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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COl NTY 563 constable, S. J. Willard recorder, W. ( '. Williston attorney, Wil- liam Danforth city surveyor, John Seastrand city marshal, Will- iam Llewellyn streel commissioner, I-'. A. Cole assessor. The policemen were . Battan, E. P. Grow, C. A. Baldwin and W. W. J)fKay. A. J), Hoyt was appointed justice in place of s. .1. Easier, resigned. The council moved into the room at the corner of Bush and Third streets, over the store now occupied by the Beckmark Shoe Company. The W. E. Hawkins Hose Com- pany was organized, its avowed objed being, however, not the extinguishing of fires, from which they were to be excused, but merely the participation in certain athletic events as firemen. October 27, L§86, the Duluth. Red Wing and Southern was in- corporated. Two electric lighl companies appeared asking per- mission to erect poles and maintain a system. F. M. Wilson urged the claims of John Collicott of the New London Electric Light Company, while J. L. Hastings worked in behalf of the Western Electric Company. This agitation resulted in the franchise by which, under certain eondil ions, any electric company has a right to operate in the city. Tin- new high school building was com- pleted January 14. 1887. The city this year received $105 into its treasury thai was entirely unexpected, thai sum being re- turned out of the amount that had been donated for tin- cyclone sufferers in Rochester and elsewhere. W. A. Poller was made superintendent of the water works, and George W. Humphry was appointed sexton of the cemetery. ( '. J. Kempe and J. II. Web- ster were continued as chief and assistant chief of the fire de- partment. The question of land for a future city hall again coming up. two sites were proposed, the one at the corner of Third and Broad and the other the present site of the city hall. Alter considerable negotiation and. incidentally, a flaw in the title, the northerly half of block 22 was purchased from H. B. Baldwin for $5,400. which was paid February 4. 1887. A small tract owned by George Bentz was purchased by private indi- viduals at a cost of $800 and presented to the city, thus com- pleting the title to the entire half of the block. February 4, 1887, the council accepted the changes which the legislature had made in the city charter. 1887-88 — W. E. Hawkins was elected mayor aud the new al- dermen were M. S. Chandler. John Friedrich, Andrew Ellingson, B. A. Olson and L. C. Smith. G. A. Carlson received an ecpial number of votes with B. A. Olson but. lots being cast. Mr: Olson was given the seat in the council. John Hawdtanson was elected treasurer, and C. Graham and A. D. Hoyt justices of the peace. Upon the organization of the council (under the new^ charter) M. S. Chandler was elected president and W. F. Cross vice president.