The Columbus commercial., 1918-01-03
MAYOR MAKES
REPORT TO THE
CITY COUNCIL
TELLSOFWORK DONE AND
OTHER WORK URGENT
LY NEEDED.
SALARIES RAISED
Requests of Policemen and
Firemen for Increased Pay
Granted.

The most important feature OF
the regular monthly meeting of the
city council, which was held Tues
day night, was the reading Of the re-
port of Mayor d. s. McClanahan for
the month of December. Mayor
McClanahan made several important
recommendations all of which re-
ceived due consideration at the
hands of the board.
The council granted increases in
salaries to members of both the po-
lice and fire departments. The fire.
men were raised $40 month each
while the policemen had SIS tackled
on to their monthly salaries. The
salary Of Mr. Tracy Green, assistant
policeman and pound keeper was
raised $25 month.
Mayor McClanahan's report fol-
losw:
To the City Council, Columbus,
Miss:
Gentlemen:-I hereby submit my
report for the month of December,
1917, which is as follows:
All city officers have faithfully
discharged their duties. | have tried
16 cases, dismissed 4 and convicted
IL. Total amount of fines imposed
$4,000.
! beg to report to you gentlemen
that the street forces have graded,
rocked and completed the Pigkens-
vile road from the foot of 18th.
street South to 9th. street South on
18th. avenue, and are now grading
and rocking 10Th. street from Pick
insville road to the intersection of
18th. and End. avenue South.
Your Street Committee and my
self have purchased and your Treas
urer has paid for 126 bushels Of
corn, we have also bought from Mr..
H. N. Watson 257 bushels Of corn,
Tor which he now has a bill before
your body. The price we paid for
this corn ranged from $l.15 to
$1.41 1-2 per bushel The bulk Of
this corn was bought from various
country wagons. We also have pur-
chased about is or Is tons Of well
cured Johnson grass hay, to be de-
livered this month.
Myself and your Water Commit
tee have built and completed the
Alum Room at the Water Works,
winch | think is very wise thing
to have done, and the engine and dy-
namo purchased sometime ago d
now being installed.
Your Committeeman, Mr.. Chap
pell went out and took the feed
pump proposition up with your en-
gineers and convinced them that it
was unnecessary to buy feed pump
in his Judgment, and with his able
assistance the pump has been put in
good working order.
With an additional purchase Of a
set of strainers for your number !
| filter, and installation of the same
with the engine and dynamo, | am
convinced under ordinary "fcum-
stances that your reservoir and
stand pipe by 8 or 10 p. m. could all
be filled with water, fires banked in
the furnace, which will be big saw
ing to this department in fuel.
Your engineers, Mr.. lines and Mr.
| Waters seem to be doing all in their
power to run the water works plant
| in good condition, which was very
much run down. We have now on
| hand at the water works about 15C
tons Of coal and with the weekly
shipment of one car from the mines
have no apprehension of running
short on coal.
The ear of alum bought sometime
ago by your committee has been de
livered, and is now being unloaded
SCHOOLS.
| Your High School building will b
completed by the first Of February
! The old Stephen D. Lee home proba
bly, by the first of March. You
committee has recently purchases
through Mr.. Smith, your electrician
all the fixtures, and globes for tn
equipment of the school Your fur
niture and equipment for the Higl
|, School is now arriving, and beinl
placed in the building. have re
e,ently bought and hauled and stores
. 100 tons Of coal for the variou
schools, which think will run US 70