Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-04-17
SUPPLEMENT TO
The Weekly Ledger
MEXICO CITY COUNCIL
HOLDS BUSY SESSION

After tr~ansacting its final bushes.
the old council adjourned sine di,
Monday night and the new council
convened.
Prof. Hawthorne, E. S. Wilson ant
Turner Williams appeared before thu
old council representing the Mexico
Chamber of Commerce and Federated
Clubs asking that the city defray
one third of the expenses of cleanup
week, the Federated Club and the
Chamber of Commerce to pay a thirc
| each. Mr.. Gallaher moved that the
city pay one third of any expense VI
to the amount of 1925. This was car.
ried unanimously. Cleanup week vii
be within the next ten days or two
weeks. The city gives the supervision
to the Chamber of Commerce.
A protest against oiling West Lib.
erty Street was filed.
The report of the street commls
sioner, J. P. Sanford, was read and ap.
proved. The semi-monthly report fol,
lows: Team work, $54.50; labor, 500;
prison labor, SOB; prisoners placed
in jail, -; prisoners now in Jail, 5;
prisoners board, $61.4O.
Yearly report from April 10, 1915
to April 10, 1919:
Team work, 5000; labor, 1852; num-
Der of prisoners, $102; prison labor,
1922; prisoners board, $508.
The finance committee made the
following report:
April IA, 1919 bal. in general
fund $6,937.69
April ID, 1919, bal. in Light
fund S3,564.43
April IA, 1919, balance in
septic tank ............... $4.25O,35
April ID, 1919, balance in
Library Fund ........... $1,16O.98
April IA, 1919, balance in
Sewer fund ............ S 31.12
April ID, 1919, balance in
Vehicle funr ........... S 1916
April IA, 1919, balance in
Cemetery fun .......... 5 984.26
April 4, 1919 light fund deposited
by j. D. Mckee, $994.03. April 4,
1919, cemetery fund, deposited by J.
D. Mckee, $232.OO.
Amount of bills allowed. $1,810.30
An ordinance providing for the
oiling of the Boulevard was read the
second time.
The ordinance reducing the Mexico
Butchers license from $50 a year to
SIS was read the third time and pass
ed unanimously.
The business of the old council COM
ing to a close, the only retiring coun-
Gilman C. S. Harrison who was not a
candidate for reelection, thanked the
council for the many courtesies ex-
tended to him and expressed his best
wishes to the incoming council. The
council then adjourned sine die.
After the members Of the new coun-
Gil had been sworn in, the council con-
vened. The first business taken up
was the election of a mayor pro tenn.
J. W. Gallaher received an unanimous
vote for this office. Then followed
the nomination by the mayor for the
appointive officers, all of which were
approved by the council. J. P. San
ford was appointed street commission
err; R. S. Mckinney, city engineer; F.
NJ. Williams, superintendent of ceme-
terry; ". A. Sullivan, night police; DIR.
R. W. Berrey, city physician; Willard
Willingham, driver of the fire truck;
c. W. F1ittner, fire chief.
The following standing committees
were announced: Finance-Eller and
Wood; Claims-Owen, Blum and. San
nebeck; Street and Alley-Blum,
Wood and Davis; Water and Light
Owen and ~Sannebeck; Printing-Gal-
laher and Eller; Cemetery, Parks and
Building-Gallaher, Davis and Ad-
ans; Ways and Means-Adams and
Davis; Purchasing-Eller, Owen and
Adams.
Board of Health-Adams, Blum,
Sannebeck and Gallaher. The follow
ing members of the Library Board
were reelected by the council: Mrs.
J. F. Llewellyn, Mrs. C. S. Harris and
Prof. Hawthorne.