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date: 1954-02-01
title: February 1, 1954 Minutes
source: 1954-02/1954-02-01_February 1, 1954_Minutes.pdf
pages: 1
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February 1, 1954

CITY OF STOCKBRIDGE
HENRY COUNTY, GEORGIA FEBRUARY 1, 1954

A regular meeting of the Stockbridge City Council held at the City Hall on Feb. 1st 1954 at 7:30 p.m. with the
following members present: Perry G. Foster, Mayor; Councilmen B. Knowles Jr., A. P. Ward, R. G. Moseley,
J. T. Mays Jr. and G. S. Keen.

Meeting called to order by the Hon. Mayor Perry G. Foster.

Minutes of the call meeting of Jan. 11th 1954 read, and upon a motion by A. P. Ward and a second by B.
Knowles Jr. and carried by a vote of the Council to stand approved as read.

Communications read.

A discussion of building a block wall on the east side of the street in front of the stores on the line between
the street and RR right away, protecting same, and to prevent cars from rolling off down the railway bank
onto the RR tracks, and then filling in the street with quarry sand, some of the merchants agreeing to bear
part of the expense and the City agrees to help all their financial condition will permit them to.

Upon a motion by R. G. Moseley and a second by A. P. Ward and carried by a vote of the Council to close
the alley on the west end of the stores at the south end from the south wall of Cochran’s Hardware store to
Highway No. 42 GA and US 23 by a gentleman agreement between Mr. J. W. Clark, Mr. Perry G. Foster, Mr.
L. B. Cochran and Mr. W. L. Wyatt, from the north wall of Foster Service Station 40 feet. The alley will be 20
feet wide instead of 10 feet, north to the property of the Southern Bell Telephone Company. *

Upon a motion by B. Knowles Jr. and a second by A. P. Ward and carried by a vote of the Council to donate
a City lot in the area of the school building at a suitable location for the erection of a new gymnasium.

Upon a motion by A. P. Ward and a second by J. T. Mays Jr. and carried by a vote of the Council to adjourn.
G. S. Keen, Clerk

*Paragraph No. 3 omitted until deed is made and dimensions stated and inserted in said paragraph, then
read & approved or disapproved.
