The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-09

the nlSneSl Interest una IN case OF
tie the funds were to be equally Ovid
ed. This is a good old stock ordinance
and II always happens by some strange
and unacccuntsble process OF mental
tolcpathy, that all the banks submit
the same bid the funds thereby being
equally divided.
1t wasn't very late. and member
Clary is a single man, so he was an
xious for information. He wanted to
know why a building and loan asso-
ciation, or an individual couldn't take
up some of this money if they com ,
piled with the terms of the deposit by
furnishing the proper bond. The city
solicitor was appealed to- He had to
look It up. He looked. And the fur
ther he looked the more he became
convinced that the law contemplated
only regularly organized banks as de-
positories. Then he went out to get
some more law. While he was gone,
the ordinance was passed to its sec
end and third readings under sus-
pension OF the rules, and was adopt
ed.
A resolution to extend the water
mains on Avondale street from Silver
street to Blake avenue and on Trey
avenue from Walnut 20 Superior
streets. was introduced. The matter
was discussed TT some length and
laid over until another meeting.
At this time an ord nance to issue
S3s,925 worth of refundlng bonds was
introduced The city has made some
a
notes. The notes are drawing six per
cent interest and II was thought best
to bond this Indebtedness and get It
out of the way. 1t WIS proposed that
the bonds he i'm denominations OF $500
each. The matter was discussed at
some length and allowed to drop, but
just before adjournment, It came up
again and the ordinance was adopted.
An ordinance was also adopted pro-
viding for issuing $1.172 in bonds to
pay the cty's portion of improvements
on Campbell, Monroe and Carhart
streets and the first alley west of
Prospect street running between Gem
ter and Church streets. These are to
be in denominations of $500 each.
An ordinance to improve Trey ave-
nue. from the south end TO the first al
ley south Of Walnut street by the con-
of n sanitary sewer, was
read the first time. and, as the hour
was growing late, nothing further was
done.
Then came the really big affair of !
the evenings entertainment. A reso-
hutton was introduced providing that |
Sl435O be transferred from the spe-
cial to the regular fremsn's fund and
$40 from the regular to the special
police fund. 1t was innocent enough !
looking on its face, but there was !
about 1900 pounds OF dynamite be-
hind IT.. Tho whole transaction had
{, do with the repairing of the roof =
cf the central fire department. Th7t
is what the money was wanted for
All the councilmen We're willing to
make the repairs but City Solicitor |
Warner said the money couldn't be
legally secured the way council was
President Smart arose TO make an
explanation. He told about the efforts
tc put the former council 'in bad
by the board of health and certain
city officials. He said that the special
meeting colled by Mayor Setter could
not by any possibility have been legal
and characterized II as an attempt to
make joke OF the former council.
which did not proceed to order the re-
pairs made.
Fire Chief Mcfarland was present
and had been waiting in the lobby to
get r'd Of a perfectly good bunch OF
The chief said the city
was very careful to protect its horses
and its fire apparatus They all had
the best OF care. But the men were
compelled to put on their rubber loots
to wade into their bedroom at night
He said there were four inches OF
water on the floor in the east end Of
the sleeping quarters and six inches
in the west end of the room. He didn't
think II an especially healthy place
He explained that he was going
around ordering certain merchants to
make repairs on the roofs OF their
buildings, while the city itself had re-
ceived four warnings from the state
officials and still the men in the CEN
trel fire station could look through