Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-05
GREAT GUAM Titles
Of ROUTINE: BROUGHT.
Up BEFORE COUNCIL
SUBORDlNATES MAKE REPORTS
TO CHIEFS ON WORK DONE
DURING MONTE OF MAY-SFe.
SION A PROLONGED ONE.

Initial reports Of employees. covering
their work during the month Of May.
! were read at the meeting of the MAYOR
and commissioners last night. Con.
siderng that many of the men at the
| head of departments as subordinates
to commissioner are new at The game
| their record for the late departed
May was a good one.
Fire Chief Boissenin announced
eleven alarms during May, causing an
estimated loss by fire for the mOnlh
II $500. Losses on two blazes-the
"Q' car leveled by a mysterious con.
| Migration and the Sanders Brothers
fard fire near the postofiice-were not
reported
Chief Grove reported thirty-fve ar.
rests ana fine collections amounting
to 1884, $500 Of which was paid by
Edward Rose under a judgment So.
cured through the old council
Health Commissioner Pike reported
two cases Of smallpox two of chicken
poX, two of measles and one Of scar
let fever during the month. The small
pox epidemic as threatened was gone
into extensively and arrangements
made for meeting any exigency which
may arise, Considerable discussion
followed a bill for $40 worth OF sup
plies furnished the first case discov-
cred in Ottawa, and Attorney Clark
gave an opinion that the city was not
responsible for feeding persons under
quarantine but they should be taken
care of by the town if they are pau-
pers.
City Treasurer Edwin Cassidy's re-
.iyities in his Office. and reported he
made l67 inspections of scales dur.
ing May discovering among that mum
ber six unfair sets of weighing de
vices, which he ordered corrected One
pair was condemned entirely and
thrown out, while tWenty-siX sets were
reinspected before being officially O
* "a by the sealer One hundred and
twenty scales We're readjusted and put
III Sooo running oraer ne reported
'ne gas 'eS,H SHo"eu .le supply l0l
nished residents was above the stand
ard demanded by ordinance.
Plumbing Inspector Wilson reported
$40 in reae and scores of ;nsnactions
in his department.
street Superintendent Cos+a1lo made
q ranor+ ebovinp hie danartmant had
heer dacidadIv active in All narte orI
tho cifv and that tba work had heon
dome at an exceedingly nominal cost
Citv Treasurer Edwin Casstdy'e ra.
mart ebowad tba fnancns tho same . as
were set forth in Clerk Curtis report |
The city was running behind the re
port Indicated. in great eXcesSes over
the amounts beng collected,
Revise Wholesale Licenses.
An ordinance nroyiding the pavmrnt |
OF wholesale beer licenses by brew
cries having aganries here was adout- |
ed and nermifs of paving for permits /
on a two months basis instead Of on 4 |
YEARLY plan. as enforced before the
country faced the July arid period .
The brcweries will have to pay for
May and June only if they want to
WholeSaIe uIelr output III oi''""'
To Complete Wire System.
A communication from Fred c.
BEEN. manager of the United Telc.
phone Company, announced to the
couuciI that work on the undprprOund /
system was we'll advanced ana that
the finishing touches would be put on
the task by Jan. /, 1920. the time
specified in an extension granted BY
the old administration.