Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-06
PAVING PLANS
SHOW DIVISION
OFLOTOWNER
Holders of Part of Property
on Sixth Avenue North
Protest to Council.

The problem of when l wanna. Won
no wanna" recently created into a
popular song hit, was presented to the
city council Monday night when a pro-
test of property owners of 41.6 lois
included in the III lots of a proposed
Improvement district on Sixth avenue
north was filed with the city clerk.
Other property owners in the proposed
district had filed a petition previously
asking that the avenue be graded n
naved from Park drive to the east line
of Twelfth street.
The opposition party objects TO the
expense involved in creating such an
Improvement district at this time. The
matter was referred to the public i'm
provement committee for investigation.
1t was a night of reports and reso-
lutions for the council and the routine
business was conducted in regular
~"pronto'' style and dispensed with
one, two three.
Report on Convention
A brief report OF the state conven-
ton of the Montana Municipal league
at Anaconda was made by Mayor r. NJ.
Armour. Other city officials who at
tended the convention are City Attor-
ney Charles Davidson. City Engineer
NJ. L. Morris and City Clerk W. ii.
Harrison. /.
City Attorney Davidson petitioned
the council for a 20-day leave of alb
sence from his duties, and his petition
was granted by the council.
The following resolutions were adopt
cd on their first reading by the council;
Resolution levying and assessing
property owners to defray the cost OF
constructing concrete crubing in the
city during 1922; a like resolution to
defray the expense of the construction
of sidewalks; n resolution TO assess
residents for the removal of their gar
bage: and a resolution taxing property
owners benefited to defray the expenses
of the installation of water services in
special improvement district No. 40S
on Fourth avenue north, between Fiji
teenth and Twentieth streets, the esti-
mated cost being $90S.
Ask "No Parking" Zone
A petition of business men, whose
places of business are in the Steele
block, asking for a no parking zone
was submitted to the council. The
matter was referred to the judiciary
committee for investigation.
City Treasurer w. r. Wren sub
mitted the following report for thu
month of August: Cash on hand a
beginning of month, S207 $40; receipts
$1S.24O, and disbursements. $3.50
leaving a balance on hand amountin,
to $147, POI.
Fire Chief A. ]. Trodick reportet
the following expense for the mont
of August: Central station, $4,142
North Side station, $606; West Sid
station, S615.
Chief of Police Marcus Anderson
reported 1877 arrests for the month
343 meals served at an expense TO tn
city of 500. three stolen automobile
and two stolen bicycles recovered an
other stolen property recovered val
ued at 1907.
r. S. Gaunt, inspector in charge o
Identification, reported nine prisoner
handled. and 1O,647 records now o.
file. AS dance hall inspector, he re
ported five dance halls inspected an
two permits issued. AS inspector o
motor vehicles, he reported 20 taxicab
inspected.
Seized % Animals.
Max johnson, city poundmaster, re
ported S24.T5 collected as revenue froT
2S animals seized.
Charles Landgren, city market mas
ter, reported $2S collected as sta
rental.
NJ. l.. Morris. city engineer, reporte
receipts amounting to Sill. AS build
ing inspector he reported receipt
amounting to SIS.
w. p. Beachley. weighmaster. re
ported receipts amounting to $40. A
director of the city employment bu
reau. Beachley reported the employ
ment of 50 men and five women durin
the month of August. =.
7. w. Nelson, street foreman, sub
mitted the payroll for the month {
August for street maintenance, amount
ing to S1,604.
Miscellaneous resolutions, previousl
adopted, were adopted Monday night o
their final reading.