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Main Topic On The Streets

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
April
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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MAIN TOPIC ON THE STREETS 

Is the Location of the Post office Building

GOOD HUMOR NOW EXISTS

And the location will be within five blocks North and South and three blocks East and West

The principal topic on the streets just now is the post office site. Outside of parties directly interested in the location, however, no great strife has yet arisen. The Argus has been the only paper so far to give the correct locations to bid on. But unfounded rumors have been afloat. For instance, one rumor had it that a postoffice inspector was the city Wednesday looking at sites and more especially at property on which no bids had been put in. 

It is not at all likely that any attempt to reach a decision will be made at an early moment. These postoffice site deals have a way of hanging along for months and sometimes two or three years. 

In the meantime good humor should prevail, while friends of each site get ready to explain the advantages of their particular site. If the postoffice is not located on Main street, it will not be more than two blocks away from it and will be somewhere between William and Catherine streets, a distance of only five blocks. When the site is finally chosen a few people will be benefited by the choice, but it should be far from being a matter over which anyone should lose their temper. As a rule the friends of each site are all on the same footing, each trying to benefit his own purse or property. At any rate nothing should be allowed to come up which would endanger the selection of any site at all. 

Ann Arbor wants a new government building more than she wants any one particular site for it. Some sites have advantages over others. The inspector who will eventually come here, possibly not for a number of weeks yet, should be a man who can see these advantages. In the meantime the Argus is not advocating any particular site.