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Show SHOWER OF BLESSINGS FROM $25,000 INTERVIEW GIVEN THE STANDARD With the kindly urbanity ror which he is locallj famous, ComnusMonei Martin P. Brown, speaking for the We ber county commission, for himseli and his colleague, Moroni Skeen, whe was present, and for Commissioner D II. Ensign, who was absent on account of illness, yesterday afternoon tender ed to A. R. Hey wood. M. L. Jones and Chris Flygare, the city commission I ers, who calle d at the court house by invitation, a half mill tax levj which will amount to at least $2r.000, to be immediately made available, as the state and county share in the cost of the paving of Washington avenue from Twenty eighth street to the south city limits. The tender was made, figuratively figura-tively speaking, on a golden platter, as concrete proof ot the square-dealing policy of the county commission The mayor bowed gracefully and joined his colleagues in accepting the tender They had little to say. The paving project was discussed briefly. The city commissioners have expressed ex-pressed a belief that the cost of the paving will exceed $100,000 The county commissioners believe this estimate es-timate can be greatly reduced, to at least $75,000, making the state and countv fund pa at least one third of the total cost. The work will be done. l as required by law, under the super - vision of the county commissioners. The $25,000 Interview. ! Thus was accomplished what Mayor Heywood many times declared was im 1 possible On December 14, last, a Standard representative, meeting County Commissioner Com-missioner Moroni Skeen, and probing for news, asked him what was on his I mind Thf gonial county solon laughed laugh-ed and said: "Far be it from me to interfere, in-terfere, as a county commissioner, with the paving plans of our mayor, but I cannot help feeling, in duty bound, to i-ompthing. not necessarily for publication, pub-lication, regarding tho mayor's plan for paving South Washington avenue." He then gave the interview which appeared appear-ed that day and, on the earnest request re-quest of the reporter, authorized the Iquotatons, of which the following were j the essential p:Ti s "State aid can be obtained in the paving Of the highway alone Washington Washing-ton avenue. (Thest- fourteen words peri d as the double column top headline head-line of the story in The Standard ) "County Commissioner Moroni I Skeen, who is an enthusiast for good! I roads. stated today that, in I hit "pinion the owners of property! abutting on Washington avenue, fromi j Twenty-eighth street lo the BOUtb city I limits, were cleat lv within their righst' and duties in objecting to the city commission's plans as drawn up by City Engineer Joseph M. Tracy, for paving ihat street at the sole expense ol the property owners |