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Show 94 HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. good membership, which increases with regular its objects and benefits become more generally known and understood. Meetings are held every Wednesday evening in the I. O. O. F. Hall and visitingcompanions are always made welcome guests. Mrs. M. C. Fredricksen is president of Unity Forum. Manti has an excellent and economical municipal administration made up of old citizens interested in the public welfare. The creek has been divided and tlumed to prevent, any accumulation of debris and carry away high water aud floods; a perfect waterworks system is in operation; the irrigation water supply is satisfactorily distributed; the streets are kept clean and the main thoroughfares are well graded; the city cemetery is one of the neatest and best-kept homes of the dead in the State; contageous diseases and epidemics are kept under control by strict, quarantine, and taxes are reduced to the lowest possible limit for a city of such proportions. The present city official directory composed of Kepublicans and Democrats, elected in 1897, or appointed by the Council, is as follows: Mayor Alexander Tennant. Councillors Fred Jensen, F. M. Cox, A. W. Bessey, Ernest Munk, Alma Johnson. Recorder George Scott. Marshal Otto Ottoson. to a meetings, as — — — — Justice — G. A. Iverson. Quarantine Physician — W. H. Olsten. Superintendent of Waterworks — William City Watermaster— John Moflitt. Supervisor of Streets— Julius Jensen. City Engineer — H. Hougaard. City Pound Keeper— Andrew Nelson. city Sexton — George Braithwaite. City Attorney — William K. Reid. T. Bench. |
