Wakefield City Commission Adopts 1925 Budget Transfers
Official proceedings show Wakefield Michigan City Commission meeting January 22 1925 approves transfers to fund 1924 budget overruns. Light and Water to Public Works 3000 Water 8000 Parks and Cemetery 1700. Vote was 4 ayes, 0 nays. Attorney Massie discussed Schilka case. settlement not agreed. Commissioners review department budgets for 1925 expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Light and Water
Department of Public Works
Department of Water
Department of Parks and Cemetery
E. W. Massie
Commission
Schilka
City of
Wakefield
Mr. Massie
Commission authorizes purchase of motor driven Wales adding machine
Motion by Commissioner Strough with Commissioner Matthews support appoints the Purchasing Agent to buy a motor driven Wales adding machine for the Department of Accounts and Finance. Yeas were Rummel Hart Strough and Matthews. The Commission then revises and amends the 1925 department budgets and adjourns to Saturday January 24 1925 at 7 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strough
Matthews
Wales
Department of Accounts and Finance
Wakefield City Commission Minutes and 1925 State Tax Talks
The Wakefield Michigan City Commission met January 22 1925 at City Hall with Mayor Rummel and Commissioners Hart Strough and Matthews present. Minutes were approved and bills totaling 3228.76 were ordered paid along with a January payroll of 132.10. Reports from the City Clerk on cash and bus receipts were read. Separate gubernatorial and legislative discussions covered gas and weight taxes, the Baxter-Atwood bill, road and bus regulation, health nursing, cemetery funds, and proposals from various senators and representatives on health, transportation, and taxation.
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Wakefield
Michigan
Evans
Detroit
Senate
Baxter-Atwood
House
William L. Case
Benzonia
Michigan Department of Health
Frank Cummings
Young
Elijah Howarth
Royal Oak
Atwood Common Carrier
C. A. Bishop
Grand Rapids
Michigan Commercial Haulers
Lansing
Howarth
Bishop
Cummings
Preston
Berrien County
Labor Committee
Langsford
Tron Mountain
Transportation Committee
Earl McNitt
Cadillac
Lawmakers propose shifts in state rules and crimes
Representative Hoyt would modify insurance laws and tighten regulation. Hulett would establish Eastern time in Michigan. Curtiss aims to amend non alcoholic beverage laws. McKenzie Jackson would revise game law. Snow would repeal an act allowing a court crier. Senator Bernie Case seeks a misdemeanor for defrauding farmers merchants and service owners. Senator William Case would limit legislative sessions to 90 days by constitutional amendment.
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Hoyt
Leslanean
Hulett. Macomb
Michigan
Curtiss. Calhoun
McKenzie Jackson
Snow
Kalamazoo
Bernie T. Case
Ithaca
William L. Case
Wakefield High Girls and Boys Defeat Hurley Teams
Wakefield defeats Hurley in both boys and girls games at home. Girls lead 12 9 at halftime before Wakefield pulls away with stronger teamwork. Anastasia Maloney and Selma Linn miss action due to sprains from the previous game with Bessemer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hurley
Wakefield
Wisconsin
Turley
Anastasia Maloney
Selma Linn
Bessemer
Wakefield Boys Defeat Hurley 30 to 15 in Test Game
The Wakefield team beat Hurley 30 to 15 as girls set the pace and the boys pressed hard for a high score. Semester ends next week with grade determinations guiding subject drops and potential class changes. A solid geometry class may start next semester for students after commercial arithmetic. The second debate will be Friday afternoon with students debating whether Michigan's Upper Peninsula should be a separate state.
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Wakefield
Erades
General Assembly
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Jane Baltic
William Weston
Eleanor Johnson
Isadore Crosby
Ringe
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the City Commission
Rummel
Hart, Strough
Commissioner Hornibrook
Yeas
Hart
WM. Jacobson
Solons
Alex Groesbeck
Mayor Rummel
Taft
Marshall-Wells Company
Central City Chemical Company
Pickands, Mather & Company
Mack International Motor Truck Corporation
Wakefield Fire Department
N. W. Railway Company
Anton Movietti
Eee
Wiman’s Club Relief Committee
Hill & Manley Tractor Hire
City of Wakefield
Department
Strongh
Bine
ED. A. Nowack
Charles Evans
Tipton
Warner
Ypsilanti
Darin
Justice Court
Roxburgh
Berrien
Culver
Mae Als
Aes
Nbc
Norrie Athletic Club
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Goldman
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