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1914-02-02 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular council meeting. Bills allowed including payments to lighting and gas machine suppliers.
1913-08-04 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular council meeting. Set marshal salary at $5/month. D. McGregor nominated, elected, and sworn in as councilman to fill the vacancy left by G.E.…
1913-08-09 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesSpecial council meeting. Council levied a 10-mill gravel fund tax and 4-mill road tax on agricultural land of 10+ acres within town limits, with…
1913-09-01 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular council meeting. Routine bills allowed for lighting, postage, rent, and marshal salary.
1913-10-06 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular council meeting. Salaries paid to all council members and clerk; additional bills for gravel, street/wagon work, street commission fee, hall…
1917-11-05 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesFirst meeting under Mayor R. G. Martin; all present. Eight men are reported to Jefferson, the county seat, for not paying the 1917 poll tax. Martin…
1917-12-03 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session; Jones absent. A sign is to be placed in the center of the street northeast of C. A. Swanson's store. L. B. Jones resigns as…
1914-08-17 Dana Town Council Minutes (Special Session)Special session of the Dana Town Council. Council authorizes a $10 warrant for one year's dues in the League of Iowa Municipalities and will write to…
1914-09-07 Dana Town Council MinutesRegular session. Clerk to procure a new set of ordinances. Bills allowed, including $53.97 [?] to Brunton Mc[?] for crossway materials, which the…
1914-10-05 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session, T. M. Ferguson absent. Mayor reports a license fee collected from the Home Comedy Co. Bills for gravel, a dog killed and buried, hall…
1914-11-02 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session followed by a short meeting of the council as Board of Health, with no business. The Street Commissioner's bill for street labor…
1914-12-07 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session; F. M. Ferguson absent. Communications on the electric light franchise are read. Bills are allowed, including a fee for an opinion on…
1914-12-09 Dana City Council Meeting Minutes (Adjourned Session)Adjourned session, all five councilmen present. The ordinance granting a franchise to the Iowa Railway and Light Company to build and operate an…
1914-12-15 Dana City Council Meeting Minutes (Adjourned Session)Adjourned session continuing the Dec 9, 1914 meeting. Councilman W. H. Kittell introduces a resolution submitting the Dec 9 franchise ordinance to the…
1914-12-09 Iowa Railway and Light Company Electric Franchise Ordinance and Notice of Special ElectionComplete typewritten text of the ordinance granting Iowa Railway and Light Company a 25-year, non-exclusive franchise to build and operate electric…
1915-10-04 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session; all present. The clerk dated the entry "Oct 4th 1914," but its place between the Sept 6 and Nov 1, 1915 meetings, and the 1915…
1915-11-01 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session; Mayor Kittell absent, and R. G. Martin is chosen Mayor Pro Tem. Bills for street work, the Street Commissioner and gravel are…
1914-07-06 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular council meeting. Bills audited for crossing labor at 25 cents an hour, hauling, stationery, street commissioner work (with struck-through…
1914-06-08 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular council meeting. A.J. McNurlen's resignation as clerk was accepted and John De Boer elected to fill the unexpired term. Council approved a…
Undated List of Names on a Statement Form, Dana (c. 1910s)A numbered list of 13 Dana men, plus one unnumbered, written in pencil on a blank printed "Statement ... 191_" form and checked off. The heading is…
Undated Lists of Persons Subject to Poll Tax, Dana (c. 1912-1916)Undated working list headed "Persons Subject to Poll Tax," 28 Dana men, marked with checks and tallies, presumably as payments came in; Frank Varney…
1915-01-04 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session. Mayor R. G. Martin's resignation is accepted. Councilman W. H. Kittell is elected Mayor by ballot (3 votes to 1 for F. M. Ferguson)…
1915-02-01 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session, Mayor W. H. Kittell presiding, all five councilmen present. Bills, election expense vouchers and warrants for election judges and…
1915-03-01 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session; G. D. Johnson absent. Bills are approved, including G. F. Hollingshead's bill for feeding tramps and Wm. Magers' bill for shoveling…
1915-04-06 Dana City Council Meeting MinutesRegular session; Melvin Collins absent. Bills are approved, including a warrant for the ordinance book. The Council fills Collins's vacancy: G. E.…