The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-06-19
STREET IMPROVE
MENT CONTINUES
STATE STREET OWNERS PETITION
Sherman Avenue Will Be Improved - Ma
Cadam Rushed p Davidson Refuses
Place on the Council

The council meeting now only twice
each month. the business piles up to a
greater extent than formerly, and at
Monday evenings meeting of the city
4 theirs, the session was made unusual
ly long because of the consideration of
number of new ordinances. Mayor
Banehar being out of the city, having
gone to Corvallis to attend the State
Bankers Convention there, Councilman
Staten, president of the. council. pre-
sided.
Streets and street improvement con-
tlnue the all important topic, and the
Monday night ordinances dealt with
further Improvement of the streets of
the business sections of the city. An
ordinance calling for the macadamizing
of Ninth street between Oak and State
passed its first reading. An ordinance
was passed repeating ordinances pro
vldlng for street Improvement of Ninth
street. The council had already started
an ordinance providing for this work.
when il was learned that in the wear
1909 the city dads bad planned q similar
work. and the books of the CITY would
have been burdened with two ordi-
nances providing for very similar
measures. 10 was decided 10 wine all
past municipal action from the slate
and begin anew.
Property owners along State street
petitioned the council orally. asking
that they be allowed to put in curbs in
front of their places and I'll in the
space intervening between the cutters
and where the macadam will end with
hard surface. The ordinance governing
this improvement calls for a macadam
roadway 30 feet wide and the improve
ment does not extend from curb 10
curb. The residents along the street
seemed generally in favor of the addi-
tional Improvement in front of their
property, and expressed a willingness
to bear the expense of it.
+. O. Hall is now rushing the work
of macadamizing Cascade street. the
contract having been awarded to him
for the Improvement of State and Cas-
cade streets, at price of $25.2l0. Ex-
cavatlon and grading have been com
pleted and wagons and teams are now
hauling crushed stone along the street.
The Reliance Construction Co. will
not be able to complete the paving con-
tract, the time limit of which exrired
Tuesday. However, the members of
the contracting concern have assured
the city that they will have complied
with the terms of the agreement. ex-
cept as to time limit, within week
from next Saturday.
A communication has been received
from the manufacturers of the new fire
bell recently ordered by the council.
who state that the bell has been
shipped from Baltimore and should ar
rive here soon.
To fill the vacancy left in the men,
nership of the council, when Geo. w.
Thomson refused to accept election to
the body, p. S. Davidson was elected
to the position Monday night. Mr..
Davidson has been a resident of the
city for number of years and has
been connected with number of local
business enterprises. He is one of the
largest orchard owners in the valley.
However, Mr.. Davidson declares
that he will be unable to accept the
duties imposed on him by the council
on account of the demands of other
business.
The council was also petitioned by
the residents south of State street, who
asked that they be allowed to make
improvements of Sherman avenue.
This petition, as we'll as that relative
to the State street improvement, was
granted.