| Show SETS DATE TONIGHT FOR THE MERGER Telephone Company Up Before Council Board Council Board of Public Works to Explain The Thc telephone company's communIcation communication relative E to the tho elimination f. of tho the burden bunion and expense of ot two telephone telephone tele tolo- phone In the tho city and nd Investigation Investigation gation of tho the Seventh East curb and gutter utter extension are arc two of ot the thc Important important Im Im- im- im matters Ach scheduled to come com be beCore before before be- be fore Core tho the council at its tonight The approval of ot lie the e monthly semimonthly payrolls of the tho city which W was wag I not done Thursday or Friday night when special meetings were called for Cor that purpose e Is another matter of Importance Importance tance tanco to ell city Owing to the fact that thoro thore no committee meetings during the past week the amount of routine business will be limited The Mountain States Telephone and Tele Telegraph raph company has promised to present a n written statement to the tho council tonight telling Just JURt what hot itis It ItIs Is Js doing toward consolidating the op- op orating s systems of Its plant and the Independent plant and giving giving a definite definite definite I nite date ate when the thc city ma may expect the i elimination of the tho double telephone service under unde r one ownership This communication will be bt referred to the committee on municipal laws lawn which now no has before It resolutions providing pro for tor the revocation ro of ot tho the In Independent Independent In- In dependent company's compans franchise and notifying the tho telephone company compan to re remove remove ro- ro move o the tho poles wires and conduits of ot the defunct com company pan from tho the streets within thirty da days under pain of ot havIng havIng having hav hav- ing them removed b by the city Hoard noard Must Mut Explain Tho The board boud of ot public works will twill be summoned before the council likely to explain wh why It approved the first partial estimate on tho the Seventh So l East Kast curb and gutter sutter et extension from Martin Martinto to Tempest avenues a when the work there Is alleged to he bo so 80 Inferior that property property owners refuse to pay a for Cor It Tho The estimate was approved ed b by tho the board and the engineering department and the tho council authorized the Issuance issuance ance of warrants to the contractors contractor the Gulls Gillis Construction company compan to topa pa pay tho the first Installment of tho contract contract con oon- tract price After this h had boon been done dono doneIt It was discovered that the work was vas not up to standard and the tho council re revoked revoked re- re Its action In approving tho pay pay- ment Members of ot tho the council censured the hoard board of ot public works and tho the engineering en engineering en- en department for tor approving poor work |
