| Show OUR STREETS our streets are in a deplorable condition they lick lack grading and are thick with fine dust in dry weather neather ind and deep with mud in N wet net et weather the city council ha ordered a street pr pinkler inkler which will tend to abate the dust nuisance and menace for dust is harmful to health B but ut the grading should be done and that as early as possible before the heavy u that usually pay u a visit early in july some of the streets should be graded so that the water does not run down the center of them tearing them up and forming gullies nearly deep enough to bury a man in we un dei demand tand there is e excellent roid road making material a form of shale on the black ridge west of the city come of this should be haul ed and the roads graded up and surfaced with it then too our sidewalks need attention there are cit ordin ances regulating the height of side wilk walk trees open ditches across sidewalks etc but they are diere carded there arp or trees so low in some places especially on the lower end of main street that one cannot walk under them without stooping and it is impossible to drive under them where they reach across the road people haul wag ons over the sidewalks to throw firewood over the fences into their lots lot making ruts in ili the sidewalks ide walks that form muddy pools and w nater iter courses in wet weather neather open ditches flood sidewalks and make it impossible tor for pedestrians to cross with without outgoing going out into the road several of the bridges across ditches at street crossings are either loose rotted or too low to be of service all these things tend to give st george a character for lack of civic pride and should not be tolerated it is not so much a matter of ex pense that causes this condition as it is lack of proper pride in our home city if lack ot of funds prevents needed improvement being made in the grading of our streets we believe the citizens would respond to a call to donate the time and labor in installments necess necessary arv to improve them if a right effon efford was made to enthuse them and get them out what do you say sav about it citi denb shall we hae haxe improvement improve rAnt rent along the lines indicated the county courthouse needs renovating the steps and hill hall floor is a disgrace dis giace to the county and should be fixed without delay there are other improvements needed but the steps step should be fix ed at once we understand that the judge remarked on hi his last visit here that the courthouse nas ft as the worst on the circuit it is not pleasant to have s such uch things said |
