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Secretary-B. W. Cavender. FIRE ALARM STATIONS.
12-Fourth and Vine.
13- Twenty-second and Cottage Grove av. 14-Edison and Union.
15-Twenty-fourth and University av.
16-Third and Crocker. 17-Nineteenth and Drake Park av
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18+ -so w First and Jackson av.
19 -Seventh and Elm.
21 -Third and Court av.
22 Seventh and Walnut.
23- Fourth and Walnut.
24- Sixth av. and Walnut.
25 -Seventh and Locust. 26- Eighth and Walnut. 27- -Thirteenth and Day
28+ Thirteenth and University av.
29- Fortieth and Ingersoll.
31- Nineteenth and Pleasant.
32- Fifteenth and Grand av.
33-Fourteenth and Forest av.
34- -Ninth and Grand av.
35- Sixth and State.
36-E. Fifth and Market.
37-Fourth and Ascension.
00 -Twenty-nineth and Cottage Grove av.
39- -Seventeenth and Woodland.
41-Eighth and School.
42-Seventeenth and Crocker, En- gine House No. 5.
43 -Tenth and Center.
44-So. E. Sixth and Hartford (Se- vastopol).
45 -E. Sixth and Allen, Engine House No. 8.
46 _ Sixth and School.
47 -Sixth and Clinton (H. P.)
48 Sixth and Boston avs.
49 -Eighth and New York (H. P.)
51- -E. Sixth and Grand av.
versity av. and Uni- 52-Twelfth and Lyon.
53-E. Thirteenth and Walnut.
54 -- E. Sixteenth and Walnut.
55-E. Fifteenth and Buchanan.
56-Ninth and Washington av. 57-Thirteenth and Scott. 58-Ninth and Des Moines. 61-E. Second and Walnut.
62-E. Fifth and Locust.
63-E. Fourth and Walnut, En- gine House No. 2.
64-E. Sixteenth and Grand av. 65-Seventh St., Court and
, Walker.
66-E. Twenty-sixth and Walnut. 67-Eighth and Plum, Engine House No. 13.
71-E. Fifth and Court av. 72-Twenty-third and Grand av. 73-Ninth and Fremont.
74-Fifth and Elm. 75- Second and Market.
81- Seventh and Indiana av.
82-E. Twelfth and Polk, Engine House No. 7. 83- Seventeenth and Des Moines. 84-Twentieth and Clark. 85-E. Fourth and Hayes. 91-Sixth and Grand av. 92-Cor. Bluff and Forest av. 93-Grand av and Twenty-seventh. @12 -. Second and Grand av.
213-Fifteenth and Court av.
214-Penn av and North.
215-Twenty-eighth and Dean.av.
216-Fifth and Walnut.
217-Sixth and Locust.
222-Eighteeth and Walnut.
223-Ninth and Walnut.
224-Methodist Hospital.
225-Fourth and Court av.
226-Fourth and Locust.
412-Twenty-fourth and Ingersoll.
413 -- Fifteenth and Grand. 414-Empress Theater.
415-Berchel Theater. 416-Auditorium.
417-Elite Theater.
418 -- Empire Theater.
421-Kirkwood Hotel.
422-Majestic Theater.
423 -- Princess Theater.
424-Gas Works E. First and Vine.
LOCATION OF HOSE COMPANIES, HOSE AND CHEMICAL ENGINES AND TRUCKS AND PUMPERS.
No. 1, Second and Grand av.
No. 2, 411-413 E. Walnut.
No. 3, Twelfth and Lyon. No. 4, Eighth and School. No. 5, Seventeenth and Crocker. No. 6, S. Union and Edison av. No. 7, E. Twelfth and | Cleveland. No. 8, 510 So E. Sixth.
No. 9, E. Eighteenth and Walnut. No. 10, Sixth and Clinton avs. No. 11, Twenty-fourth
No. 12, 535 Fortieth.
No. 13, Eighth and Plum.
No. 14, Twenty-eighth and Dean. No. 15, Seventh and College av.
DIRECTIONS FOR GIVING AN
ALARM OF FIRE.
1. To give an alarm, go to the nearest box, break glass, turn key, open door, pull the hook to the bot- tom of the slot once and let go; leave door open.
2. Do not pull the hook if the fire bell or small bell in the box is strik- ing as that indicates that an alarm has already been given.
