Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-11-08
PROCEEDINGS
Of council

! The subject OF amending the market
ordinance as it relates to butchers, con
tinued from the previous meeting, was
discussed at some length Friday eve.
by council, but no action was taken,
although the subject is by no means
dropped.
Henry Divel, Charles Lyon, Joseph
Smith and John Eisenhart. leading
butchers of the town, were present and
expressed themselves in no uncertain
terms. They all took the view that
the non resident butchers have "A de-
2ided advantage over resident butch
ers; that the curbstone market, which
was originally intended to be farm
ers market, is now largely a butch
ers' and hucksters' market In order
to secure justice to all, the consensus
of opinion seemed TO be that the non
resident butchers, all of whom il was
alleged, purchase the meat they sell,
should be obliged to take out a license,
if this could be done. Another plan
suggested was that the ordinance be
amended to limit the curbsrone market
to self-producers
On motion it was decided to hold d
public meeting in council room at 30
O'Clock on Wednesday evening, at
which time the butchers and mer-
chants of town should be invited to be
present to confer with the committees
on market aud ordinance relative to
Amending the ordinance as it relates
to butchers aud hucksters TO meet the
popular demand.
\ communication was received from
J. +. Turk, division superintendent of
the p. & K. railway, relative to a re
quest from the borough 10 carry the
Church street sewer through under the
track at Bloom street. He requested
that council fix date for a confer
enca between himself aud the commit
tee on streets and bridges. On motion
of Mr.. Bedea Wednesday next at 10 80
a. IN. was fixed for the conference.
\ communication relating to the
sewer was received also from Division
Engineer G.. j. Ray. of the ID L. 81
W. railroad company. The communi-
cation indicated that the d. l.. Il W
company would readily graft the bor
ough permission to carry the Church
street sewer under its tracks. 1t, how
ever, took the position that the d. l.
& w. company could not reasonably
De asked to bear ctTe expense of the
work as the borough is merely chang
ing its water course from one already
provided for by the d. l.. q w. at the
Ferry street crossing. On motion it
was decided that no action be taken
on Engineer Ray communication un-
til after the conference with a rep
resentative of the p. & r. railway
company
Borough Electrician Newton Smith
presented statement of the expenses
of operating the light plant during
October Among the items were - tons
of coal at 50 80 per ton or SlS7, 30. The
total amount was S4lS 81.
Mrs. Levers appeared before council
urging that some action he taken to
prevent the flooding of the cellar of
her residence at the corner Of Church
and Centre streets On motion it was
! ordered that the matter be left IN the
hands of the committee on streets and
bridges, which will make investiga
tion at the earliest opportunity.
On motion of Mr. Jacobs it was ord
cred that all property owners on
Church street having cellar drains
running into the stree cutters be re-
quested to connect with the sanitary
sewer.
The following members were pres
ent Gibson, SweIsfort, Boyer, Dietz.
Bedea, Angle, Russell, Jacobs, Fin
nigan and Eisenhart