The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-08
Commissioners Are
Planning For New
County Jail in City
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questioned regarding the claim, which
amounted to $3.50. Commissioner
Brown moved that Mr.. Harper be no
titled to make an INN odiate settle
ment or he would be reported to the
governor.
Mr.. Fowler also claimed that he had
made several reports of alleged viola
tions Of the game laws to the warden
and the latter wrote him that he was
unable to travel On the railroad and
pay fare now as the board had re-
duced his salary. All this will be
looked into at another meeting.
DETAILS OF MEETING.
Chairman Oerting presided and
Commissioners Brown, Davis, Steward
and McQuarrie were present. The
board heard the minutes OF a previous
meeting and adopted them.
Several notarial bonds were pre-
sented for approval. Two had corpo-
rations for securities and the county
attorney said these were not in proper
form. They were returned for cor
rectiOn- The bond of A. A. Credible
was approved.
Two road petitions were Ned. One
came from Mr.. McQuarrie's district.
This had in the past been granted
and the matter was referred to the
commissioner. Mr.. Steward had
petition from his district, and a jury,
named or suggested, by the commits
sioner, was selected to lay out the
highway desired.
A ROAD CLAIM.
w. w. Clarke, a lawyer from Mil
ton, wrote the board concerning a
claim of J. J. Whitnore, a client, for
damages TO property alleged to have
been suffered by a road tTaversing a
line through his property. The letter
was tabled.
J. n. Giles and /. Hart, sureties on
the bond Of c. Johnson, who operates
a ferry near McDavid, asked to be
relieved from the bond. Commission
er Steward said the ferrynan had
not been acting properly lately and
there had been much complaint of
him. johnson was requested to make
q new bond as the present suretic5
will have to serve until so released,
the attorney held.
Santa Rosa Declines.
A letter from the clerk of the Santa
Rosa county board Of commissioners
notified the Escambia board that bis
county would not be able for the
present to entertain the proposition OF
standing for half the expense of
building a steel bridge acrosa the
Escambia river rear McDavid or
Pine Barren. The letter was received
and filed.
6u4-eetcd a Change
Tho &. IT. Turner Construction
Company wrote the board relative -
constant attention benz required at
the county jail sewerage and sug-
gested a change Such was ordered
and Commissioner Brown will look
after IL
J'n!i1ed Coffin.
The chairman brOugh to the boards
attention the style Of cCffi1 furnished
by a pauDer burial contractor in
which 49, ~o,,~aE-= # - vrFo-+Unaro
were lately inferred. The chairman
having TO head rest and the lid was
tightly nailed on The board decided
10 pay tor JHat one but motion pre-
vailed that the contractor be notified
that 4 better one would have to be
furnished in the future or the pay
ments would be held uD-
Liquor Licenses
Permits TO sell wines. beers, etc,
were granted TO seven appH
cants. The applicants thus favored
were P. a. Morris. precinct %; c. s.
Butler, precinct Is: Y. GOlding (2l,
precincts IS and "A; San Carlos In
precinct "A; F. A. Stockton. precinct
13. The seven granted last night
makes a total of 81 applied Tor and
granted this year. an increase Of
three over last years number.
New Pensioners.
Twenty-six new pension appliCa-
lions were acted on favorably. The
applicants were as follows; T. A. La
Far, Nathaniel BurriIl Cook, Sarah
Stockton, James w. Hilton. Isaac Cor
ley, Mary A. DickersoG, George H
Davis, Clara A. Pinney, Sarah Evans,
Mary Louise Macl2y, Rebekah A.
Witt, Louise White, Mary J. Robin
sen, Annie Moore, Nancy Dean, Mar
garet Farrara, J. z. Walsh. Mary J.
McCurdy, Mary Jane Rinehart, ]. 2.
Cravey, Thomas Prindle, II. B. Fred
erick, G. T. Cooper, G. B. Renuel, F.
c. Bombay and Carrie H. Runyan.