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Mail Tribune 100, July 19, 1922 By Alissa Corman Updated: Jul 20, 2022 11:28 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years agoJuly 19, 1922 LOCAL ARMORY NOW ASSURED COUNCIL ACTS By Vote of 4 to 2 Rules Are Suspended and Sale of City Lots at $7000 Authorized—Actual Work of Construction to Start in Sept. The city council in regular session last night passed the ordinance authorizing the sale of the city’s lots on the corner of Bartlett and Third to the state of Oregon for $7000 as a site for the new armory by a vote of 4 to 2. In order to pass the ordinance last night and to get work on the armory started as soon as possible a suspension of the rules was necessary. The two members of the council who voted against the ordinance last night were not necessarily opposed to it, but wished it to follow the regular channels of a city ordinance in the formative stages and to allow it to lay over until next meeting for a final vote. The other member of the council, however, felt that they had committed themselves to General White in agreeing on the $7000 to be applied on the city’s share of $20,000 in the construction of the armory and felt that it must be passed at once. The procedure was not long and there was little bickering or argument. William Hannah of the Associated Oil company local branch was issued a building permit for the company which allows the construction of lavatories adjoining the new service station which the company will construct in the near future. A complaint against the water service on Plum street was lodged by F. H. Farrar but no solution of the problem of better service was reached by the council. Work will start in the very near future on the armory which is to be a $73,000 structure and which will house headquarters for the American Legion, the G. A. R., The Spanish-American war veterans as well as other ex-service men’s societies. Civic movements which require a hall in which to hold meetings and the National Guard company will also have space in the building as well as public amusements, etc. State architects will have to come down and view the ground, plans will have to be perfected and a general outline of the work will have to be made before the actual construction on the building commences. It is expected, however, that work will commence about the first week in September. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]