Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-11-09
ALDERMEN MEET.
OF ELECTRIC LIGHT
PLANT AUTHORIZED.

Inc 6Oaf Oh O16y AlQ0r"ou noG
last night in regular monthly ses- !
sion, Mayor Hood presiding, and
City Clerk Broadhurst at his post
and ali the members of the Board in
attendance
The minutes of the October regu-
lar meeting and special meeting OF
the Board were read and approved.
The question of the salary of the
: engineer of tbs fire engine was re-
! ferred to the Fire and Water Com
nittee with the power to act.
| On motion the special assessment
! against the FIRST Baptls5 church for
; the AUDITING street paving Was re-
! niJled.
On motion the Fire Waste LsA
! Was referred to the City Attorney
/ Eor inVestiga ION as to It's hnsllci
saving t o the city, ani report o the
BOstrd.
The Bo..rd ordered a new electric
hight pOIe TO be paced at the PIesby-
| terrain church Corner, and The elm
/ trees IN 1rolt OF SAID church were
ordered removed.
GA motion of Alderman Borden,
sChaIrlnan OF the Street Committee,
il wa adopted Dy the Board that an
Iordinance 90 framed authorlzlng the
removal II every elm tree in the
city III orlar 10 pr Jtect the health OF
the city and render the sewerage
isystenl enactual, which is now inn
paiCei and rendered useless, by the
lroaCs OF sad e clogging the sewer
pipes, and that thirty days notice OF
saId action Of the Board be given
the citizens by publication.
Alderman B lrden, Tor the special
!commIttee appointed by the Board
actlng VITA MI. n. O'Berry, repre-
sseating the citizens, to confer with
the 30 nd Of Public Works in re-
gard to the Guys eIectriclIghtp LAM
reported that 1t was the %concensu=
of tae joint conference that bids for
the sale OF the cIty's electric Light
Epiant De invited, and on motion the
ssaid report was adopted by a unanI'
: lmous vote of the Board. MI. Bor'
, sden recommended, further, that {
b portable boiler be secured of the
I water works plant.
o! On motion the above committee
6{Was continued and authorized tocon
! fer further with the Board of Public
Works with power to take sucl
I-idefnife action as in their best judg
J ment they may deem expedient.
Alderman Kornegay, on behalf c
- the Finaace Committee, recon-
= manded that all foes and costs in tn
IA Mayors court bepromptly collected
> within "A hours after judgment, an
that the police docket be exhibite
lat every meeting of the Board fc
inspection, and on motion sal
81 Recommendation was unanimousl
u sadopted.
e- On motion Of Alderman Higgir
y the same ordinance of last yearreg
~ Iating the sale and discharge Of ii!
+.9tIwo'ks at Christmas was adopto
a. with the amendment that Roma
ed scandIes must be discharged upWa1
is in the air and not on the level in IL
= streets, and the Mayor was autho
siz8d to publish q proclamation a
IS Scordingly.
III; Alderman Borden, Chairman
y; the Street Committee, reported TIL
the sewerage was so thorough
III stopped Up with elm FOOLS along Il
70 Enorth end OF William street tn
- ewen the flush water cannot pas
land impressed the necessity of il
.e mediate action to relieve the stu
I'd ton.
Alderman Borden reported til
after investigation it was deemed i
n expedient to in anyway change &
existing tax on tobacco warehouse
n After the reading of the month
reports OF the several officials t
a Board adjourned.