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Show CITY COONCIL IN SESSION. Gets Dusy And Makes Tax Levy of 17 Mills for Year 1918 Appoints Committee for Celebration of Twcnty.Fourtli Routlno Business Attended to. . Tho City. Oo.unoil mot In council obambors on the.' evening of Jnly.'O nnd ntton.ded to u grnut deal of routine butiueta'oauueatod with tho city government and work, nnd salfio took farther into causlderntiou tho tho construction tof, an cxteiiBiou of. the water systom from 1st South 'aud 3rd West strootH to the realaenoo of W. W. TLunt; which after aomo dis-cuttiion dis-cuttiion was t of or red tu tho com mlttue ou wator system, who will go over the proposition carefully aud report at a later dnto. J, E. Dover t wns proeont and oirerrd to furnish lime with which to lluah out tho wtor system, for 35 cents pir buBbol, ayreolrg to e'lnelc tho snmo, provided tha city would furnish ono man , to nssiBt, On motion of Conn. Lunt tho purchasing of tho lime waa referred to tho committoo ou irrigation' with instractlous to HCt. '. Tho' question of tho tax lovy for tho your 1010 thou cumo up nnd tho following roaiilta cro obtained: Lory for Lib. and Gym. 2 Mills " ". Interest on UondB 1 " " " Sinking Fund 2 " ;" " SprjclHl Water Tax 1 ,r " " Genorul Fund P " Totnln Mills. Tho treneurer wan Instructed to secure n tnitablo book for the Hating or air'watr tap liters, nnd MilaoVin. fitructedlo notify all .A26erp;ofjttioir Tcr.tRTTi!imnrwWTCPmt)htiirTeitrrni to oxplrutlon of lloaceo. Council cdjourned. Council mot July 10th hnd tho following btnluesinttouded tu: Couu Lolsh reported having visited Ouehier'Foater iu rolatinu to cashing City Warrants n3 thny wero presented to him, u s til tho city Inxoi fro obtainable Mr. Foster Btuted that tho Bank would do bo, charging fi per cant, por dollar for so doing. Councilor Thorley roported having visited tho reservoir and stated ho had advised tho marshal and wntcr-mastor wntcr-mastor to huvo it repalrod, nnd to sec u io th uecjaaury liolp to complote the sumo. The question of a committee to arruugo for1 the csiebrallon 'of tho Twenty-Fourth wiib brousht up by Lunt nnd upon motion tho following citizous wero appointed to Bet iu this capacity: -Edward Parry,. Andrew Corry, Ruudlo Lunt and J, R. RicknrdB. ' Tbo council upon the motion of Couu. Lujjt set aside Saturday, July 30, us Weed , Day, with tho understanding under-standing that ail citizen? bo ntged to turn out nnd clean thoHidwalks and Btreots abutting upon tbeir lutB. After allowing spmo bills tbo' council adjournod. |