RATES OF FARE AUTHORIZED BY CITY ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO PUBLIC CARRIAGES, ETC.
Section 13 of Sec. 507 of 1900 re- vision. That the owner of driver of any omnibus, carriage, cab, herdic, or other vehicle licensed under this chapter, shall be entitled to demand and receive not to exceed twenty-five cents (25c) for each passenger con- veyed any distance not exceeding one mile.
For each passenger over one mile and under two miles fifty cents (50c). For each passenger with trunk, one mile and under two miles
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seventy-five cents (75c). Each ad- ditional passenger of the same party, twenty-five cents (25c). Provided,
that sixteen blocks shall constitute
one mile. And they shall be en-
titled to add to the above rate between the hours of 12 o'clock at night and : 6 a. m., twenty-five
cents for each passenger. And
are entitled to charge when em- ployed by the hour, one and 50-100 dollars ($1.50) for the first hour, and for each additional hour one dollar ($1); and they are here- by required to convey any passenger carried by them to such part of the city as he or she may require.
Children under five years of age accompanying any person who has paid full fare shall not be charged fare, and children between the ages of five and ten years shall be charged half fare. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Independent School District of Des Moines under the consolidation law embraces all of the territory and school houses within the corporate limits of the city. Seventeen dig- tricts enter into this consolidation. Twelve of these were partly in and partly out and those portions of the districts inside of the city are now a part of the consolidated district. The territory of the other five districts was wholly within the city so that three districts were taken in entire.
Board of Directors -P. B. Sherriff, Pres .; A. L. Clinite, Secretary; W. E. Barrett, Treasurer; Z. C. Thornburg, Superintendent, Directors - P. B. Sherriff, C. N. Kinney, Chas. Hutch- inson, Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, Wilbur S. Conkling, R .J. Bannister, Dr. C. F. Smith.
Tuition for Non-Resident Pupils- Primary and Grammar grades, $3.45 per month; High School, $7.25 per month in advance.
Superintendent's Office, Garfield School, e s 3d between Chestnut and Center. Z. C. Thornburg, Superin- tendent; J. W. Studebaker, Ass't; J. C. Byram, Truant Officer.
Office Hours of Superintendent-4 p. m. to 5 p. m. Supervisors + Drawing: Frances Keffer, Harriet Macy, Catharine Mc- Cartney. Kindergarten: Bessie M.
Park. Manual Training: R. C. Woolman; Asst Manual Training; Henry Anderson, Milton N. Gerhart, J. J. 8. Mitchell, H. Ozanne, James Seddon, W. S. Hill W. A. Wilson,
W. Van Oel. Music: Supt. W. A .. White, Elizabeth F. Burney, Hazel M. Granger. Physical Training: Margaret McKee; Ass't, Caro Sum- ner, Galena Stowell, John Van Liew, Lloyd W. Barnes. Domestic Science or Cooking and Sewing: Ruth Cess- na; Supt. Ass'ts, Mrs. Helen Wagner, Linnie D. Savage, Edith Vinsel, Mil- dred Glasse, Helen Glasse, Mildred Stirlen, Mrs. Mae Roush. Business Education: Clay D. Slinker. Voce- tional Guidance: Mrs. Anna L. Bur- dick. School Nurses: Emma C. Wil- son, Anna T. Dailey, Rose M. Ma- honey, Esther Allen.
EAST HIGH-May Goodrell, prin- cipal; Christine Balliet, Marian Barr, G. A. Bingham, Katherine Bush, Joyse E. Lapham, Frances Church, Margaret Cummings, Millicent M. Cuplin, R. L. Donaker, Raleigh Franklin, Grace E. Gabriel, A. G. Hostetter, Estelle Wood, Ethel Good- rell, Frances P. Hanson Esse Hath- away, W. E. Lyman, Vera E. Jordan, Mary B. Kasson, Eda D. Knauer, Sara E. McBride, Marjorie MacVicar, Julia Padmore, M. Estelle Patterson, Allen Peterson, E. J. Pollock, Edna S. Poorbaugh, Maud St. John, Olive A. Snook, Sarah R. Wickware, D. O. Wilson, C D. McGregor, Albert Nel- son, Wilson T. Ide, Hazel S. Moore, C. A. E. Swanson, Lanora E. Nickle, R. L. Buttrey, Harriet Macy, Blanche L. Nelson.
