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Show FEW RICHMOND RIPPLES Industrial Club Has Banquet Ban-quet and Feed The City Council lias Interesting Session. New Board Is Elected, Other News 1U0HM0ND, December 4, l'JOK. 'Tlio city council met in regular monthly session Monday night, Mayor J. V. Funk presiding, and for the llrst time In many months past a full attendance at-tendance of council was present. Parley Par-ley N. Nelson acted as chaplain and , s Invoked devinc guidance on the coun cil's work. It e polls weio lead, and bill-, to the amount of Jlton, principally foi street and bridge woik, vveie ,ii- lowed. The city tioasury. which has been practically empty foi some time, was greatly helped b the county turning turn-ing oer !M,IO() tax moiict The conn-cllois conn-cllois sahuy for this last ijuartcr is now assured. The main discussion of ' the evening, and the matter on which considerable lime was spent, was the water question. Some time ago tlio council appointed a committee to in-vestigato in-vestigato the advisability of the city coming Into control ot the different private water systems in the city. Little In public has been heard about the matter, however quiet but prcsist-ent prcsist-ent work and investigation has been carried out, until now the prospects for the city owning and controlling a city system is blighter and better than ecr befoee. The council ap-. ap-. , pointed a commltee to confer w ith the Irrigation loard legaullng the purchase pur-chase of certain springs to be Used In tho new city water sysiom TJils committee com-mittee consists, of Mcssis'Hjiunk, Thompson and Adanison. Aftei some routine work and a prayer by the chaplain the council adjourned for one month. Mr. Joseph Monson has Just letuincd from tho Copper King mine, Montana, In which1 he has heavy holdings, and brought with him fiom the mine a large sampls of ore containing LM per cjffeeiit copper. This Hue specimen can ? seen at the Coopstoie. Several stockholder of tlje Copper Mngaie residents of this place and they ate urging Mr. Monson to accept tho management man-agement of the company . Mr Alma and T II Merrill, of this place will take an oullltof several men and thirty teams to do some lailroad construction work In Nevada Tho company expects to leave on Monday next to commence woik about L'OO miles west of Ogdcn, at a small place called Deeth The work will require at least seven months to complete The outtifls now icady to start with exception of llirie four-horse teams, which areyet to besecureri. Mr. Merrill Mer-rill has Just purchased T.00 tons of hay at their camping place, to be used to reed the horses, as the con piny stands all expenses, besides paying the men $) per day for double team and fjj 50 per day single team. .John Harnett came down from' his work In Downey to have 11 Thanksglv. Ing dinner with his folks here. Ho returned to Downey Saturday. The Itichmon.l Industrial Club, the people who plead with cveryonu to "Pusliltlulimotid and Prosper," held their big dinner and blowout last night. A line program, though short, was rendeicd before and after tho "feed." Tho committees lu charge had arranged so that there was no waits nor drags, but something doing every minute from the time you entered en-tered the hall until thoeloso, and they convinced them that the best thing to. do Is to "Push Klchmond and Prosper." Pros-per." The following program was given: Professor Munn and a select male quartet from Logan, together with some home talent vveie greeted with applause. A good giaphaphone" furnished the music. A lecitation by Mrs. Lucy Funk was well rendered Speeches and toasts by S. W. Hendricks, Hen-dricks, C. . Hauls, . I W. Funk, S. It. feltord and others were given. IJvciyone attending thlsswe.II banquet went home wcllpleased and promised to boost the Klchmond Industrial Club to their utmost. As advertised In Tiik P.ki'uiiliuan, the Klchmond Irrigation boaul held their annual meeting Monday at L' p. m President Alma Merrill hadchaige of the meeting, which was well attended at-tended a new board was selected for the coming year, being composed of tieorge II. Naylor, K 11 Tripp, .1 W. Hendricks, Alma Merrill and P. N. Nelson. The last named was elected sccietary and S. V. Hendricks tieas-urer. tieas-urer. The board atjthls meeting In creased the water taKonfaim piOp- crtv to 15 cents per acre and on city I lots to 75 cents They decided to put In at points, to bo decided later, two Weir gates, these mostly for experiment. experi-ment. They authoiied tho reorganization reorgani-zation of the water district to conform con-form to the piesent laws. Kepdrts of d I (Tore nt kinds were read and appioved, among them being the financial ie-port, ie-port, which showed that disbursements disburse-ments amounting to over $l,f,oohad been made during the year, and that the board has a cash balance on hand at this time of S500 The city Is again fiee fiom conta-i geous diseases, the three scarlet fever cases at tho homes of .). I. Shepard, Charles Monson and C. K. Meiilll' having lecoveied. |