Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-02

GAINESVILLE, that the salaries for the
different officers shall be as follows:
Mayor, $500 per year, payable
quarterly; recorder, $500 per year,
payable quarterly; city attorney,
$500 per year payable quarterly {;
treasurer, 5000 per year, payable
quarterly; bridge keeper. $500 per
year, payable monthly; cemetery
keeper, $3.50 per year, payable quar-
terly; assistant marshal, 800 per
year, payable monthly city marshal
$50 ex-off. services, payable quarter
ly; captain police, $50 per month,
| payable semi-monthly each police.
man, $50 per month, payable semi
monthly; chief fire department, $3.50
per year, payable monthly; reel
driver, $500 per year, payable month.
| ly; stOker, 1850 per year, payable
monthly; engineer, $24O per year,
payable monthly.
All ordinances in conflict with
this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Passed final reading.
N. l.. CARNEY, Mayor.
G. III. BAILEY, Recorder.
| Feb. /, 1892.
Then came the election of officers.
The first was city attorney, and the
efficiency of Jno. j. West, the pres
ent incumbent, was recognized fit.
tingly by an election by reclamation.
@. III. Bailey, the recorder and dis
penser of justice in the police court,
was accorded like compliment.
The election of treasurer brought
to the front w. E. Beach, the then
treasurer, G. w. Hodgson, Jas. T.
Wood and B. M. Barksdale, from
whom the board could not have
made bad selection. The first ballot
stood: Beach 5, Hodgson 2, Wood
2, Barksdale 2. There was no ma
terial change until the seventh bal
lot, when Mr.. Beach received six
votes and was declared his own sue
cessor.
Clay Stacker, Paul Marable and
John b. Coulter offered to serve the
city in the capacity of marshal. The
first ballot stood, Stacker 5, Marable
5, oulter l. On the second ballot
Mr.. Stacker gained a vote from
Marable and was re elected.
Tie candidates for bridge keeper
were B. w. Ballentine, the incum-
bent, Mrs. Susan Hughes, 10 Muir
phey and j. II. Coon. The first bal.
lot-Ballentine 5, Mrs. Hughes 4,
Murphey 1, Coon l. On the filth
ballot Ballentine was reelected.
w. j. Warder, George Ellis, g.
Holleman, S. E. Garrard and r. J
Toler sought the position of cemetery
keeper, and Holleman was elected on
the 10th ballot.
When the election of police came
up small army of men offered and
6 policemen were to be chosen. Each
member Of the council voted for six
men on each ballot, and on the first
ballot five Of the old force we're re-
elected, the vote standing as follows
Stafford 8, Collier7, Rollow 6, Ginley
10, Robinson 8. Stone was reelected
ON the second ballot, and the force re-
mains the same as it was last year.
Stafford was reelected captain by &C.
clamation-a deserved honor-and
Robinson, Rollow and Ginley were
assigned to day duty and Stafford,
Collier and Stone have the night
watch.
The election of market house mas
ter was deferred to the first meeting
in March.
j. G. Mattill and e. G. Bates Of
fered for chief of the fire department.
Mattill was elected on the first ballot,
the vote standing 7 to 4. Walter
jackson was re elected sto1er and
John Westfield was chosen reel
driver. J. b. Jarrel and N. ii. Cook
offered for engineer of the fire de.
partment. On the first ballot FARRELL
got 10 votes and Cook l..
The first Thursday night in the
month was selected as the regular
time for meeting.
Mayor Carney announced his
standing committees as follows, after
which the board adjourned:
Finance Chiders, chairman,
Smith, Marable.
Assessment and release-Smith,
ch'mn, Neblett. Pettus.
Street-Harrison, chm'n, Marable,
Page.
Sewer -Neblett, chm'n, Hodgson,
Childers.
School-Marable, chm'n, Pettus,
Young.
Fire-Young, chm'n, Hodgson, ,
Crouch. ,
Water aud Lights = Hodgson,
hmm, Smith, Harrison. ,
Police-Crouch, chm'n, Childers,
Hodgson.
Market House-Page, chm'n, Har- I
'ison, Neblett. |
Cemetery-Neblett, ch'mn, Crouch
md Marable.
Bridge - Pettus, ch'mn, Young, 8