NORTH HIGH-E. J. Eaton, prin- cipal; Helen G. Adams, Nellie L. Baldwin, Grace M. Behr, Harry M. Bell, Clara Foss, Susie Gabriel, F. E. Goodell, G. C. Greenwalt, A. P. Heald, Mary F. Jones, G. Eunice Meers, Emma C. Moulton, Agnes Sears, Hazel Granger, Josephine G. Smith, F. H. Stewart, Eleanor Hollo- way, A. H. Horsburgh, Kenneth B. Hunter, Ruby D. Lucas, Alphonso Reyna, Maud Searl, Thomas Teakle.
WEST HIGH-Maurice Ricker, principal; Walter O. Allen, Warren W. Arner, Lucile Babcock, Edith J. Bailey, Stephanna Balliet, L. W. Bar- ber, Martha A. Beeson, L. G. Bennett, Miriam W. Brooks, Cora Brotherton, Anna L. Burdick, J. Austin Burrowh Earl Cook, Fred Deming, Ethelwyn M. Dodson, Edna L. Fegtly, Eliza- beth V. Griffiths, Foss O. Heaton, Inez I. Hovey, Grace C. Howe, Martha Hutchinson, S. D. Hockett, Ida T. Jacobs, Mostyn L. Jones, Mar- garet King, Cordelia Kyle, James R. Longwell, Sarah M. Loring, Catherine N. Macartney, Wenonah D. Macy, Alice E. Moss, G. W. Dudley, Frances Parmalee, Clarence E. Parteb, Kath- erine Potter, Maud Hanger, Iola B.
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Quigley, Grace Stivers, Alfred H. Smith, Mary E. Schlitz, Josephine Taylor, Edna M. Thatcher, Ina Thomas, Nan Thompson, O. E. Tur- pin, Nathan H. Weeks, Josephine V. Williams, Katherine Willis.
BARTON-R. B. Stone, principal; Elberta Brady.
BENTON-Elizabeth Beese, princi- pal; Nettie Beese, Ida Cohen, Anne Farguharson, Ella Grigsby, Lucile M. Milles, Alma Walder.
. BIRD-Laura P. Matthews, prin- cipal; Lydia A. Berger, Nell C. Beim, Vida R. Collins, Tolosa Cooke, Lil- lian Dale, Ruth Dredge, Eugene Pat- tison, Augusta Householder, Louisa F. Huntington, Iva Kendrick, Edith M. Lockwood, Addie J. Maulsby, Prudence A. Nicholas, Gail Seevers, Rilla Yeager.
BLY-W. A. Crusinberry, princi- pal; Catherine G. Anderson, Jennie O'Garro.
BROOKS-J. O. Mitchell, princi- pal; Edith C. Beck, Sadie A. Bollen, Mary E. Braden, Maud Owen, Rose Erbacher, Julia E. Gilmore, Louise French, Mabel Howard, Antonette Korslund, Rose M. Loehle, Iva M. Luce, Nelle M. Miller, Lulu Town- send, Gertrude Conners, Alice Hill- man, Halla M. Rhode.
BRYANT - Georgianna Warrick, principal; Ruth Ash, Bertha Lane, Ellen Goodrell, Alma M. Horning, Madge T. Ahrens, Bertha K. Mullen, Frances Myers, Cecelia Sheehan, Lydia Troeger, Marion Propp, Ellen Burke.
CARY-Minnie W. Rozelle, princi- pal; Grace Wynkoop, Virginia C. Henney, Bertha Lamoreaux, Florence Stewart.
CASADY-Gertrude Murphy, prin- cipal; Emma Armbruster, Marie Bald- ridge, Jennie Ball, Olive Churchill, Maud Cook, Mary E. Cunningham, Ida M. Gower, Mary R. Wyman, Helen Johnston, Jessie Shannon, Alice F. Mosier, Jane L. Roush.
CATTELL, JONATHAN-Laura R. Moulton, principal; Ellie Babbitt, Jo- sephine Beaner, Mary L. Cole, Ethel Goodbarn, Belle Gray, Irene Griffin, Bernice V. Lynch Ruth Pfund, Ida M. Ramsey, Iva Scott, May E. Taylor, Elizabeth M. Thompson, Esther Venell, Cora Spoor, Elizabeth Wil- son.
