Evening star., 1900-06-14
TOWN COUNCIL MEETS.
Dismissal of Suit Against Railway
Other News.

other newH.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
FALLS CHURCH. Va, June 13. 1900.
The regular monthly meeting of the town
council was held Monday night. with G. w.
Hawxhurst, mayor, presiding and all the
members present except Councilman Quick.
Mr.. R. Walton Moore, attorney for the cor
poration, notified council that Judge Nicol
of the circuit court had dismissed the suit
of the town against the w. A. and F. c..
r. R.. as requested by council committee.
at the cost of the railroad company.
The town school board informed the coun-
Gil that the term of ]. S. Riley. school trus-
tee. would expire July l, and Mr.. Riley was
elected his own successor. The town ser
geant rendered his monthly statement of
the condition of the public funds.
Messrs. A. p Eastman, Pickering Dodge
and Nj. e. Church, committee from the Vii
lage Improvement Society, appeared before
the council, stating that the society had ap-
propriated the sum of 500 for the construc-
tOn of public well at East End depot and
requested council to approve the project,
make an appropriation from public funds
and take charge of the work. Councilman
Gould moved an appropriation of $50, but
a substitute offered by Councilman Ellison
was adopted referring the matter to q COM
mittee of three. to report at the next regu-
lar meeting of the council on cost of con-
struction and kind Of well.
Councilman DePutron offered a resolu-
ton repeating the Sunday observance ordi-
nance in accordance with the vote taken
May "a, and it was adopted. Councilman
Gibson offered for adoption an ordinance
licensing for sale on Sundays only ice
cream, soda water. cigars and tobacco. and
also providing for opening lunch rooms on
that day, the license fee to be $40 per
-annum. The mayor ruled the proposed
ordinance out on the ground that the sale
Of the articles mentioned would be IN vio-
lation of the state law regarding the OBJ
servance of the Sabbath.
Councilman Erwin was of opinion that
the state law was not operative in the
town, but was overruled. Councilman De-
Putron took exceptions to the publishing of
the state law by the mayor in regard to
selling drinks on the Sabbath, stating that
after the words "other drinks the words
though not intoxicating had been printed
in brackets. The mayor stated that the
words though not intoxicating were used
In the construction of the words other
drinks" in the law by Mr.. Hurst, the au-
thor of Hurst's guide for public officials.
Councilman DePutron said he did not agree
with Hurst in this construction and offered
a resolution of censure on the mayor for so
publishing it; but the council, Mr. DePutron
dissenting. laid his resolution on the table.
The mayor appointed Councilmen Ellison,
Gould and Gibson as the committee on con-
Struction of the public well.
The clerk of the town school board has
completed the census of school children of
the corporation between the ages Of five
and twenty-one. The total number is 216-
whites. 251; colored. As. This is an increase
in the total, over the census taken five
years ago, of thirty-three.
The executive committee of the Village
Improvement Society met at the residence
Of Mr.. Pickering Dodge Saturday night to
arrange for the Fourth of July celebration
to be given under the auspices of the So
ciety.
At meeting Of the board Of control of
the Library Association Saturday night the
librarian reported $50 volumes on hand, an
increase Of twenty-four since last month.
Additional subscribers, Miss Susie Cross
man, Miss Nellie T. Huntsberry and Mrs.
A. ]. Piggott. The treasurer reported a
balance of $40 in the treasury.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. e. Hid will celebrate
the twenty-f1fth anniversary Of their mar
riage the evening Of June Is,