Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-02

| of men here soon to repair some
+ defective guttering on East Mair
street where their concrete froze
last winter; and also to examine
and repair some headers near the
opera house and a blister caused
on East Main street He SAID
the engineers said this was caus.
ed by the leakage from water
company pipes and if this was the
case it should pay the cost of re-
pairs.
Mayor ONeil appointed Messrs.
Terrill and Wilmington to take
bids for a car of coal for the city.
He said two cars had lasted two
years and the city had found it
1.-THE best method of handling char
/ ity coal cases. He referred to
the matter of fixing the doors at
the fire department to the build
! ing committee.
A motion by Councilman Ter
, rill was passed that the telephone
and electric light companies be
instructed to fill with concrete
open places left around many OF
+ their poles when they were NOV
ed at the time of the street paw
. ing.
Mayor O'Neil called for an &C
, counting of uncollected city Ii
CenSeS. He said that several
large business concerns had not
as yet paid their license taxes for
1920. He also said that there
was some back tax to be collect
ed. City Attorney Chenault said
that a number of suits have al
ready been prepared anl ar>
ready to be filed at the October
term Of circuit court.
At this point Iaypr C'Ncil
brought the subject OF wc, king
the city prisoners on the streets.
He said he'd made an examirl-
ton of the jailer's bill AMI found
that during August the city had
paid bill of $13O for board and
other incidcntals at The Jail. The
records showed that 81 men had
been sentenced to 63 days Tor
drunkenness; l man to Il .laJ 5
for all old offense; 10 men 10 Is
days for breach of the peace and
2 men to 4 days fo- l:sortieriy
conduct or total of "a days for
"a men. He urged that instead
of idling i'll the jail, an eXpcnse to
the people and at no inconven-
ience to many of them. that they
be put on the streets keeping the
new thoroughfares in tiptopshape
and getting out rock an1 working
on other streets where nccde:!.
Comcilmen Mershon. Altman,
and Golden spoke heartily in fav-
or of the plan.
City Attorney Chcualllt srg-
gested than in making his jsil
sentences Judge Smith niust spc-
city at hard labor" so that the
men can be taken out aud work
ed.
\ motion was then unani:n.Is-
ly passed that Street Commission
er Altman get the prisoners out
on the streets at the earliest pos
sible moment and reduce MS sal
.aried force as low as is consist
, ent with good service.
The ordinance changing the
method of electing the mayor as
published elsewhere was then
passed.
8 Councilman Golden sought some
relief from the city branch which
he says is stopped up in many
places; and is prolific breeding
place for mosquitoes, bad odors.
etc. He urged that the Health
Officer look after it. Mr.. Golden
also asked TO have some work
done on Smith Ballard street
which needs cleaning up on one
side. he said.
D. B. Shackelford asked the
council to look into the condition
of the concrete pavement in front
of his home on Lancaster avenue
The sidewalk has been badly liam
aged and demolished by heavy
vehicles driving over it while the
street was blocked when being
paved. He thought it hardly fair
that he should be forced to pay
the most of the repairs. The
Street Committee was directed tC
investigate the matter and given
power to act.
F., After auditing of the bills, the
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