The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-11-04
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
TELEPHONE RENTALS TO BE RE,
DUcED-sIDEwALK ORDINANCE
Aldermen Pass Ordinance Increasing
Their Salary-Several Nuissnees
eported-street Working Re
ferred To-More Lights.

ternoon The minu, g Of the last reg
ular meeting were read and approved.
The finance committee approved Of
quite a lot of bills, and they we're or
dered paid.
Upon motion of Alderman Best a
bin of $5O9S from the Chlckasaw Lum-
Der company was excluded from the
list. Mr. Best stating that the bill was
too high and 1t wah referred to the
street and alley committee.
The waterworks committee report.
ed everything moving along all right.
While the rains were giving most peo.
pie and trade in general a black eye
It was just what the city needed. and
the city dam was catching all that
fell on an area Of 1000 acres four miles
north Of town. It was reported that
about % feet Of water had been caught
at the dam.
The dam Is not yet finished how.
ever, and the mayor fearing that a
water spout might come last night, or
we might have a very heavy rain all
night and thereby wash a portion OF
the dam away, thought It best to send
some one out to watch It and open the
valve in the big pipe if necessary.
After the council adjourned Alder
men Young, chairman of the water
works committee, and j. S. Holman
went out to the dam to look after the
matter
Alderman Mullen Of the ordinance
committee read an ordinance which
amended ordinance No. 60 so as to
hereafter read that the telephone
companies in Ardmore should here
after charge for telephones at business
: houses the sum of 81 per month; at
residences 81 per month, and for long
distance phones SO per month.
The ordinance was passed to its
second reading.
Another ordinance was read amend
ing ordinance No. 30 so as to read that
each alderman should receive the sum
of 81 for each council meeting he at
tended. whether 1t be special or
regular meeting The rules were sus-
pended and this ordinance put upon
its passage and carried.
Or. Gardner of the fire department
reported the arrival of the hose wag-
on.
The city attorney came in with a
sidewalk ordinance which, without
reading was passed to its second read
ing.
The police judge reported s292.SO
collected during October.
Tho assessor and collector reported
having collected $6S0.25.
The chief Of police reported the col.
lection OF $1O,SO for pound fund
The fire department reported hav-
ing done $3.50 worth of work during
the month. Two fires were reported
during October-one, Guy Bailey's
house and the other at the Cottage ho.
tel
The city attorney reported that he
had the ordinances all codifed and
fixed up. and II was moved by Alder.
man Mullen that bids be received and
they be published. Carried,
The mayor exhibited a diagram Of
books which II the city had would
greatly simplify the clerks work.
and the mayor was authorized to get
the books.
Alderman Best, chairman of the
street and alley committee, spoke to
the council regarding the existence Of
the cellar door by the side of C. r.
, Jones, and reaching entirely across
the sidewalk on the Washington street
side He said that he had asked the
proprietor of the store to keep it
closed and he did not do It; that II
was dangerous, and made a motion
that the same be declared nuisance.
Or. Gardner thought it very danger.
Gus. The matter was left to the street
and alley committee to see IL. II. Pen.
nington, the owner of the property.
and see II they could not get him to
remove the nuisance.
Alderman Best made a motion that
the old machine shop on Caddo street
now out Of use be declared a nuisance.
Carried.
A great deal of talk was INDUCED in
regarding the working of the streets.
: Alderman McCharen made a motion
that everybody owning property In the
city who had their fences crossing
streets, or partly on streets, remove
their obstruction by December 1. Car.
ned.
The mayor asked the street and al.