| Show doings of the city dads probably the most important sic ac tion of the city council at its regular monthly meeting last night was the a pointing appointing of a committee to devise means if possible to finance the cites share of the purposed new city and count building T reports from legal sources indicated that their is no way in which the city can borrow money to build sit at the th e present time but councilman adams I 1 stated that rather than let th eunity of operation cooperation co with the county counte go by lie he would be willing to sign a note with other members of the council to get the money mas Ma or orVan van euren buren suggested that he ie would like to see a committee from the cour council cil and one florn the chamber ot at Comme work on the proposition ion and that individual individual citizens might bp be induced duped ili t to furnish the cap itol for that work v iab the assar ranee rance that the city would P div tv them back with wilh interi A t within two to five veirs J hn T r rims rass isen D A uit ie ii i no TU T 1 D adams wele ii a the committee to investigate mr M L gards request that the council place a value on the street between blocks four and eleven is in plat C recently vacated by ordinance resulted in their valuing that land at 1600 and mr was to be so notified the petition of john R adams and others through their attorney durham morris that ane city cita refund d to them erroneously eroneous ly collected during 1920 1921 and 1922 on property which was segregated from the city at the time paragonah Para gonah fields withdrew was denied for the reason that statutory provisions make the county commissioners the ones to make such refunds and they in turn get redress from the city the council felt that the peti were entitled to the refund but that action should go through the proper channel mrs evangeline woollens Wool leys application to furnish furni ih board for all city pi isomers during the next year was ordered returned to her with the request that she submit a bid for furnishing board this action was taken with the idea that ether licensed concerns conc eins might also have the privilege of submitting bids the city attorney asked for a two weeks leave of absence that he be might be gone from the city for a couple of weeks the city recorder ic ported POTted that a recent letter horn flom mr the engineer who is to have charge of the construction of the light plant was to the effect that he be would be here about the list last of november no further word has been received from him commissioner suggest edt ed that hatin in his opinion the present city officials should make a complete inventory of all the property owned by the city including implements supplies etc and turn ikover it over to the new administration taking receipt for it so that the new officers might know just what property the city does own the work of maling making such an inventory was referred a committee appointed some time since sincero sin ceto to inventory and appraise the present light and water systems and consisting of edgar benson from the council geo D morris john T mitchell and S A halterman councilmen matheson Ma and benson were also appointed to arrange for an audit of the cites accounts as required by the recent law at the same time as the county has its audit audit made several notes given the city in payment of f fines ines were ordered turned over to the attorney with instruct eions to collect bringing suit if becs sary some other minor matters were disposed of the usual budget of claims allowed and the meeting adjourned i |