CLARKSON-Anna L. Wertz, prin- cipal; Pearl Brandon, Ethelyn Dewey, Ellice Langfitt, Alice Bauer, Jennie L. Ennis, Mrs. Lottie Langdon, Ione Johnstone, Vesta Hammer, Grace Kimmey,' Edna L. Young.
COOPER-Jeannette Mills, princi- pal; Bessie B. Buchanan, Margaret
Condran, Mrs. Toni Wendelburg, Alice T. Lowry, Myrtle Spencer, May Bruce.
CROCKER-Mary M. Kaynor, prin- cipal; Etta Brown, Jane E. Cameron, Louise Cotnam, Estella L. Grayson, Alma M. Green, Elizabeth Hixon, Au- gusta Kaufmann, Ada McClelland, Allison E. Mason, E. Estella Rey- -nolds, Ella D.\McIntyre, Clara Shek- els, Alice Swope, Lilly Weaver, Shir- ley Cork, Bertha' Schroeder.
CURTIS-Mabel A. Otis, princi- pal; Elizabeth Brandtman, Lillis I. Ross, Velma Eckerman, Gladys V. Hall, Amanda Hartman, Margaret A. Hogan, Adda Mershon, Vera Jeffer- ies, Mildred Smith, Carrie Spoor, Blanche V. Williams.
DES MOINES GRAMMAR-Minnie M. Walker, principal; Ethelyn M. Bigglestone, Anna Dickey, Maud E. Ewing, Ethel Goodwin, Anna A. Hol- land, Sibyl Jeffries, Elizabeth Miller, Lounet St. John, Esther Nelson, M. T. Berggren, Anna Hinkson, Minnie A. Devore, Mrs. L. H. Benson.
DOUGLAS-J. T. Evraets, princi- pal; Mrs. Elizabeth Evraets, Grace I. Briggs.
ELMWOOD-E. Gertrude Burt, principal; Mollie E. Brown, Lulu W. Dinges, Sidna J. Dowell, Angie B. Whittington, Mirriam A. Huffman, Doris Van Meter, Agnes I. Jennings, Jennie McPherrin, Cora M. Newton, Blanche Wiley.
EMERSON-Frances Umpleby, prin- cipal; Florence J. Adams, Anna Cald- beck, Mary Cutler, Helen Docherty, Minnie T. Holt, Avada McCreight, Esther V. Nicholson, Mrs. Nellie Sil- lick.
FRISBIE-J. Ella Baper, princi- pal; Mrs. Florence E. Phillips, Marna Perrin.
GARFIELD-Edith W. Cushing, Ida E. Fisher, Bessie M. Park, Mabel Springer,
GIVEN-Mrs. J. E. Macy, Eliza- beth Pressley, Jessie L. Bradshaw, Maud Pennington, Minnie E. Hoppes, Maud L. Mellor, Estelle Penn, Georgia Quigley, Nellie Rice, Minnie Sherman, Alice C. Wilson, Debra Brinton.
GRANT-Nellie L. Elliott, princi- pal; Mary S. Cooper, Clara Eden- burn, Sue, Edenburn, Addie K. Hag- ler, Minnie Hyland, Grace A. White, Leona McLain, Marcella Mills, Myrtle Umpleby, Mrs. L. C. Wilton, Gertrude Young.
GREENWOOD-Nellie G. Warren, principal; Frances Blackman, Bertha E. Drown, Sadie Galbraith, Susan Hearty, Leta M. Brockway, Margaret E. Heaps, Anna R. Smith, Luella .V.
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Cole, Winifred Wennerstrom.
HANAWALT -- Elizabeth A. Robb, principal; Margaret Riody, Lucy E. Harden, Minnie Youngerman.
HOWE-Alice Bradshaw, princi- pal; Ruth Nicholson, Viola Van der Las, Katherine McGuire, Caroline Wilson.
HUBBELL-Amelia Morton, prin- cipal Margaret Linnane, Jessie E. Dicks, Katherine Haley, Mary Heat- on, Lottie Higgins, Winnifred Duffy, Myrtle Nicklin, Elizabeth Mason, Elizabeth Wadsworth, | Adaline Win- terble.
