Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
Mayor Banks Makes Appointments
Delivers Address-Favors
Publicity.
VARIOUS COMMITTEES NAMED
Ordinance to Reduce Salary Of City
Superintendent is Submitted
to Council.

review again yesterday afternoon at
, 2 O'Clock, continuing in session until
Is o'clock last night. The work OF
auditing the books of the assessor is
no easy task, and again occupied
the attention of the city fathers this
morning at o'clock.
The council met last night at 8
o'clock as a council in regular ses-
sion, with all members present. The
first matter to come up for consider
alton was that of the election of a
city clerk and his assistant. A mo-
! ton to re-elect the present incum-
bents was unanimously carried.
| Miss Greenwood has held the po-
sition of assistant the past three
years, while Mr.. Crittenden has
been city clerk for two years and a
half. The present force in the Of
flee of the city clerk has given uni
versal satisfaction and the books are
kept in such a manner as to COM
mand the favorable comment of the
state auditing department, while the
reputation of the set of books them
SELVES is statewide.
! Under the new law enacted by the
Thirty-Fifth Assembly, the city at
torney is elected by vote of the
council instead of vote of the peo-
pie. BY this authority, j. w. Lee
was elected city attorney unani-
mously by full vote of the council.
Here Mayor Banks read before the
council a proclamation or platform
explaining his viewpoint of public
affairs, and improvements which he
proposes to introduce. The address
is herewith given:
"At this time r wish to say that
appreciate to the fullest extent the
high honor the people have bestoW-
ed upon me, in choosing me as their
chief executive and l fully realize
that with this honor, goes great re-
sponsibilities, which l trust l may
have the ability to meet.
For almost half a century l have
been associated with this commun-
ity, and have seen Webster City
grow from small village of about
one thousand people to her present
size, which places her in the fore
most rank of the cities of her class.
Within my recollection, Webster
! City has acquired her railroads,
sidewalks, electric light plant, wat
err works, parks, sewers, pavements,
city hall, library and all of the many
industries, both large and small
which we now have.
| 1t is with all of this in mind and
my present position that bespeaks
the sentiment of my appreciation OF
the honor conferred upon me. / wish
to state briefly my position on the
various matters which may come be-
fore us during my administration.
| am in favor of public improve
ments along conservative lines. TAX
ing into consideration the wishes OF
the people as the council may inter
pet. All public. improvements are
accompanied to some extent by pri-
vate hardships, but in many instan-
ces private Inconvenience must
give way to public benefit.
l feel that greater publicity should
be given to city affairs, and l favor
having the proceedings of the coun-
Gil, together with the bills allowed,
published in our local papers, SINH
lar to the way in which the proceed
ings of the county board of super
visors are published. "
I am in favor of having all city
officials, including the superintend-
ent of electric light and water, the
street commissioner and sexton, take
an inventory of all machinery, ma
terials and tools in their respective
/ utDdI IlutulS anu hSSp oAAPANsN
record of everything bought or sold
or otherwise disposed Of, so that
they can make regular monthly
report, to the end that they can be
checked up, similar to the method
used in the clerks Office.
4 | am in favor of all officials, such
as superintendent, street commits
sioner and the like devoting his en-
tire time and attention to the bust
ness of his Office, and with reference
to the sections duties, am in favor OF
having an established rate for in
/ terments and the raising of lots, and
that the council be provided with a
monthly statement of all collections
made and that all expenditures,