The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1905-1908, 1906-12-09
CITY COUNCIL MEETS
CITY cot NCIL DECIDES TO EX-
TEND MAIN STREET TO
THE EASTERN CORPO-
RATION LIMITS.
Council Also Decides to Pave Street
Crossings-A Number of Mat
ters of Grave Importance
Are Also Disposed of.

The City Council met IN regular
monthly session last Tuesday night
and disposed of several matters OF
| interest and quite a lot of routine
business. One of the most important
| matters to be considered was the ex-
| tension of Main street to the eastern
| corporation line, which came up in
the form of a recommendation en-
bodied in the regular monthly report
of Mayor Gunter. The only break in
the right of way already acquired by
the city is a parcel of ground owned
by Mrs. Ben Cosper, and the purchase
of this property was recommended
by the mayor He stated that the
property could be bought for one hun
dred dollars, and upon motion of the
finance o.~----:+tee was authorized to
make the purchase.
The opening up of Main street will
give US a through thoroughfare from
the river to the eastern corporation
line, and will afford the people living
in the Williams addition and the
Lake Park neighborhoods direct com
munication with the business por-
ton of the city.
Another matter brought up in the
report of the mayor which was fav-
orably received and acted upon by
the council was the paving of the
street crossings. Mayor Gunter rec
commended that all street crossings
-.
cement blocks, and upon motion the
recommendation was accepted and
the street commissioner ordered to
install cement blocks at the intersect-
ing points of the streets mentioned
in the mayors report, and at such
other crossings as Mayor Gunter may
indicate.
Upon the recommendation of Prof.
Joe Cook, it was ordered that Miss
Gore. the teacher at the Air Line
dollars per month for session of
nine months. At a former meeting
OF the council Miss Cores salary was
fixed at thirty dollars per month, but
Prof Cook stated that in schools
similar to the Air Line school the
county paid the teachers salary of
forty dollars per month, and upon
motion Miss Gore was allowed COM
pensation at the same rate. Prof.
Cook also recommended that the sal
AIRY of supply teachers at Franklin
Academy be increased to three dol
lars per day. Supply teachers up TO
the present date have been receiving
only two dollars per day for services
rendered
Upon motion. duly seconded and
carried, it was ordered that Prof.
Cook, in making his report upon the
alien pupils at Franklin Academy, be
required to give the names of these
pupils, their place of residence, and
the amount collected from each.
Heretofore Prof. Cook has only been
turning in the amount collected with
0 furnishing any information as to
from whom the money was received,
and the council wants detailed
statement of all collections.
Capt. Donnell, the acting secretary,
read letter from Major II. NJ Wad
dell. the efficient city secretary and
treasurer, who has been i'll in New
Orleans for some time past. in which |
he regretted his inability to be pres |
ent at Tuesday nights meeting. The |
letter was approved and the council |
adopted resolution of sympathy |
for Major Waddell in his continued |
illness.
Upon motion it was ordered that
the sum of s20S. which was expend- |
ed by Mayor Gunter and Councilmen |
Moore and McCIanahan when they |
went to ST. Louis and Chicago last |
summer on business for the city, be |
refunded to them.
Street Commissioner ChiIders was
to enter into a contract |
with w. A Gibson for the rental Of I
five acres of land belonging to the /
gravel pit tract. said contract 10 be
ratified by the finance committee.
After having allowed the regular
accounts. the colneil then
adjourned.