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 HISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 585 LaGrange Hose Company Xo. 4 (volunteer) — Captain. A. G. Heglund; first lieutenant, V. ( '. Herlitz; second lieutenant, Al. Johnson; secretary, H. F. Vanbronkhorst ; treasurer, W. J. Seiz; piperaen, Al. Anderson, T. Seiz, Arno Aletzler, C. A. Estgaard, Charles Bartlett; teamster (paid), Edgar Jackson. Phoenix Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 (volunteer) — Captain, William Johnson; first lieutenant, J. H. Seastrand; second lieutenant, Charles Nute; secretary and treasurer, John A. Gross; truckmen, Joseph Keinboldt, Otto Sell, Jens Loye, H. Nordholm, H. A. J. Green, William Youngquist. The officers of the volunteer fire department are : President, Otto Sell; vice-president, Arthur Heglund; secretary, Otto Howe. Since Chief Cook's arrival there have been but three large fires, and in every instance the work of the department saved the endangered surrounding property. The three fires were: Furni- ture factory, corner Main and Dakota streets, December 9, 1904 ; Betcher saw mill and lumber yards, October 5, 1905 ; Methodist Episcopal church, December 22, 1907. The officers of the Fire Department Relief Association are : President, 0. II. Sell; vice-president, C. H. Phillips; secretary. C. A. K. Johnson ; treasurer, W. J. Diepenbrock. The officers of the relief committee are H. F. Warnson, AY. J. Deipenbrock, F. L. Rethsehlag. WATER WORKS. After several disastrous fires had occurred in our city, which resulted in the total destruction of the Diamond and Red Wing flouring mills, the opera house. AYebster & Perkins' livery stable, and several stores and dwelling houses, amounting in value to nearly or quite half a million dollars, the citizens of Red AYing began to agitate the question of how to prevent the frequent recurrence of such calamities. These discussions among the peo- ple caused the city council to move in the matter. Thereupon the county representatives in the legislature, at its session in the winter of 1883, were asked to procure the enactment of a law granting to the city of Reel AYing the power to issue its bonds for the purpose of constructing a system of water works, and for other local improvements in the city, to an amount not to exceed the sum of $100,000. The act was approved March 1, 1883, and provided that before it should become operative it should be sub- mitted to the legal voters of the city for their approval or other- wise, at a special election. In pursuance of such provision the city council, by resolution, fixed the time of such election on the second day of July, 1883. and at the same time fixed the amount