The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-08-13
City Council Also Looks After
a Big Lot of Routine
Business.
MORE BUILDING PERMITS
Bills Ordered Paid Reach Into
the Neighborhood of Five
Thousand Dollars.

Hogs shoats. pigs and whatever
else they may be called must be
dead ones in this city twenty days
after Friday nights session OF the
city council. Porkers and every
thing that might develop into a pork
er will have no existence or history
so far rs Clarksburg is concerned
hereafter and hogs will not be part
OF the animal population OF the city.
After that there will be nothing but
hog history so far as swine are taken
into consideration. Council has or
dalned 1t. Council ordained once be-
fore, hut MIR. Hog remained His
tory is repeating itself but may not
continue so to do.
Attending the session were all the
members with the mayor presiding
After the reading and approving of
minutes d. d. Britt's estimate Of
s922 for sewer on Bodkin alley
was read and n motion made to or
der the work done, but, upon re-
quest. the matter was laid over by
the motion being withdrawn. It be-
Ing the desire to see Just where the
city stands financially.
JOuuSOH Tthu III
anti-hog ordinance he had drawn
hurriedly. He had five days as the
time for 1t to become effective. But
upon reflection he thought that ought
to be changed to twenty days. Some
thought it ought to be three or four
months-until hog killing time at
least. somewhat like 1t was out at
Adamston. where the councilman
could not move his hog pen off an
nlley until after he had dug his po-
tatoes. They argued that the pigs
could not be killed now nor sold to
the butcher. Others proposed that
the owners send their pigs to the
country. to range on acorns. this pa
per supposes. Others wanted Mr..
Hog ont instanter. All agreed that
hog pens were obnoxious. Some said
they were injurious to health. Others
said the hogs themselves died in the
pens and were fioated down the
from every possible phase, except as
to whether 1t really pays to raise
hogs in the city. Even the color of
hogs formed part of the discus
sion.
All expressed themselves In favor
of prohibition as to hogs. and the or
dinance passed by unanimous vote
rs to its first reading. Then Mr..
johnson mentioned the matter Of
changing the time from five to twen-
~ days for 1t to go into effect, after
his motion to suspend the-rules and
vote on the ordinance on Its second
reading had carried. Following this
there was a profound discussion, but
not pro and con as to final passage of
an ordinance. 1t was merely as to
time.
The motion to adopt 1t with the
twenty-day clause carried by vote
of five to four and the ordinance was
declared passed. Cornell, Garrett,
Lylen and Anderson voted against 1t
and Robbins voted for 1t. with Ernst
not voting as he was not present at
the time.
a copy OF the ordinance Is given in
another column.
It was decided to establish Lee
street Mt the Sartor property at
width of "a feet instead of going
back to build retaining wall and
removing dirt. The wall will be built
per contract.
Bills amounting to about $1,000 In
the aggregate were ordered paid.
A bill by Carrie NJ. Mcyicker call
Ing for so71.50 for raising house
because OF change in the street
grade was referred to the city at
torney for report thereon.
a four-inch line from w. 3. os-
born's on Baltimore street to the
northern end of the county bridge