The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-06-28
Instructions Issued 4 for Al,
Ordinance to Authorize
Special Election
DETENTION HOSPITAL
SITE NOT SELECTED
Bio " Equipment Necessary
to T. ~ tUp White Way
Refa %. >Committee

To retire certs 'ebts and to
square up the pei improve
ment fund so that .its, tie onia cash
basis, the city council III regular ses-
sion Monday evening voted to have
the, city attorney and the finance
committee draw up an ordinance in
tended to authorize the calling Of a
special election to vote on a bond is
sue sufficient to take care Of this
fund. This would take care, Of the
payments on the white way lighting
system, the detention hospital, hos
pital furniture and other permanent
improvements. 1t is intended to make
clean slate Of everything but the
general fund. " -
This action was taken after the
reading of theareport Of the. city tax
committee which contained certain
recommendations for city, school and
county levies for 1921. The report
was accepted and ordered placed on
file. -. III tA
Alderman Stafford moved that the
council not select the Heffron prop
erty at Eleventh street and Jeanette
avenue for detention hospital in
view Of the fact that a petition had
already been filed by over 40 resi-
dents in that vicinity protesting
against detention hospital there.
The gu attion Of securing a site which
would meet no opposition was left to
the committee. ~ ~. L. ,. 7: q.
A request from the Juvenile band
for an electric. light to be placed in
Library park north. of the building
for use during regular weekly con-
certs was granted The Minnesota
Electric Light e Power company's
fer to furnish the current free Of
charge during the concerts, and in
stall the lamp at@cost of materials
only, estimated at $18.75, was also
accepted. s5;=5 Is: IS" .5':. 70 ''7's:@sE
The report Of the municipal court
FOR the week ending June 18 showed
. total of SAP collected and turned
ITO the city treasury on fines. Other
%ports included that of the city vet
erinarian. - :i'>''it =. Es5:t. !.
saollGYing request for a grading
en- Mississippi avenue between Oak
street and First street, the city en-
gineer was instructed to investigate,
ascertain the cost. and report at the
next meeting. The license, commit
tee, appointed to act on licenses for
the sale of soft drinks, reported ia
vorably on number of requests, but
recommended. that two be disallowed.
The report was accepted, and the
chief of police instructed that all 9TH
ers have not as yet been licensed to
sell soft drinks, as required under a
recent ordinance. : =.
Bids for equipment necessary to
connect up Bemidji's new white way
lighting system were ). opened and
read. Four bids were entered, in
Guided in these were the bids of two
local firms, the Minnesota Electric
Light & Power company and the
. Naylor Electric company. The city
engineer and the water and light
committee were instructed to go over
the bids and make their report to the
council at the next meeting. The
auditors report, prepared by the
Bishop Bridgeman company, was re-
ferred to the finance committee. t.,+
g Sixteen applications Z for milk
licenses and two applications for
pool-table licensesswere read and eap-
proved The use Of the city build
, ing for public meetings was brought
up by Alderman Harry Bridgeman
and after considerable discussion,
the city attorney was instructed to
look up the lease given to the Civic
and Commerce association for the
two front rooms upstairs. The. chief
of police was instructed to secure a
dog-catcher, Alderman Stafford hav-
ing voiced the necessity Of having all
dogs licensed. #..
Al. ordinance relating to the pro-
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