The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-01-23
CITY MAY HONOR
BOYS COMING BACK
Council to- Have Special
Committee and May APP
propriate $4,000 for
This Purpose.
MAYOR TO give FULL Time
New Ordinance Proposed to Make
Salary Of Mayor $4,000 Year
School Bonds WILL Run for Ten
Years-one Is Favored.

School Bonds Will Run for Ten
| Years-one Is Favored.
The City Council at its meeting on
Monday evening paved the way for the
lefty Of Kenosha to pay proper tribute
Ito its returning soldiers and to estab-
lish proper memorial to the boys from
Kenosha who marched out under faunt-
ing flags but who will come not back.
On a motion by Alderman E. J. Sui
llivan, the city attorney was directed
by the council to draft three resolu-
tions. The first is to be tribute to
the memory Of the Kenosha men who
fell fighting for world democracy. 1t is
lplanned to have it placed in the official
records Of the city and an engrossed
Icopy of it hung on the walls of the City
Hall as tribute to the whole people
Of the city to the men who made the
supreme sacrifice. The second resolu-
ton will empower the mayor to name
a committee to have charge of an Of
lficial welcome to every one of the re-
turning soldiers; and the third resolu-
Ition provides for an appropriation Of
five thousand dollars from the general
funds Of the city to provide for the
expense Of the welcome home of the
soldiers. All of the resolutions were
promised cordial support by the mem
bers of the council, but several of the
members raised the problem Of the legal
right Of the city to appropriate money
to the uses of the committee. Action
on the resolutions is to come up at the
next meeting of the council Plans
have already been made to carry out
the spirit of the resolutions and it is
believed that Kenosha will be one Of
the first cities in Wisconsin to for
mulate a plan for the official well
come home of the boys.
Extend Tax Time.
The council without division temp
cred the wind to the shorn lamb and
extended the time for the payment of
city taxes until February Gath, the last
Monday in February. The council may
only act on the extension of time for
such taxes as are assessed directly by
the city and income taxes assessed by
the state must be paid by the last Mon
day in January. The state make no pro-
vision for any extension of the time
for the payment Of taxes. The city
treasurer must make his report to the
state as to income taxes collected
early next month and for this reason
| it is expected tht all income taxes
will be paid at that time.
The council re-considered its action
the amount OF two hundred thousand
dollars for the erection of the new
Washington school and these bonds
will be issued to run over term of
ten rather than q term Of twenty years.
| No action was takel. in regard to the
proposed Mckinley school and the
members of the council decided that
this matter should go over until after
the referendum to be submitted to the
people on primary day.
Full Term for Mayor.
Kenosha is going to have a mayor
who will be expected to give all Of his
time to the work of being mayor of
the city and an ordinance making the
position one requiring the giving of full
time of this official was ordered pre-
pared by the Judiciary committee with
the city attorney added. The new or
dinance will provide that the mayor of
the city be elected for term of two
years at an annual salary Of $4,000
year. 1t is understood that this salary
is to be in lieu of all claims Of
the head executive of the city for his
services.
For years members of the council
have urged the enactment of this ordi-
nance and it is regarded as certain
that it will have the approval of a very
large number of the members of the
council.
Mayor Joachim is now giving his
whole time to the work, of the city
and the compensation provided by the
council is practically the amount to be
Istated in the new ordinance. The new
ordinance will conc before the council
for consideration at its next regular
Injecting.
The council voted to buy new Nash
truck to be used by the garbage de-
|partment of the city at 2. cost in the
Ineighborhood of $500.
/ It was not an extended meeting for
THE aldermen and the mayor had
dropped his gavel for final adjournment
llong before ten clock.