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Show APRIL FOOL PAPER GETS BY COUNCIL The city fathers have had a real April. Fool joke played upon them and they are at a loss' to know how it got by them. When it was presented in the Council it was read by title- by Recorder Re-corder J. B. Morcton and President A. J. Davis placed it in the hands of a committee. - . . ; The documents were made readv for the Mayor's signature, but one of the city employees in looking up another petition, -came across the ratal docu- i ment, and it is now in the hands of the Waterworks committee where it will Frobably die. The petition reads as ollows: ' "Deborah henceforth desires to petition peti-tion your honorable body to run an iron pipe down Timbuctoo avenue and chase into Elm club resort to connect with a beer keg. April Fool." |