The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-05-24
The Logan SObranje.
comomnly Called the Tcwa Council.
Entertainment for the Look
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show, becs use we have frce tick
ct, and when we go We look to see
all the funny things in the perform
ancc.
1t is fact 10 note that Mayor
Price, on taking possession of tho
city building, "went to work" as
Phil Slisher would say, and clean
ed up the rooms, and has made the
place comfortable and agreeable to
Councilmen as well as to the occa-
slonal visitor. In doing this, the
Mayor is to commended, and we
were glad to see that the bills for
the improvements made we're unan-
lmonsly approved.
tho Mayors desk, which former
ly occupied the centre of the rom.
has been removed to the south side
of the wall. giving the Mayor full
view of the Couhcil and all who
come in at the door.
Will Keynes, the clerk. Is an ex.
cellent one. He keeps the records
with particularly and exactness.-
He read the long minutes for near
Iy an hour, giving details in every
thing done. There is bu, one fault
we venture to find with Will. He
attempted three times to pronounce
the word contiguous" and failed
each time. He wants TO let alone
that word.
Oliver Wright presented a re-
quest from the residents OF the Mrr
ply addition for gas lamps, and an
order was made giving four. This
is proper.
An ordinance sto haye but one
night policeman was not passed, but
an ordinance to prevent fighting on
the streets was passed.
Another ordinance wac presented
proposing 10 compel our business
men displaying their goods on the
pavemerts, because, forsooth, a piow
or u rake, a roll OF carpet, OF a boy
of clothing on the curb stone III
pedes the crowds of people on our
streets. 1t is refresh ing and de-
lightful to walk our pavem entsand
see implements useful on the fs rm,
articles decorative for cur pari ors,
vegetables palatablc for our tables
displayed ON the public street. They
are not In anybody's way. They
are not nearly 60 Objectionable end
offensive as the NANCY and fea-an
fected dog that occupy the Iaave
ments and public grounds of our
city. Ladies and school children
are compelled by reason OF the pack
of dogs that lnfest Main street, to
avoid it. There has never yet been
an occasion when man was com
pelled to walk ayound an article OF
Goods displayed on our pavement,
nor for a lady to turn away her face
1t is not lnfrequent that a man Is
provoked to sick the sleeping dog
from his path, and the lady takes
the other side of the street.
Bob Keynes and the Mayor had
a dispute on parliamentary law
Keynes held that the rule requiring
all ordinances to be read on three
separate days, requires a suspension
of the rules for the two subsequent
readings. The Mayor holds that one
vote suspending the rules includes
the third as well as the second
reading: The Mayor also held
that an ordinance could not be,
under a suspension of The rules,
read a second time by its title.
The proposition 10 annex the
railroad shops TO the corporation
was defeated.
The meeting was not very live
lv, Alderman Kontner voting as
Charley Gould votes.
IL is a notion gwen for what it
is worth that the proposed ordin-
ance 10 prevent farmers from
feeding on the streets and public
grounds is the height of folly
The objections 10 a man having
his team stand IN our beautiful
park or on our carefully cleaned
boulevards is very apparent.
1t would be very offensive for
the old farmer and his wife 10 sit
i'm the shade Of the Court House
and eat The bite they brought
with them. 1t would be offens-
i've to the loafers and the dogs.
1t would he distressing indeed 10
see the good farmer who came
twenty miles 10 trade in Logan
{, e his horses on the Dog Park,
known as the Market Lot. lie
should he halted at Bishops hill ,
or the Falls Mill, or driven out 10
Marion township.
An ordinance abolishIng the
loafers who infest the corner. oc-
cupy our street crossings, making
The air vile 10 The passing child
with blasphemv and obscenily,
would be more TO the benefit Of
oar town Than some Of the
schemes II contemplation.