The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-04-23
REDUCE POLICE FORCE|
Money Saved Thereby to be Used in
Purchase of Calcium Cloride. q


Second regular council session of
| April held Monday evening was a
| lengthy grind, but it was mostly
superheated atmosphere. Mayor See
| Vers had difficulty in holding tina
members down to the subject under
| discussion and before adjournment
| INDUCED. At one time four different
subjects were under discussion at the
! same time and motions were intro.
duced right and left
About the most important feature
of the session was the killing OF
mouse and the operation required the
concerted action of city clerk, street
| commissioner. city engineer and coun.
Gil members, but the intruder into the
sacred precincts OF the council cham
her was finally overhauled and dis
patched, the slaughter being attend.
| ed by excitement and confusion.
Firm in the belief that the city
has been sailing under too much can.
| vaSs, the council took il upon them.
selves to trim sail Monday evening.
| RetrenChment was started by Coun-
Gilman Roberts, who offered resO.
mtiOn cutting down the police force
Of OskalOOsa to three men, two on
duty fOr the day and one at night, the
merchants police in addition. lot.
tumwa gets along with three police
men, so should Oskal0osa," said Mr..
Roberts. The police are useless any
low. They do nothing. You may
| spit on the sidewalk at their very feet
and they never arrest you for il.
Cut outs go by wide open. ears are
iuned up under their noses and they
never turn II hair. Why Is police
man anyway? .. "a.
| Mayor Sewers objected to the cur.
tailment of his executive force, but
he was powerless. The best he could
do was to save one man and hereaf.
ter the mayor will be allowed only
four men-two day a:id two night of.
ficers.
And forthwith the coUac!l proceed
ed to take the money saved and on
motion of Councilman Robr rts spend
ii for calcium chloride" for treating
the paVements about the park. ., ...,
Discussion long and loud attended
the problem of how 10 open Second
avenue West, and here again the
council, which seemed to he. in u de-
} cidedly belligerant mood, took issue
with the mayor. Incidentally COun-
Gilman Brewer said something about
| the west end" of town and Mr.. La.
toilette, of the First ward arose 10
the defense of that section OF the
city and he waXed eloquent in his
Accommodation of the efforts OF the
council to slight this section OF town
Mr.. Lafollettes motion to have the
| second avenue matter closed TO the
best advantage was Withdrawn on
4 T. - III
and the matter is still pending. May.
or Sewers advice on the subject
went UNDECIDED and the council insist
ed upon having more time ON the
problem. .
That alley for the relief of resi-
dents along the north side OF Ninth
avenue between Fourth and Seventh
streets was another bone OF cOnten.
ton. The city owns strip OF
ground where the alley should be but
ii Is only four feet in width. All al.
ley is desired by some of the proper
ty owners and residents and the city
is trying to open an eight.foOt vide
way, but some of the property owners
object City Solicitor II. II. Mccoy
was instructed to proceed with the
obtaining of the right OF way and
make what progress he could in the
obtaining Of deeds 10 the necessary
ground.
Ernest Brewer, for the Marshall Oil
company, appeared before the coun.
ell and sought to have the alley at
! the north OF the company property
vacated to the oil company that il
might occupy the same with its I'M
IpToVement. This was championed by
| Councilman Brewer. who made Il mo-
ton advocating the proposed Vaca.
| ton. Yes" says Mr.. Lafollette,
there you 20, opening alleys in the
east part Of town and trying TO come
into our ward and shut them up TO
the injury and the detriment OF per
sonal property adjoining" And the
whole council agreed 10 20 to the
ground in contention today and look
over the situation.
| New Walks.
| Residents along the west side of
Seventh street north of G avenue,
want new sidewalk. Petition was
made by Charles X. McGlasson, ThOs.
u. Maxwell, George BOatsma, X. J.
! Woodland, George BarrOws, William
A. Barrows. E.t. B.. '.
Property owners on the south side
of Eighth avenue between Seventh
and Eighth streets also want a side
walk Petitions referred to the street
and sidewalk committee for action.
Petition was received, signed by
H. c. Troop, n. Handler, Mrs. c. b.
Stein, John r. Gilmore, Mrs. Cora
Gregory, Frank West, G. w. Boher,
B. F. Shoemake, Charley Thompson,
John NJ. Carly, A. J. Dunlevy and G..
NJ. Elkin, asking that the storm sew
err service be extended to give relief
| from surface waters between c and
ID streets and from the Burlington
tracks south to Eighth avenue,
The plumbing ordinance was called
up, but went over for passage on re-
quest of Mr.. Penders until Tuesday
evening.
Clint G. Maddy addressed the coun.
Gil concerning oiled roads and made
an interesting and instructive talk. 4
District Judge Quits.