Show COMMITTEE ESTI MATES PARK COST cirit south street will be la im proved by property owners la in the regular semimonthly semi monthly meeting of the city council held thursday the discussion of establishing a municipal park on the so called county lot as fathered and fostered by the commercial club took up much of the time of the city solons the committee on public grounds started an investigation as to tho the possibilities of creating the park and while not all of the figures were at hand the committee estimated that tha grounds and their transformation into a good park would cost in the the neighborhood of the tha majority of the councilmen are of the opi ninon that this is too much for the financial condition of the city but councilman adolph nielson emphasized pha sized that thai the deciding question la is not the expense connected with it but the wish of the people it if tho the people want the park pa rk and want the park at be the duty of the council to provide the means for it the investigations will be continued and probably a hearing will be held after all figured ill be ascertained to decide whether the population wants the park there in ili sufficient numbers to warrant the council to go ahead J W ross presented a petition to the council of property owners on oil west first south street to have the tha street graded and planed under the supervision of tile the city the property owners to furnish the teams and labor the petition was granted acting on a request I 1 by the homo home and school league to gravel the elty square on main street so it can be used by the schools as play ground tor for the children tile the council stated that there is ii no objection to using the alie square for the purpose but that the city cannot go to the expense of graveling it |