Everett and H. T. Bowen were re-elected councilmen, and Milo Jones in the third ward. J. M. Carr and S. K. Warrick were re-elected on the school board. Beach Coleman was appointed city attorney, Winfield Evans water commissioner and J. L. Martin as chief of police and street commissioner. In December, 1916, the city voted thirty-two thousand dollars in waterworks extension bonds, also the council issued thirty-thousand dollars in refunding bonds for the same department.

In 1917 the election was hotly contested. A. M. Faught was elected mayor, M. O. Sohus as clerk, D. B. Kelley as treasurer, W. T. Hill as water commissioner. F. C. High, H. W. Davison, Frank DcConley, E. J. Brown and T. D. Deutch were elected councilmen, and Edmund Simmons and F. H. Roberts on the school board. Mayor Faught made the following appointment : city engineer, A. L. Selzer ; city attorney, J. H. Stewart; chief of police

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and street commissioner, J. S. Martin ; city physician, F. W. Plehn. Again the city was called upon to extend its water mains, and this time the bonds were for thirty-two thousand dollars aggregate. Also fifteen thousand dollars bonds were voted to build a city hall. Milo Jones resigned to take management of the new fire truck and Frank Cowen was named councilman in his stead. Mayor Faught also delegated to F. H. DeConley, president of the council much of the duty attendant as acting _ mayor.

There were no mayor, clerk, treasurer or water commissioner to be elected in 1918, but the councilmen chosen were T. D. Deutsch, F. F. Everett, Frank H. Cowen, O. M. Finley, A. G. Rvan, and M. J. Higgins. For the school board W. H. Gable and A. F. Baldridge were chosen. The following were selected by the mayor: J.