The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-06-08
TRADING
Stamp Concerns Selling to
Merchants Must Pay
Yearly License.

me city council at Its Friday night
meeting transacted considerable i'm
portant business. such as adopting
an ordinance imposing a tax on trad
! ing stamp concerns, granting build
ing permits, acting on petitions for
sidewalks and allowing bills.
Attending the meeting we're coun-
cilmen Connell, Tierney. Ernst. Rob-
bins, johnson, Patton and Boehm
and the mayor acted in a dual ca
pacity' in the absence OF the city
clerk.
The reading of the minutes of the
previous meeting was suspended.
An ordinance imposing license
tax yearly on concerns selling
trading stamps to merchants here
was adopted. to become effective July
l. A motion to reduce the amount
Of the tax to $500 was defeated.
The street committee recommend
ed that the petition of the county
court for a franchise for a pipe line
running from the Raymond Heights
gas well to the court house be re-
jected. This was done.
City Attorney NJ. G. sperry advised
the council not TO undertake to atbate
certain shack near the intersection
OF Monticello avenue and Thompson
street as nuisance. as it is without
power, and suggested that il the oc-
cupants were disorderiy the matter
be take uF by the police department
and IL the place is unsanitary the
same be looked into 10y the sanitation
department. Mayor Moore informed
the council that the city had rid It
self of the Foggs who restacd there
They packed bag and baggage and
hied themselves to Green county, Pa.
big and little Foggs and ali.
Bills were allowed as follows with
the understanding that the street pay
roll would be made up Saturday and
passed on at Monday nights meeting
of the council.
c. P. keely and Co. .....$ 2,49S.4s
John d. Owens 81. .,...,.... 24.6C
| =. x. Dawson's petition for brick
sidewalk at 179 Hickman street was
referred to the street committee fol
a report Monday night.
Petitions of w. Il. Maxwell and The
Palace Furniture and Piano Compan,
for permission 10 build stairways
leading from the street into the base.
ments of the buildings they are about
to build were referred to the street
committee for written reports Mon.
day night.
Two members of committee APP
pointed last year to adjust a claim
Mrs. Alice NJ Gardiner has against
the city having retired from the
council, councilmen Ticrney and
Ernst were added with Councilman
Robbins as the holdover and the
committee was requested to have a
report by the next regular meetinS
of the council, If not Monday night
Report having been made that o
sidewalk between Jackson and Pop
ular street had been relaid on pri-
waite property, street Superintendent
Doyle was directed to report on the
matter Monday night.
Councilman Johnson appearing for
the Civic Club asked that the club
be relieved from the payment of $40
its promised half of the expenses OF
Cleanup Day, hut being informed
that the club had paid the amount
Mr.. Johnson stated that he would
itold up the matter until future
time that he might he further ad-
vised.
Mrs. Louis A. Carr and others pc
titloned for permission to lay ce-
ment sidewalk on Maple avenue, the
excess over the cost of a brick pave
ment to be paid by the petitioners
The petition was granted.
! The Morris Grocery Company,
other firms and individuals petltioned
the council to pave Clark street in
Glen Elk between North Fifth and
North sixth streets and also North
Sixth street from Clark to Baltimore
street. The petition was referred to
the street committee.
Many citizens in petition for re-
lief called the attention of the coun-
Gil to the had conditiohYof the south
end OF south Chestnut street caused
by laying water lines. The petition
was referred to the street committee
to confer with the water and sewer
age board.
Morgan Parsons, L, W. Campbell
and John Acheson petitioned coun-
Gil to take such action as would elm
innate the stable or the use of build
lnr as a stable in the rear of the
Anex hotel and the residences of
Messrs. Parsons and Campbell. No
action was taken Ny the council.
Building permits We're granted as
Mrs. Martha Delson, stable at rear,