City Council Hears Paving Petition and Tax Abatement
May 20 1919 council session in City Hall with Mayor Munro and six members present. Petitions include Maple Avenue paving from Burlington to Adams and related streets. Sessions authorize renting water works house, alleys around lumber yard paving, alley light installation, and 1918 taxes abatement for Fairfield Engine Co. Board contracts water supply terms with C B Q Railroad Co. Additional police in New Chicago district and various city bill approvals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Munro
Castile, Cohagan
Deardorff
Gossick
Nelson
F. S. Bonnell
Maple Avenue
E. Burlington St
E. Adams St
Maple Ave
Highland Ave
Deardurf
Castile
Water and Light Committee
T. W. Hoskinson
Donner
Charles Lyons
Suqare
Dearduff
Fairfield Engine Co
Odd Prose Fragments and City Budget Texts
Fragmented reflections on gender roles and cautionary lines sit beside a 1919 1920 Fairfield Iowa city budget ordinance. The text lists fund allocations for general expenses fire police sanitation hall equipment and road work with exact monetary amounts and sectioned appropriations.
Fairfield ordinance funds list 1919 to 1920
City of Fairfield appropriates funds from multiple city accounts for the 1919 and 1920 fiscal years including Water Sewer Improvement Park Light Bond Cemetery Judgement and Building funds. The ordinance requires one publication in the Fairfield Daily Journal. Oratorio society concert Elijah noted. For sale cattle and Iowa farms listed by Jefferson County Abstract & Loan Co Fairfield Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Iowa
Good Town
Jefferson County Abstract & Loan Company
Lost and Found notices from a Beloit newspaper
Several short lost and found notices list items missing or found near local landmarks. A black leather pocketbook with money is misplaced at the high school auditorium. a Scotch Collie puppy is lost near city areas. a bay horse with a limp is taken up by owner Wm Parsons. another pocketwatch with small money is missing. a pair of ladies nose glasses in a Beloit optician case is lost between Court Hotel and Burlington station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Ulrich
Wm. Parsons
Court Hotel
Burlington Station
Beloit
Wis
Optician
Also Mentioned on This Page
Council Proceedings
Chicago
General Fund
Black
Owen Switzer
J.D. Mitchell
Fry Copeland
F. J. L. Black
Heise Orstens G. W. Cable, Jr
BMC
Coment
Fairfield Ledger
X. C. Nady
Des Moines
Water Fund
General Chemical Co
F. J
L. Black
W. A. Boley
J. Donher
C. E.mcdaniel
G. M. Ellsworth
Ottumwa
J. Ll. Black
Frank Millane
James Yanaway
Wm. Edwards
T. W. Grant
Salary American la France Co
W. Hi Guyer
Frank Fourt
P. L. Phelps
David Goodwin
Labor
W. H. Mohr
Sanitary Fund
Willis Strong
A. H. Hudson
Wm Barker
Ee Re
L. Hudgell
E. Lowery
J. Gilly
Lothwood
Kind
H. W. Boley
Salary Iowa Electric Co
Police Department
Sanitary
KF. J. L. Black
Oratorio Society
Elijah
Astor
Ray Kirkpatrick
Perry Harper
West
Jefferson Street
Mary Wisecarver
Stone Street
Main Street
McKenney & Hague Add
Vernon Hague
Poland
A. B. Mullenix
Maleable Iron Works
Kirkwood Street
Wm. L. Long
Modern Business College
Junkin Block
South Main St
England
Phyllis King
Earl of Lovelace
Prince of Wales
Sauer’s
West Side
The
Kozy
Tyler Mfg. Co
Dept
Muncie
Ind
Raymond Terry
Continental
Washington
John J. Black
Chippewa Falls
Wisconsin
Burlington Street
Lester Davis
Leggett House
Journal of
Fice
Jonn
Davies
Tailleur
Madai
Flanders
Erepee Georgitie
Weolthbroders
Rose
Store OF Quality
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Farmer
Middle West
America
St. Michigan Ave
Crogri, P
Ollarapovv & Co., Inc
Troy
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