The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-06-05
CITY COUNCIL
MEETING
INTERFERING MEETINo-MUC1
BUSINESS DONE.
Reports Of Committees Read and Pass
ed on--Lease OF Absence Granted
the City clsrk-Meetins Hour
is Changed TO Afternoon.

ter Best BerryhlL Stuart. Shelton
Raudol and Cruce present.
After the reading of the minutes oI
the preceding regular aud call meet
ings. they were adopted.
The finanace committee allowed
land ordered warrants to be issued for
the usual bills. which are necessary
for the maintaining of the city's gov
erhment.
Alderman Pennington, for the
finance committee, recommended that
Or. $. S Carr. chairman OF the board
of health Of the city. be issued a war.
rant for $50 for his services To the
city. The recommendation was put
into motion and passed, The chair.
man Of that committee also presented
the bill of City Physician Motfett tor
his services the past month. This
bill was for S252.5O. for visiting the
sick poor OF the city The chairman
of the committee recommended that
the bill be gone over by the city clerk,
In the presence OF DIR. Monatt, to as.
certain II any visit had been made To
persons able to pay a doctor fee. aud
II so, to take their names from the
list and that the visits be paid ,or al
the rate of si.5O per visit instead of
81 and $3.50 as was charged. This
recommendation was passed.
Chairman Best. for the police com,
mittee. called attention to the fact
that a number OF new buildings were
being built In the city and that many
OF these were three stories high. lnd
that In many instances fire escapes
have not been built The Chief Ct
Police was given instruction to look
into this matter and where the FIRE
escape had not been quilt to see tha;
II was done.
Chairman Shelton. for the fire com
mlttee. presented a contract which
had been drawn up In refernce 10 the
purchase OF a buggy for Chief Slangh
ter OF the fire department. The COS
tract called for a si5S buggy to be
paid for all cash or a half down aud
half In six months. Alderman Pei.
nington objected to the contract say
Ing that better one could be secur.
ed. A contract was then agreed upon
whereby the buggy was 10 be paid tDr
on the LIST OF February next The
buggy 10 be delivered to the city as
soon as II can be made.
Alderman Shelton also recommend
ed that the chief of the fire deDnr
ment be given permission To order
one hundred caps for plugs. and other
supplies which were needed from the
Anderson Coupling Co. the bill to ag.
gregate s27l.75. This permission was
given.
Chairman OF the waterworiSs com
mittee stated that that committee vas
confronted with the proposition Of
laying the water mains in the differ
ent wards and recommended that the
aldermen In each ward take up the
matter and decide where the mains
are 10 be laid In their wards. Mayor
Dick stated that some concessions
would have TO be made by the resi-.
dents OF each ward. as the mains
could not be laid on every street In
each ward. This matter will be left
TO the discretion OF the council.
Chairman Stuart OF the ordinance
committee presented an ordinance
from the Ardmore Light and Power
Co, asking for a franchise for the
erection and maintaining of a street
railway. for the citl. The ordinance
was passed to its second reading.
Chairman RAndol OF the sanitary
committee stated that the water used
al the Union depot was unhealthy and
recommended that some action be
taken on that subject. This matter
will further be Investigated by that
committee. He also spoke OF the
buns who lay around the depot and
the police were ordered TO clear them
away from there.
The report OF the city officials as
follows we're read: Police Judge Gait,
for the month OF May, s566O5; Tax
Assessor and Collector Roberts, for
the same month. from all sources
sl343.ls: Street Commissioner Ian
drum, for the months OF April and
May. lO9.5O; City Clerk Bruce, for the
month OF May. si95.62.
Alderman Pennington OF the finance
committee recommended that J. b.
smith be not made to pay the 25 per
cen tax which he had been charged
for not paying his tax on time. This
recommendation was put as motion
and passed.