Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-09

thanked for the information he gave te
the council regarding the history OF
the ballot box.
Recommendations of the public i'm
provement committee for the creation
of a special improvement district for
paving and draining Fourth avenue
north from Fifteenth to Twentieth
street: Sixteenth street from Third
avenue north to Fourth avenue north,
and Seventeenth, Nineteenth and Twen-
tieth street, from Fourth alley north
to Fourth avenue north, were referred
back to the committee for another
weeks consideration. 1t was the OPT
MON of several members of the councll
that the proposed district should in
clude more territory.
Because of the fact that drainage or
Third avenue north, between Twen-
:ieth and Twenty First streets, bears
east toward the G.. NJ. and st. Paul
right-of-way, making it impracticable
TO take care of storm water until a
trunk sewer is built along the right
of-way, the public improvement com
mittee recommended that the petition
for the paving of that section on Third
venue north be denied. The recon-
mendations were adopted by the
council.
Magnavox Declared Nuisance.
A resolution for the grading, drain
ing and paving of Fourth alley north
from Eighteenth to Twentieth streets,
the pavement to be of concrete con-
struction, was adopted by the council
on first reading. The cost of the pro-
posed improvement. according to fig
ures supplied by City Engineer Nor
ris. is $40 a lot or $500 for the
entire project. The council also adopted
a resolution calling for the laying of an
eight-inch vitrified lateral sanitary
sewer on Second alley north from
Thirtieth to Thirty-Second streets, at
a cost Of $1,000 or $115 a lot.
Residents of the Oxford, Fair and
Gilmore hotels presented a petition to
the council asking that the Magnavox
monograph attachment used by the
Barber Music house, be declared a
nuisance and the council. without a
negative vote, granted it. The Magma
o was outlawed on the motion of
Alderman Harry Stevens and Chief of
Police Marcus Anderson was given
instructions to have it removed at
Alderman Gilbert +. Boyd. chairman
u the water committee, gave Il review
of the work that has been accomplish
ed at the city filtration plant. Repairs
made on the low duty pumps, he said,
had increased the daily pumpage ap-
100000 gallons. Other !
work included the re
building Of filter beds and the intro
duction of strainers that are being |
manufactured by the water department
at a cost of 4 cents per strainer less
than they can be purchased. The water
in 1921, Mr.. Boyd said,
spent $1,2O5.W, and during the present
year, the expenditures reached ST.
The water committee and the
city engineer received the compliments
Of the council for the work done.
Certain Fines to Be Refunded
Fines collected in police court to
for violations of the parking ordi-
in regard to parking automobiles
40 feet of a street intersec-
ion were ordered refunded by the
in adopting a report of the
judiciary committee. The committee
believed the refunds should be made
Of the fact that signs to in
prohibition of parking had not
Until recently been placed at street
In the same report, the com
nittee denied the application of Mrs.
Harriet Carrier for a refund of a $40
inc assessed for parking her car at
wrong angle or Fourth street south.
Diphtheria led in the number OF COM