The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-02-13
BUDGET OF CITY FOR
THE COMING YEAR
SET At S37,50O
THOMAS PEBBLES ELECTED AS
SUCCESSOR TO J. /. HUTTON
ON EDUCATION BOARD.
RECORDERS REPORT FOR 1918
ordinances on Auditing Property
Tax, Calling of Election for Bond
Issue for New School, and for Sala-
ries of City Officials Pass.

At the regular monthly meeting of
the board of mayor and aldermen,
the most important matter before the
board was the budget for the coming
year. This was set at $37,5O0. sub
ject to the action of the finance .om-
mittee.
/ Mayor Dedman was in the chair,
and most of the aldermen were in at
tendance. George w. Hayes appear
ed before the board and spoke in re-
gard to some work he had done on
the street on which he lived. He
asks that he be allowed $50 for it. 1t
was ordered that the matter be refer
red to the street committee. $50 was
allowed the charity committee for
the month of February, and $20c was
ordered passed to the credit of the
street committee for this months ex-
penses. All bills and all salaries
properly o. K'ed were ordered to be
paid by the recorder
A petition from certain parties,
complaining of the hitching that was
taking place the south side of the
corner of West Seventh and Garden
streets, was read and the city mar
shall was ordered to stop such a nui-
sance. 1t was stated by some of the
members that such hitching was TAX
ing place in front of the First Presby-
terrain church, and it was decided that
it should be stopped ALSO
Thomas H. PEBBLES was chosen as
the successor Of j. l.. Hutton as a
member of the city board of educa-
ton. Mr.. Hutton had been elected a
member of the county board, and so
had rendered his resignation.
Mayor Dedman stated that Solomon
Norcross, the, gentleman selected by
the city as it's agent in the appraisal
of the water property, had written
him in regard to an allowance on his
expenses. 1t was unanimously voted
that a check for $3.50 should be mail
ed him for this purpose. He also
stated that Mr. Norcross had no: yet
been able to come to any agreement
with the appraiser of the Water Co.,
although he had gone to New York
for that purpose.
Three ordinances were then pre-
sented by the city attorney, and all
were passed on first reading. The
first was that the board should meet
hereafter on the first Friday night in
each month instead of the first Thurs
day evening. The second was an or
dinance in regard to an abntting
property tax for certain streets in the
city. The third called for an election
at an early date TO provide for the Is
suance of bonds by the city for the
purpose of building a high school.
A resolution voting $25 per month
to the Kings Daughters Hospital was
unanimously passed. The city attor-
ney was appointed censor of the PIC
ture shows of the city. DR.. Dake Bid
die was re-appointed city health Of
fcer for the coming year, while May
or Dedman asked the same commit
tees to serve for the next two years
as had for the past two of his admin
istration.
An ordinance was presented fixing
the salary of the city attorney at $3.50
for the coming year. the salaries Of
the policemen at $84O, and that of the
city marshal at $1,000. This was
passed on first reading.
motion that the board adjourn
until Friday night, Feb. 20, was then