IRVING-Alice G. Eaton, princi- pal; Ethel R. Ballard, Alice C. Belau, Gertrude Binkley, Mary E. Dutton, Laura M. R. Gow, Margaret Guthrie, Emma Klinefelter, Grace Morrison, Minnie D. Nash, Estelle Pierson, Bertha K. Pike, Myrtle M. Robeson, Margaret C. Walker, Jane Wolcott.
JEFFERSON -- J. W. Atchley, prin- cipal; Helen C. Cox, Helen C. Walker, Alice Stubbs.
KIRKWOOD - - Adelaide Laird, Carrie B. Bickel, Mildred D. Craig, Mildred Shireman, Mayme Fittings, Mae R. George, Mrs. Grace Guyer, Louise Mosier, Elva E. Taft, Anso- letta Van Doren, Zenia Wetherill, Irene Hirsch.
LINCOLN-Belle McConnell, prin- cipal; Mrs. Lilla D. Vaughan, Agnes E. McCarty, Anna Gibbons, Pauline Jordan, Mae J. Kelly, Martha M. Hall, Gertrude Manning, Edith B. Malin, Mattie R. Dinges.
LOGAN- Jennie C. Holmberg,
principal; Gertrude Greene, Ethyl Hamilton, Bertha Howland, Mrs. Ruth A. Keil, Minnie Koehl, Flor- ence French, Mamie Longan, Janet H. Hume.
LONGFELLOW-Anna Stohlgren, principal; Rose Adelman, Margaret Burt, Edna Cummings, Florence Wall, Mae E. Kooker, Ruth Denny, Ruth Stehm, Eva Rist, Edna R. Squiers, Įda M. Tilden, Mildred Walder.
LUCAS | Sara |H. Davis, principal; Gertrude E. Anderson, Eva M. Baird, Beulah Henderson, Estella King, Ida Seems, Fern Tedrow, Lydia R. Wall, Bessie B. Williamson!
MCHENRY- Cora A. Parr, princi- .pal; Mattie Bach, Mrs. Ella Chantry, Jane Doyle, Maude Ireland, Lula Les- ter, Alice |T. Lowry, Allie E. Reinl, Nora Sherwood, Cora Chase, Eugina Talbott.
MCKINLEY-Alice Bradshaw, prin- cipal; Lela M. Smith, Edith Sweet, Edna Aiken, Annie E. Sollee, Mae A. Johnson, Mame McGuire, Tid E. Peck, Deborah Sykes, Lucile Wix-
stead, Ila F. Bartrom, Lucile Wilson. NASH-Mrs. E. J. Macy, principal; Jessie Morrison, Margaret McGuire, Jennie Mintier, Jessie Sankey, Flora I. Kyle, Grace D. Wyman.
OAK PARK-Bertha D. Smith, principal Margaret Adair, Rosetta Anderson, Mabel E. Bailey, Anna L. Bradley, Mabel Harris, Elizabeth Morris, Jennie A. Robbins, Minnie H. Stroud, Elva Lichty, Coral Shafer, Rebecca DeFord, Frances C. Miller, Minnie Carlson.
PARK AVENUE-W. Lee Jordan, principal; Harriett C. Campbell, Edith Cooper, Helen Cowles, Coyne Oldham, Mary Dunkle, Eva I. How- ard, Lulu Kephart, Mildred Morris- sey, Floy Cook, Mrs. Helen Shollen- berger, Emma Niederfrank, Mary L. Parrish, Margaret Seely, Gretta Star- rett, Laura Ullrich.
PHILLIPS-Emma Bradley, prin- cipal; Lulu Auracher, Clara A. Hart per, J. H. Milroy, Hazel Ferguson, Signe Edstrom, Zoe Meier, Margaret Kern, Martha Porter, Pauline Rourke, Orpha Marshall, Bess Toulouse, Lida Voorhees.
PRE-VOCATIONAL - Robert A. Weesner, principal; Chas. Lockwood, H. W. Carmichael.
RICE-Anna Hartigan, principal; Calista Miller, Jennie M. Mattausch, Vera F. Ogden, Lena Coblitz, Grade Hubbard.
