The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-03-06

ENKNG STAR WEDNESDAY, MAH
con, Georgia, trustee for the bond hold
ers, now has on deposit the securities
Of the company, both stock and bonds.
subject to the order of the committee
Title can, therefore, be made at once
H T. Powell.
President Macon Savings Bank
The above is in accordance with the
action of the security holders COM
mittee. VIM. H. FELTON,. Chairman.
The following communication was
read from Mr.. r l. Anderson. presi-
dent Of the Ocala Water Company:
Oeala. March 5, 1912.
To the Mayor and Ciry Council Of
the City of Ocala, Gentlemen: I have
just been advised, by telegraph. that
all the securities issued by the Oca1a
Water Company have been deposited
with the committee at Macon, Ga, in
pursuance of the written agreement
entered into by the holders of such Sc
curities. The Ocala Water Company IS
therefore now ready TO negotiate the
sale of its water plant to the city and
is in position to make title to the
same al any time, provided a price
shall be agreed upon.
| beg further to advise that the reg
ular annual meeting of the Ocala Wa
ter Company will convene al Ocala
next Saturday, March 9Th, and that
after said meeting the company will
be able to make the city a definite
proposition for the sale of the prop
erty. Yours truly.
r. L. Anderson,
President Ocala Water Company
Communication from woman's Club
The following Communication was
read from the officers of the Woman's
Club of Ocala. Same was filed for in
formation, as the subject matter was
covered by another resolution offered
and passed:
Ocala, Fla, March 5, 1912.
The Honorable Members of the City
Council, Oca1a, Florida, Gentlemen: In
view of the fact of the potency of the
Woman's Club in building up your
city ciVic1y, commercially, educational
| ~ and socially in the past, and the
broad field of usefulness planned for
the present and future by its various
departments, which are as. follows
| Educational, Mrs. Jack Camp, chair
man; civics, Mrs. c. r. Tydings, chair
man; forestry, Mrs. S. T. Sistrunk
chairman; health, Mrs. Van Hood
chairman; household economics, Mrs
Harold, chairman; social, Mrs. G. T
Maughs, chairman; study class, Mrs
D. W. Davis, chairman; animal protec-
ton, Mrs. D. NJ. Smith, chairman
music Mrs. D. E McIver, chairman
~ 1t M
the Junior Civic League, Mrs. J. r
Moorhead, director, the club feels as
isured that with the cooperation O.
your honorable body great good ma,
be accomplished.
i Your honorable body knows that /
gives prestige TO the city to have al
organization like the Womans Clul
whose membership includes one hun
dred of the towns representative wo
men who are strenuously grapplins
with the problems of every day life.
The club has maintained room
since it's organization at the cost o
$3.50 a year, which has been pai'
promptly-usually in advance. 1t ha
rendered its rooms to the board o
trade meeting, to the hospital associa
ton several times, and had it not beel
, for the Woman's Club the librar,
would have been without a home
Your honorable body will acknowledg
, that Comfort Lodge, maintained thrI
the efforts of the Junior Civic League
a branch of the Woman's Club, is on
of the very best things that has beer
done for Ocala and if your honorabl
body will grant the enclosed petition
the club will build a permanent res
room in connection with its new clu
house, and will take pleasure in hav
ing its auditorium used by the boar
of trade or in any purely public ca
pacity. Therefore the club feels tina
it merits the following petition, to
wit:
That your honorable body give a 10
50xS0 feet centrally located on whic
to build the new club house. That
you honorable body does not deem !
necessary to make a warranty deed t
, same, to give lease for ninety-nin
years, free charge, or at a very nom
inal cost. Respectfully submitted,
The Woman's Club of Ocala.
Possible that Exposition Street Ma
be Paved
| The below communication was rea
and referred to the street committee:
1 Ocala, Fla, Feb. 29th, 1912.
To the Honorable City Council G
Ocala Florida, Gentlemen: We, IN
property owners abutting Expositio
street from Orange to Lime street, ar
very much annoyed by the dust in tina
locality and desire that an ordinanc
be passed for the pavement of sal
Exposition street from the intersectio
I of Orange to the intersection OF Linn
and hereby agree to pay our proper
tionate parts of same, and hereby pet
ton the council to pave with vitrif1e
brick the portion of Exposition stree
= named herein.
Respectfully submitted,
II Signed: c. r. Tydings, F. K. Power
| W. P. Wilson, r. S. Mitchell, ]. d. No
Duffy, Metropolitan Realty and Inves
ment Company, George Giles.
II A copy of a communication was rea
from Mr.. B. A. Weathers of the boar
of bond trustees, to the bank in tn
North who disposed of the city's ele'
tric light bonds, asking him to ascel
tain the price at which a $1,000 bon
could be retired.
II Mr.. Duval moved that the city attol
ney be instructed to draft an ordinans
IL or take such other steps as would con
pei the a. O. L. Railway to put
Il gates or keep a f1agman at the eros!
ing OF its tracks and Oklawaha ar
IiFort King avenues and Broadway
II Exposition street The motion pr
vailed.
Il The bill of Mr.. V. E. E1dred fl
| painting and papering the fire static