The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-02
TOPICS OF VAUDEVILLE
Desirability of a Board Walk
Over the Lexington Hill.
TRAFFIC ALWAYS GREAT
City Hall to Be Painted and Papered
Grading East Daily Street.-The Story
of Two Boys and Parrot-A
Cleaning-Up.

Walkerville citizens are talking about
the proposition to lay a board walk
from Masonic hall over the Lexington
hill 20 the Blaine school house at the
southern limits of Centerville. The
council has treated the subject with
some manifestation of seriousness, and
since the matter was referred to the
other day in the local colmns of the
Standard the discussion in Walker
vile has become a theme in which
nearly every resident has taken more
or less interest.
ct is now more than probable" said
a Walkerville citizen yesterday to
Standard reporter, that the council
will seriously consider the proposition
at it's next meeting. l have talked with
some of the aldermen, and they seem
to think that the walk would be a very
good thing. 1t is certain that not one
citizen who has ever walked over the
hill in wet weather will object to the
proposition. 1t is now only a matter
of dollars and cents. If the council
can be assured of the durability of
such a walk, and that the outlay of
money required to build it can be met
gracefully, | believe work on the walk
will begin very soon
THE taxes will be coming in before
long: besides the city. a | under
stand, has something like 81 900 in the
treasury. There is no immediate de-
mand upon the treasury for any great
amount of money, and l can't see
where the expense of the walk would
cut in on any other proposition.
Even if the street car line were to
be extended into Wakerville, this
would not make less the urgent de-
mand for a walk over the hill. Traffic
is always great over this road. winter
and summer. Now is the time to
build"
The Walkerville city hall is to be
painted and papered. The contract for
the job has been let. and in a few days
the little house with the tower will be
as pretty as anything ever seen in
flower garden. Judge Roberts of the
police court is to have a carpet in his
room and a few Oil paintings on the
wall. 1t is proposed to put bell on
the front door, too. "
The council, at its next meeting, will
consider the proposition. previously
discussed. of grading East DAILY street.
This work, it is argued should not be
delayed another day
side 1t is owned by a family of Aus
trians, and it is bright and witty
bird 1t speaks English in a rather
crude way, but some of the more ia
miliar phrases it handles with the
grace and ease of an expert bullWhack-
er. One of the members of the family
is a boy IA years Of age. He doesn't
get along pleasantly with another boy
of the same age, who lives a block
away Last evening the other boy was
passing the house. He saw mis- rival
sitting on box inSthe shade of the
kitchen. The parrot had evidently
heard a thing or tWq at some previous
time. He was practicing his new lines
as the boy passed. 60 tell, go tell;
you dam"
The lad in the street heard those
words he had resented on former oc-
casion, and picking up "a soup gbone he
squared himself right about TO let it
fly at the boy sitting by the kitchen
door making a top, out of linen
thread spool.
60 tell: you dam!" scraac hed the
parrot. Then the soup bone collided
with the back of the industrious boys
neck, and a howl ensued. The parrot
chartered a pOtpourri of Aus+.'.'1 ana
English, and the little boy, in the street
laughed. The mother in the kitchen
took in the situation at glance, and
then there was a lively handicap Up
the street The boy distanco1 the
woman
Walkervile has undergone a thor
ough renovation. The alleys and back
yards are cleaned and the city IS in
first-class sanitary condition. Many
houses have been reprinted, and alto
gether the city looms up like light
house in fog. g