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Show ' 90 Years Ago in Davis County 1 Feb. 25, 1898 ' From the County Court Notes The report of the county treasurer showed a list of uncollectable taxes , for the year 1897 amounted to $37.69. From the Farmington City . Council The sanitary committee was instructed to have nuisances (caused by the present thaw) abated immediately. Mayor Walsh suggested that the council as a whole assisted by the marshal, take hold of the matter of repairing the channel of Big Creek through Mrs. Knowlton's pasture. Mayor Walsh was appointed to see Mr. Bamberger in relation to putting in abutments for a bridge and ascertain what material he intended in-tended using for the same. The Mayor appointed Clark Robinson to draft an ordinance creating a board of health and prescribing pre-scribing its powers and duties. 74 Years Ago in Davis County February 26, 1914 From the County Commission Frank Lambe and Wilford Stevenson as a committee representing repre-senting the Farmington Commercial Commer-cial Club asked that an appropriation appropria-tion be made to help pay for poison to destroy squirrels, as they are pests and are doing thousands of dollars worth of damage annually to farm crops. Kaysville Adoption of an ordinance regulating public and private dance halls. It shall be unlawful for any person per-son to become intoxicated in any public or private Dance Hall... or for any person in charge of Dance Hall to allow or permit any intoxicated, intoxi-cated, boisterous or disorderly per son to enter or remain ... it is unlawful unlaw-ful for any person to engage in any profane, vulgar or obscene language... lan-guage... It is unlawful to dance any indecent inde-cent or obscene dance or to engage in any dance commonly known or designated as "ragging," "Turkey trot" and "Walking" or the "Moonlight" dance or other dance of like character. The fine of not less than $10 nor more than $50 or imprisonment in the city jail for not more than 30 days or both fine and imprisonment. |