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Show PAVE MAIN STREET. The condition of Main street is such that to cross it on foot is almost an impossible task. If it were paved it would be impossible impos-sible for it to get into its present condition. con-dition. No amount of gravel upon it can ever prevent it becoming as it is to-day. To pave the street would be an expensive expen-sive affair, but in the end it would be the cheapest. The streets of the city are of such a width, and they are "so numerous and the city so scattered over such an extent ex-tent of ground, that it is impossible to pave the entire city, but one or two of the leading business streets might very easily be paved. Let the City Council begin with Main street, for it is the most important street in : the city. If flagging flag-ging is too expensive, then pave the street with cobbles, and if they could be dressed on one side they would make a very good pavement and one that would last for many years. . The benefit this would be to the street would not be confined to the street alone, but would be shared in by every citizen who has occasion oc-casion to come up town for the purpose of trade, and all the citizens do come up to Main street for that purpose. No team ever goes down this street for pleasure, and it is in no sense a drive. The present method of dealing with the street is un satisfactory in every respect. During the winter and wet months the street is a very sea of mud, while in summer it is a dust heap if not continually sprinkled, j We believe that every citizen in the town desires to see Main street paved or macadamized, and one of the first duties of the City Council to be elected on Monday Mon-day next should be to turn their attention atten-tion to this matter;-. The only municipal ticket thuB far nominated, and the one which will in all Drobabilitv be has upon it the names of a couple of leading merchants, and these gentlemen well know and fully appreciate the condition of Main street, and when they become city fathers they should insist in-sist that the vile condition of the street should be improved. All their brother merchants will stand by them in any such efforts and if they will make a persistent per-sistent effort to improve Main street they will certainly succeed. |