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Oak Park Vindicator

Location

Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Apr 23, 1897

Page

7

Cicero Town Board Vetoes Railroad Ordinances

The Cicero town board meets April 17 1897 with President Pierce vetoing two railroad ordinances. The Suburban R R Co incline and Cicero Proviso ordinance are sent to the new board for reconsideration with specific criticisms over street occupancy paving fares operating power and cable burial. Pierce also presents his final report.

Town of Cicero Town Hall Austin President Pierce Pierce R. R. Co Cheney Cicero & Proviso Board of Trustees C., B. & Q. Railway Slyman Avenue Prairie Avenue Ogden Street Railway Clyde Berwyn Twelfth Street Forty-eighth Harlem Avenue Ogden Avenue Forty Eighth Robinson Avenue Twenty-fifth Thirty-ninth Suburban Electric Railway Harrison Street Northern Pacific Harrison Forty-Eighth Streets Metropolitan Grand Central Southwestern Railway Company Suburban Electric Company Attridge R. H. Traill A. O. Butler Ss. S. Vastine Traill

Pierce's Message to Cicero Board Highlights Town Work

Henry D. Pierce reviews 1896-97 improvements and department work for Cicero town, including police fire alarm gains, Berwyn water system, and special assessments. He urges better contract bids, leadership in fire forces, and cautious budgeting as new board takes office.

Engineering Department Police Department Austin Oak Park 12Th Street Central Station Chicago Ridgeland Hawthorne Clyde Berwyn Morton Park Mandell Grant Works Berwyn Water Ridgelind Waller Avenue Lake Street Special Assessment Department Fet Hyeey Bgt Berwyn Water Syssemd Berwyn Water Works Psno Lee Cicero Cook County Town Hall Central Avenue Springfield Ogden Avenue Carter Sackley & Peterson Washington Boulevard Sam Cheney Attridge Gunthorp Butler McDonald Rearden Vastine

Superstition Notes and Odd Licensing Costs

A comic dialogue recalls a man who chose a drug store over a saloon after learning a liquor license would cost 31 300 while a druggist license runs 1. The tale claims he sells more liquor than three saloons in town. Also a note on how Switzerland gets its name from Schweitz, the trio of forest cantons that resisted Austria.

Boston Transcript Switzerland Schweitz

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