Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-05-30

city council was held ct the city hall
Friday evening, Aldermen Hal, Moeg-
lein, Blake Brown N.sH ]. Peterson,
George Peterson, LaFond and Hogle be-
ing presant.z aFxl. .3.st e. .:4
' An ordinance fixing the salary5 5oif rone
member Of the board OF health at $lO0
per year and; making { him 4 assistant
health officer WAS shnanim ously passed!
Under the old -ordinance9th the members Of
the board were paid only $40 per year
and several of them refused to act. a.5
The city clerk read: letters from Off
eials of. st. Cloud and Sank Centre, .aa
to what these cities pay for men and
teams ofsJtfeet}M work d In lSfSGloud s$7
FEper5day IS paid and in Sank Centre q
Per day.
An application from Kiawels Brewing
company to repair the roof Of the New
EKeWel building sWea granted, subject
TO the Ok. 0fathe Axe CHIEF kNs
IS City Clerk johnson read a letter from
Frederick Bass in which he stated that
DE had expected the city to pay for Ills
Services in connection with the survey
For the surfa Watersdrain, butt that
he Was willing gsto oesallSit square 1.-THE
CITY would pay his expenses sand re.
lease him from further obligations in
With the old Water Power
companXSuryey matter. The council
voted to,pay hjssexpenses, amounting IS
$40 andst9 relea4e shnms q y ~ 81
sIMr. Borman OF the Bradley Engineer
ing Service of ST. Cloud and MI. .Siy-
terts representing the Pillsbury Engin-
.eers of Minneapolis, were sat the meet;
ing and told Of the merits Of their pro-
positions to- do the engineering for this
city. No action was taken at this
meeting. <l.@=lSS4sS zis& ,l.s.ss, '.S
S Several residents, Of First, street
southeast were at the meeting and a dis
;eussion as to how wide that street
should be took up about two hours Of
the council s time, At the conclusion of
which President Hall had to get up and
in a fatherly: way task the parties. to
the discussion to forget PERSONAL grrie1v.
tances, shake hands, get together . and
before the acouncil. The matter all
came eup1as q result Of the council pass
ing an ordinance boul eYarding the west
side of First street and thus narrowing
it down to 38 feet. Ed. Hennen and j.
w. Berg protested against this ,ordin7
ance, 'saying that q l00:foot street is
none too wide. w. II. Ryan also want,
ed the street made wider and he offer
ed to- make a contract with the cityeto
make the I'LL in the, ravine and put in
a concrete retaining wall there, for $5,-
OO0.s Those who favored leayingathe
street just assiit now Isl were sDr.sW, 81.
K. Moyer, George Schroeder, "a. .F.sKos-
losky, Battles, III. Ding gman. Those
who opposed the ordinance thought that
Sc would givesa partssofi the street TO the
property owners on that side Of the
street and this was one of the reasons
they objected to it. z.sssg,,ss,s ss.ssss% :
Alderman Brown, who sponsored the
ordinance, stated that there was moth
ing in this ordinance that; would give
any part of the street to the abutting
property s :s#
ssiiSs The question of putting in a severe
this street was discussed but John Ver-
tin stated that he did not believe. that
it could be done as so many already
have private sewers. He said that
there is a sewer in the alley east of this
street part of the .Way,s and it might be
possible to extend this sewer. Nothing
was done in this natter f
+ Council adjourned to Monday eve
ming.