On Monday night the newly elected Mayor, Dr. Jno. D. Biggs; and the board of aldermen: W.T. Meadows, Alonzo Hassell, Geo. H. Harrison, B.S. Courtney and S.R. Biggs met at the town hall and were sworn in by R.J. Peel, Clerk of the Superior Court.
Geo. H. Harrison was elected Clerk and only regular detail matters came up for consideration.
It is generally realized that the new board has considerable work to do, owing to extenuating circumstances, to make both ends meet. We have a first class water and light plant and they should have very little trouble with that branch of the town’s business but unfortunately they were built at the highest prices of the world’s record, which makes a big bond debt, and the water and light revenue will nothing like pay the interest on the same. But with the most rigid economy in operation the difficulties will soon be overcome.
The retiring board has been criticized some but it has done as well as any one would have under the same circumstances. We can all see our mistake now and they as well as we could not look into the future when they began the work.
Cooperation always helps everything and every citizen should cooperate to make Williamston a bigger, better town.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., June 10, 1921
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