The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-29
HAPPY HOLLOW May
Be A PUBLIC PARK
Councilman Medley Offers Re.
solution to Fill Up Hole in
the Ground.

A resolution asking that the old
Lorimier lot, or Happy Hollow, On
the corner of William and Lorimier
streets be converted into a park was
introduced last night at the special
meeting of the City Council by Coun-
Gilman w. H. Medley. The matter vas
referred to a committee which will
make an investigation as to the cost of
the Improvement.
After the resolution was read Coun-
Gilman kaess made a motion that it
be filed. This motion was amended,
however, by Councilman Armgardt,
who asked that the matter be sent
to the hands of the Judiciary COM
mittee, which was done.
The resolution introduced by Mr..
Medley was prepared at the instance
of number of citizens living in that
vicinity after the ladies of the Civic
Improvement Association had been
forced to abandon the plan of estab-
fishing a swimming pool on the lot.
1t has been estimated that to fill
the hole would cost approximately
$4,000. Councilman Kaess said he be-
lieved the city should not expend such
an amount on the property for i'm
provement.
The meeting held by the City Coun-
ell was very short. 1t had been called
for the purpose of ratifying the con-
tract which the Civic Improvement AS
ISOLATION had intended to enter upon
with Herman Loeffel for the construc-
ton of the swimming pool, but as this
plan had been abandoned by the asso-
citation this matter was not brought
up for discussion.
A resolution, asking that the books
of the City Assessor be removed to the
Sturdivant Bank for an investigation
looking to an increase in taxation valu-
alton, was voted down last night by
the council after the Judiciary Com
mittee had submitted a report to the
effect that the City Counselor ruled
this would be against the city ordi-
nance Councilman Bowman, who
fought for the resolution at the last
meeting before it was referred to the
committee, voted to accept the report
Of the Judiciary Committee.
The City Council adjourned until
March 5, when the committee, ap-
pointed by the mayor to receive the
totes on the evening of the election.
will make its official report to the City
Council. The body will then adjourn
sine die. The members to be elected
next Tuesday will be sworn in a week
after the election. The committee
Thich will receive the vote next Tues
Jay night. is composed of >Councilmen
Bowman, Medley and Segraves.
A petition asking that street light
be erected on Merriwether street. near
he home of A. C. Jaynes, was granted
by the City Council. The petition sign
ed by George Patton, Claude and T. E.
Clark, Harry P. Gaines, l.. L. Albert,
A. C. Jaynes and a number of other
citizens, explained that the place was
being made the rendezvous of both
white and colored persons of disrepute
1t all hours of the night and asked that
The police be instructed to watch. the
place during the evening hours to stop
this nuisance.
Another petition for the improve
ment of the street leading to the Lori
mier Cemetery was presented by the
Lorimier Cemetery Association. The
petitioners offered to pay one-half of
the expense of the Improvement pro-
vided the city would agree to pay the
other half. The petition was granted.
$1,000, 100