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

FOR PURCHASE OF ROAD
SUPPLIES.
About fifty people were present at
the special meeting Of the City Coun-
Gil held Monday evening for the pur-
pose Of taking action on the matter
OF paving State Street from 7th North
to 7th South. County Attorney W.
I. Eckstein who appeared for the petit
tloners suggested that the meeting be
adjourned until April 18th and there
being no objection made by any one
present such action was taken. Be
cause of the. creation of the new ward
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 thes deliberations.
| The proposed Improvement is not
being made under the charter but is
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made under a general law passed in
1921 which provides for public hearing
whenever at least 25 per cent Of the
abutting property owners petition for
an Improvement. The petition asking
for the paving Of State street is signed
by about 40 per cent Of the abutting
property owners. The question of the
advisability and feasibility of the i'm
provement will not be referred to the
Board Of Public Works as is provided
by the charter in case Of public i'm
improvements but this question will be
decided by the council itself at a
public hearing which was to have been
held Monday evening and which was
adjourned until April 18th.
At the adjourned meeting the council
will hear the reasons advanced pro
and con and if in their opinion the
Improvement is feasible and should be
made, they will direct the city engineer
Ito prepare the necessary plans and
specifics tions and then bids will d be
invited for the proposed work. At a
former meeting the City engineer, sub
mltted an estimate of the cost of
1.-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 II 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, +. 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
100000 gallons more or less, and the
Pure Oil Company is to furnish a
bond in a sufficient amount to protect
the City in case they do not carry out
their part Of the agreement.
Only one bid was received for a
scarifer 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
I $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
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. 4 in North
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For the coming city election the
following were selected as judges for
the various wards and precincts.
]! 1st ward, 1st precinct: Otto F. Os-
wald, 2. j. soukup, and Hugo Geb-
ser, End precinct, Otto Heymann,
4 John Nagel and John Gratz.
Second ward, 1st precinct: Carl
Auto fderheide, Herman Raabe and An
Edrew Saffert. End precinct, Theodore
4 / J Mueller, Julius Krause and William
fStelljes.
Third ward, 1st precinct: Athanas
1 Henle, A. j. Meyer and William Dur
balm, End precinct: Charles KuehI-
4 bach, Il. T. Schrader and Max
\ Sebald. 81
Fourth ward, LIST precinct, Ed. ]
1 Berg, Hubert Berg and P. w Hack
| barth, End precinct, Z. B. Krook, e
r Buenger and Nv. s. Vercoe.
4 Anna, the tWo-day infant old daugh
II ter Of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koop re-