The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-04
SPEND 6 MILLION
Kansas Cities Going Ahead
With Improvements.
Eighty CONSTRUCTION Projects
Under Way in State.
SIX MEMORIALS GOING Up
County Hospitals, Paving
Schools Are Included.
Light Plants, Hotels and White
Ways Also on List.

Eighty construction and improve
ment projects in Kansas in various
stages of completion are included in
list compiled by the Kansas League
of municipalities. With few excep-
tons. the entire number. represents
ins an aggregate outlay of approxi-
mately $6,000,O0O are municipal pro-
Jects.
1t is pointed out that the list re-
veals an exceedingly healthy financial
status of Kansas cities and towns gem
orally and that these municipalities
are going ahead with building and
improvements operations, despite the
high cost" era which is said to have
reduced private home construction to
an extreme minimum.
The list covers a wide field, in
scluding hospitals. parks, memorial
hail. paving. public utilities, water
works, white ways, schools, bridges,
,ostoffices, charitable institutions and
.ewcrs.
Build Memorial Halls.
Six cities have memorial hall pro-
iects under way, those of Arkansas
City, Atchison. OsawR tonne and Pratt
having reached a mature stage, while
Topeka and Wichita have plans not so
.ar advanced.
Lyon county has voted bonds and
ielected a site for the construction of
county hospital at Emporia to cost
100000.
The following cities have paving
contracts under way: Anthony, Bur-
iington, four miles; Fredonia, Il
blocks; Hutchinson. $4,000 contract
awarded: Lawrence and Douglas coun-
~, II miles; Manhattan, 100000, to
he constructed next spring; Norton,
30 blocks. bids recently opened; Par
sons, several streets graded, rolled and
oiled and guttered: Winfield, IS
blocks, contract awarded recently.
Hutchinson will soon have an addi-
ion to its postoffice, which will cost
$4,000 Topeka expects favorable
iction on recommendations for an ad-
lition to the postOffice. representing
N expense of $4,000.
Twenty-seven cities and towns have
either voted bonds or otherwise
financed electric plants or extension
TO their light plants-Andales Ashland
Pyers Coldwater, Dunlap, Englewood,
Eskridse, Girard, Hazelton. Hunter,
Kansas City, Langdon. Manhattan,
Mulvane, NeoSho Falls. Oswego, Part
ridge Richmond. Scranton, Sharon
Springs, st. John, Turop, Walton,
Wichita, WINCHESTER, Erie, EaCygne.
Build New sewer Systems.
Belle Plaine and Florence have
awarded contracts for the installation
of sanitary sewer systems and Cold
water and Jewell City are having plans
drawn and estimates made for sewer
systems.
In the wake of an exceedingly dry
summer during which many small
towns in the state ran short of water
for household use, a number of these
towns have decided to put in munich
pal waterworks systems. Still others
are enlarging the capacities of their
waterworks plants. They are: Alma.
Courtland, Elk City, Elkhart. Em-
poria, Florence, Harper, Munden, OF
tawa, PaOla, Phillipsburg and Pretty
Prairie.
Indulging in white ways has be-
7ome popular as a civic pride" move
inent in Kansas. The latest cities to
install white ways or extend their
ornamental street lighting systems
IRE: Arlington, Eldorado, Great BEND,
Independence, Kansas City and West
noreland.
Upton. Mitchell county. is to have
new $4,000 high school; Baldwin q
S7O.O00 school building; Florence a
100000 school gymnasium; Pleasanton
$4,000 high school; Lehigh one
costing $1,000 and Mark Twain a
New grade school.
New $500, 900 HcteI.
Arkansas City is to have a new
100000 hotel, the contract having
been awarded. The Old Soldiers
home at Dodge City is to have a new
building which will cost the state $685.
900 and another building is to be built
by the state on the Pittsburg Normal
campus at an outlay of $4,000 The
new Masonic building in Salina will