City To Own A Pest House

CITY TO OWN A PEST HOUSE

The improvements on Oxford road and Hill street have cost the city $1,393.62. On their contract the council had paid $1,132.43. Monday evening Clinton J. Snyder showed the council that he had actually expended $261.19 more than this and a warrant was ordered drawn tor this amount.

The National Bridge Co. were paid $2,021 for building culverts in addition to the $3,000 already paid them.

The street paving bonds amounting to a little over $31,000 were awarded to the Ann Arbor Savings bank, excepting $1,000 which went to A. J. Sawyer.

The assessments for the new paving districts were submitted to the council and Dec. 16 was fixed as the day for reviewing them.

A committee of the council recommended that the city build or buy a pest house.  The committee was continued with instructions to look up suitable sites.

After a long debate a telephone was ordered placed in Officer Harris Ball's house, in accordance with a resolution of Ald. Schumacher. This was so that after supper, when the marshal and all the night patrolmen were on duty on the streets, it would be possible to call Patrolman Ball at his house.

The street commissioner forestalled a resolution of the council that he temporarily fill up or patch all dangerous places in the sidewalks, by saying he had such an order from the Board of  Public Works. The commissioner said that the trouble was in the walk in front of the observatory.  The city cannot compel the University to build a walk and Mr. Reeves seemed determined not to build.  Ald. Hamilton thought the regents would do their share if properly approached.