The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-02
sample Bottle Of swamp-Root Free
BY Mail.

any part of the city; Steve Etter.
6S 2-3 cents on north side, "a cents
on south side or 70 Sc cents to any
part OF the city.
The board OF health has complain
ed against pits being opened inside
Paducah, but II Is in the power OF
the board OF public works to let con
tracts for gravel from pits inside the
limits. The contracts will be let
next Tuesday at meeting of the
board after the Inspection Is made.
Conduit Wire.
The Byrd Electric company was
awarded the contract to install con-
dult wiring for 81 Tunsten lights In
the interior of the market house for
s99 so. Their bids for open wiring
was SIS but the conduit system was
recommended by the city electrician
The wiring will be istalled under the
supervision of City Electrical In
spector Mcpherson.
Butchers. who occupy the inside
OF the market house, complained OF
the poor are lights at the ceiling and
sent In a petition asking for Tunsten
lights, one TO be placed back OF each
stall and one at the scales. This
makes a total OF 21 lights. The wir-
ing will carry co watts and strong
enough for 100 watts to be used II
the GO watts prove dim. Mr.. Force,
superintendent OF the light plant,
said by the installation OF the new
lights the citS would save a large
amount of money every year. He
said the cost for the current at the
market house last year was s237.
The other bidders and their figures
were as follows: Mitchell Machine &
Electrical compang-open. s106;
conduit. s119.5O; Katteriohn & Dai-
by-open. sS3; conduit. s112.50.
The lights Will be installed immedite-
ly and the wiring will be permanent
with the specified system. Each
light will be at the rear of each stall
and IL feet from the floor.
Bond Furnished.
The bond of Contractors A. ]. and
John S. Mnler & Son. of LyDchburg.
Va. for the construction OF concrete
sidewalks on both sides of Clay
street. North Twelfth street and
Fountain avenue. was approved by
the board and signed by President
Richard Rudy. City Solicitor Camp
bell and City Engineer Washington
had also approved Il. Their bonds
men are the Fidelity and Deposit
company. of Maryland. and for s2,-
500 in each case of construction.
Miscellaneous.
City Marketmaster Albert Senser |
reported that three of the old renters
of benches at the market house had |
given up their stands and they were
open for rent. They were let to j.
ID. Switzer, Charles w. Rodfus and
Berger & Golghtly. The bench mum
bers are "a. % and sc.
Supt. Force. of the light plant. re-
ported that the eight extra street
lights had been shipped from Schnec-
tady, n. Y. January 29 and were ex-
pected here at any day. The order
for them was placed January 10.
Street Inspector f. e. Bell, Jr..
Submitted his monthly report. 1t
showed comparison OF the expend-
lures for that department for the
month of January, 1909 and 1910.
II was as follows: Payroll for Janu-
ary. 1909. s411.15; same month this
year, s565.1O, making an increase of
s15395.
Expense account for January.
1909, s40O!01. for the same month |
this year, si05.17, making an in
crease of IS 16.
Gravel for January, 1909 amount |
ed to s121.6S, while for the same
month this year II amounted to |
s246.S6, including limestone rosk.
Mr.. Bell explained that he in
crease in expenses, etc. was due TO |
the fact that more employees were
secured to clean the snow from the
streets and also more rock was used |
for patchwork this year than last.
The monthly reports of Sc ger In
spector FRANKIE. Supt. w. II Force.
of the light plant, and the market
master were received and flied also.
All members we're present as fol-
lows: Messrs. Rudy, Lack and Kolb