Time Line - 1907 to Present
1911
Thomas H. Mouat elected as Mayor on April 10.
1912
Cross walks - $36.00/1,000'
December 3rd - First Fire Truck Purchased for $820.00 + $74.00 for the ladder + $42.39 for freight & dragage.
1913
February 18th - Call for Bids for Firehall - Winning bidder H.J. Scott. The cost? $790.96
May 5th - W J Scott elected as Mayor
Secure Dumping ground leased with G.W. Brown until 1917
Liquor licenses reduced from $440.00/year to $240.00/year.
CB&Q Railroad furnish water from 140' hi tank - 30 cents/thousand up to 200,000 & then 20 cents for additional.
October - Cornwall & Blum - 6 cents/kw hr. to pump water to supply tank.
1915
A L Mitchell elected as Mayor.
1916
Sold sewer bonds - $12,000.00
1917
Dirt work for Skating Rink
1922
May 2nd - H M Strand elected as Mayor. Made $50.00 monthly.
New Fire Truck - $894.00
April - Regular system of planting trees on Crawford
1927
Wilbur S. Fish made acting President in on Sept. 6th then elected as Mayor October 4th.
1928
May 7th - J A Putnam elected as Mayor. He is also the night marshall. Earned $50.00/month.
1929
Payment on Chevy Fire Truck = $339.50 & $300.00
1930
New Water System - $70,186.33
May 6th - J E McCortly elected as Mayor
1934
May 1st - M R Calderwood elected as Mayor
1935
Purchased Trees
1936
June 5th - Dr. Wayne A. Ransier elected as Mayor. Died 1940.
1940
May 7th - Miriam B. Ransier is Mayor.
1941
Carl Rankin is elected as Mayor.
1945
A M Crilly is elected as Mayor.
1947
October - Hochhalter Bros. put in a bid for garbage. Bid went to Ray Zelka for $550.00/month.
Kalberg went to Salt Lake to pick up new fire truck. Truck in such bad shape he did not bring it back. Instead went to Great Falls and picked up a truck there in good shape. Cost: $3,000.00
December - New Fire Truck again. Bought from Big Horn Motor Co. for $5,999.99.
1948
Arbitration board for zoning commission created. Members were Ken Fox, O E Anderson, Elmer Skeio, R B Saunders, and Lee Terpening
Sewer pump station at end of 6th street.
Pacific Coast Building Officials Conf. UBC
1949
Jens. Kalberg is elected Mayor.
1950
Received letter from Sheriff Riley stating there will be no more city prisoners at the jail - settled.
1951
May - Toilets and sheds put in North and South Parks
City notified the Chamber that they could not decorate streets or give Christmas treats to the children.
1953
Gas bid - 22 cents/gallon
1954
April 5th - 1 used motor grader bought for $2,500.00
October 5th - Vacate & Abandon portion of Custer Ave. in King Addition
November 21st - Water extensions - sell bonds
November 30th - Purchase 40-80 acres of land across Little Horn River for garbage dump
1955
September - Spent $11,500.00 on investments.
Water was 50 cents per tank then inc. to 10 cents /100 gallon by PSC
Wading Pool
Garbage Dump purchase official. Bought for $7,500.00 from Mr. Hogan's stepdaughter.
1956
Change to Sewer Lagoons
Ord.252 - Allow Police Judge sentence of work on streets
City paid Mayflower Circle for census taking
1957
Sterling Codifiers hired - recodification 1958 (sell for $50.00)
1958
January - Elgin 4 yd sweeper bought for $12,000.00
March - Plans for hospital
July - Supervised fireworks display at 4-H Fair
September 2nd - Set up CCPB
Inventory taken and cards filed
1959
January 20th - Sam R. Young appointed as General Work Superintendent - Department Superintendent position eliminated. He was paid $500.00/month which was $50.00 less than the Department Superintendent made at the time.
February - Children paid 25 cents for every unlicensed dog brought in to police.
May 5th - Rosemary Clawson
June - New Post Office and Custer Arms Motel
August - A R Cofe - dump sewage in barrow pit
December 1st - Sarpy Road used to to thru the dump
1960
January - New Fire Truck - need storage first
City wide paint up, clean up, fix up for 2 weeks in May
1961
September - Plans made for new fire hall.
1962
Clerks office hours changed - open until 6:00pm instead of 5:00pm
JE Lammers becomes Mayor
Austin-Weston No. 99 Motor Grader purchased
New Typewriter for $130.00
Safeway Store constructed
March 20, 1962 - 50 Star Flag presented to City of Hardin
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