Bessemer Common Council Reports Finances and Appointments
The city clerk presents December 7 1925 financial standings showing numerous funds overdrawn including Contingent Water Light Street and Sewer. A Women’s Club request for free Christmas tree labor is approved. The council fills the Fourth Ward Alderman seat and recesses briefly before resuming business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Bessemer
Joseph L. Gotta
Alderman Probelski
Sandin
Halston Hansen
City Council
Women’s Club
Alderman Velin
Alderman Johnson
Common Council
Probelski
Johnson
Fourth Ward
Eon
Anderson
John A. Johnson
Velin
Hagen Cjakowski
Wydeth
Donich
Hagen
Phillip J. Bennetts
Martin Pastori Az
Yeas
Cjakowski
Sandra Anderson
A. . Hagen
Alda
Mrobelski
Clarence Sandin
Pastori
City Council Proceedings and Local Notes
The meeting moved to fill Alderman Pastori’s unexpired term with Paul Hoeft and approved winter highway lighting cessation from December 15 1925. Other actions authorize cemetery fencing, street plowing until the next meeting, purchasing a Remington typewriter for 130 dollars, selling the old unit for 27.50, and seeking bids for street labor. Also noted are Spitzbergen hens and a fact about the house fly’s wing-beats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandin
Probelski
Paul Hoeft
Martin Pastori
Yeas
Alderman Hagen
Probleski
Alderman Johnson
Velin
Alderman Anderson
Wrydeth
William L. Guyer
Remington Company
Alderman Probelski
Joseph L. Gotta
World's greatest highway and gas tax figures rise
Ten years after Woodward avenue was paved it is hailed as the world's greatest highway. Secretary DeLand cites 1925 gasoline tax revenue near 140 million across 44 states. Michigan ranks tenth in road surfacing with 814 miles completed of 25,000 national total.
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Ed A. Nowack
Lansing
Woodward Avenue
Detroit
DeLand
Michigan
Walter O. Briggs
River Rouge
U.S. Department of Commerce
Motor Wheel Corporation
Harry Harper
Dead River
Marquette County
To Represent U P At Outdoor Expo
The fourth national outdoor life exposition runs May 10 to May 16 1926 at the Colosseum in Chicago. The Upper Peninsula previously participated via booths funded by chambers of commerce and the Upper Peninsula Development bureau, and within 60 days a coordinated effort will seek to shape the 1926 Cloverland exhibit.
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Chicago
Colosseum
Upper Peninsula
Upper Peninsula Development Bureau
Cloverland
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New Temperance Head
Spitzbergen
Elia A. Boole Ole
Brooklyn
N. Y
W.C.T. U
KODAK
Kodaks
Bessemer Pharmacy
Bessemer, Mich
Benton Harbor
American State Bank
Cadillac
Arenac
Ogemaw
Rifle River
K.W.H
U. P
the Herald
Petite Hat Shop
Holiday Millinery
J. R. Johnson
Wonder
Gome Radio Wild
Freed Eisemann Radios
Finnish Store Co
Iwan
Wkovich Bros
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