George Jones

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1. 1937 · 1937-06-01

   Hauling Ocean City's summer garbage cost $24.50 a day; hauling it after Labor Day cost $7.50

   Bids for hauling garbage 'beginning June 16 and ending Sept. 16 inclusive' were opened on 1 June 1937: Geo Jones $34.00 per day, Gardner Ewell $35.00, L. J. Clark $27.00, C. P. Cropper $24.50. On W. H. Scott's motion the contract went to C. P. Cropper at $24.50 a day. On 7 September the council opened bids for the rest of the year - George Jones $7.50 a day, C. P. Cropper $9.00 - took no action that night because it 'wanted to consider the bids until Friday Sept 10th', and on 13 September awarded it to George Jones at $7.50. The town's rubbish cost it more than three times as much in July as in October, which is the clearest single measure of the size of the season the campaign has for 1937.

   Clifford P. CropperWilliam H. Scott

   Source · checked 2026-08-11

2. 1938 · 1938-05-31

   Five men bid to haul Ocean City's summer garbage for ninety-one days in 1938, and the cheapest won at $25 a day

   'Bids for hauling garbage from June 16 to Sept 14 inclusive 91 days were opened & were: Raymond Bounds 26.50 per day; Geo H Jones 25.00; L J Clark 28.95; J H Trimble 28.00; C P Cropper 29.00. Mr. Jones was awarded the Contract.' Two of the five bidders were elected to the town council nine weeks later. The winter contract was let separately on 6 September: Ralph Trimble at $7.75 a day, George Jones at $7.50, and Jones took that too. The summer rate is fifty cents up on 1937's $24.50; the winter rate is identical to 1937's $7.50. Ocean City's garbage in 1938 therefore cost $2,275 for the summer season and about three-tenths as much a day for the other nine months - the sharpest single number the record gives for how completely the town emptied after Labor Day.

   E. Raymond BoundsClifford P. Cropper

   Source · checked 2026-08-11