The Progress., 1893-12-30
MADAM RUmOR SAYS :

Of the Improvement COM
mittee as soon as it gets money
enough.
That the Legislature Will be IN ses-
sion in few months, and steps should
be taken towards having bills draft
ed permitting Shreveport to issue
500. 600 worth of bonds for macade-
mizing our streets; and reducing our
mayors salary.
That meal from the Shreveport
Mill and Elevator Company should
be bought in preference to that from
distant markets, if the quality is the
same.
That every good citizen should join
the Citizens Development Club.
That our council should begin the
new year by reducing the city attor-
ney's salary until it has surplus to
spend for luxuries.
That our people should watch we'll
the vote on the market-house ques-
ton, to note which of the members
disregard their wishes in the matter
That She intends to give the names
of tie members of the council who
vote to force the butchers into the
market house, so that the people may
know who have regard for the general
opinion and which ones please them
selves first Of all.
That there should be an ordinance
keeping ALL hotel and hack drummers
off the platform at the Union depot.
That the grandiloquent eloquence
of the oad-frog is only excelled by
that of member of the city admin
istration.
That some of our richest men pay
considerably less taxes than many ot
far less means.
That some Of our contemplate
mossbacks are already using their in
fuence against the success of the
Citizens Development Club.
That the men who will not join th'
Citizens Development Club, but per
sist in trying to prevent its organiza
tion and break it up, should be takel
to the river and publicly ducked.
That some of our stnffed toads, j. G
monied men, have been fiattered 81
much that they really believe the,
are as good as they are pictured
when in reality they are so mean ant
stingy that they attempt to charg
for the shadows they cast.
That if the goodness that is il
? some of our monied men was in th
, nature of liquid, it would all ru
out from the puncture Of pin.
That our people are still hopin
that the police jury will have nic'
concrete walks placed to the cour
house square.
That our merchants should reac
out for the trade in Wards One an
: Two and adjacent Arkansas and lie,
= as. She says this can be easily s.
: cured by having the roads and ferri'
\ between here and there put in goc
condition for wagon travel.
:, That Councilman Wimbish is boy
ed down under the weight of IL
great responsibility resting upon hir
of making the market-house a pa
, ing investment for the city.
r That She would like to know if th
b idea of moving butchers to the ma
o ket-house is not really the progeny
some one not a member of the cou
cil7
= That She would like to know wi
chooses the subs for the city patr(
le meD.
; That the people would like to knc
t. what is Officer Irvine's distance as
st sprinter.
o. That She would like to know I
- name of the good Samaritan ? W
had the ends of the market-house e
IA closed with canvas to make it col
1t Portable for the poor butchers al
j. vegetable men.
s. That it is strange .hat some phila
thropist, who has been here alwa!
has Just recently discovered that t
market-house was an uncomfortat
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