Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1910 — METERS MAYOR MONDAY; FIRST MEETING AT NIGHT. [ARTICLE]

METERS MAYOR MONDAY; FIRST MEETING AT NIGHT.

New Council Will Be Sworn In and Mayor Take Oath j»f Office at Noon and All Meet at 7:80. Mayor-elect George F. Meyers and his new council, together with the city clerk and city treasurer will enter up,on their terms of office at noon Monday, Jan. 3d, the law setting forth that the changes be made at noon on the first Monday in January and not the first day of January as generally supposed. It is probable that the oath of office to the new Mayor Will be administered by James H. S. Ellis, whose term of office expires on that day. There will be no ceremony surrounding the inauguration of the new officers. The law also requires that the new council meet at 7:30 o’clock Monday evening and transact such business as may be on hand and the board will, therefore, hold its first meeting that night. Mayor Meyers has his committee appointments ready to be announced at that time, and if he has not already decided upon the question of a new city marshal he will do so between now and Monday evening and make hts appointment known* at that time. Asked to make the announcement today through the Republican, Mayor Meyerß said: “I am not yet ready to do it, and probablyshall not make the name of the next marshal known before Monday the meeting of the council.’* There are now seventeen applicants for the appointment and there will be sixteen disappointments when the name of the new marshal is announced.