09-06-1909 VCM
VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER COUNCIL MEETING
SEPTEMBER 6, 1909
The Common Council met at the office O.J. Whitman.
Members present: F.L. Salter, president, J. Virgin B. Carr, L. Pollard, trustees, O.J. Whitman,
recorder. Meeting called to order by the President at 5:45 p.m.
Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
The following bills were read and on a motion by Virgin and seconded by Pollard were allowed.
John Bither – for services as Village Marshal for August - $38.33
M.K. Iliff – Village Marshal, 8 nights in August - $6.67
Harold ?eays – lighting street lamps for month of August - $25.00
R.D. Roath – 1 ¼ days work with team and man on road - $7.50
S.F. Wright – setting 2 lamp posts - $.75
The Howe Scale Co. – 18 ton 22x2 How scale & 12 Howe weigh books - $181.00
W. L. Babcock Sons Co. – dynamite, fuse & caps - $2.62
Davis Bros. – fuse, caps & dynamite - $5.92
W.Dimick – work on road - $123.13
R. Stimson – work on road - $36.50
The Patterson Street Lighting Co. – 6 domes - $6.00
Standard Oil Co. – 80 gallons gasoline - $10.64
Hubner Mercantile Co. – merchandise - $1.70
E. Davis – work on road - $21.00
A.Low – work on road - $37.50
Geo. Low – work on road - $37.50
H.B. Nickerson – work with team - $63.00
E. Johnson – painting the scale house - $4.80
S.M. Crockett – work with 2 teams - $126.00
G. Mulbnep – work on road - $4.00
Total = $739.56
It was moved by Pollard and seconded by Carr that the street committee be authorized to put in a
sewer system on Main Street sufficient to take care of the water and also to put a catch basin on
Depot Street to take care of the water on the north end of the park. Carried.
A motion was made by Virgin and seconded by Whitman that the Elk River – Burn’s road be
covered with clay and gravel from J.G.A. Nickerson’s resident to the town limit. Carried.
It was moved by Virgin and seconded by Pollard to buy a fence to surround the park and to be put
up. Carried.
It was moved by Pollard and seconded by Virgin to repair all the wooden sidewalks to make them
safe. Carried.
No further business adjourned carried.
O.J. Whitman, Village Recorder