The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1918-09-13
GAS QUESTION HOLDS
over FOR A MONTH
MAYOR APPOINTS
MARSHAL AID INTERIM
Resignation rendered by Aldrich B.
Underwood as Solicitor
Of Village

Dilly-dallying with the gas-rate-
raise question and the appointment of
marshal has developed with the viii
lage council into more or less OF a
hobby. Like grimalkin, the mouse
has to be toyed with about so long
before it is devoured.
At several meetings of council dur
ing the past two months the question
of granting the Medina Gas & Fuel
Co. the privilege of increasing its
rates in the village has been under
consideration, but in each case mem
bers have spared for more time, al
though each postponement was made
for the avowed purpose Of utilizing
the intervening time to come to some
conclusion as to what they were going
to do about it. =
AT the Meeting of council two weeks
ago the members became so nearly
united on the gas-raise proposition as
to have the legislation read for the
first time, and there was every rea-
son to expect that the second and third
readings would follow at the regular
meeting this week or else the matter
tabled once and for all. The nay
votes of Councilman Shaw and War
ner prevented the rules being suspend
ed and the ordinance passed at its
third reading and there were not suf-
ficient votes to table the proposition.
Thus the matter is hung up for an
other month.
Councilmen Warner and Shaw gave
as reason for their dissenting votes,
that they believed council should get
an opinion from the State Utilities
Commission before deciding the cues
ton, inasmuch as the village had been
to the expense of sending two repre-
sentatives to Columbus to confer with
the commission, and an opinion is ex-
pected soon. sea-,
Apparently there has been but little
doubt, up to this time, that eventually
the gas company would get what 1t
has asked for. However with two
members voting no at the next meet
ing the matter will be killed once and
for all.
The marshal question has Jared q
\ little better, but so little you can't see
Y it. Since the resignation a month age
af edgWick, t)heSe has been ns
feg{il Hi app iitineft 0f frsilaf
!. Niehtwatchman Hange has been serv-
Ing under the title Of "acting" mar.
shal, which is not to his liking, as he
himself admits. He is also serving
Y the village as night watch and occu
pies a like position for the business
men of the village. In other words
the two positions are bundled up II
one man. The Office OF marshal car
ries with it no salary, but the office
of the village night watch is $40
month and the business men pay thel
night watch $100 month. Some JOB
or rather jobs, we'll say.
At one time Tuesday night it LOOKED
as if the mayor might actually max
a real appointment, but there was tn
usual lapse into temporizlng, with TN
result that Mr.. Hange will contlnu
in the same regime, at least until tn
time expires to which he was employ
ed by the business men, which is NO
yerober of the present year, with tn
one exception that for the next tW
months he will bear the title OF mar
shall" :.
An ordinance was passed authorlz
ing the Board Of Trustees OF Publ
Affairs to expend funds and enter INT
contracts for the purchase and install
lation of a pumping engine, pumps an
necessary machinery for supplyln
water to the village, the full text Q
which appears in another part OF thl
paper. ,,,
A. B. Underwood rendered his res
ignation as city solicitor to take e1
feet at once, giving as his reason tn
probability of an early call to milltar
service, and that he did not wish t
take over any new work. The resle
nation was voted on with but tou
members present, one of them votln
no, with the result that the resigns
ton was not legally accepted, alth
council will in the intervening time bt
tween now and the next regular NEE
ing endeavor to obtain another sole
tor. Mr.. Underwood will comple1
such legal work for the village as
now has on hand.