Got a good chuckle out of this..things aren't much different

[shraby]

now in politics. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

CITY HALL BACK TO ITS OLD SITE AFTER 60 YEARS
"The child returneth to its mother." This old saying was again verified
when one of the old safes of the city clerk's office was moved to the new
city hall on Friday. The old safe was purchased for the use of the village
treasurer in the early sixties when the village office and meeting place
of the trustees were in the vacated store room of the Oscar Koch building
which occupied the site of the present new city hall, and Carl Hottelman
was the village treasurer.
It was here that the meeting of the village trustees was abruptly broken
up one night and the board sought safety in flight through the rear
windows when the Southside fire department appeared en masse to protest
against the order of the board to disband. The village record reveals that
in consequence the regular meetings of the board were dicontinued for several
months owing to "no quorum being present, etc."
This incident occurred just before the outbreak of the civil war when
political partisanship ran rampant. The village board had a Republican
majority and charged the then volunteer fire department with furthering
Democratic propaganda.
The old Koch building now stands at the corner of Tenth and Green streets,
having been moved there to make room for the enlargement of the Victoria
hotel, which has been purchased for city hall purposes.
Manitowoc Herald News, Manitowoc, Wis. November 22, 1920 P. 8