SABIN, HENRY-Clara Funston, principal; Mary Kelly, Mary Burgess, Alice Burney, Mary O. Carr, Lena M. Chandler, Fannie M. Ford, Helen M. Park, Anna Grace, Alberta Hoffman, Buena Holly, Katherine Grace, Jessie Kennedy, Joyce E. Lapham, Helen M. Park, Lura Coulson, Margaret Shan- non, Flora Batten, Kathleen Kenne- beck, Verdon Taylor, Caroline C. Van Meter, Alena Welch.
SCOTT, ALEXANDER-Isabel E, Marshall, principal; Elsie I. Booth, Ophie Clark, Carolyn Cooper, Lulu E. McRae, Isabel E. Marshall, Grace Wilcox.
WALLACE, HENRY-Julia Beach, principal; Ella M. Thompson, Clafre S. Cooke, Jessie Copenhaffer, Jessie ; M. Ford, Belle Hartman, Ella B. Howell, Gertrude B. Morgan, Muriel J. Moscrip, Zella M. Wenks, Mary H. Wick ware.
WASHINGTON-Mrs. Blanche M. Snook, principal; Ruby Benner, Mary K. Burke, Vasie Crow, Lizzie L. Gib- son, Agnes Hanrahan, Mrs. Perle Smith, Edith A. Povall, Mae Heath- ershaw, Vae Barr, Ethel Lee, Stella M. McGuire, Mae Welch.
WEBSTER-Minnie W. Rozelle, principal; Lettie H. Brandt, Barbara
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Buck, Gertrude Caldbeck, Della Cor- telyou, Olive Dillon, Josephine R. Lennan, Olive Pugh, Jessie St. John, Mary A. Taylor, Mrs. Mabel Huffman, Virginia C. Henney.
WHITTIER-Julia A. Beach, prin- cipal; Genevieve Johnson, Eva W. Rowat, Alice Schooler, Maud A: Wall, Ethel A. York.
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WILLARD, FRANCES - Grace Troutner, principal; Elva Auracher, Elizabeth Blaise, Esther M. Bram- men, Mrs. Minnie G. Crook, Zell Brokaw, Elinore Goodwin, Kate Donavan, L. Mae Hamilton, Alice Hastings, Emma Leasure, Katherine McCoy, Nellie A. Person, Honora Howard, Dolly Rhodes, Mrs. Cora Tennant, Henrietta Blessin, Lillian A. Sharts.
SPECIAL SCHOOLS.
GARFIELD-Mary G. Diemer. WASHINGTON -- Mary E. Trainor.
WARD BOUNDARIES.
First Ward-The first ward shall embrace all of that part of the city lying west of a line described as fol- lows: Beginning on the south line of the city in the center of Section 20, Township 78, Range 24, running thence north through the center of Sections 20, 17 and 8, Township 78, Range 24, to the middle of the Rac- coon river; thence easterly along the middle of said river to a point in line with the center line of West Nineteenth produced south; thence north along the center line of Nine- teenth to the center line of Grand av .; thence east along the center line of Grand av to the center line of Seventeenth, thence north along the center line of said Seventeenth to the center line of University av; thence west along the center line of Uni- versity av to the center line of Twentieth; thence north along the center line of Twentieth to the cen- ter line of Mondamin av; thence north along the center line of Twen- tieth produced to the middle of the Des Moines river; thence northerly following the middle of said river to the north line of the city.
Second Ward-The second ward shall Include all of the territory lying east of the first ward, north of the Raccoon river and west of a line de- scribed as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a point in the middle of the Raccoon river, thence it is intersected by the center line of Ninth; thence north along the center Ilne of Ninth to the center line of Market; thence west along the center Ifwe of Market to the center line of
Tenth; thence north on the center line of Tenth to the center line of Pleasant; thence westerly along the center line of Pleasant to the center line of the north and south alley between Lots 1 and 2, of Holland's Sub-division of Lots 3 and 4 of Rose's Addition; thence north along the cen- ter line of said alley to the center line of Park thence east along the center line of Park to the center line of Twelfth; thence north along the center line of School to the center line of Twelfth north; thence west along the center line of Twelfth north; thence north along the center line of said Twelfth to the center line of Jefferson av; thence west along the center line of Jefferson av to the line between Lots 11 and 12, Official Plat of the southwest quarter of Section 27, Township 79, Range 24, produced south; thence north along said line to the middle of the Des Moines river; thence west- ward along the middle of the said river to the east boundary line of the first ward.
