Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-04-14
B STREET TO
BE REPAIRED
BY CITY NOW
Council Heeds Plant
from Residents Over
Slides.
MILK ACT HELD UP
Mayor Doubts Right of
City to Demand Bot
tie Delivery

owners, and of the city itself, over
the slides of last winter, were con-
sidered at Wednesday nights council
session. Mayor ]. M. Phillips brought
the matter up and was authorized to
appoint committee who should con-
fer with the property owners and ar
range for the city's repairing the
street and for the property owners in
consideration of such action, releasing
the city from further liability.
The city, declared the mayor, had
a moral If not legal liability in the
matter. Councilmen Walker, Fraser
and Egerer constitute the committee
which, with the city engineer and
city attorney, will attempt to redress
the wrongs of street residents.
Make Good Job on 3 Street
The council, while on the Job. took
UP the condition of B streets planked
extension to the city water works and
empowered the street committee to
repair 1t so that the heavy auto truck
which Phipps & Watson are using to
deliver 1000 cords Of wood to the
pumping station may be continued in
service. To complete the good work,
bids were ordered advertised for con.
struction Of the Wishkah road through
the Stewart property, along the route
dedicated by Mrs. Jean B. Stewart.
In an endeavor to keep the furnish
ing of material for the Wishkah pipe
line at home, City Engineer L. D.
Kelsey reported that he had secured
additional bids on the 100000 feet
of pipe slaves. The Pacific Lumber
agency will furnish the rough stock
at $3.50 thousand feet and the Aber-
deem Manufacturing company will trim
and groove, tow and unload the slaves
for $5.75 thousand feet. Total cost,
$2S.25 a thousand, is bit under the
lumber agency's first bid Of $50 thou
sand for finished slaves. The bids
were laid over for a week for consider
alton by the council as whole.
More Street Improvements.
Report of the street committee was
adopted, recommending construction of
concrete sidewalk on the west side of
Broadway from Heron to Hume. Street
Superintendent H. E. Fears recon.
mendation that an old trestle on F
street between Mckinley and Hanna
avenue be torn down, was adopted.
Resolution was adopted providing for
improvement of West Second from M
to Washington street, by laying 80
foot asphalt or concrete road and 6-foot
sidewalks. May 10 is fixed as date
for protest.
Claims for rebates on first and sec
ond fill district work were allowed
from about 100 property owners, sub
ject to the city attorneys final ap-
proval
Milk Ordinance Questionable.
The proposed milk ordinance was re-
ferred to the judiciary committee for
week. Mayor Phillips questioned the
utility of the measure, which provides
that milk must be delivered by all
dairies on routes in sealed bottles,
which must be filled at starting and
not by the driver while on the trip.
J Bridgetenders Dinse and Varney.
probably will get 500 month between
them in future, instead of the 500
which the city has been paying for the
work of tending the North Aberdeen
bridge. The question of handling this
work was left in the hands of the
mayor and street superintendent, with
the tacit understanding that the men
receive more money.
| Kick Over Penalty.
A letter from the Toledo Bridge COM
pany demanded reasons for the city's
Withholding $500 in settling for bridge
material for the West bridge. The
company acknowledged receipt of war.
rant for $12,35125. admitted that a
penalty for delay in arrival of mater
Iial was part Of the contract but Ques'
ltioned if the city had been damaged
by the delay.
Walker, McWhinney and Grant were