Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-22
SPECIAL MEETING HELD.
Kensington Town Council Banishes
Pigs and Pig Pens.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
KENSINGTON. Nd, October 81, 1903.
A special meeting of the town council
was held at the residence of the mayor
Monday night and was attended by Mayor
Eckhardt, Councilmen A. c. Warthen, A.
w. Cornwell, Geo. w. Chamberlain and
F. T. Chapman, Clerk and Treasurer
Newman G. Little, Health Officer DR..
VIM. L. Lewis and Corporation Counsel
Walter A. Johnston.
Mayor Eckhardt stated that the meet
ing had been called for the purpose of
considering the advisability of passing a
health ordinance, as 1t was found that
parties living principally outside the
town limits are raising pigs and that the
pens containing them had been recently
visited by Health Officer DR.. VIM. L.
Lewis and found to be in a very insani-
tary condition. AS the towns charter
granted jurisdiction one-quarter Of
mile outside the town limits in health
ordinances, it was highly advisable, he
said, to pass an ordinance which would
abolish the nuisance. 1t being the sense
of the council to waive. for the time be-
ing, the usual practice of allowing q
proposed ordinance to lay over a meet
ing, the matter was at once taken up and
an ordinance was passed declaring the
existence of pigs or pig pens within the
Jurisdiction of the town to be nuisance
and prohibiting the existence of the
same under penalty of a fine of not less
than So nor more than $50, or imprison-
ment In the Jail of Montgomery county
for not less than ten days nor more than
thirty days, or both, in the discretion of
the mayor or justice of the peace before
whom the case may be tried; discussion
of the ordinance regulating the erection
of buildings within the town enSued, in
which it developed that a permit had not
been secured for number of the houses
recently erected until after the founda-
walls had hppn laid. and in each in
stance the interference of the marshal
had been necessary before permits had
been taken out 1t was decided that 1t is
the sense of this council that eXcavating
Is not considered a part of the building
operations, but that a permit as provided
by ordinance No. D is necessary before
any foundation material be laid.
The county commissioners recently APP
pointed Town Health Officer DR.. VIM. L.
Lewis as county health officer:
Mr. r. Scott Israel has left here to
spend the winter in New York city with
his mother Mrs. Frank b. Higgins.
The three months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. L. Adams died at their home on
ST. PauPs street last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don NJ Carr of Baltimore
street are visiting relatives in Canton,
Ohio.
niece, Mrs. Y. P. Massey.
Col. John T. Brady is said to be i'll at
his home on Fawcett avenue and Mitch
Mrs. ". L. Priddy and Miss Mary Lit
tie have returned from visit to Balti-
more, Md.
The committee on public meetings of
the Republican Club of Kensington and
vicinity is arranging for a large open
meeting to be held in the town hall Sat
urday night. the oath instant.
Mrs. E. j. Hartshorn has returned from
Baltimore, Md. where she attended
hoard meeting of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs of Maryland, of which
she, is, treasurer.
At the next regular meeting of the
.kensington Womans Club the matter
will be taken up and a representative
from the Washington schools will ad-
dress the club.
The Republican Club of Kensipgton has
made arrangements for a rally to be held
in the town hall Saturday evening, October
"a The meeting will be addressed by for
mer Representative Milton G. Urner Of
Frederick, Md, Thomas Ireland Elliott of
Baltimore, Nd Edward P. Seeds of Wash
ington, D. c., and c. F. Perdum and c. w.
Clum, candidates for the house of dele
gates. Other candidates on the local ticket
will be present. Music will be furnished by
a. band from Washington and the Kensing-
ton Glee Club.