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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1925
Page
7
De Pue Spaniards with an eleven man lineup, including players previously in Spain, meet Dalzell stars at Columbus field in Dalzell on Sunday. The teams have played tight defenses with scoreless ties against Standard and Mark and a 1 1 draw with Dalzell two weeks earlier.
Earl Sterlitz alias Earl Stearns, a fugitive bandit once convicted of burglaries in Granville, was arrested in Putnam County. He killed himself in Clinton rather than be captured after breaking from custody in Granville and escaping from a Hennepin jail and a Dubuque jail where he killed a guard. A nationwide manhunt followed.
The City Council orders Power Street in Spring Valley Illinois to be excavated graded drained curbed and paved with reinforced concrete from Minnesota Street to Dakota Street. The ordinance is on file at the City Clerk’s office for public inspection.
The City of Spring Valley requests Bureau County Court confirmation of a board of local improvements certificate for completion costs, interest, and rebates on assessments. A final hearing is set for November 30, 1925 at 10:00 A M in Princeton with objections allowed before then. Installments total ten yearly payments at six percent interest as provided by the ordinance.
Charles W. Knapp serves as president with Joseph Yearsley secretary and Andrew Pricco Charles Sulski and Edward Leimbach as members on the Board of Local Improvements for the City of Spring Valley Illinois.
The city plans improvements on St Paul Street between Terry Street and Strong Avenue. Work involves excavation and grading with costs certified and on file as of November 30.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe excavation and grading work to locate and determine local improvements on a block between Cornelia Street east line and Power Street east line. Details are incomplete but indicate municipal excavation and grading to assess improvements.
A public improvement project proposes widening Greenwood Street by nine feet total, four and a half feet on each side, between St. Paul Street and Erie Street. The board estimates grading and excavation costs and sets the total assessment for payment by the eighty day of November in the year indicated.
A public work project on Spalding Street extending west from the south Alley line in block 88 is proposed. The work involves excavating along the north Dakota Street line and the north line of Fifth Street to advance improvements on the Comple property.
A fragment notes an amount estimated by the board to be due on the day of November. No names or places are readable. Further details are unavailable in the surviving text.
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