The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-12
NO EXTRA POLICE
NEEDED ON FOURTH
SIS Appropriated to G.
A. R. at Monthly Meeting
of Borough Council

of Borough Council
COST ABOUT $40 A BLOCK TO
MAKE UPPER MAIN STREET
PRESENTABLE.
For the first time in many
years we went through the Fourth
without the necessity for any extra
policemen"
Such was the encouraging report
made last Thursday evening at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Borough Council by Mayor John
Kuhbach.
President Martin Caufield called
the meeting to order at sos p. m.
The following members answered to
their names when the roll was call
ed:
President, Martin Caufield; secre-
tary Wyman w. Kimble; treasurer
George Penwarden, Messrs. P. F.
Murray, George Genung, S. T. Ham.
Visitors present were Mayor John
Kuhbach, Street Commissioner Law
renee Weidner and Judge Henry
Wilson.
Following the reading and ap-
proval of the minutes of the pre-
ceding meeting, Treasurer Penwar-
den reported as follows:
Balance on hand last re-
port ................S1S6O.7S
Received from Licenses. 1900
Total .. .......S1S72.73
Paid out ............ 936.74
Balance on hand. ... $935.99
Judge Henry Wilson made plea
for an appropriation of $25 to the
G. A. R. THE expenses of Memoir
ial Day." said the Judge, have
been heavier this year than before.
We have to bury more men every
year. We have to get one or two
more carriages every year. People
who in former years gave us their
conveyances are dropping carriages
and keeping autos. We'd like to
keep Memorial Day going until 1915.
1t ought to be public function
On motion of Mr.. Penwarden,
seconded by Mr. Ham, it was de-
cided to appropriate $25 to Captain
James Ham Post, No. 1913, G. A. R.
Under the head of reports of COM
mittees, several, applications for
Scrip were made,r including g. A.
Kimble, 1716 East Extension street,
on curbing. Mr.. Kimble built a
new house on vacant lot formerly
known as the Ball property.
Frank NJ. Robinson, 1920 East
street Extension, also asked for
scrip on a 4S-foot sidewalk with
curbing on East Extension street;
and SO did Mary H. Weston, 1928
Park street, who recently put in IA
feet of curbing on Park street. On
motion of Mr.. Murray, their appli-
cations were referred to the COM
mittee on scrip with instructions to
investigate before the next meet
ing.
Street Commissioner Lawrence
Weidner when called upon to state
how the work on grading upper
Main street was progressing said:
Il am getting along all right. The
expense on it is $22 a day. This is
the seventh day We are working. To-
morrow we finish"
According to Mr.. Weidner the
monster ten-ton Texas roller con-
sumes, on an average, 13 gallons of
gasoline day, at cost of 13 cents
a gallon.
The work on upper Main street
cost about SAG a block.
A motion prevailed that the
Street Commissioner be authorized
to go on repairing Church street
from the bridge as far up as deem
ed advisable.
When the horse question" came
up, it was mentioned that there
were twelve fires in Honesdale last
year, i.e., twelve fire alarms, or an
average of one a month. The best
proposition for furnishing horses
seemed to be that of E. H. Cort-
right whose offer of 500 annual re-
tainer, and s. extra in case the en-
gine went out seemed to meet with
the approval of the councilmen.
Permission was granted the Red
Men to hold an auto parade and
use red fire on the evening of July
IS.
Under new business, Mr.. Pen
warden informed the council that a
holder of three $500 As Borough
bonds was anxious to dispose OF
them in order to settle up an es-
tate.
Complaint was made that a GER
tain wooden building owned and oc-
cupied as a hose house has been put
on West and Sixteenth streets, with
out authority from the Torrey es-
tate, and a legal demand made that
the Council remove it without delay
The matter was referred to one OF
the council for action.
An application from Hose Com
pany Number 1 stated that they
were in need of 500 feet of new
hose, and that they ran short at the
Cortright fire. 1t was decided that
their request be laid over until the
next meeting and that the Fire com
pany be instructed to investigate the
condition of the hose in Both com
panies.
A letter from E. F. Tortey signi.
flying the willingness of the Torrey
estate to lay sidewalk clear to the
armory in front of large Park
street vacant lot, owned by the es-
tate, and that they were only wait
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