Of a city physician was
deferred.
DR.. o. J. Brown was appointed city
health officer. On the board Of health
J. J. Cross from the First ward, Eric
G. Anderson from the Second and Mike
Lepinski from the Third were selected.
Camille St. Marie was again award
ed the job Of scavenger, poundmaster
and dog catcher.
All salaries were left the same as
last year except that Of chief Of po-
lice, which was increased from $95 to
800 per month. The mayor, in an
nouncing his appointment Of the police,
recommended raising the salary of the
chief. His appointments were APPROX
ed by the council. They are as fol-
lows:
Chief of Police-Harold Clark.
Patrolmen-Wm Hang, J. E. Lam
bert, Bert Boyes.
Police to serve without pay-H.
Friesinger, VIM. Batters, W. H. Muncy,
Alvah Ashcraft, Martin Johnson, Dew
ey Anker, r. II. Trask, Leon M. Thomp-
son, P. s. Johnson, S. V. Heath.
Fire Police-George Moeglein, Jr.,
John J. Crest, Charles Sylvester, Guy
Kidder, Gilbert Johnson, Louis La
Fond, Ed. Simmons, George Olson,
Frank H. Dewey, John Hedlund, A. A.
Fueger.
The city clerk was instructed to ad-
vertise for bids for city printing and
for city repositories.
No change was made in the street
sprinkling district.
City Clerk johnson was authorized to
draw warrants for all regular salaries,
rent of postoffice box and telephone.
No change was made in the time for
the regular meetings, this being left
at the first Monday in each month at
q p. m.
The bond Of II. E. Garfield as justice
of.the-peace was approved.
Municipal Judge Lyon 3 report for
the month of March, showing s$41 in
fines and 81 Jail fee, collected, was ac-
cepted and ordered fled. - "
Council adjourned to March II.
Members Of the board of county COM
missioners were the guests Of the local
Board of Commerce at luncheon at the