Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-08-03
Must Be Removed From
Within the City Limits
in Short Order.
SHALL PACK HIS TRUNK AND
GET OUT BEFORE THE
18th OF AUGUST.
This is the Decree of Our City
SOIOns in Council Assembled
The Penalty for Nom
Compliance Fixed
at $4,000.

Luz DOdtO VI Alu6l uIo0 mOe IL
regular monthly session last night
at the Mayors Office with all the
members present and Mayor Pet
erson in the chair.
City Clerk Broadhurst read the
minutes Of previous sessions in
July, which were adopted without
amendment or alteration.
DR.. w. Fl. II. Cobb was among
the spectators present. He~made
a short address 10 which he spoke
of the close proximity of yellow
fever to G%oldsboro and Suggested
that the city be put 10 thorough
sanitary condition at once. He also
referred to the hog pens all over
town which gave forth obnoxious
odors and were very unsightly as
well as unhealthy.
Alderman O'Berry moved that
no hogs be allowed within the
corporate limits of the city from
the 1st of May until the 1st of
October, and that all hogs now in
the city shall be moved out by the
owners before the 18th of August,
uner a penalty of $25. The motion
was carried, Dewey,
Hill, O'Berry, Hollowell, POWELL
and We'll voting in favor of it and
Aldermen Creech, Lamb and
Sugg voting against it.
The clerk opened two sealed
bids for the excrement of the
city. Oae was from Mr.. R. B.
Davis for only half of the city at
$50 and the other was from DR..
NJ. E. Robinson for the whole
city at 5000 per year. The con-
tract was awarded to DIR. Robin.
son.
A motion prevailed requiring
the owners of dead horses, mules
and cows to move them out of
the city limits at their own ex-
pense.
Aldermen Hill moved that a
fumigating lamp be purchased
for disinfecting second hand
clothing and shoes, the expense
of which shall be paid by the
owner. The motion was carried.
The contract to enlarge the
headquarters of Fire Company
No. 1 and to provide quarters for
the hook and ladder truck was
awarded to Mr.. L. G.. Waddell at
800.
The ordinance committee dl>
rected attention to several kinds
of business liable for taxation
not now paying license tax. Col.
A. c. Davis, city attorney, was
requested to frame an ordinance.
The list will be prepared and
presented to a called meeting of
the Board.
The street committee were in
structed to remedy the bad con-
ditiOn of the cutters at the corr
ers of Walnut and East Centre
streets.
The Board decided to allow
DIR. NJ E. Robinson and Mr.. r.
B. Davis an additional half a
months pay for cleaning up the
city and removing garbage.
Levy. Combs, an old street
hand, who has been in the en-
ploy of ths~city for 25 years, was
discharged for drunkenness, for
which offense he had been often
reprimanded before. Previous to
the vote on the discharge Of
Combs, Alderman O'Berry had
left the meeting, which left only
eight members present, and the
vote was a tie-Aldermer, Dewey
Wei, .Hollowell and Powell vot
ing in the affirmative and Alder
men Hill, Creecb, Lamb and
Sugg voting in the negative. The
Mayor used his prerogative in
this instance to cast his vote in
the affirmative and Combs was
discharged.
A communication was read
from the Geo. w. Helme Co.,
Snuff Manufacturers, asking for
a return of $500 collected from
their sign painter as special Ii
cense. The BOARD decided not to
refund the money and the clerk
was instructed to so notify the
company.
Communications were read from
the Southern Oil e Supply Co.,
and from the Red G. Oil Co., ask
ing for a return to $I2 special
license from $25, the amount which.
they + now required to pay. The
matter was referred to the ordins