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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1908
Page
9
Fragmentary OCR outlines renewals and notices with dates and payments tangled. Mentions of terms like site fees, paths, and orders hint at tenancy or utility actions, but details are unclear and names are unreadable.
A garbled sports notes fragment lists players and scores in an irregular whist game or card event. Names such as Shane lob Mondas and Jowett appear amid scattered figures like 155 and 249 points, with other unclear references to teams or places.
Judge Burnell ruled the city must pay the paving contractor for Hospital Street and adjacent works after finding the charter's may is permissive. The case centers on whether a required council resolution for water and gas connections is mandatory or optional when streets are already served.
A court held that the statute is permissive not mandatory since the requisites of law were complied with, shaping the municipality's standing relative to an individual in this case.
Eastern Wisconsin Railway and Light Co paid Oshkosh $132.52 for license fees from June 24 1905 to December 1 1907 at 2.5 percent after a dispute over the correct rate. The company said it would add 0.5 percent, settling to pay the additional amount, with total extra across all cities nearing $1,868.61. Other towns like Black Wolf and Algoma will receive smaller supplemental sums as a result.
The U C A in Oshkosh plans to send twenty five delegates to the state convention in Appleton on January 23 74. Secretary G F Werner is collecting the list of delegates. Descriptive party members will receive judging and breakfast free. The event is expected to be highly significant and Oshkosh should be well represented.
Oshkosh musicians prepare for a high class event at the Appleton theater next Tuesday January 14 featuring Mme. Schuma Heink the world’s greatest contralto. The concert is part of the Young Men’s Sunday Evening club lecture series at the Appleton Congregational church drawing wide local interest.
Local residents report returns from trips to Chicago Muncie Ishpeming and Oshkosh. Knights of Pythias lodge No 25 installs officers with a banquet at the Libbey building. Mrs Moulton and Miss May Moulton connected to Oshkosh Normal appear in events. Missionary meeting at First Presbyterian includes India study and papers on Indian literature with a piano solo.
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