The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-01-13


filed.
acquisitions from the following de-
partments for supplies were read and
referred to the Committee of the
Whole: Light and Water Department;
Police Department; Street Commission
er; Detention Hospital.
Applications for employment from the
following were read and referred to
the Committee of the Whole:
John S. Vessel, in the Light and
Water Department;
Albert j. Beck, in the Light and
Water Department;
Joseph Mavetz, Jr., as timekeeper;
Floyd Dunstan, for Office work.
Communication from Jack Poshak,
requesting to be re-instated as Police
officer under the Soldiers Preference
Law, was read
Communication from Joseph Marko-
vich, Jr., requesting TO be re-instared as
Police Officer under the Soldiers
Preference Law, was read.
Moved by Alderman Banovetz, sup
ported by Alderman Kapsch, that the
communications from Jack Poshak, and
Joseph Markovich, Jr., be referred to
the City Attorney to investigate and
report. Carried.
Communication from the Arrowhead
Sportsmens Association, requesting the
Council to file a protest against the
adoption of any legislation reducing the
daily and possession limits on wall-eyed
pike, was read.
Moved by Alderman Koschak, sup
ported by Alderman Kapsch, that the
communication be accepted and filed
and that the Council go on record as
opposing the reduction of daily and
possession limits of wall-eyed pike, and
that the City Attorney he instructed to
so inform the Minnesota Arrowhead
Association. Carried.
Communication of the League OF
Minnesota municipalities, inviting the
Council to attend a legislative con-
ference of the League in st. Paul, JAN
uary 10, 1888, was read and referred to
the Committee of the Whole.
Communication of the Minnesota Tax
Conference, requesting the presence Of
MIR. F. B. James, member of the Execu-
tive Committee, ait meeting TO be held
in st. Paul, on January 10, 1888, was
read and referred to the Committee Of
the Whole.
| Communication from the Custodian
of the City Hall building. reporting the
appointment of Frank Mavetz, Fielder
Alfalfa, Mary Laitala and Agnes
Marinch as janibors of the City Hal
building, was read and unanimously ap-
proved and confirmed by the Council
Communication from the Ely Fire
Department., reporting the election OF
the following officers for the year 1888
was read:
| Chief-I. G. Cox
First Assistant Chief-Richard Hodge
Second Assistant Chief. A. Roth
man.
Treasurer-A o. Knutson.
! Secretary-D. L. Childers.
Moved by Alderman Banovetz, sup
ported by Alderman KapSch, that the
election of the Officers of the Ely Fire
Department be approved and confirmed
Communication from the Ely Com
munity Band, proposing to give fifteen
free public concerts during the ensuing
year for the sum of $4,000 per con-
cert, was read.
Moved by Alderman Tauzell, sup
ported by Alderman Thompson, that
the City make arrangements with the
Ely Community Band for series OF
fifteen public concerts to be given
during the year under the direction of
| the City, for a sum of not TO exceed
$500 per concert. Carried.
Report of the Minnesota Department
of Health, Division of Sanitation, on a
recent investigation of the water supply
of the City, was read and ordered filed
Application of Morning Glory Lodge
/ No. 108, S. N. P. j., for a permit to
conduct public dance in the Washing
ton Auditorium on January IA, 1888,
was read.
Moved by Alderman Koschak, sup
ported by Alderman Banovetz, that the
application be accepted and filed, and
permit granted upon the payment of
the proper fees. Carried.
The following matters were referred
to the Committee of the Whole:
l. Salaries and wages to be paid
during the year;
2. Appointment of City Assessor;
g. The management of the Com
munity Service Center;
4. Giving publicity to the manner of
handling employment;
s. Advertising for bids for official
printing;
6. Advertising for bids for lamps;
z. Designating time for holding regu-
lar meetings, and manner of calling
special meetings;
g. Fixing amounts of bonds to be fur
nished by officials and employees;
9. Designating depository for Citys
funds
The Council dissolved into a Com
mittee of the Whole to consider the
matters referred.
Recess declared.
Meeting called to order.
Report of the Committee of the Whole
was read as follows:
Ely, Minnesota, January S, 1888.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council,
City of Ely, Minnesota.
Gentlemen:
We, your Committee of the Whole,
to whom certain matters were referred,
beg to report and recommend as fol-
lows:
1. That the report of the special COM
mittee regarding the employment of
labor, applications for employment
and the matter of giving publicity