The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1916-08-17

At mass meeting of the tax pay
ers and citizens held in the circuit
court room, Monday night, com.
mittee comprised of T. F. Cooper
John H. Webb end Fisher w. Han
mum was named to employ an expert
auditor to audit the books of the
town of Maryville. to secure redress
for any irregularities in expenditures
of the towns money, if any are dis.
closed by the audit, and other duties
which are stated in the motion as
Unanimously adopted, ana which fol
lows:
That committee of three tax pay
ers of the town of Maryville be
elected, whose specific duties shall
be:
To employ an expert accountant
who is nonresident four town to
audit the financial books of the re-
corder, not only furnishing a state
ment of the present financial con-
dition, but also extending the audit
sufficiently far to determine that the
books are correct, and properly kept.
And to employ attorneys to OBJ
tain all legal redress possible for the
expenditure of the tax payers
money in the construction of water
mains outside of the corporate limits
and through the property of the
mayor of the town;
It shall also be the duty of this
committee to exhaust all legal means
| for the recovery of irregular expen-
ditures of the tax payers money
from any of the funds of the town
| of Maryville, should the audit devel-
| op the same. To investigate the issu-
ance OF building permits, the collec-
| tion of privilege and other taxes and
. the police protection of the town.
The motion was duly seconded and
carried unanimously.
The meeting held under the auspi-
fees of the Chamber of Commerce,
was largely attended. Quite num-
her of ladies was present. Formal
wnM,gere disposed of, among
\ tIliI!lI ttgefs@% }announcemeilt OF the
tlwnich Way to he~held me- - -
the picnic - 70 ned at McGhee Sta
tion Saturday in the interest of a
highway from Knoxville to Chatta-
nooga, the efforts of the committee
to have Blount county marble used
in the new federal building, and the
report of the railroad commission
relative to the building of new Sou
thern station in Maryville.
The report of the executive COM
mittee, as to the failure of the town
council to furnish business men with
a financial statement, was presented
by DR.. R. W. Wells. Also other find
ings of the committee, as to the fail
ure of officers to clean up the streets
lack of police protection, the laying
of a water main outside the corpora
tion and in the private property of
the mayor, the failure of the council !
to properly elect water commission |
as required by ordinance, were a.
mong the things presented. The pur-
pose Of the meeting was simply to
place these things before the citizens
for action.
At the conclusion of DR.. Wells re-
mark, Mayor Everett arose and said
The reason the pipe was laid where it
was, was because an eminent lawyer
had informed him he could lay the
pipe any place he wanted to so long
rs it reached houses, that he could
,ven run it to Little River if he
wanted to, and also that he had in
ended to donate two acres
rom his tract to the city for town
,ark. Aside from these statements,
which were new reasons given by the I
mayor and his original statements !
S to reasons for going the route :
hosen, he offered no explanation, :
uring the rehearsal of his wonder :
h. Nf thn
own, why he had failed to use his 5
forts to protect the lives of the citi- h
ems of the town already here, from q
le assaults and knife slashes of y
olks, while he had been going here
nd yon trying to bring others into t
town where there is no police pro- II
,ction. Nor did the mayor answer y
ny other charges made as to negli- 7
ence of officials as to law enforce II
lent. a,
DIR. J. S Jones was the next speak h
, He said that the town has assum- e,
| proportions that even the mayor, n
his breadth of thinking, had evil r,
emily not been aware of. He spoke
conditions as they have been set
,rth, and said that if he were may
:, he would clean up and put things
ght. He said there was more law r
olation to the square inch in Mary +,
lie than i'll Knoxville. He spoke of Fl
e increased population of the town, II
Id the increased number of children q
re to be schooled, for whom no m
DIVISION as to school facilities had te
zen taken by the board of mayor Ii,
Id aldermen, so far as the public k,
aware He said that from a moral 81
ID sanitary view point, and from tL
W enforcement view point, big i'm e1
ovements can be made. st
T. F. Cooper stated that because s.
lack of law enforcement he had AZ
ard of parties fearing to allow cs
cir children to come down town at hs
ght. He also stated that he could M
e no reason why the board of may eG