Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-12-15
CITY COMMISSIONERS HAVE BUSY
MEETING

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City Commissioners, Acting Solicitor
Palmer M. Way reported on another
law suit which has been hanging fire
against the city since the new officials
took Office. This was the case of
Reuben Norcross for back salary as
policeman which he claimed was due
him. Attorney Way reported that an
appeal had been refused by Judge
Eldredge on Tuesday and that this
definitely settled the case.
The third ward fire house lodge
room came in for some little discus
sion at the meeting. A committee rep
~resenting the women's lodges which
occupy this room appeared and re-
quested that the Commissioners have
one of the ante rooms cleared out and
that the chairs and rubbish now
stored in same be removed so that the
room can be made into a waiting o
This matter was ordered done by the
officials. They then instructed the
solicitor to draw up regular leases
for the lodges using these rooms and
final action came when the Commits
sioners ordered the clerk to notify the
lodges that the building would not
permit dancing on the third floor and
requesting them to do away with this
form of amusement in the lodge
rooms. This action makes even more
evident the need of a place in the city
for a social center and this need was
strongly shown by Leon Wheaton,
acting as a committee from the Ameri-
can Legion, and urging the Commits
sioners to give first consideration to
the need of a convention hall in the
city. He stated that the Legion had
been advocating such a building for
two years and promised that the
Commissioners would have the sup
port of the Legion in every way for
any action they would take on this
matter.
The ordinance permitting the w. &
D. B. S. L. r. r. Co. to increase the
number of tracks on Park boulevard
was passed on it's first and second
readings. One good thing reported at
the meeting was that the epidemic OF
measles. is lessening. Health officer
Ingersoll stated that but five cases
had been reported to him during the
past week.
Several communications were read
One of these was from the Baptist
Sunday-school urging that the Com
missioners use theft influence in pre-
venting Sunday motion pictures. An
other communication of interest to the
city was that which told that the side
walk work being done by Contractors
Craythorn & Nickerson was not up tc
grade and had not been passed by In.
spector Long and Engineer Weir. Il
appears that about 5 per cent loan
has been used in this work and the re.
suit is that the finished work is toe
soft. This fault seems to have de-
veloped through oversight and MOI
done purposely, however, and the
contracting parties are willing to teal
Up this work and do it over in the cor
rect manne
People who recall the trouble arts
ing last summer when the Commits
sioners closed up many games along
the boardwalk will be interested il
the motion adopted by them OF Tues
day. This motion states that befor'
mercantile licenses are issued to PEG
pie to run games on the walk in thu
future these people will have to pre-
sent their proposition to the city OF
ficials for inspection and approval be
fore any licenses r issued. Thi
method of procedure will 40 doubt d.
away with any trouble in the futur'
such as the city had last summer
The reading and ordering payment o
bills, the reports of the week and tn
usual routine business rounded up tn
days transactions.