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Show City Council J. Takes Action $ At itt'iculiir Seslon City I'nthers Hack Up Jlornl Clean Town " Movement, t$$ Tho City Council met on thoJ 7th, tho Mayor and all the members bTirtg prcEent. "iS&! The Treasurer's report for 'August carries n credit balanco of JCS.OS.'.lo Street Supervlcor's wns recolvctland filed. $ Chalramn Olpfn of tho Claims Committee, Com-mittee, reporting on tho pavlngrfb linqucncy Investigation, stated -tlin't nearly all of those who aro In arrears will Bcttlo at an early date. Tho street sprinkling district .was extended on Stnto Street south io"a point near John P. Hay'u residence, west on Stnto to tho Salt Lako Routo tracks nnd on Fourth West from Stnto Street south, on tho usual condition con-dition thnt tho abutting proporty owners own-ers pay a stipulated amount hito tho sprinkling fund. ' , v Tho tax levy for 1014, for Pleasant Orovo City, computed at 12 mills, submitted sub-mitted by tho County Clerk amounts to J3.C79.20. - jj Dlshops S. L. Swonson npd J."'h. Walker of tho Second nnd Third wnrds, appeared in behalf of tho Par ent s Department of tho Sunday Schools, nud petitioned for tho installation instal-lation of electric lights in Pioneer Grove, by tho city, ns It is roported thut the grovo is being uBcd for improper im-proper purposes. After discussing tho matter pro' and con, tho motion prevailed pre-vailed that tho City Proporty coramli-teo coramli-teo Investigate in vciw of leasing tho park from tho words and properly lighting same. Tho question of illicit trnfTlc in Intoxicating In-toxicating liquors, and bringing Into tho city of quantities of whiskey nnd beers by peddlors nnd others, wns taken up very oplrltcdly. Tho marshal mar-shal stated that ho lo fully Convinced that a certain institution is despens-lug despens-lug Intoxicants. Tho marshal and his aid was Instructed to employ every lcgltlmato means to correct tho liquor evil, and to notify tho management manage-ment of tho local danco hall that if questionable dances aro permitted hereafter jis aro said to have been recently that the hall will bo closed. Thcro lo a manifest determination on tho pnrt of tho parents cf Pleasant Plea-sant Grovo to follow up the Clean Town contest with a moral clean up, which Is of vastly greater Importance than tho physical cleansing; nnd it s tho hopo of thoso most concerned that ovory lcgltlmato effort will bo employed by tho city offlclalo to correct cor-rect existing vices In lino of Illegal lispcnslng of intoxicants, improper Jnnccs and kindred ovlls which aro so provnlcnt |