Show STREET PRYING PAVING i I NEARS COMPLETION City Will Soon Have One of Best Paved Streets In the State v a Workmen are now putting the fin fin- o. o fishing touches on the tho I cement pave payo k r- r ment on Main treat street and soon soon the highway will be reopened to traffic The street will will then be one oner r of the best to tn be found in the smaller hn cities itie in the state and will compare favorably with th the paved streets ol of the tho larger cities TJ The e Improvement t will be bo all th the tha more inure l noticeable and appreciated since the street had had ac s qui red the reputation of being almost to bottomless during the te rainy season it And And it reflects all the more credit on the e community since the city has J Fi within the tho past eight years made nade tl such strides that in the matter of oft t public improvements it occupies a 1 leading position among the agricultural agricultural agricultural tural towns o of the state During During the past three months a V l large rge force of men meu has been employed employ- employ red ed d in constructing two parallel driveways driver drive drive- r ways on the street and aid it is thought that these will be bee practically ever ever- smiting They are wi wide e enough to z permit the passage of almost any kind of vehicle le and the space between beJ be- be J tween the driveways will be leveled j and capped to provide proper drainage drainage drain- drain age The work was done under the direction n of the state road commission with Martin Isaacson county road commissioner Clyde Whitlock county county coun- coun county ty surveyor or and and Brienholt r as supervisors The matter maiter of pro pro- r r culverts for the irrigation ditches at tl the e intersections of the I r streets streets was one of the most difficult problems of the undertaking on account account account ac ac- count of If the change in the grade of of Main street but it is thought that this has been satisfactorily lY 5 5 Plans for improving the street et have bave r I been een under consideration ration t-ration f for r many JT 1 A years y a II At one time it was proposed I t to c construct an earth wad toad similar tl to 5 S the earth hont the county coun coun- bounty i V T ty fh This s plan v was s rejected ct r by the city council because th the grade was wa wall considered too narrow for city traffic Irame Finally the cement driveways were proposed and this plan was promptly approved by both the tho state com mission mis- mis sion and the city council it also met with the th approval 01 at the citizens s h and about the only ad adverse verse criticism is the tact that the telephone poles have not been moved to the side i pf of l 5 f the tile street |