Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-01-23
AN EVENING WITH
THE COUNc|LMEA

While Clerk J. C. King was read
ing the minutes of the previous
mea7ing last Monday night some
of the statements contained in the
records aroused the listening coun-
cilmen and the occupants Of the
"Press Gallery" to the fact that
:,alf of the present Council are
"'Henrys.* 1inree, Henry Schlatter
Henry Bachman and Henry Daven-
port and which of them is the
+Henryest" has not yet been de-
Lermined so they cannot be tabulat-
ed as Henry the First, Henry the
Second and Henry the Third; but
fortunately the Clerk doesn't call
.lrst names when he calls the roll,
so there will be no confusion in
regard to "who's who", though
possibly this council may go down
in history as the "Henry Council"
While the Clerk was blowing
through the motions and ordinances
of the last regular meeting in
walked a travelling man with his
bags which he dropped near the
door with glance at Glen V. Soule
of the Water Works Board which
seemed to say, porter get on to
your job; he then stalked toward
City Solicitor Paxson who sat be-
hind the bar calmly gazing upon
him, with the air of a man wa
wants a room with bath right
quick; but just then the stranger
"came to" and realized that he
was in the wrong place: He was
looking for Hotel Blair but instead
had wandered into "Hotel de
Vile de Wauseon."
A committee of Firemen COM
posed of Chief Overmeyer. Fore
man Eastman and Warden, Harris
invaded fthe NPresence Chamber"
to petition the honorable body
assembled for 6 pairs of boots, IL
coats and IL hats for the fire fight
ers. Mr.. Eastman explained that
many of the firemen had sustained
serious loss of clothing owing to
the, lack of sufficient number of
the articles mentioned to supply
the firemen. There seemed to be
no doubt in regard to the reason
ableness of the request in the minds
of the Mayor and the council and
the Mayor designated councilmen
Hough and Oakley to act with
chief Overmeyer i'm making the
purchase of the required articles.
Before retiring the firemen thru
their spokesman, Mr.. Harris, ex-
tended an invitation to the aMavor
and council to attend the annual
Fir Smen's banquet on Monday
evening, February End at 7 o'clock
The invitation was promptly ac-
cepted "viva voce."
Mr.. Frank R. Harper, President
of the Board of Trustees reported
the breaking down of the general
or at the water works which has
been in constant operation, "a
hours a day for the past two years
The town was without a water
supply for a matter of some hours
while the generator was being re-
paired, while the mechanism is
working now there is no guarantee
as to how long it will continue to
work and Mr.. Harper presented
! the absolute necessity of procuring
another generator if the town is tc
4 be protected against complete
failure of the water supply. Mr.
| Harper laid before the council the
present status of the water supply
question in Wauseon and urged i'm
mediate action on the part of the
council to enable his board to pro
ceed with the legal preliminaries
to the construction of the proposed
reservoir and liberation plan
which has the approval of the
Chief Engineer of the State Boart
of Health, asked how much money
was needed to begin the work anc
provide for the new generator Mr.
: Harper after consulting the en-
aineeris estimates ! answered a
least 100000.
The Mayor instructed the Fl
i nance Committee and City Solicit o
. to take immediate steps to sell tn
bonds voted by the citizens o
Wauseon at the special electio
last summer.
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