THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

January 22, 1895

 

The Granite Meeting.

 

            There was a good attendance at the business men’s rooms Saturday night.  The Mayor, with whom J. W. Carpenter had made his correspondence, being absent, City Clerk Holmes called the meeting to order.  A. J. Van Epps was chosen president and J. L. Sturtevant, secretary.  Mr. Carpenter’s proposition in regard to the citizens and city raising by subscriptions and bonds $20,000 was read.  In order to get the matter before the house for discussion, M. R. Baldwin moved to accept the proposition.  From the remarks made it was evident, that as long as there was no representative of the granite company present to put up any guarantees or champion their cause that motion would not carry, so Mr. Baldwin withdrew the motion and H. W. Williams made a motion which was carried, that the proposition be received and referred to the Mayor and that he call a meeting at some future date if he deemed it practicable.  A motion was also made which was carried, that the secretary of the meeting notify J. W. Carpenter of the action of this meeting, etc.  The sense of the meeting was that Waupaca would “get to the front” on most any paying enterprise of railroad scheme, if the promoters or organizers of the movement would show their guarantees.