06-03-1911 VCM
VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER MEETING CITY COUNCIL
JUNE 3, 1911
A regular meeting of the Common Council was held on June 3, 1911 in the office of Frank White.
Present: Geo. E. Page, President, B.F. Plummer, Geo. Worden, E.P. Babcock Trustees, W.F.
Chadbourne, clerk.
The minutes of the last meeting read and approved the following bills were presented and on motion
duly made seconded and carried were allowed and clerk authorized to draw orders for these respective
amounts.
Harold Keays – for flowers in park - $40.00
R.E. Dare – for disinfectant - $7.50
The Patterson Street Lighting Co. - ?? - $4.50
John Hamlet – lb gasoline –
The application of J.C. Hulbert for permit to move wooden building into fire limits provided he would
make ? fireproof by cement coating building was taken up by Council C.S. Wheaton appearing for said
J.C. Hulbert after some discussion in regard to the merits of the case and a call for motion by Pres. The
subject was dropped.
Geo. Worden, trustee was authorized to look after refencing the Upper Town Bridge and fixing
sidewalk.
Ordinance No.59 extending fire limits was presented the following is a true copy.
Ordinance No. 59
An ordinance to amend ordinance No. 53 and prescribing further limits within which wooden
buildings, or other buildings of other materials shall be d?????d fireproof, shall not be erected, placed or
repaired, and to direct all buildings within such prescribed limits shall be made and constructed of
fireproof materials and to prohibit the repairing and rebuilding of wooden buildings within such limits
where damaged to the extend of fifty per cent. The Village of Elk River do ordain as follows: that
section one (1) of said Ordinance No. 59 be amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. 1. That all of Block Two (2) except lots eight (8) and nine (9) all of block five (5) except lots one
(1), Two (2), and Three (3). Lots one(1) of block three (3) Lot one (1) and two (2) of block four(4) and
all that territory south of the Northern Pacific Railway tracks, extending to the limits of Depot Street,
and in a westerly direction one hundred and thirty-two (132) feet from Princeton St in the said Village
of Elk River in the County of Sherburne and State of Minnesota, according to the duly recorded plat
thereof, and all that portion of said Village of Elk River that lies between said block five (5) and four
(4) of said Village be and the sa??? hereby are prescribed as the limits within which wooden buildings or
buildings of other materials that shall be d?????d fireproof shall not be erected or placed. Sec. 2 This
ordinance shall take effect and be enforced from and after the publication dated at Elk River
Minnesota, June 3, 1911. On motion of E.P. Babcock seconded by Geo. Worden, Ordinance No. 59
was adopted.
Ordinance declared adopted and ordered printed.
No other business to come before the meeting adjourned.
W.F. Chadbourne, Village Recorder