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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 01, 1925
Page
5
The report lists counts of animals impounded and fines collected under acts including Liquor Control, Opium and Narcotic Drug, and Venereal Disease Prevention. Totals show 233 cases, ten months of 1925 totals, and comparisons to 1924. Chief Constable J. M. Taylor signs the submission.
An attached financial statement shows department expenditures of 38,979.36 by October 1925 against 42,912.55 budgeted, noting overruns in street maintenance and new crossings, storm work, and building repairs. Snow and rainfall drove unanticipated service demands, with carryover for late-year needs and underutilized reserve funds.
The report notes twenty four sewer services installed as the main capital expenditure last year. City Engineer A McKellen thanks Public Works staff and city officials, with council support noted for departments under supervision. Expenditures show figures such as 42912.55 budgeted versus 38979.36 actual, plus smaller lines for building revenue and permits.
A Medicine Hat council report summarizes reception and publicity expenditures for 1925. It notes a $100 appropriation, with about 50 percent used for entertaining visiting dignitaries, editors, and officials including Sir Henry Thornton and Canadian National Railway directors. It highlights city cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce, lantern slides by Professor Laycock, a city memorial photo, and charter amendments affecting mayoral term and voting rules for aldermen, school trustees, and hospital board members.
Report covers expenditures and revenues with a general surplus. Notes over expenditures in Paddling Pools Boulevards and Athletic Park due to improvements and maintenance. Highlights include nursery greenhouse expansion, Bennett Park and Riverside Park blooms, adjusted admission fees, Auto Touring Camp revenue, and cemetery plot improvements. Market operations continue standard.
The report outlines Parks, Cemetery, Market and City Engineer figures with expenditures kept low and revenue near estimates. Parks posts a negative balance of about 10,493 with revenue around 2,825,000 and 2, '934.30. Cemetery records negative 8,775 with 1,438 revenue. Market shows expenditures about 2,228 with 989.45 revenue.
Jas Morrison, chair, presents the 18th annual Fire Department report. Ten months’ expenditures run 20 650 66 with 6 503 09 remaining for two months. Calls total 33, few false alarms, three fires from matches by children. Department supervised business inspections, school fire drills, and city garage maintenance. Building value 4410493512. loss and contents itemized.
Fire Chief W. E. Hatcher submits totals showing $58,270 loss at the Gas City Brick Co. on April 28, the largest fire loss. Other losses sum to $6,457, with overall damages listed as $64,827.
The report shows ten months of spending ending October 21 1925 with estimated yearly costs of 14P.00 and actual relief reimbursements totaling 12,829.04. Riley reimbursements 674.53 and utilities 2,929.59. food 3,745.40. miscellaneous 47.10. burials 1,260. prescriptions 15.50. It notes 617 visits, 31 widows receiving allowances, 356 children aided, and explains cost pressures from crop failures, long winter, and disease during 1924–25.
M. A. Carson, relief officer, notes the Dominion faces unprecedented unemployment over the past five years surpassing earlier periods and highlights the nation’s struggle to find workable solutions.
A Manitoba farmer's wife narrates relief from monthly pains and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She reports stronger health after each month of use and notes improved well being through pregnancy and postpartum recovery. She claims to have shared the medicine with many women and references a correspondent in the East.
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