Putnam patriot., 1930-03-13
THEY SAY

THAT-Putnam will soon be .unctioning under still another set of parking. tor no parkingl rules. There are predictions that the two hours limit on the given streets will result in games of automobile check CTS" The game will be played as follows: The machines will be brought down town in the morning as usual between eight and nine o'clock. Two hours later the first move in the game will take place. Those parked on Main street will move cars to Front, or some other street, and vice versa. Two hous later there will be another move; and so on during the day How many will join in the game remains to be seen. If the citizens wish Co CO., operate in the movement to provide better parking facilities there will be no games because of lack of players. However. there will probably be a few who will think it is smart to. if possible. beat the parking law. Per haps the police can eheekmate the game if it is tried out.
 THAT-The city fathers are fac ing another problem. For a number of years certain streets of the city were oiled. The old lhorse-drawn sprinkling cart has long since been scrapped. The abutters on each Of the streets where oil was applied were assessed per lineal foot. That is the way the oil was paid for. Two or three years ago the method of meet ing the cost of oiling was changed. Now all taxpayers contribute, through paying taxes, as the expense is met out of the general appropriations. Since the special assessment was dis continued. and the citizens have be- come more and more alive to the fact that. in effect, it costs them nothing to have streets in front of their homes oiled, there are continuing petitions to have this done There were few such petitions in the old days. Most of the petitions then presented were that streets should "notn be oiled. How far the oiling of streets can be carried is a question that the common council will have to decide.
 THAT-Possibly there is a vestige of virtue in having the common eoun- cil 20 over the bills of the water de partment the evening of the first Tuesday in every month. If so the sleepy members at the press table will continue to yawn and watch the mu- nieipal clock. If ever 1t should be determined that the result of this sys- tenn is nil in comparison with the time it takes. newspaper gems the long table will give full and feeling publicity to the alderman who makes the motion to discontinue the custom and go back to the days before the water works war, which brought 1t into vogue.
 THAT-When one passes the High school athletic field it looks as if soldiers had been throwing up breast works. There are loads upon loads of rich looking loam piled in embank- ments. The material will be spread as soon as warm weather sets in and the athlctis Geld. '-;ll he levelled and become an asset to the school and so the city.
 THAT-Possiblv if the \. |. \. H. G H. hdllfodl eHuNii ever hEdtN ut= eide to carry mail in it's ears on its \. X w tracks the post office depart ment will request that the city allow siding to be built through Union Square and around to the rear of Union block.
 THAT-The ordinary mail car is not much larger than the present trucks being used for transporting mail by the railroad eompany's sub sidiary. the N. E. Transportation Company.
 THAT-Someone asked us how the mail would have reached the post of- fee building if the post office depart ment had decided to build new post office on its lot at the corner of Grove and South Main streets. The citizen reasoned. we assumed, that if it is so inconvenient to carry mail a few faa4 frnf, tho raraoapt tsaffrnad sta.