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There was an adjourned meeting Tuesday night It came to order at 8:20, then 20 minutes more to read- ing the minutes. Colonel Turnley presented a petition from the north end people for a hose cart up there; the right thing, of course. The board of‘healthwreported concerning gar- bage boxes in some alleys, and the flushing of the open sewers at certain points where there are no sewers. The appro riation bill was passed, a total of I5 ,726, incl11ding $1000 for library fund, $3000 for street lights, $1260 for streets and bridges, There were lots of new sidewalks ordered, plank and cement. Plank on McGovern and on west end, we think, of the Lasher lot on St. Johns. Cement in front of» all the lot where Mr. Bohl lives, the old W. E. Brand house, from Park avenue to Central; in front of R. J. Street’s; north and west of Presbyterian church; in front W. S. Lasher‘s, the Poppleham and Corey houses; in front of J. R. Mc- Quiston's; lots 16 and 22,- blk. 23, and some more. ‘There may be er- rors in this, as we were excluded from the city maps. Alderman Cobb introduced a res- oluiion to exclude the representative of the News and other outsiders from the floor of the chamber and it was passed by three votes, Cobb, Obee an’d Phillipswhow Mr. Fritsch voted We don’t know. Colonel Dav- idson made a motion to invite the News man inside the rail, but he only voted for it. The editor of the News told the council he was invited to the floor, a chair and table pro- vided for his special service during Colinel Turnley’s administration, and that in all legislative bodies sim- ilar accommodations were provided for the press. He has occupied Al- derman Cushman’ is chair during his absence. If the city council :can uf ford to put itself on record in this rmutionnry manue r, the Nexis, we VOL II Highland Park News. HIGHLAND PARK, ILL., JULY 23, 1897. ‘ l - NO 8 Alderman Phillips read a full re- port of the committee to investigate the mayor. The committee found out nothing but the fact that they had no business with the matter, a fact they should have learned Before they started. The report let the committee down as easy as possible. It Was read and filed. , They divid‘ ed the city into - two sprinking dis triple: (lantrnl avenue and all non-til) into one, and all south into the other. Mr. Phillips said he had paid Mr. Tillman for all the work and now Mr; Falk presented him bills, and he wants order and justice. Mr. Obee said the Northwestern folks would put down a 15-inch tile and drain all that region just west of. Raflen Baker’s coal yards and Michael Duggan‘s lots if the city would fur- nish the tile -â€"a grand thing for all concerned. Bids were ordered for the tile. The street through block 44, opposite the Highwood M. E. church, never has had a name and so the council named it Logan, in honor of the hero of this week’s Chiâ€" cago doings. The matter of a ce- ment sidewalk around the McDonald block was postponed till the next meeting to give him a chance to be heard from. thougha lot- of cement walk was ordered also on lots 7, 8, 9 and 10 in block 25. Mr. Fritsch called attention to the fact that the extension of sewer “A” up north, to reach him and others had progressed but little for two yearsmnd he want- ed something done. " The attorney was called out and stated the supâ€" posed points of the new law, which were a, surprise to many. .After ordering a lot of bills paid Mr. Phil- lips made what the prohibitionists would call a “rattling good campaign speech” concerning the scandalous sales of intoxicants here in the city in an open manner. adding that he guess. can endure it. That Messrs. Cobb and Obee should vote in that way did not surprise us, but we con- fess tb a little that a man like Mr. Phillips should entertain such a measure. was, ‘iHI-i'fartx‘iéahtimat bfirrels“ Maid I i tale of liquor were shipped (here to our drug stores and sold for other than medicinal purposes, and he had a resolution for the police to 'look this matter up, and it passed unani- mously. About 11 o’clock they adâ€" journal. V The next meeting will be in two weeks, Aug. 3. It may be a grewsome‘ subject, but Highland Park has no grave yard and needs one. There are» old burial places scattered all about town, the most conspicuous being the 031i? SE. ‘ Mary-‘3' ultur‘ifix” Lynn}. Then we‘ are toldthere are old aban- doned graves up in Port Clinton, as there are in the woods west of the track and street, up north of Alfred St. Peter’s. Probably we have at least 75 deaths, perhaps 100 every year, and ‘no place in which to bury them. Hence our people are obliged to go to Waukegan, Lake Forest, Rose Hill, Graceland or Calvary, all of them off out of town, where lots are expensive, and it is expensive taking our friends’ remains there for interment. And here we are, with some 3500 people and no place to bury our dead. This is a very imâ€" portant matter, especially as the Lake Forest people are moving to shut out all outsiders. A local home cemetery, therefore, is a necessity, and the sooner something is done about it the better. The city, we suppose, has bought in at tax sale the old St. Mary's, which is on high and dry land, easy of access. and why not make plans towards enlarg- ing and utilizing' that? Some of our good people have spoken of it, and we see not Why it maL not be done. We attend a coaL and ice office part of the time and wonder why it is that so many people wait till the lust shovel of coal is in thestove and tho ico clwst absolutely vmpty lm; fore they order a now supply. and tlwn tlwv want it “right ”if." WANTEDuA CEMETERY.