Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-01
REJECTS PROPOSAL
TO RECOGNIZE LABOR union
Mayor Refuses to Read or Present Proposed
Agreement to City Council: No Support
Appears for Measures Friends.

south, from Sixteenth to Twenty
sixth streets, the council did not rule
out the creation petition, but deferred
action on il and the protests for
another week. Protesting property
owners included the Great Falls park
board and the Great Falls Tuwnsite
company.
Declaring that protests should not
be considered when the improvement
district involved the construction of a
sanitary sewer, Alderman Bosley moved
that the council order the immediate
construction of the improvement. He
said he did not believe that the park
board should be considered a property
owner and that, in a question of com
munity health. the welfare of the city
and not the property owners should be
considered. He said the proposed dis
trict was greatly in need of sewer ia
~cilities and he expressed the belief that
many of the interested property owners
were in favor of the project.
Specifications for the laying of water
service pipes on Third avenue north.
from Twentieth to Twenty-first streets,
and on Twentieth street from Third to
Fourth avenue north, were adopted.
Bids for this work are TO be opened
August IA and the contract is TO be
carried out within 80 days.
Tribune Gets Printing
Contracts for furnishing the city with
official printing. books and job printing.
for the year beginning August l, were
awarded TO The Tribune Printing &
Supply company and The Tribune. The
successful bids were opposed by the
Leader in the official printing work and
by the Flint Newspaper Syndicate for
the job printing work.
A report by City Attorney Charles
Davidson that he had been unable to
obtain a satisfactory settlement of a
claim against the government for war
taxes paid on a shipment of cast iron
purchased by the city nearly four years
ago. was referred to the judiciary com
lnittee for consideration.
Application for refund of war tax
was made. said Mr.. Davidson. when it
was found that materials used for mu-
nlclpai purposes were exempt from tax
alton. \ claim of S1.3S4.SS was filed
with the government sometime ago and
SIX months Ago.. the city attorney said.
the government sent q check for S1S2.SS
in settlement. The government would
not allow the full amount of the claim
because of the belief that the American
Cast Iron company, from which the pipe
was purchased, was liable to the city.
City Attorney Davidson said the con
tract with the pipe company made no
to war taxes.
Would Rent Market Building
A belief that the city market build
ing now bringing the city S15 a month,
should be turned over for more profit
able purposes, was expressed by AL
derman Harry Stevens. The question
of whether the building could be used
for other purposes, was raised BY
Mayor Armour. who said that the bonds
were voted by the people for a market
building and nothing else. Alderman
said he was opposed to any move
for discontinuance of marketing priv
The petition of George Corontgos.
o10 FIRST avenue south. for permission
TO hang a canvass from the awning in
of his place to shield his fruit
was refererd 10 the public i'm
provement committee. The petition of
William Springer, 1901 Sixth avenue !
north, for Il permit to install a gasoline
tank, was referred to Fire Chief A. j..
Trodick and the fire committee.
Six fire calls were answered by the
department in June and the expense
Of the department during that month
S4,554.S6. the report of the fire
chief showed. Ray S. Gaunt. inspector
IF the bureau of identification. report ed
prisoners handled in July. 20 for
cars inspected. and six dance halls
Investigated. Poundmaster Mac Johnson
receipts in July amounting to
Receipts of the market building
July were $15.