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sewers will be put in on Middleton, Alexander, Marion and Central avenues. Last year | about ten thousand feet of gutters and curbs | were! laid on Clitton, Glenway and Brookliue j avenues, and considerable work is pro ected J for this summer. An importaut improvement ! will De the straightening of the north end of ! j Crescent avenue, near the canal, at the last j curve. The curve will be drawn in to the 1 1 east nnd the roadway thrown several leet to the west, near the bridge, j requiring a considerable fill into | the old basin. The length j of this improvement will be about eight hun-[ dred leet. The road will then be guttered and | curbed. Two miles of cement sidewalks were laid last year, and the work will be continued ! this vear on several streets, including Prospect | and Central aveunes, and a portion ol Ludlow. Several new streets are being opened through the various subdivisions. The Lvans heirs are preparing a plat of new streets, which it is expected will soon be submitted to the village Council, and in this vicinity grading is being pushed on Middleton and oilier streets. Grading is also being done unider the supervision of the village on Morrison avefiue, that is to be opened from Ludlow avenue to Dixmyth avenue. Howell avenue has recently been built.Grading is in progress by the Bates’ heirs, on Erie avenue, through the Bates estate, from Ludlow avenue to the canal, near the House of Reluge. It is said this work will be continued for several years before any sales are made, as the heirs have declared their desire to continue in possession of the property until the century of the Bates ownership has been completed. The property has been in the Bates tamily now ninety-lour years. Extremely heavy work is required on both Erie and Morrison avenues on account of the hills through which they are being cut.The bonded debt of tbe viUpge is $125,000 for general improvements and fSu.OOO tor sewers, fhe water bonds are not counted, as there is an arrangement under which the city is paying tor tbe plant in water rents. It is proposed to issue $25,000 more general improvement bonds, which will make the total bonded debt ' $200,000, and bearing four and one-half per cent, interest.When the charter was drafted by Flamen Ball, he inserted a clause conferring upon the village the special power to prevent the sale ot I intoxicating liquors within its limits. For I many years there was no saloon in Cli ton,I but receutly two have opened on Carthage I road and one on Ludlow avenne, near the bridge. Under the charter these could be suppressed by the order of Council, but no move has been made against them on account ot tbe decorum with which they have been con-dubted. They have not been observing the Sunday closing law, however, and at the S9t meeting of Council it was decided to insist on Sunday closing, and the saloonkeepers were notified to that eflect. To-day is the beginning of that retorm. It is not expected by Conncil and the Mayor that there will be any trouble, as the proprietors have always deported themselves as good citizens, but should there be any flagrant violations ot the order it is probable that the special powers of the charter will be enforced* and the saloons driven ont pf the village, for th^ char ter of Clifton is older than the constitution ot Ohio.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sun, Apr 19, 1891
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