The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-27
Action Taken by Council; ordi-
nance for Payment of Bills
Passed; Costs City $6,651
To Operate in May.
OFFICIAL REPORTS
OF OFFICERS HEARD
Pass Resolution Of Respect to @.
H. Caneman Frisco Addition
Residents Ask Be Permitted
to Raise Hogs.

&hickasha's returned soldiers viii
be given immunity from the payment
4 of poll tax. This was one of the acts
Taszed and approved at the regular
semi-monthly meeting of the city
council held last night in the city
hall.
An ordinance was passed at the
meeting of the city fathers last
might to appropriate $6,651.14, such
being the amount to satisfy the city's
Iexpenses during the month Of May
The appropriation is to be divided
as follows:
Salary account, $14424 fire and
water account, $114994; contingent
and supply, $116O95, street an
bridge, s929O9 street lighting,
$S10.22; water operating, $1454.43; H.
brary, $259O9; cemetery account,
$49O2.
Reports City Officials.
Reports of Dan w. Beets street
commissioner; Frank Scrlmager, wa
ter commissioner; VIM. w Clarke
city treasurer; and S c. Durbin, po-
lice judge, were submitted and ap,
proved.
The report of Commissioner Beets
4 showed that cash collected in the
form of poll tax, etc, was 1851
Commissioner Scrimag@'s report
stated that s2,66S1O had been col
Injected in the water department and
s1,545.66 expended, the balance being
$1,11744
That the city has $242, 10000 cash
on hand was brought out in the re
port of VIM W. Clarke. city treasur
er. The report also showed that
S11, 10000 was received by the city
. treasurer during the mouth of May
DR.. e. L. Dawson's reports shove
that two cases Of small pox. two
u cases of chicken pox and two case!
CT scarlet fever had been reported
to this office He reported Il al he
; had given treatment TO four OF Tho
city's poor. Forty-one connection!
4 with the sewer were made during
1 the month, he stated in the cep )rt.
Frisco Residents Want Hoss.
A petition, asking that the cit,
j council not pass an ordinance pro
hibiting the raising Of hogs in th'
4 Frisco addition in north Chlckasha
. was presented to the council AM
filed last night The petition, s'gne'
by 121 voters, pointed out that man,
people were raising hogs in the FRS
co addition, without hindering IN
health or molestlng the neighbor.
and that many desired to raise thei
own meat. 1t would be very unpro
table to the Frisco addition res
dents to pass such an ordinance tn
ftition emphasized.
City Engineer Cranwell was give
permission to install a telephone /
his office, the expense of same to l
paid by the city.
Resolution Respect Caneman.
On motion by Councilman Darnel
seconded by Councilman DuBose, tn
council ordered f. G. Reynolds, eli
clerk. to draft a resolution of rcspe'
10 the late c. H. Caneman. I'll
clerk was lurther asked to presel
one copy of same to the local Ell
and Masonic lodges, of which order
Councilman Caneman was membel
another to be published in the Dai
Express and another to be sent h
brother and sister in Europe
BY action of the council last Mgr
it was ordered to draw a warra
for the payment of the new II
truck recently purchased from Il
American La France company II
warrant to the amount of about S
600 will be payable only after =
truck is received and approved.
is expected that the truck vii. arri
in Chickasha With ntae next fC
davs. The small truck now pei
used by the fire department was
cluded in the deal for the larger n
chine
The council tabled an ordinan