02-16-1906 VCM
VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER COUNCIL MEETING
February 16, 1906
At a special meeting of the Village Council held at the furniture store of R.E. Dare, the following
were present:
Present: R.E. Dare, President; S.M. Crockett and Justus de Booy, Trustees; H.C. Hastings,
Village Recorder.
A communication from Frank L. White \[following these minutes\] as that Henry Hold be restrained from
running his engine in Block 11 of the Village of Elk River without proper devices for the safety of
adjoining properties, whereupon it was voted that the Recorder be instructed to notify Mr. Henry
Holt that he must put a \[sparkamster?\] on his engine smokestack and keep it on when running his
engine in the Village.
The following resolution was passed:
Resolved, that the Recorder notify Hon. W.H. Marvin, Chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners of Wright Co., Minn., that the Elk River and Otsego bridge across the Miss. River is
constructed and now in use by the public and that the Village of Elk River would like to receive the
$3000 appropriated or pledged by said County for said bridge, and do hereby designate Andrew
Davis, Treasurer of said Village, as the proper person to whom the said sum of $3000 be paid.
Mr. Crockett was instructed to see Mr. Prosper Vassar and talk with him in regard to the place for
taking out ice near the new bridge.
Adjourned.
H.C. Hastings
Village Recorder
\[letter referred to above and included in the ledger\]
Frank T. White,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Real Estate Loans and Insurance.
Elk River, Minnesota.
th
February 15., 1906.
To R. E. Dare and the Common
Council of the Village of the Elk River, Minn.
Gentlemen.- I have insurance upon the block belonging to Mrs Houlton and
Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Iliff in Block 11 of this Village and last Spring my comp-
any had to pay a loss on Mrs Thorpe’s building by reason of the Engine
Henry Holt is running in that block. I understand that he does not
have proper safety devices and do not think that he ought to be allowed to
endanger the property of other people in the careless manner in which he con-
ducts his business and I hereby make complaint to your council to have the
same abated.
I am respectfully yours,
(signature) Frank T. White