New Ulm review., 1922-03-22
? PAVING HEARINGS
AGAIN POSTPONED II
WILL AWAIT RESULT OF CITY
ELECTIONS BEFORE
TAKING ACTION.
CITY ENTERS INTO CONTRACT
FOR PURCHASE OF ROAD
SUPPLIES.

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! SUPPLIES.
n About fifty people were. present at
:, the special meeting Of the City Coun-
Gil held Monday evening for the pur-
i pose Of taking action on the matter
Of paving State Street from 7th North
u to 7th South. County Attorney w.
4 y. Eckstein who appeared for the petit
/ tioners suggested that the meeting be
4 adjourned until April 18th and there
4 being no objection made by any one
i present such action was taken. Be
4 cause of the creation of the new ward
I and the election of additional councillors
| it was thought best to postpone paving
action until the new councillors had
! been elected, had qualified and could
\ take part in the deliberations.
! The proposed Improvement is not
/ being made under the charter but is
made under a general law passed in
4 1921 which provides for public hearing
whenever at least rs per cent Of the
abutting property owners petition for
an Improvement. The petition asking
| Tor the paving of State street is signed
by about 40 per cent of the abutting
i property owners. The question of the
|advisabiity and feasibility Of the i'm
Iprovement will not be referred to the
4 Board Of Public Works as is provided
/ by the charter in case Of public inn
/ impro ovements but this question will be
| decided by the council itself at a
public hearing which was to have been
1 held Monday evening and which was
i adjourned until April 18th.
+ At the adjourned meeting the council
will hear the reasons advanced pro
and con and if in their opinion the
4 improvement is feasible and should be
made, they will direct the city engineer
4 to prepare the necessary plans and
specifications and then bids will ,Sbe
! invited for the proposed work. At a
former meeting the City engineer sub
& mltted an estimate Of the cost of
the improvements. Since then labor
and material has been reduced some
what and at the adjourned meeting
new estimates will be presented by the
city engineer.
! Many Bid on Oil Contract.
No less than IL bids were submitted
| for supplying New Ulm with the neces-
sary road oil for the streets this year.
The Pure Oil Company Of Minneapolis
was awarded the contractor for $5.85
per 100 gallons, f. O.. b. New Ulm.
The highest bid was one for 9 cents
per gallon but this oil contains con
! siderably more asphalt. The contract
to be entered into between the City
and the Pure Oil Company will be for
/ 100, 900 gallons more or less, and the
Pure Oil Company is to furnish a
bond in sufficient amount to protect
the City in case they do not carry out
their part of the agreement
i Only one bid was received for a
| scarifier which the City Council has
| in mind to purchase. This is a piece
Of road machinery which is used for
resurfacing roads. The one bid, that
Of the Austin Western Road Machinery
{ Co. Of Minneapolis was for the sum Of
4 $500. This was rejected because the
City Council apparently is not yet
ready to make purchase.
Water Supply Again Discussed.
The water situation was again dis
4 cussed but nothing further was done
!. in the matter except that an effort will
I be made to secure the same expert Of
!, Layne & Bowler, Memphis, Tenn,
who located City Well No. A in North
! German Park. .. As .s.tt
For the coming city election the
Z following were selected as judges for
the various wards and precincts.
1st ward, 1st precinct: Otto F. Os-
|wald, r. ]. Soukup, and Hugo Geb-
J, ser, End precinct, Otto Heymann,
j John Nagel and John Gratz.
Second ward, 1st precinct: Carl
! Aufderheide, Herman Raabe and An
! drew Saffert. End precinct, Theodore
Mueller, julius Krause and William
IStelljes. .l IL .I}s
Third ward, 1st precinct: Athanas
Henle, A. u. Meyer and William Dur
balm, End precinct: Charles Kuehl-
bach, II. F. Schrader and Maz
] Sebald. .S55.
E Fourth ward, LIST precinct, Ed. j
E Berg, Hubert Berg and r. w Hack
i barth, End precinct, Z. B. Krook, E
5 F Buenger and Nv. s. Vercoe.
Il Anna, the two day infant old daugh
Ii ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Koop re