The Town's Stagnant Puddles

We intimated last week something about the condition of the streets of our city, as regards mud holes and low places where water always accumulates and stands for days. We thought then, and still think that a lot of dirt and gravel thrown into those places would be of great benefit. It will be impossible to have the town look attractive as long as the streets are in the condition they are at present. Every citizen knows that water can be found standing in the streets of Ritzville after a rain storm or chinook longer than almost anywhere else in the county, and there can be no question but what it is unhealthy to have such pools of stagnant water standing in our streets. Several wells in town have been unfit for use the past winter on account of the surface water; so that it is not merely a matter of looks, but one in which the health of the citizens is concerned. There is plenty of material at the south end of Main or First street that could be spared to grade the lower end of Main street and the three principal cross streets, and right here we would suggest that a street grade should be struck on the hill, on both First and Main, and the dirt taken off. It will be done some day, why not at once?