The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-08
LOCAL LEGISLATION
Council Intends to Make a Fight
Right Now to Decide Legality Of
The Street Markers

of that body except Mr. E. Fl. Mar
tin, and by the mayor and city attor-
ney.
Mr.. William Littledale appeared
before the council to ask that the city
pay for car of his that he claims
an employee of the city was respon-
sible for smashing. This matter was
referred to a committee for action.
The committee was given power to
pay the loss to Mr.. Littledale should
mis- claim be proven just.
Messrs. Ray & Thomson appeared
before the council asking a building
permit to erect dwelling for Mr..
Walter Ray on his lot just east of the
R. c. Camp residence on South Fifth
street. The plans for this building
call for about $4,000 to be expended
in its construction.
DR.. J. w. Hood appeared asking an
adjustment on his water bill. 1t ap-
pears that DR.. Hood has never paid
over the minimum until last fall
when his bill ran to something over
Sl1. DR.. Hoods request was refused
because it was shown that his meter
was correct and that any excess in
water was due to some leak for which
the city is not responsible.
The clerk read letter from the
Board of Trade asking that the coun-
Gil appoint committee or two to meet
with similar committees from all the
organizations of the city in an at
tempt for concentration and co-opera !
tion in all matters pertaining to the
improvement of Ocala. This commit
tee will be named later.
The Farmers Exchange Store was
granted the privilege of unloading
solid carloads of freight at its side
door from the A. C. L. siding on Os-
ceola street.
The clerk read communication
from Mr.. Harry Wilmington, request
ing the city to reimburse him in the
amounts of $3.50 and $111O, which
amounts were the cost of repairs on
his truck and the fine in recorders
court for hitting the dummy at the
Marion Hardware corner. Mr.. Whit
tington's letter explained that there
was no light on the dummy at the time
and that the driver of the truck was
unable to see it. Mr.. R. E. Walever
made like claim for hitting thesdum-
my at the Harrington corner, except
that the damage to his car amounted
to about $125. City Attorney Hooker
advised the council to refuse these
claims or requests and sit tight. The
council decided to make a fight right
now for the dummy policemen. The
council is determined to retain the
dummy policemen if they are proved
legal and will have them removed
should such claims as Mr. Whiting
toms and Mr.. Walever's be sustained.
The report of DIR. Watt, city health
officer, was read and approved. DR..
Watts report was quite a feather in
the hat of the Marion County Cream
cry. 1t appears that the city has an
ordinance requiring all milk sold in
Ocala to have bacterial count of less
| than $4,000. Only two of Ocala's
dairymen had milk that came up to
the standard. The creamery milk had
5000 bacteria and the milk from the
Parker Painter farm showed a count
of $4,000. All the rest were above
the $4,000 mark and most of them
were between 10000 and 250,000.
The council is unable to stop the sale
of this milk at once because of the
| scarcity, but DR.. Watt has been in
structed to insist that the other dairy
men improve the condition of their
milk at once.
| The report of the chairman of the
rest room was read and showed that
the ladies had made gain in finances
and that 706> ladies had registered
there during the past month.
! DR.. Henry introduced an ordinance
prohibiting the refunding of money to
citizens by the council for excessive
light or water bills, unless it can be
proven that the meter was defective
and registering too fast. A further
stipulation of this ordinance was that
any councilman voting to refund
money on such a bill was Immediately
made personally responsible for the
payment of the entire bill.
Mr.. j. W. Saville, representing the
Bertram Ibbetson Company of At
lanta, was awarded the contract te
audit the city books covering period
of three years from Jan. 1st, 1919, tc
Dec. 31st, 1921. Mr.. Saville made a
bid of 5000 for this work, which bic
was the lowest submitted. Mr.. Savill'
highly complimented Ocala on hel
clerks Office. He said that he hat
seen quite number of city Offices bu