Newport Gain and Loss
Submitted by Kelly
Kentucky Post, April 26, 1922
GAIN AND LOSS
Newport City Savings Quickly Overcome
Here is cheer-up news in one minute and-well, anything you wish to call it the next. Newport will save $850 this year if a plan of J. Bailie Morlidge, public works commissioner, proves feasible. Under Morlidge's plan the services of a laborer at the city stables will be dispensed with his work to be dispensed with, his work to be taken care of by Henry Shields, stable foreman. For the added work, Shields will receive added compensation of $35 a month. Commissioners have placed their approval on Morlidge's plan.
Now, then, for the other kind. The city has lost $967.20. Thomas McGeough, commissioner of public property, disclosed this news when he asked commissioners to remove the amount from the books of his department. According to McGeough, the amount is delinquent water rents, owned by former property holders who have moved from the city. Some of the accounts, which range from 96 cents to $37, are seven years old, he said. Commissioners acted favorably upon McGeough's request.