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Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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Town council meeting decisions: increased Policeman Hough's salary to $1/day; accepted C. M. H. sigh's resignation as Fire Chief; ordered Sunday drugstore closures with exceptions; planned paving of Liberty Street; upheld hog law allowing hogs at large until September 15 then confinement; considered cows but issued no bill.
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At a recent meeting of the town council, the salary of Policeman Hough was increased to $1 per day. The resignation of C. M. H. sigh Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, was accepted. On petition of the druggists, it was ordered that all drugstores in the town be closed on Sundays except from 12 to 1 A.M. and 4:30 to 6 and 8:30 to 9:30 P.M. unless to fill prescriptions. Liberty street, from East street to the East's run, is to be paved. The hog law is to stand their hogships to run at large until 15th of September, then confined until the 1st of June unless sooner disposed of. Cows were under consideration but no "bill" issued against them.
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Town council increased Policeman Hough's salary to $1 per day, accepted resignation of C. M. H. sigh as Chief Engineer of Fire Department, ordered drugstores closed on Sundays with exceptions for prescriptions, planned to pave Liberty Street from East Street to East's run, upheld hog law allowing hogs at large until September 15 then confinement until June 1 unless disposed, considered cows but issued no bill.