City to Revise It’s
Hog Pen Ordinance
City council last night agreed to reconsider the hog pen
ordinance and ordered City Attorney Murphy to prepare an ordinance declaring a
sanitary district so as to exclude hog pens in certain residential areas. The matter
was brought before the board by Mr. Simeon Barger, who explained that he owned
more than seven acres in the suburbs and the ordinance as it stands would
probably prevent his keeping several pigs.
Members of the council explained that they had no intention of
working a hardship on anybody, their only desire being to restrict hog pens so
as to not inflict the more populous residential sections with them. It was then
realized that many persons in the suburbs kept hogs with profit to themselves
and with no inconvenience to neighbors, and it is proposed to redraft the
ordinance so as to not interfere with these instances.
The territory within a certain ??, however, will be made
exempt and hog pens will not be permitted in them. Close inspection of pens in
the suburbs also will be made, a work in which many owners will laid (maybe
should be laud?), they say.
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