The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-11-04
TO CLOSE AT 1880
The Council Passes an Ordinance
Acceptable to TemperancePeople
Three Voted Against 1.-THE City Has
to Borrow More Money to
Pay Salaries.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD

by all the members and the most i'm
portaut thing done was the passage Of
a saloon ordinance fixing the hours ut
1890 p. m. and reopening at 8 a. M,
which received the votes Of nine coun-
cilmen.
After the usual prelimiuAries, the
council ratified the action of Mayor
Yeiser in purchasing from DIR. s. 3.
Caldwell a strip of ground on the
south side for sS4O.
The recommendation Of Mayor Yei,
ser that no fill be built through Is
land creek at Sixth street, as it would
cost s25, 200, was concurred in, and
it was ordered that the old bridge be
repaired.
Mr.. W. F. Bradshaw agreed to deed
the city twelve feet Of ground in front
Of his property on West Broadway II
the city would not require him to pay
more than so cents on the dollar for
improvements. The matter was re-
ferred.
The miscellaneous bills amounted
to 81, 3e5. so and they were allowed.
Back Tax Collector Patterson report
ed the collection of s496, less ten per
cent commission.
A bill Of former City Engineer Will
cox for $50 for the use Of Q buggy q.
the pest house was referred.
The bill Of s6oS OF the News. Dem
ocrat for publishing official matter,
was discussed and it was decided to
offer three cents line for what was,
published. II this lie not acceptable
the paper must sue.
The mayor was authorized to bor-
row $1,000 more with which to de-
fray the expenses OF government.
II was ordered that contract be
closed at sea. so a month for the build
ing owned by Loeb Bloom and 90. on
Jefferson near Second, for an armory.
The saloon closing ordinance then
came up. The 1880 o'clock ordi-
nance, which had received one passage
in the council, was read and Council
man Voolfolk presented a oommuni-
cation from Chairman Toof and mem
bers Of his committee, Messrs. e. W.
Smith, Frank Scott. James Roger, o.
L. Gregory, B. H. Scott, ]. A. Bauer
and O. o. Rose. 1t agreed that their
influence was 20 be used in calling of
the local option fight If the 1890
O'Clock ordinance was passed. 1t was
moved to change the hours to 1880
and O'Clock and the amendment was
adopted The vote for the ordinance
was: Councilmen Potter, Fowler,
Brooks, Jackson, Taylor, Niehaus.
Voolfolk, Hammel and Reed. Those
against it, johnson, ellison and Han
nan. The ordinance will have to be
given another passage by the council
and then comes up IN the board OF al
dermen.
The market house ordinance was
given final passage.
The ordinance prescribing that no
extension of time was to be granted
to contractors on city work was re-
peaied.
The matter Of paying the COM
pound interest on bond coupons on
the ver-the-river bonds was brought
up and discussed and referred to the
finance committee. Not long ago the
city decided to pay the defsulted
coupons where the holder waived his
compound interest. Judge Campbell
was before the board and stated that
he had been instructed by the Middle
ton Savings bank, of Middleton,
Conn, to bring suit for the interest
and compound interest, and did not
desire to do IL IL the city would pay
both, when it would have to do by
law IL sued.
More councilmsnic stupidity was
revealed in the matter Of accepting
some of the hose bought recently from
st. Louis house that had once before
sold the city some worthless hose.
One thousand feet was purchased and
the sections tested failed to stand the
test. The were only few sections
out Of the thousand feet tested, how
ever, and all burst. The remainder,
instead Of being shipped back to the
factory, or turned over to the compa-
ny's local representative, was used at