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Council Hold* First
Meeting Tuesday Night
Committees were appointed Tuesday night, September 19, afc the first regular meeting of the new town council of Washington, at the Firehouse.
Town Treasurer Robert L. Brown met with the ladies and agreed to help the budget committee in establishing a tentative budget for the coming year. It was with some degree of deprecation that the ladies learned that the funds of the town were not a* great as expected. When they requested it, Treasurer Brown read a list of the warrants drawn, and it was found that $2,815.14 had been spent this year prior to September 1, $1,588 of this amount spent in the month of August alone.
A budget committee, composed of Miss Ruby Jenkins as chairman, and Mrs. Milton M. Hawkins, Jr., and Mrs. J. W. Price, will study the problems at hand, establish * tentative budget, and search for possible economy measures.
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