The Springdale news., 1915-02-05
CITY C0UNCIL,
 HOLDS SESSION CITY DADS" HOLD INTEREST," ING TALK FEST-TRANSACT SOME LITTLE BUSINESS. MATERWORkS UNEMPLOYED Council Side-steps Waterworks Cues tion When Opportunity For Dis
 cussion is Offered From
 Two Sources.
WATERWORkS UNMENTIONED

The regular monthly meeting of the City Council was held Tuesday evening and all members, including Mayor Lane and Recorder Reed were present. Considerable talking was done, and some little business trans acted. Minutes of the previous meet ing were read and approved, and ae- counts for the month of January to the amount of s264.2 .27 were allowed Considerable discussion was had rel ative to the amounts to be paid men, with teams for work on the roads. The finance committee, ever watch full of the treasury, were under the impression that the city was paying 9 cents per hour for a man and team on the streets, and during the winter months, when it is only pos sible to put in eight hours per day, cut down the account Of Ben Money hun, a member of the Council, and Elze Sturgeon, from g. 50, amount asked for, to S2.00 The action caused Councilman Moneyhun 10 ob jeet, and on motion by Myers,. onded by Sparkman, both members of the finance committee, Sparkman be- ing charman, the account of g.. 50 per day, for both Mr Moneyhun~ and Sturgeon was allowed. All members voted in favor of the motion, Alder man Moneyhun, an interested party, not voting.
 A representative of the Winters X Dove, engineering firm of Fort Smith, was present, and made a few remarks to the Council along the line of waterworks and sewerage bonds, and the instaAatoin of the sys- tenn, tending the services of the company when the council was ready to take some action along this line.
 w. E. Hunter, Representative of the Arkansas Childreps Home SocieS ty was present, and was granted ten minutes time by the Council to ex- pidlu Ills Nolh. le iildut dIl lhleieSl ing talk of the work being done by the society in Arkansas, showng a number of photographs to the Coun- cil, and asked that the city make donation of S50 toward the work. Ruple and Ownbey donated g. each toward making up the amount, and the remainder will be taken up at later date by the council
 A M Leitzell agent of the Frisco, was present, and made few brief remarks about the conditions now existing at the local station, and also read communication from the superintendent of the Frisco, stating that question and petition for lights at the local station had been referred to the Federal Court, by the receivers, asking an appro- priatiOn, and as soon as this was re- ceived that elecrtic lights would be installed
 A petition was read from Recorder Reed from some forty of the busi- ness firms of Springdale requesting the Council to purchase portable Watehman's clock, the expenses to be born by the signers The petition called for much discussion on the part of various members of the Council, Alderman Ewalt objecting to the clock on the grounds that he didn't believe it the proper thing for policeman to wear, but favor ing the clock for watchman. Ewalt asked that the system be more thor oughly investigated before being pur- chased and installed, as he didn't be- lieve the clock could be carried by the night-watch, who is also a peace officer, and get the proper service out of him in both capacities. Ruple made few remarks strongly favor ing the installation of the clock sys- tenn. Alderman Sparkman, aptly termed by a fellow member of the Council, as the watch dog of the treasury" favored the installation of the clock system from the fact that