The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-07
FIRST MEETING OF BESSEMER COUNCIL Several Suggestions Made By
 Mayor Acted Upon CHILD IS STRUCK BY CAR Cecil HollweI Has Narrow Escape From Death on Jonesboro Line.
 Personal and General News
 of Bessemer.
CHILD IS STRUCK BY CAR

Bessemer, October 6-(Special. .)-The new council held it's first regular meet ing Tuesday night. The regular order
 of business was dispensed with after the
 meeting had been called to order for the
 purpose of hearing a petition from Mrs. Ward to be allowed to run a moving picture show in the Steiner block free of any license. Petition was granted. A communication was read from the [ mayor, recommending that the city sta-
 bles be removed from their present loca- ton, which was referred to the street and light committte. That s19,0OO be appro- 1 priated for expenditures necessary to con- duct the city public schools which amount | was allowed; and that three new gar | bage wagons be purchased, which was referred to the street and light commit. l tee
 l He also recommended that the bids of completing the Third avenue storm sewer 1 be cancelled and new bids advertised 1 for. In this the council passed a reso- lution that the $lOO put up by w. F. 1 Nolan, accompanying his bid, be refund
 ed to him and that new ordinance be
 
 meeting providing for the completion of
 the storm sewer.
 Monthly reports were submitted by the city physician showing 10 births and 6 deaths. The report also called the at ] tention of the board to the fact that only three physicians had reported deaths. Motion was passed to have the chief of | Police call the attention of the physi- cians to the city ordinance on this mat 1 ter and to caution them to report all 1 deaths or suffer the penalty of a fine. Report from the keeper of live stock showed that 20 head of mules were be- ing fed at an expense of S11.37 per day per head.
 A. c. Mitchell, who has been auditing the city books, made his detailed re- port. showing the clerk and treasurer's s records to have been kept in first class shape but made a few recommendations for facilitating the work.
 The ordinance that was introduced by former Alderman Winters with reference to the empounding of stock and which was referred to the judiciary committee was recommended by that committee to be not passed but that the pound keeper | be instructed to see that all live stock | that was allowed to run at large be got l ten out of the city limits before o clock l in the morning of each day Adopted. I E. E. Forbes Ss Co. were allowed to do business in the city for s20 per an- l mum, provided they did not carry more 1 than 5000 stock.
 I Alderman Edmundson introduced an or dinance to provide for the grading and | cherting of Fourth avenue from Nine | teenth street to Twelfth street and curb l ing such part thereof as was not already I curbed which was referred to the street l and light committee.
 1 Bids were opened for the guttering of | certain avenues in the business portion of | the town Out of four bids that were | opened the contract was awarded to Null | larky & Co. of Ensley their bid being the l lowest The matter of arranging the con- l tract with these people was left to the | mayor.
 | The council then went into the election | of officers to fill vacancies, and ratified l the action of the caucus, which was held I Monday night of last week. In addition, however, to the positions taken care of l in the caucus, they tonight elected D.. l M. Ratliffe street foreman and J. s. Jen- | kins supernumerary on the police force.
 Lacy Edmondson was also elected pur-
 chasing agent
 l The council then adjourned until the third Tuesday night of this month.