Show CITY COUNCIL IS FEES OF municipal park and new hotel come up for discussion in the meeting of the city council held february 28 an ordinance was a adopted as published in the legal department of this issue whereby the fees for the use of culinary water were revised upward and mode of payment made semiannual semi annual instead of annual the use of water in in homes which heretofore was per year will vill now be semiannually and for stores the tax was raised from annually to semiannually semi annually the municipal park came up for discussion when guy lewis cashier of the richfield co commercial mier cial saving ing bank appeared before the council and stated that some parties de sired to buy from the commercial bank the to t o lots the park commit tee wants to acquire fora for a municipal 1 park at a price higher than that which had been asked from the city the directors are very desirous to assist in the movement to establish a city paik and would therefore prefer to make the deal with the city provided this could be done dohe within a reasonable lea iea time the council discussed the matter thoroughly and nd finally advised mr lewis that it will be taken up in the next meeting i thursday march 7 after which a definite answer will be given the bank another matter of general interest came up when the richfield hotel co an organization which wants to build a new big hotel in our city wanted information from the council as to whether or not the city lot next to the federal build building inq 9 91 1 front would be for sale the c council ancl decided the city would sell this property P provided p an a ri agreement could bs reached a ca led as to the price and a guarantee given by the company that the hotel will go up on that ground the fire committee was instructed to provide temporary tempo raiv storage for the new fire fighting machine which is ep expected acted to arrive arrive heie about the middle of malch maich taz ta and license adjustments took up the rest of the time th lie of the council councilmen J B wilson and W L warner were excused from the meeting because of absence flom aiom town |