Show GEORGE ceorge NEW CITY MARSHAL city council C makes appointment and considers various other important matters the city council had one of its busiest and most important sessions thursday night and a good deal of business was vas accomplished which will have an ail important bearing on the city tion I 1 chief among the matters disposed 0 of was the e appo appointment of the lie c city ty marshal to succeed scott barton judging from the number of applications received for this position it would appear that the notion is prevalent that anybody can make a satisfactory atis factory marshal As a matter of fact this is one of the most important offices in ili the city and it requires a man of more than ordinary ability to make good in it the city council and the mayor believe they have hit upon the right man in the person of george and he was given the appointment and the unanimous support of the council mr has had experience and lie be has good judgment he will give a businesslike business like and effic lent administration of the office the next most important item was the resignation of the city attorney G T bean and the resignation was accepted the council was rather resentful of the action of the attorney who leaves them at a time that might be designated as under fire as the council has a segregation suit confronting it and only two days clays left in which to answer the complaint filed in the suit however tile the council will manage to puli along in addition to these matters the water was again up for consideration and the council is disposed to investigate the thompsons Thomp sons springs source of supply engineer will be here in a few days and the waterworks water works c committee biml atee will accompany the engineer and visit the springs make a thorough investigation of the feasibility of 0 securing the springs and get a tentative estimate of 0 the cost of bringing this water to richfield another matter presented was the of city supervision over certain water distribution by citizens who are willing to surrender their canal and old mill ditch water rights for city water rights with city supervision this matter was referred to tile the proper committee |