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Show j Water Mains to Be Replaced by j WPAProject Seventeen men were put to work 1 last Friday uncovering the old wood-' wood-' i in water mains which will be replaced re-placed by ca:t iron pipe under a WP.A. project. Mr. J. R. Barker, in charge of the WJA. clfice at Richfield, was here to sea the project get under way. and to confer with tile city officials' reiative to the project. Mayor Johnston John-ston reqire-sDed that more men b(( put an rhe job so that the uncovering uncover-ing oe.n b? done befcre the ground bexeomes froz n, and Mr. Barker promised the.t the crew would be doubled after the first of November. The. Government will opm bids November 2nd for its portion of the pipx Mt. Pleaeant has placed Its order and delivery of pipe will begin this woek. All of the labor used in th? project pro-ject will be local men, even to the foreman who has been an employee of thb city for a number of years. This Is one of the most needed improvements in our community and the officials are to be comrniend-rd comrniend-rd for securing the project. |