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date: 1947-03-24
title: March 24, 1947 Minutes
source: 1947-03/1947-03-24_March 24, 1947_Minutes.pdf
pages: 1
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March 24, 1947

CITY OF STOCKBRIDGE
HENRY COUNTY, GEORGIA MARCH 24, 1947

The call meeting of the City Council held in the City Hall.

Meeting called to order by the Hon. R. E. Lee, Mayor with the following Councilmen present, W. L. Wyatt, H.
R. Turpin, J. Q. Moseley, F. G. Owen & G. S. Keen.

A discussion of Jug (Juke) Box license of Augustine Slaughter was discussed and a motion by F. G. Owen
and 2nd by H. R. Turpin and carried by a vote of the Council to set the license at $25.00 a year or any fraction
thereof, and that the Pinball Machines be outlawed in the City of Stockbridge.

Mr. Cochran of Decatur met with this body and a waterworks system was discussed as to the different kind
of materials, such as cast iron pipe, also asbestos cement pipe and the difference of installation charges on
the different materials. An estimate only is what these figures represent.

Installation for cast iron $17,050,80
" asbestos cement 15,576.60

The following bills were read: W. H. Gibson for work on City Hall, $16.00; R. E. Lee for paint $9.00; door lock
$7.50, total 16.50; Williams Bros. for 100 L.F. 1 x 2, $4.00; one 3x7 x 1¾ six pound door $18.70 total $22.70;
The Advertiser Printing Co. for election ballots $2.50. Motion by W. L. Wyatt and 2nd H. R. Turpin and carried
by a vote of Council to pay the above bills.

Clerk instructed to write the following companies for prices on a water tank of 60,000 gal. Capacity on 75 &
100 ft towers—R. D. Cole, Newnan, GA; Taylor Iron Works, Macon, GA; Chicago Bridge & Iron Works.

A motion by W. L. Wyatt, 2nd H. R. Turpin and carried by a vote of Council to adjourn until next meeting.

G. S. Keen, Clerk
