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HomeMy Public PortalAbout1936_01_27 2 At a regular meeting of the Mayor and Town Council, held in the Council Chamber, on January 27, 1936, there were present E. N. Bradfibld, Mayor, Roscoe B. Rhoads, Recorder; Herbert Howard, Harry F. Newton, W. Emory Plaster, Roger D. Shroy and Joseph H. Turley, Cokjncilmen. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The following bills were read, approved and ordered paid:- Ill • H. & H. Chevrolet Sales, • $ 1.38 Frye Motor Co., - - - - 2.35 Loudoun Times Publishing Co., 5.00 • Bituminous Products Corporation, 120.00 J. S. Whitmore, Agent, 16.50 George Murray, 10.00 Westinghouse Electrical Supply Co.,- - - - 13.46 $168.69 • On motion of Councilman Plaster, duly seconded, Mrs. A. F. Rogers was granted permission to use the Mayor's Office, in the Town Hall Building, for the issuance• of the Virginia State Automobile Tags, for 1936, with the understanding that the Mayor and Town Council mould assume no responsibility, whatever, for any .,• losses that might be incurred. The Recorder was instructed to write Mrs. Rogers accordingly. • Mayor Bradfield returned to the Council the cancelled Water Bond, which was ordered paid at the meeting of January 13, 1936, and same was handed to the Town Sergeant to be filed in the safe. Messrs. James deZerega and J. W. Howard, of the Virginia Public Service Co., appeared before the Council, and advised that there had never been a contract for the lighting of the streets of the Town of Leesburg, in Virginia. They sub- mitted a contract for the consideration of the Council, which was discussed at some length, and deoided to hold the matter under further consideation, until the next meetitg;of the Council. A map of the Town of Leesburg, in Virginia, which was prepared• by Mr. E. Marshall Rust, of the Rust Engineering Company, was presented to the Council by Mayor Bradfield, on behalf of Mr. Rust. The map shows the residence numbers of the houses throughout the Town, and it is the intention, in due course of time, to have all of the houses properly numbered. On motion of Councilman Howard, du- • ly seconded and carried, a vote of thanks was extended to Mr. Rust for the prep- arration of the map, and the Recordercwas instructed to convey the thanks of the Council to him. The contract of Mr. G. W. Hume, who has rented a room in the Town Hall building, was presented to the Council, approved and handed to the Town Sergeant to be filed in the safe. It was moved by Councilman Plaster, duly seconded and carried, that the Recorder send a bill to the V. Saplon Co., Brunswick, Maryland, for rent for the month of January, 1936, in the amount of $30.00. There being no further business; on motion, the Council adjourned. on / MAYOR. \ RECORDER. .