Discussions

have before been in an impossible position of having to please all citizens when it comes to keeping our city’s streets in a clean, and trim condition.  
 
At today’s council meeting was a long debate on who should be responsible for cutting the grass on city owned boulevards, and private property.  
 
In 1899 the civic government of the day had similar criticism heaped on it by the local news print editorial’s complaining about untrimmed boulevard trees which it was alleged caused a nuisance to pedestrian traffic. They had passed a bye-law for regulating tidy premises when the market square was “none too clean”.  
 
To add insult to injury the livery stable owners were in the habit of leaving deposits of refuge on vacant lots in the city’s west end.  
 
Today’s discussions were tabled to a future meeting in August, whereas the earlier topic of municipal affairs gave way to the excitement of a provincial election.  
 
Source: Brandon a city by G. F. Barker.