| Show CITY COUNCIL the city council met in the city hall yesterday at mayor LJ berrick presiding of last meeting were read and approved petition of philip roberts asking the council to sell him a city lot on the bench was referred te the corn on public grounds wm thorogood petitioned for and was granted to make in the old adolio yard oa the bench near the driving park petition of N C flygare aud three other asking the council to con eider the propriety of opening for public travel green street from i eighth street to the limits of the city was referred to the committee on streets on application of the respective parties named the following licenses were granted mark lindsay ice cream and summer drinks john f lowell jun wagons and agricultural implements jas IT nelson real estate agent F J kiesel co liquor dealers farr bros job wagon II 11 C dodge abt exhibition of mechanical figures john boyle A co furniture W orth wagons and agricultural machinery philip grill co meat market merchandise agnes A hetley millinery goods rob holroyde job angon geo A lowe wagons and agricultural implements john job wagon richards and grant insurance gents J wright co secondhand second hand goods B white builders jos wheelwright job wagon singer sewing machine co per M pratt agent sewing machines sebree ferris and holt and agricultural machinery jos stanford general merchandise jas E foote wagons buggies and harness achna impey job wagon W W burton wagons and agricultural implements in behalf of the citizens in the north part of the city alderman hutching asked the council to make the necessary improvements on the state road north of lynne lane and on the lynno lane west of the state road referred to the committee en streets of committees the committee on claims becom mended that the bill of smith welch and brown for sei vitea as witnesses in the third district court be allowed adopted the committee on finance reported that they had examined and found correct the respective reports of the auditor nd the treasurer and recommended their approval by the council adopted the committee on streets to whom was referred the petition of josiah leavitt asking the council to appropriate to him thirty dollars tor building the of a bridge on a road in the southeast south east part of the acty reported that certain conveyances of land needed for said road had not been consummated as per former agreement by interested persons the committee recon mended that twenty dollars of the claim be paid now and the balance when the necessary transfers of land are made adopted the committee on public works repeated reper ted that in connection with a committee fit the county court they let out the contract to furnish piles for weber bridge to mr If ammond ha being the lowest bid der they had employed D moore to bet up a plan and the specifications lor said bridge the plan had been submitted and approved and the specification specific atio were being prepared the report wa accepted and the pe instructed to continue their labor the committee on public ground to whom was referred the petition of window farr asking the council to sell him lot 10 in block 54 P A oden city survey recommended that the petition be granted and that the price of said lot bo adopted the bame committee recommends ed that lot in block 41 P city survey be sold to alma comp ton for the inspector of buildings in ft written report stated that according to the instruction of tha council he had examined the building owned by mr R on the south lide of fourth Street between young nd franklin and could not do other than condemn the same as un aade and dangerous to the pacing public ue had communicated the condition of the building to mr ballentyne who had agreed to have so much of the building as was liable fall taken down immediately the depot was received and the recorder Ke corder instructed to notify mr to abate the nuisance forthwith bills for public labor were wed the council adjourned to meet in the city hall may at p m WHAT FOOL those morl alabe is reevs motto in his number of may ath the armi nude ciulo urchin in stoic hat chows n few more of those fools up with his oa 01 say and humor the two page center cartoon is devoted to the wizard of menio park edison whose decadence from the phonograph to the poly form h depicted skill the adulteration of foode the manufacture ot milk from chalk and water the sanding et rine etc not forgetting prof mud the chemical expert vision is obstructed by a check so that he can find nothing deleterious in til the tea coalee sugar milk etc submitted to his analysis indeed butk convince us at one glance what knaves those martal p i |
