Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-01-07

council grant permission to concern
that is to erect manufacturing plant
here, to connect with the old box sewer
on the West side. A committee of four
was appointed to investigate this as
soon a. possible and report back to the
council at its next meeting. Aldermen
N. J.. Peterson, Olson, Brown and
Moeglein were appointed.
H. G. Lykken Of the Pillsbury Engin-
eering Company was present and pre-
sented prepared blanks for presentation
by the city to the state hi ghway COM
mission, for a refund on paving along
the route of the trunk highway system.
This provides for a refund totaling
$27,99s.s9. Mr.. Lykken suggested that
this be looked after promptly saying
that Little Falls and Alexandra were
the first cities to apply for the refund
and payments likely be made in the Or
der that applications for refund are
received by the commission.
Regarding the city engineer work,
he reviewed what the Pillsbury Com.
pany has done during the last year.
He said he could appreciate the posi-.
ton Of the city in regard to this work
and it's objections to having the enein-
eering work handled in this manner and
.ho expressed regret at severing con:
nections with the city. He recommend
ed r. r. Reilly for the position, saying
he is fully capable. Regarding the
proposal, West side caewer ha:san that
this is steam snovef Job md thia
should< be taken into Consideration
when preparations are made to have
the sewers built. He said the Pillskury
Company had made some investigation
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of a water ftn.
ton plant for Little Falls but had
concluded that a satisfactory water
supply could be secured on the West
side, by erecting supply tank. The
water supply for FIRE purposes could be
obtained by pumping station near the
river, he said. and = vcrv satisfactory
water supply could thus be had at Z
muck lower cost than eor . filtration
plant.
A resolution was passed petitionin;.
the state Highway commission for the
trunk highway refund as hereinbefoTe
mentioned. =
Applications for the position Of city
engineer were received Only oEe ap
pfeation was received, from r. T.
Reilly. This was laid over to the next
meeting and the Pillsb1Iy Engineering
Company WAS asked to submit . fnal
statement Of fees due for engineering
services. -
A committee from the Board of Com:
meree, Geo. Kiewel. E. ". Kaliher and
]. K. Martin, appeared and asked If the
council could help put ON the acquiring
/ II soldiers memorial park near th<
river along Broadway East. The com
mittee asked the council to acquire
! lots on the south side of Broadway
which would cost in all about 81 900
To finance this it was suggested that
the eitv issue bonds, local people hav.
ing indicated their willingness to take
such bonds. It was pointed out that the
price Of this property is now within
reach. whereas later it may be proh7bi
tive for this purpose. It was finally
decided to ea1l a public meeting fo1
next Monday evening to discuss this
question.
Tho fire committee was instructed to
have Z bumper attached to the fire
truck.
II was decided to have the city in.
surance policy on fire truck include
loss through property damage and col
lision a. we'll as from fire.
Bills allowed: