The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-07-14
Need of City Water in Frank
lin School District.
Council Has Money for Water
Mains Elsewhere.
CurfeW and Anti-Free Lunch
Ordinances Presented.

a long and busy one. All OF the alueI
men were present and Mayor Taylor
presided.
The board of public works estimated
the cost of curbing, guttering and I'M
proyino Main street from Fourth to
Fifth at $935, and recommended stone
curbing The board reported that the
proposed improvement is advisable, nee
essary and proper. The matter was re-
ferred back to the board under order
No. 2.
Chief Donahue reported thirty seven
arrests and forty nine dodgers during
June.
A communication was received from
property owners on Clark street be-
tween Byron and Center, representing
IA feet, OF all but l06 feet, asking that
the council do not order that portion
of the street curbed and guttered the
present year. They said that those own
ing the greater part of the frontage are
Obliged to spend large sums for other
public improvements in the city dur
ing the present year, such as the Front
street paving and the Byron street i'm
provement They said that they have
put in cement walks and kept their
boulevards in neat condition, voluntar
ily, and that their good record in this
regard should be taken into consid
Grafton.
The communication was placed on file.
A protest was received against the
curbing and guttering of Clark street
between Parson street and Prospect ave-
nue., until permanent grade of the
street has been established 1t was
placed on file.
City Engineer Thompson stated that
a grade has been established for ten
years. He said that the property own
ers want the boulevard on the upper
side of the street wider than on the
lower side, the same as on Fifth street.
The matter would be taken up soon.
There Is Crying Need.
Health Officer Edwards again call
ed attention to the condition of affairs
in the Franklin school district. He said
that typhoid fever cases are springing
up there daily. The wells are bad in
spite of the fact that the people say
that the water is good. The Franklin
school well is ''the worst of the bunch"
and owing to the people persisting in
using the water in it he had poured five
gallons of kerosene into the well early
i'll June so the water there cannot be
used again. 1t does no good to tell
the people that they ought not to use
the water, for they pour some of it in
to a glass and hold it up and it looks
clear and they say that it is the best
in the world. They expect to see snakes
or dragons in it if it is bad. An
other analysis would be made of the
water in that district, to satisfy every
body.
the bath house be moved to near the
Minnesota river bridge. He said that
it is absolutely worthless at the park.
He brought the matter up at the re-
quest of the Civic Improvement league.
He thought that the house might be
toatcd down.
Mayor Taylor stated that the prop
erty owners in the Franklin district
will meet next week to consider the
matter OF the extension of the water
mains. Aid. IIampl will meet with
them.
The committee on ordinances report
ed favorably upon the ordinance grant
ing the Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pacific
railway company the right to construct
and operate a track in Pike street
across Patterson avenue, TO connect with
a present spur track of the road. The
object is to allow a track to be con-
structed to the yards of the Hayes-Lu-
cas- Lumber Co. The ordinance was
passed under suspension of the rules
to accommodate the lumber company.
Agent Barr thought that the switch
ing across Patterson avenue would not
average once a week the year around
He said that cars would not be left
standing in the street near the Laird
Norton coal she'd
Aid Wilmot of the health committee
said that he had been told that there are
fourteen cases of typhoid fever near the
Franklin school. If this was so, il
behooved the council to do something
Aid Hampl said that he would call a
meeting of the property owners next
week to consider what they want done.
Aid. Wilmot thought that the mains
should be extended anyway.
Curfew Ordinance Presented.
The committee on ordinances present