Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 114, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1925 — Page 7

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11,1925

NEW SIGNS TO MARKSTREETS OF CITY SOON Fixit Finds Light Company Will Take Care of Plates. Do You Know? If the State board of tax com- - missloners fails to approve the increase of 1 cent in the levy of the board of sanitary commissioners, the total city levy for 1926 will be $1.0525, hi cent lower than during 1925. Mr. Fixit is The Times representative at the eitv hall. ehar<re.i with the task of aidins Times readers. Let him help yo uout. Write to him at The Times. Streets of Indianapolis soon will be supplied with plates to indicate the names of streets, the streets with which they intersect and the block number, William H. Freeman, board of works member, informed Mr. Fixit today. They will be provided by the Merchants’ Heat and Light Company and will be placed on light posts belonging to the company. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I am a traveling salesman selling to groceries, candy stores, barber shops

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‘Dead’ Buddy Comes to Life

Sixty-one years ago on a Civil War battlefield .Miles B. Cook (left), of Flint, Mich., threw a blanket over his comrade, Charles D. Webster of Traverse City, Mich., believing he had been killed. To his amazement Cook met Weteter very much alive at the annual G. A. R. encampment at Grand Rapids.

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count of this and my hotel bill has nearly broke me. ADOLPH BRANDE. Mr. Fixit agrees this is a longfelt want and will rejoice with you when the new signs are installed. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Why the neglect of S. La Salle St. from Washington St. to Moore Ave? It has not been cleaned and our appeals have been unsuccessful. CHARLES CAIN. Duncan McDonald, chief inspector of the street cleaning department. promised Mr. Fixit the street ■would he cleaned today and at regular intervals thereafter. DEAR MR. fTxTF- We thank you very much if we could get the sewer

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hushed in the alley north of Prospect St. in the 900 block as the sewers from the houses are always stopped up. PROSPECT ST. RESIDENTS. W. P. Hargon, clerk of the street commissioner’s office, will send an inspector at once. However. If the stoppage Is in the connecting sewers, property owners will be compelled to pay for repairs. DEAR MR. FIXIT—I want to describe the exact location which the

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city and the school board promised to fix. It is on W. Fourteenth St. on the north side of the street from Fourteenth St. west to the first alley. Instead of a walk, there are only cinders and especially at the- west part or near the alley it is very low. It Is covered with mud and water and school children cannot get through without getting wet. , S. H. AYRES. 1237 N. Pershing Ave. William H. Book, business manager of the school hoard, failed to

recall a promise by the board, but suggested that you call at his office at Meridian and Ohio Sts. to discuss the question.' He is of the opinion, however, that the school children could use the side street entrances and exits without passing over the Fourteenth St. pavement. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I have been trying to get the alley opened between Harding to Blaine Ave. The alley opens on Kentucky Ave. and should open through to Sells Ave.

I put in a petition over five months ago. And there hasn't been anything done. The garbage man can't drive down the allley. .1 M'OINN, 1720 S. Harding St. The board of works has been impeded in street improvements through failure of city council to appropriate money for salaries of Improvement Inspectors, They are now holding up $1,500,000 worth of street Impiovements for that reason.