The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-04-14
STREET OIL ORDER
L|STEDBYCOUNC|L
MEMORIAL BOARD GRANT.
ED AID BY CITY
G. M. Babcock Writes Relative to
Reimbursement of Cities For
Paving; Fcnce Cause of Com
ment; Several Matter S
Brought To Attention of Com
missioners Last Night.

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Bids were received last night by
the members of the city council
Tor the furnishing of $4,000 gallons
more or less OF road oil for use on
the streets All bids received were
held over Tor one week for conSid
I. alton.
Attorney Horace W. Roberts APP
peared before the council on behalf
OF The Memorial lay board ana
asked Tor an appropriation. The
Co.n.il Appropriation 800 toward d
Iunu TO nelp decorate The graves
- me uCau SUlulerS.
Councilman A. u. Lack was ap.
PuIu,,u onICIal fence viewer.
Ial bacbertz appeared before
the council and ASKED That the
santa. sewer be installed the
IuII lCLeth OF West Liberty street.
before the paving Is had. ms
matter Was referred TO Councilman
AnUel son anu City Engineer Com-
SUCK 10 look into.
Ii. A Wilcox or the Metal Shell
lei company appeared b1lOro the
NSuhAli anu o. hNu iA"N III
ordnance be so amended as 10
hermit oil the erection OF all metal
garages in the ire limits OF THIS
Guy. The matter has been refer
reu to City Engineer ConStock
WHO will confer with Fire Chief
byu H. bangerter on the matter
Fence Cause OF Trouble
Nick Ambrosy living On top ot
, the nal IN East Manka.o sent IN d
petition asking that the city coun-
eli appoint an official fence view
er. IL would appear from Mr.. Am
brosys petition that he IS having
some trouble in regard to a line
ience between mis- and his neigh
bCr's property. The request was
read by City Clerk Bates. and con
siderable amusement was caused
when Councilman Gust Klein
schmidt with merry twinkle IN
his brown eyes Saio: Gentlemen,
/ think it no more than fair that
we grant the request of Mr.. Am
brosy in this matter by appointing
a competent man for the position
OF fence viewer. We have Just such
a competent man on this council,
in fact he is an expert on fences.
Therefore | make a motion that
Councilman A. G. Lack De ap-
nOl0leQ tCuSC VAC Nv
eryone seconded the motion In a
chorus and Mr.. Lack was official
ly pronounced official fence viewer
BY Mayor Beach.
REPLIES TO communications sent to
c. Nj. Baocock in regard to tie
question OF cities receiving reim-
burs ement for paving done o.
streets which have been designat-
ed as part of trunk highways, were
received last night and read. Mr..
hancock replied that there was
but one city in the state which had
received reimbursement for paw
ing and that was Waseca, which
did the paving during the two
lied TO construct portions OF the
trunk highway systems and be
later reimbursed for the work. The
supreme court held that the city
of Waseca was acting for the
county in doing the work in ques-
ton. and consequently were en-
titled TO reimbursement for the
county. and the county in turn
would have TO reimburse the city.
Law Covering Reimbursement
The law covering such REIN
bursement, Mr.. Babcock explained,
only covered a period from 1919
session /of the state legislature to
January l. 1921, so that any Work
done on the trunk highways by a
CITY or village, which was not
started until January l, 1921,
would not be certain of reimburse
ment. Mr.. Babcock did explain,
however. that there is OF course a
possibility that the legislature
would see fit to see that cities and
villages doing paving on designated
routes of trunk highways would be
reimbursed. and some cities and
villages are going ahead with paw
ing on tfat chance. Mr.. Babcock
said that he could give no assur-
ance that the state would make
the reimbdrsemcnts.
NJ. Babcock stated that the
limitations. placed by the legisla
ture upon the amount of paving to
he done this year, prevents the
derartment to make as many con-
nections through cities as was de-
sired.
izing the city clerk to have the
revised city ordinances printed in
book form. Twenty of these will
be bound in leather.
The firms making bids for the
furnishing of road oil were: Stan :
dard Oil COMPANY d. q EiNS vi
cents per gallon; Mankato OF!
company. from 6 IL to Is
cents: The Wenger Armstrong
Corporation of Minneapolis. failed
TO inclose a certified check and
that company's bid was not con
sidered. Camden Petroleum com
pany Chicago. sos, ga, Z IL cents
per gallon according to asphalt
content; Illinois Oil company, So
and 1908 cents per gallon; Cedar
Rapids Oil company, s "a cents
per gallon: Minnesota Board Equip
nent company Of Minneapolis put
in bid ranging from 615 cents
10 7.29 cents per gallon. All bids
were held over one week for con
sideration.
At the close OF the meeting the
following bills were audited and al
lowed: H. A. Lewis. $109.85; Free
Press company, 1928: Enterprise
Machinery company, S44.O4; John
SON Brothers; 50; Standard on
company, 1888 City Treasurer
s126.50; J. Lynard, s17.S5; CitI
zens Telephone company. $3S.15
Jampert Lumber company, $5.25
Model Dairy, S362S; w. S. Mott
Company. S22; o. r. Langhoff. So;
lanes Laird, 81; Northern States
Power company. $500 Free Press
company. $685.: Kaufman G. Son
IS cents. Library bills. s72o.S7.
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Springfield. March 3i.-A Ford tour
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