Third Ward-The third ward of the city shall embrace all the terri- tory lying east of the boundary lines of thel first and second wards above given and west of the following line;
Beginning at a point in the middle of the Raccoon river, on the center line of ninth; thence easterly follow- ing the middle of said river to a point in line with the center line of Sev- enth as originally located; thence
northerly along the center line of said Seventh as originally located to a point where the center line of said Seventh intersects the center line of Sixth av; thence northerly along the center line of Sixth av to the center line of Elm; thence east along the center line of Elm to the center line of Fifth; thence north along the cen- ter line of Fifth to the center line of Grand av; thence west along the cen- ter line of Grand av to the center line of Sixth av; thence north along the center line of Sixth av to the middle of the Des Moines river; thence southeasterly following the middle of said river to its point 'ot intersection with the east and west center line of Section 35, Township 79, Range 24; thence east along said center line to the north and south center line of Section 35, Township 79, Range 24; thence north along the center line of Section 35, 26 and 23, Township 79, Range 24, to the north line of the city.
Fourth Ward- The fourth ward shall consist of all that portion of
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the city lying east of the east bound- ary line of the first and third wards. and west of the following line:
Beginning in the center of Section 22, on the south line of said city; thence north through the center of Sections 22, 15 ad 10 to the middle of the Des Moines river! thence nor- therly up the middle of the Des Moines river to Sixth av bridge where it crosses the river.
Fifth Ward- The fifth ward shall .consist of all that portion of the said city lying east of the east boundaries of the third and fourth wards and lying west of a line as follows, to- wit:
Beginning in the middle of the Des Moines river, where it is intersected by the center line running north through Section 10, Township 78, Range 24; thence |eastwardly along the middle of said river to a point opposite Seventh; thence north on
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i Seventh to Locust; sthence east on Locust to Pennsylvania av; thence north from Locust on |Pennsylvania av to Maple thence west on Maple to the center of Pennsylvania av; thence north of Pennsylvania av to Fremont; thence east on Fremont to Twelfth; thence north on Twelfth to .Washington av; thence east on Wash- ington av to the east section line of Section 35 above referred to; thence north on the east line of said section and upon the east line of Section 26 and 23 to the north lline of the city.
Sixth Ward-The sixth ward shall be composed of all that portion of territory lying east of the east boun- dary lines of the fourth and fifth wards and west of the following lines:
Beginning in the center of Section 23, on the south line of said city, Range 24; thence north through the center of Sections 23. |14 and 11 to the Des Moines river; thence up the middle of the said river to a point opposite and south of the southern terminus of Sixteenth thence north on Sixteenth to Walker; thence northeasterly on Walker to Eigh- teenth; thence north on Eighteenth to North av; thence
east on North av to the center line of Delaware street extended south;
thence north on the line of Delaware street to the: north line of the city.
Seventh Ward- The seventh ward shall comprise all that portion of the city lying east of the east line of the sixth ward as above fixed.
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VOTING PRECINCTS.
First Ward. First Precinct-The. first precinct shall embrace all of the territory lying south of the Raccoon River and west of the center line of Sections 21, 16 and 9, Township 78, Range 24.
Second Precinct-The second pre- cinct shall include all of the territory bonded on the east by Forty-second, on the south by Raccoon River, on the west by the corporation line, on the north by the center line of Sections 1 and 2, Township 78, Range 25.
Third Precinct-The third precinct shall comprise all the territory lying north of the Raccoon River, east of Forty-second and Forty-second pro- duced to river,, west of Twenty- eighth and Twenty-eighth produced to river, and south of the center line of Sections 5 and 6, Township 78, Range 24.
Fourth Precinct-The fourth pre- cinct shall include all the territory lying east of Twenty-eighth and de- . scribed as follows, to-wit: Beginning in the middle of the Raccoon river on, the west line of Section 8, Townf ship 78, Range 24, thence north along the west line of Sections 8 and 5, Township 78, Range 24, to the center line of Section 5, Township 78, Range 24, thence east along the center line, of said Section 5, Town- ship 78, Range 24 to the center line of Seventeenth thence south along the center line of Seventeenth to
the center line of Grand av; thence west along the said cen- ter line of Grand av to the center line of Nineteenth, thence south along the center line of Nineteenth produced to the middle of the Rac- coon river; thence westerly along the middle of said Raccoon river to the place of beginning.
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