The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-15
OLNEYVILLE. :
The Business of JOhnStOn'S
Town Council.
To Secure Election of a Board
of Health
Successful Leap Year Ball by Twenty
Young Women.
THE News BUREAU, oLNEYvrLLr.

THE News BUREAU, O~LNEYvILLr,
NO. . Hartford Avenue.
The regular monthly meeting OF the
Johnston Town Council was held yester-
day afternoon.
was the passage OF a vote directing the
clerk to insert in the warrant for the
April election a proposition to ask the
| Legislature to pass an act to allow the
town 10 elect a board Of health at the
next June election to comprise three
members to be chosen for i, 2 and 3
years and one member each year thereafter
for three years.
The act provides that n physician shall
be one member OF the board and that the
Council shall fix the compensation of the
new officials. The presentation and en-
dorsement OF this act demonstrated that
the Councilmen are e~ndeavoring to secure
the best possible health regulation that
is in their power to provide If the electors
! endorse the act which they undou btedly
will. AT the financial meeting last May
they refused to provide funds to care for
the sanitary condition OF the town and
had not the Councilmen teen public
spirited enough to give their personal
time and attention TO health matters, sick
ness would have been far more prevalent
In the town this year.
A proposition to divide the town into
four voting districts was continued until
next meeting, February "A.
As stated in THE NEWS some weeks
ago the engine house was named as the
place for holding future elections in the
town.
Town Sergeant Holprook was directed
to procure 10 boards for the posting of
voting lists.
ATTENTIvELY CARED o THE YOUNG
MEN.
Twenty young society women of Johns
ton conducted the first leap year ball of
the season in this section in Guild Hall last
evening. Langstaff's Orchestra furnished
music for an order. OF 10 dances. The floor
was i'm charge of Miss Ethel Colwell of
Webster avenue. AS director, Miss
Colwell was equal TO the occasion and
with the aid OF Misses s. May Gardiner,
Lena Sanderson and Bessie Gardiner no
young man was allowei to be a wall
flower or permitted to pout because he
was not asked to dance by a fair maid.
The ladies treated the young men TO
| cream, escorted them home ana made the
evening peculiarly delightful for them.
BRIEF MENTION.
A confert under the direction OF Miss
Ada l.. Willows was given in odd Eel
lows Hall last evening.
IollCtIldI Il. DOObt IL COlluICG
to his home by sick ness.
There were two arrests for drunkenness
in the Sixth District last night.
The Valentine Social Club gave a mas
qperade ball in Irons Hall last night.
Bills of William Nj. Harris for S60. IS for
lumber, and DR.. j. T. Farrell for S75.
for attendance on William Mclaughlin,
the suicide-muroerer of last fall. were re-
ferred to the committee on accounts.
Voted that the price Of the voting list
in book form be 30 cents.
Notice was received from the tow
treasurer that he had been summoned to
the Supreme Court to show why he
should not return to the British Hosiery
Company a portion of their tax psid TO
him as collector under protest. He was
ordered TO act at his discretion in the
matter. All petitions and reports in re-
gard to Welcome and Painted streets,
Atwood avenue and George Waterman
road were continued to the next meeting
of the Council.
Clerk Cough read a communication in
regard to the damages sustained by VIII
liam T.. Sweet at Comfortable by the New
Eng ana II. II. which was placed on hle.
The following persons were drawn jurors:
Henry Carnley, James =. Hill, Harry
Daw, Thomas Knott, Henry Il. Cooper,
Charles IL. Edwards, John Ii. Morris,
Edgar W. Grant.
fred Norton was grsnteda liquor license
on Lltham street,
Pool table licenses were granted Bernard
Owens Fred Flanagan, and thsrles 5.
Semons. Alexander Cameron was granted
a Junk license.
Bills amounting to s4957. O5 were allow
ed; s29SS.25 OF this amount was Tor city
water.