NEW TOIVH BOARD WILL STOP fiim i Bin; i Retiring Mayor F. E. Straup Was Presented With a Handsome Gold Watch Fob He Responded to F. W. Quinn's Presentation Presenta-tion Speech in a Masterly Fashion Mayor Q. B. Kelly and the New Board Held Their First Regular Session Wednesday Evening They Decide on a New Policy and Put the Lid On. At the first regular meeting Jpf the 'town board, which was held Wednesday evening behind closed doors, a policy of a closed town was decided upon, and I hereafter gambling and bootlegging bootleg-ging will be dealt with roughly. I The members of the board are in dead earnest about this matter mat-ter and have so instructed the police department. The fact that the chief or police is ap- ) pointed only temporarily is good evidence that the new board mean business and will remove ; him unless he obeys their man- . date. It was also decided that no undesirables will be harbored in I1 1 the camp, but those who cannot prove a definite place of employment employ-ment will be asked to leave town lfir will be locked up. Mayor Q. I B. Kelly aftd the other members I " of the board who have accepted I positions on the board and have I . taken their oath of office to en- 5 " force the ordinances do not in-I in-I ! . tend to allow things to slide ' along and to wink at open viola-) viola-) v,&rfs,-of the law - t i F'Jf Old Officers are Feted. - i At the city hall Monday night the members of the old and new boards . P - met in Joint session and the mantle of authority passed into new hands. A large crowd was present In the building build-ing to witness the formality of the change, , This last meeting of the old board, was very impressive. The final business busi-ness of the administration was wound , It and disposed of and everything j 1 i) Viced in perfect condition bo that' . I ,tb new administration; might begin I with a clean slate, IMr. Sullivan, the. I public accountant, who has been em- ! I ployed to audit the town books, pre-, I sented his report, which showed that' I they were In excellent condition. I Following this a handsome gold I watch fob of Elk design was present- of a successful. business concern. After the Joint meeting the new board went Into executive session to make the appointments and transact such business as the meeting called i for. President of the new board is Q. B. Kelly,' and the board members are j C. iB. Adderley, .H. S. iBrownlee, S. L. ,'Byram and T. B: ertephehfl. iMr. iBy-ram iBy-ram was a member of the old board. That the board Is preparing for an economic administration is shown by the fact that at this first meeting I plans were set in motion that will save the town $430 a month to begin with, ,To accomplish this some offices offic-es were abolished and- others were consolidated. The following appointments appoint-ments were made: - - Ued .to Dr. F. IB. Straup, president of the retiring board, by the board 1nem-X 1nem-X . bers and the town officers as a token ' . of their esteem. The presentation ' was made by F. W. Quinn, clerk to . the board, in an appropriate talk. Mr. Quinn. in speaking for himself and the others, expressed appreciation for the fair and Just manner In which Dr. Straup had presided during the past four years. He said that Dr. Straup had worked hard and faithfully for the betterment of the town, and that , in doing this he was actuated by no selfish motives, but did his work for , the improvement of the town. " . ' Tn receiving the present. Dr. Straup v-'- made a very Impressive talk and reviewed re-viewed his relations with the board members for the past four years, ' . which he said had been very congenial. con-genial. He stated that he had been associated with a number of business, ,', social and fraternal organizations, but ' A.-d never been with one where so .1 much congeniality and unanimity of purpose existed. There were differ-j ' ences at times, but on all the great issues the board members and the president were a unit. He also said V that the affairs of the town were be-1 ing handed over to the new board In a splendid condition, and that it could begin its work with a - clean slate. The new board members were reminded remind-ed that they were elected on the rec- ord of the retiring board and he expressed ex-pressed the belief that they would maintain tho standard set by those ' - have had charge of the affairs of i tr the town for the past four years. His talk was listened to most attentively 0 ' by the crowd, and all who heard him W ' were favorably impressed with his re- marks. . ' The personnel of the ex-board is: is 1 President, Dr. F. B. Straup; board members, S. J. 'Hays, W. V. Evans S, I L. Hyram and It. . Johns. The town . owes them a debt of gratitude for the j 1 excellent service they have rendered, ' When they came Into office they found 1 1 much work to be done and they did " it, and did it well. The splendid ce-men ce-men t sidewalks, the Increased water upply. the commodious town hall, the 1J modern fire trucks, fire hall, improved lighting system and other valuable improvements will be a fit and lasting t tribute to the aid they rendered the town. And in spite of the great im-I im-I i provements made which cost (large sumsif money, they were made with-i with-i out burdening the town with debt. So ') when the affairs were wound up they did not pass to the new board any 1 dt-lits they had created during their 1 tenure in office. This of itself speaks 4 much for their work. The affairs of fi 'the town. were handled much like that 1 : -" k F. W. Quinn, clerk; S. S Jones, chief of police (temporary); Phil Cul-leton, Cul-leton, patrolman; William Fobbins, water superintendent; VV. E. Alexander, Alexan-der, assistant water superintendent and special police duties; II. N. Stand-ish. Stand-ish. custodian of the city hall and health officer. The offices of health officer and custodian of buildings were consolidated, and the position made vacant by the recent resignation resigna-tion of Policeman White will be filled I by one of the above officers in con-i con-i nectlon with the other work. The of-j of-j fice of city attorney was abolished as ! a salaried office. The legal offices at the city hall are occupied by Attorney I A. C. Cole, who located here several months ago, and hereafter the legal work of the city will be handled on the fee system. In the organization of the board Mr. Adderley was selected se-lected treasurer. For, days and weeks the people on the street have been talking and asking ask-ing each other who would be the appointees ap-pointees of the new administration. There was very little guessing, and the majority of those who discussed the matter seemed to want to get the other fellow's idea, but the other fellow fel-low seldom gave it. Since the inauguration inaug-uration of the new board there are now a great many who are anxious to know what policy it will pursue and there has been quite a 'little talk on the matter. Rumors on the street say that the authorities are going to be more exacting on those who reside in the town and have no visible means of support. So far as is known officially offic-ially there will be no sweeping changes. chang-es. Those mentioned above are nlong the line of retrenchment with a view of conserving the finances of the town, and this was made possible by the fart that there is not bo much demand de-mand for police work as when there were 28 open saloons. As has been mentioned time and again In the local paper, the water (Continued on page 8) NEW TOWN BOARD WILL STOP (Continued from page 1) ' V question is to receive some consideration. considera-tion. This will be done in an attempt to furnish the people with a better and purer supply of drinking water. The town now has an abundant Bupply I of water for fire fighting purposes, I but some of It is liable to become contaminated con-taminated at times whereby it Is not lhe best for drinking purposes. Already a tavlng of $4.'!0 a month ' t has been provided for, but this saving x' . will not make up the amount that was lost when the change was made from wet to dry. So it will doubtless be necessary to raise the taxes in some lines, increase the price of water and so on In order to provide sufficient funds for the upkeep of the town. This work, however, is entrusted to good hands and the people of the camp can rest assured that it will be handled in a Bane, business-like way. ,