Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-04-25
SESSION DADS GIVES Talk Want BALL LEAGUE
PARKING ORDINANCE AND ONE
RELATING TO PAVING, d
g..; PASSED. &,


RELATING TO PAVING,
PASSED:
The city, council held An adjourned
regular meeting at the city hall Monday
evening, all, aldermen except Moeglein
being present.
An application from the Service Liv-
cry company for permit to install a
sign in frontlof it's building, was refer
red to the. city attorney as the council
ance prohibits the placing of any signs
on the streets.
The annual report of City Treasurer
XsrtaF was We af accepted and ordered pub
The public health and safety comrlit-
tee was given power to purchase stars
for the city police.
of automobiles in this city was passed
without q dissenting vote The ord.n-
ance vii! make it unlawful to park a
tersections of Broadway or First
streets least, or within IS feet of any
fire hydrant within the fire limits and
the ordinance further requires that in
the fire limits the cars must be parked
at an; angle Of 45 degrees with the curb.
The Ordinance further prohibits cars
from parking in front Of any theatres,
lations "a fine Of 81 to $40 may be inn
posed or sentence not. to exceed 80
days in the county Jail.
Alderman Brown reported that the
ed back to a place that is satisfactory
to the Merchants State bank. He also
reported that the Water Power comp
cured for the construction of the new
dam upon three days notice.
Regarding the repairing of Eighth
street southeast, which residents along
hn
Gil for, Alderman Brown reported at
the street committee had investigated
this and that the expense would not be
little and it would require a good deal
of labor and expense to put it in shape.
A delegation from Berg's addition ap,,
that Fifth ana sixth avenues northeast
and Maple street be fixed up. The ald-
ermen agreed that something should be
done to these streets as they are in bad
shape and they are used great deal.
The matter was referred to the street
committee with power to act. not to ex-
coed 5000 to be expended: -. 4
may possibly be allowed to run later
tional prohibition s to go sS into o efrect @ and and
they the csa the
I, the time the new licenses will date
from. II any are issued, would be re-
funded them. Upon motion by Alder
as favoring ~refunding the unused por-
tion. of the license fees: should the sa-
l9onkeepers be permitted to rup for a
tiSS Gfty at1at %ttosaey Saty Vernon read the new
state law, Chapter IS. Laws. of 1918,
which; gives cities power to do paving
without waiting for petition from the
this law the council is required to pass
elected to DO this work under the new
an ordinance was brought up and was
passed by unanimous vote of the
I. An ordinance providing for increasing
clerk. janitoE and assistant, was intro
duced by Alderman Brown. The pro-
posed ordinance would increase the sal
two p patrolmen @ ' to ssS IS per- Der month 1sa and
one to $50 per month; the janitor to
per month; The pr proposed p increases in
ermen George Peterson, LaFond and
Hogle opposed the ordinance being Civ
EN- its first reading. Alderman Peterson
the fact that Alderman Moeglein was
Brown declined to withdraw his mo-
th?n ti9n to give YES same its s. first reading and and
erson and LaFond voted against the
ordinance and it will therefore have to
wait until the next regular meeting to
Peterson. who opposed granting the
city custodians any increase, at the
previous meeting when it was recon-
time maintaining that the cost Of .liv-
ing has gone down during the last
year; at this meeting explained that
the reason he voted, against it was be-
Moeglein, holding that.it was unfair to
Mr.: .Moeglein -,
Ss ey ana 70 tx hte Elk
road. They stated that the town has
spent 500 on the road and that they
have received only 5000 from this city,
would meet them on a $3.50 basis. The
aldermen agreed that Green Prairie
has received less from the road i'm
the Of @as
for road work on that road. the street
commissioner to supervise same.
The street committee was instructed
Creek on their part Of the above mem e
propriated 5000 some time ago. pike
Greek th;s koad naf not paid any attention to
of Pike Creek use it.
Representatives of bonding houses
to get contracts with the city for An
done In this city: they offered fH to c. cash S6
the warrants issued to the contractors.
not advisable to take action in the mat
cation and farthermere G 10 tH the city 1nweSl Wouid
likely advertise for bids.
Aldermen Brown. Blake, H. j. La
Fond and N. J. Peterson were appointed
as committee to look into the matter
Of securing q city engineer for this
Mr.. BOrrOwman of the Rradlev Ecnrin.