Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-12-30
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

City Hall, Council Chambers, Dec.
7, 1920.
Council met in regular session,
Chas. E. Briere, mayor, present. All
aldermen present
On motion reading of the minutes
of the previous meeting were dispens-
ed with.
Report of Finance Committee rec
ommending that the East Side Fire
Department be allowed the sum of
$1,196.63 to include all furniture, and
the West Side Fire Department be al
lowed the sum of S1,O4663 in full.
On motion duly made, seconded and
carried report adopted and bills order
ed paid.
On motion duly made, seconded and
unanimously carried on roll call that
Ordinance No. 226 was adopted, said
Ordinance being as follows: to-wit:
ORDINANCE NO. 226
An Ordinance to regulate the sale
of Misunderstanding drinks or bever-
ages.
The Common Council of the city Of
Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County,
Wisconsin, do ordain as follows:
No person shall sell, vend, or traf-
fic in fermented malt or vinuous nom
Intoxicating drinks or beverages as
defined in Chapter $50 of Laws of
1919, without first having obtained a
PERMIT from the Common Council
of the city of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis
consin.
Any person desiring to obtain such
PERMIT to sell, vend, or traffic in
fermented malt or vinous non-intoxi-
eating drinks or beverages, shall make
written application to the City Clerk,
designing the premises for which such
PERMIT is applied, and exhibiting to
said City Clerk the receipt from the
City Treasurer showing that said ap
plicant has paid into the City Treas
ury the sum of Fifty Dollars, being
the fee for said PERMIT,
3.
A fee of Fifty Dollars shall be re-
quired for each such PERMIT, ana
said PERMIT shall designate the To-
cation or premises for which the same
is granted, and shall expire ON the
first day of July next after its issu-
ance.
The terms and conditions under
which such places may be conducted
and operated, shall be fixed by the
Common Council, and said Common
Council may limit the number of such
places and the locations, at which said
business or any part thereof may be
conducted.
Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Ordinance, shall,
upon conviction, be punished by fine
of not less than $4,000, or more than
$4,000, OF by Imprisonment in the
county Jail of Wood County, Wiscon-
sin, not exceeding six months, or by
both said fine and imprisonment, in
the discretion of the Court; and for a
second conviction the penalty shall be
double the penalty for said first con-
viction.
This Ordinance shall be in force and
take effect from and after its passage
and publication.
Doccod ,rl nv,
the Common Council of the City of
Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, Wis
consin, this 7th day of December, A
D. 1920.
F. G. Gilkey, Chas. E. Briere,
City Clerk. Mayor
1t was moved, seconded and unani-
mously carried that the sum of
$4,000 be allowed w. E. Herschleb
for expenses, light and fuel in the Or
ganizing of new National Guard
Unit in this city.
On motion duly made, seconded and
carried the following resolution was
adopted, all Aldermen voting aye.
RESOLUTION "a"
Whereas, the Green Bay & Western
Railway Company desires to construct |
a spur track as part of its railroad |
system from point on its main line |
about twenty-five to thirty feet west |
to Fourth Avenue North, and extend |
ing in southeasterly direction across
Lots One (1) and Eight (8) of Block |
Thirteen (13) of the original plat of
Centralia (now Wisconsin Rapids) |
about forty feet north of the present
spur of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway Company, and crossing in a
and southeasterly di-
rection, parallel with said Chicago &
Northwestern spur across Third Ave.
North, and thence in southeasterly
direction across the lands of the Con-
Water Power & Paper Com
pany to the switch tracks of said COM
pany, all according to its application
therefor on file with the City Clerk of
his city; and
Whereas, said application is now
before this body for consideration, it
RESOLVED that said application
10 o,7J tho caooa horohyy iS Granted