The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1915-07-31
Hailed Before the Recorder.

Thursday morning the manager
of this great religious weekly re-
ceived a call from Marshall Halnes
with the request that he report
to the city recorder. Upon reach
ing his office the newspaper man
announced that he was under ar
rest and asked what the damage
would be when Van said Cut
your weeds" That's all there
was to it and later inquiry found
that at least two of the city
councilmen had received similar
instructions as well as some 70
or more citizens. Mr.. Haines
published notice a couple OF
weeks ago to property owners to
cut the weeds on and adjacent
their property, otherwise means
would be taken to see that they
were cut. This was alright and
if the city could provide cutters
and necessary tools most of the
property ownes would be willing
to pay for it. The weeds are
not only a menace in the way of
fire risk, but are unsightly and
give the town a very unnatrac-
tive appearance. Since a major
ity of IL have said they are not
in favor of bonding for water
works it is right that we should
use every available means to les
the fire risk and those who are
financially able should at once in
stall a ceptic tank and otherwise
provide for the health and safe
ty of their families and property.
There isn't sufficient interest
and pride taken by the people of
this town in the matter of con-
veniences and appearances.
The business men should be more
closely united upon matters of
civic interest and thus bring
about more desirable results.
There was really no reason why
the bond election should have
been lost as there wasn't any ar
gument of any consequence
brought to bear against it, but
the indifference of those who did
favor it is responsible for its de-
feat. Several who favored it
failed to go and vote.
While on the subject of i'm
provement The Times-Herald
wishes to call attention to one
place in a cross walk in the res
idence portion of town that has
been in a deplorable condition for
at least two months to the certain
knowledge of the writer. He
has seen two ladies get hard falls
there and no doubt there have
been others. This should have
been fixed long ago. The autho-
rites may be ignorant of this but
there is no excuse for it.
Another matter is the bad con-
dition of many side walks in
town that are a danger to human |
bones at night. The Times-Her-
aid man has always had his at
tention called to any little knot
hole in the walks adjoining his
place and generally has repairs
made without delay but others
either are not so prompt or their
attention is not called to it.
Again, some time ago, in fact
three or four years ago. there was
an ordinance passed compelling
all gates to swing in instead of
put on the walks. Wednesday
evening of this week the writer
was in company with some ladies
returning home from the skating
rink when one of them received
quite a severe shock by coming
n contact with a gate that was
breaking the law by standing
partially ajar on the walk and
,ould not be seen in the dark
ness.
The Times-Herald offers these
suggestions merely to bring at
,ention to the general trend Of
The authorities might
laye them looked after but it
would be less personal trouble to
hem to place street lights that
'eople may pick their way over
,roken walks and avoid colliding
With unlawful gates.