Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-02-28
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riding" so common that the proper
handling of this traffic alone is quite
a problem in itself, and when coupled
with the dust they create and the
germs they start in motion, surely
call for some counter-irritant, and 7
am convinced that no better solution
can be found to deal with the dust
nuisance than the thorough and
proper sprinkling of all streets and
thoroughfares used extensively by
the drivers of automobiles. In order
to sprinkle streets thoroughly much
water is necessary, and this we ex-
pect to have in abundance when the
waterworks are completed July LIST,
1918.
Langdon City Cyclone fund con-
tanning $56S.34 was transferred to
Langdon City Relief fund and de-
posted in the Citizens State Bank ut
5 per cent interest. Two items of re-
lief have been paid out of this fund
during the past two years to worthy
causes, amounting to $185.OO, leaving
a balance in this fund of $4O6.75
plus interest at 5 per cent since June
18th, 1917.
When l qualified for the office of
Mayor in December 1915, I made one
resolution that seemed to me more
necessary than anything else, to
preserve the respect of the residents
of the city for the community in
which they live and instill some
shadow of honor and respect for law
and order into the minds of the young
as we'll as observance of the Golden
Rule" toward their neighbors. For
many years we had been treated to
various forms of malicious mischief,
.practiced by boys and young men Of
the city who thought it pleasure to
amuse themselves at the. expense of
their peace loving neighbors, usually
these hoodlums reached the zenith of
their action October 31st, and the
depredations they enacted were very
annoying to the average citizen and
gave every evidence of degraded
minds in people who could see
pleasure in actions of this kind. Year
after year we seemed to be going
from bad to worse and when these
forces of destruction were reinforced
by volunteers from the country who
came equipped with material for
rapid despatch of their ,nefarious
work and enjoy the revelry as well,
it seemed to me time to draw the
line and find IN antidote for this evil
and this I resolved to do, I found we
had no law, city or statute to fit
these offenses so asked the city at
torney to write an ordinance with a
good stiff penalty attached to apply
to these cases. This ordinance was
duly passed by the city council and
became a law of our city. Several
have been "pinched" under this
and have found that it hurts, and I
think with proper policing over the
dangerous periods, we will have little
to fear of future depredations of this
kind. This ordinance has borne good
fruit ever since it's passage and en-
forcement.
Much might be written about the
water and sewer systems we have
contracted to install. Any one who
reads the county papers is we'll versed
on what has been done to date. The
contract has been let to the Haggart
Construction Co., of Fargo, N. D., at
S73,558.73 and about all the material
is on the ground and paid for. This
bid, however, does not include the
super-structure Of the fire hall. We
have advertised for bids for the con-
struction Of fire-hall for the March
meeting and the estimate, so far, is
100000 for that building, bringing
the contract price for a workable
system Of waterworks and sewer and
fire hall in round figures to $8O,00O.-
90. Now, I do not consider these
figures excessive when we consider
the benefits to the town of good
water on tap over it's entire area,
reducing insurance which must surely
follow the storing of 100000 gallons
of water as a reserve for fire fight
ing, when we have saved the town in
the past many times on less than
10000 gallons. The revenue from
water sold on a meter system to
'O0'OOO6$ 4e peoeld eAeQ ON suo14g6
When we compare this city with
Cando this seems reasonable. There
they clear $1800.00 per year on Its
patrons, having comparatively good
water in their wells many do not use
city water. We feel that we should
have more patrons for city water
than Cando and have estimated oul
revenue from that source at $4,000
higher, which seems reasonable wher
you compare water consumption u
the two cities.
AS a health measure a great dea
could be written in favor Of waite!
and sewer systems. 1 have seen sea
sons when there was water in tn
cellars of residences from four to 81.
months of the year. I have seel
water in cellars here all winter
sometimes frozen into ice. This i
against every law of health, and
have no doubt that some are takin,