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Show I COMMISSION HOLDS UP APPROPRIATIONS Further Expenditures Must Wait Until After Election on Proposed $900,-000 $900,-000 Bond Issue la Held. Until tlic passage- of the $(J00',000 water and, 'sewer bond issue assured the city commission will make no moro appropriations from tbc unappropriated surplus in the city treasury, it was decided de-cided yesterday. 'Jn case the bonds fail to carry the city will need all its 'Surplus 'Sur-plus for making absolutely necessary water and sewer improvements. This attitude was taken when Jlcber M. "Wells, park commissioner, recommended recom-mended that $2600 be appropriated for the creation of a 'children's playground on tho old Y. C. A. tennis courts on Second South, between Second and Third East streets. The appropriation was held up until after the boud election. elec-tion. Ooiiiniifsifiuer Wells apprised the commission com-mission that tho Free Playgrounds association as-sociation had offered to lease tho site to the city for ton vears free of charge, ami he advocated the acceptance of the offer nnd the equipping of the grounds. |