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News from the past - January 8, 1914: Paving Ordinance Passed By Council
Sunday, January 06, 2013 - Posted 7:52:52 PM
This article was printed in the January 8, 1914 edition of the Minonk New-Dispatch.
By a solid vote of the council Monday night
an ordinance was passed which provides for about three miles of pavement
for Minonk. In the afternoon, the board of public improvements had held
a public hearing which was largely attended. There were many objectors
present
several of whom stated that they could not afford the proposed
improvement. About twenty property owners voiced their sentiments for or
against, while several petitions were presented to the board opposing
the pavement. Attorney R. L. Smith of Peoria was present to represent a
number of objectors, but his argument was not against paving. He
insisted that the board of local improvements was planning too good a
pavement for a small place. He advocated a brick pavement, with a gravel
foundation and concrete gutters and curbing, to be put twenty feet
wide.
After all were given a chance to express their views, the
board adopted a resolution instructing City Attorney E. J Henderson to
prepare an ordinance to be presented to the city council, after which
the meeting was adjourned.
When the council met in the evening, all members were present
except Ald. McNeill. Ald. Fuller made the motion to pass the ordinance.
Ald Stimpert seconding the motion.
On roll call, Aldermen H. D. Puller, J. K. Stimpert, E. A. Hewitt, H.
E. Schroeder and Mayor John Vissering voted to approve the ordinance.
The proposed paving will run the full length ot Cemetery street,
from the Minonk cemetery to the
south limits of the city; one block east from the B. M. Stoddard
residence to the city limits; west from H. E. Memmen's residence to F.
W. Christian's barn; from the east side
public school west to the west end of the city park; from the Newspaper
office north to the Santa Fe depot; from the Hotel Dasher east
to St. Patrick's church; from the A B. Kipp & Co. office north to
Erbland & Stoneman's blacksmith shop, and south from Brockling's
studio to the city limits.
The paving will consist of a concrete base, five inches thick,
two inches of sand cushion, and a layer of repressed vitrified paving
blocks, together with the best grade of sandstone curbing. The width of
the paving in the residence district will be twenty-six feet, but down
town it will be the full width of the street. The total estimated cost
of the improvement is $113,759.
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