The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-03-29
COUNCIL
MEETING.
An Interesting Session on
Tuesday Evening.

Council met Tuesday night, witt
all the members present except Mr.
James.
The report of the Board of Pub
lie Affairs rs Cemetery Trustees wa
submitted and approved. The ex
pen3e account OF the Board of Wat
er Works Trustees was referred t
the Finance Comittee, to be report
ed at the next meeting.
Thurness introduced an ordinance
to levy special assessments for pay
ment of the Gallagher Avenue i'm.
provements. Some of the assess.
ments are so large as to be burden
some; as, for instance, Kessler
$917 50; Gallagher, SS7S.S9; and
the Hooking Valley Rug Co., $472..
60. The assessment is $3.67 pei
foot front the abutting property
owners paying 1850 OF the cost:
exclusive of intersections. Pay
ment may be made in thirty days,
or in ten equal installments, with
four percent interest on deferred
payments. The Clerk read COM
munication from Auditor James l..
Martin, advising that the several
amounts be certified at once to that
office, so they can be placed on the
books for the June tax collection.
Under suspension of the rules,
the ordinance was at once passed.
Mr.. Angle, Chairman of the FL
nance Committee, reported favora-
bly, on a small wad of bills, which
were allowed.
The Street Committee reported
the purchase OF land for the exten-
tion OF North Orchard Street, and
submitted a plot of the proposed
extension. The deeds were to be
executed on Wednesday. The re.
port was approved.
The select committee, consisting
of Messrs. Thurness, Shaw and
WcIdy, appointed at the last meet
ing to investigate and examine the
books of the Water Works and Gem
etery Trustees, presented their re-
port and were discharged. The re-
port, which we print elsewhere in
full, sets forth that the books of
these two boards were found to be
in a very unsatisfactory condition;
that large amounts of money have
been paid as salaries to officers not
legally entitled to the same; and
advises that the departments be
thoroughly revised and renovated.
The books of these two boards for
the period of February, 1902, to
February 1906, inclusive, were ex-
amined by Capt. VIM. NJ Bowen,
and his report appended TO the !
Committee report as Exhibit A,
sets forth in great detail the dis
crepancies and Irregularities shown
by the books
Col Weldy brought Up the ques-
tion of hiring "A Street Commission
er and having the paved streets
cleaned. Mayor Dollison address
ed the council, stating that it was
to consolidate the offices
Street Commissioners and Sanitary
Policeman, and that the Board of
Health had signifed their willing
ness to confer with committee of
the council on the subject A COM
mittee consisting of Thurness, Shaw
and Lanning was accordingly nam
ed for that purpose, and, in the
the Street Committee
was restricted to have the streets
cleaned I'm some way. The Sani-
ary Policeman receives a salary of
s2i0 per year, and the Street Com
pay is 5000, 1t is pro-
,osed to have one man to fill both
'iIiees, and pay him something less
han than the aggregate of these
Imonnts. Colonel Weldy remark /
d that, Sc far as the Board of /
Health is OF any use TO the town, it
ould very well he dispensed with !
together, but the law says that d
We must have such a board. i