Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-13
COUNCIL TAKES
TIME TO NAME
ACITY CLERK


With four applications on file, the
Douglas city council last night voted
to defer selection of city clerk to fill
the vacancy resulting from the death,
last Saturday, OF City Clerk G. W..
Pratt until a special meeting to be
called by the mayor 1t was decided to
read the applications on file and this
disclosed the four candidates already
in{the contest to be: H. P, Wiley, E. G..
Piper, w. L. Smith and Thomas G..
Davis.
At it's first session since the death
of the late city clerk, Mrs. Lillian
Darling, for the past five years an
employe in the city clerks office, per-
formed the duty of clerk for the coun-
Gil session and it was voted that she
continue in the capacity of acting
clerk until the council shall have made
it's selection Of some one for that post.
In starting the session of the council,
Mayor A. E. Hinton made mention OF
the death of Clerk Pratt, paying high
tribute to the efficiency of that offic-
ial and declaring that the city govern
49,
his death The mayor suggested that
due to the need of some one to act as
clerk from day to day, wisdom dictated
that the power be delegated by council
action and it was upon this that the
council named Mrs. Darling for the
interim.
Council proceedings were routine
and brief All members answered roll
CALL
The police department reported
nine county arrests, IL federal arrests
and 86 city arrests, a total of LOT, for
which 528 meals were required, 800
of these being for federal prisoners.
The city marshals report accounted
for receipts by months as follows:
September, $2,O31; October, 1888; No
vember, 1881.
The fines by the police court totaled
$279.5O, charges of drunkenness MAX
ing up $185, traffic violations $72 and
miscellaneous $22.50.
{ For the information of the council,
a report was made on the cost Of paint
ing the traffic signs on the street the
last time as follows: Labor, $85, and
materials $275.6O, total of $4,000.
When the council had concluded its
business of routine character, COM
mittee from the Y NJ G. A. composed
of F.. E. Bennett, Albert Stacy and S.
L. KlutZ presented request for bet
ter lighting at the "Y'' building. Ben
nett was spokesman for the committee
setting forth the situation and asking
! for relief. He stated that there was, a
need for two lights at the front of the
building and two on the ends at the
alleys and it was proposed by the COM
mittee that if the council will provide
the two that are needed on the alleys
and furnish the posts for the two at
I the front, that the Y. NJ c. A. will
connect the two on the posts to its
own lighting system after it has in
stalled the two posts at its own ex-
pense, and that the lights added or
| the two posts will cost the city moth
J ing but the posts, which it has ir
stock. The other lights to be main
tanned on the alleys will be part OF
the city lighting charge. The council
! voted favorably to the request and the
lights will be installed at once.
Bennett said that it had been recog-
| rized for some time that the street ir
front of the building was too dark fol
such a crossing, but that it had beer
allowed to go unchanged until recently
when the father and son" banquet
was held, some tire and accessories
i thieves worked over the machine!
causing quite loss. That brought
1.-THE need so forcefully to the attention
that it was decided to remedy it.