Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-01-22

who will build culverts, sluices and cutters
on and crossing Front street, where thou
sands Of people are daily, picking their way
through mud, mire and water, instead of
building one on 'she hill by the tan
merry" or by the brewery or across the gull
ley in the southern suburbs of the town,
where the improvements inure almost
wholly to individuol benefit, and are not
one ninety ninth part as often Travelled. We
go in for electing set Of town officers who
will open the cutters where they ought to
/ be, so that the water will not ms our friend
B. says, "settle around our houses, gil every
sunken hole and alley knee deep" instead
of turning all the water from the hundred
lots on the hill through that fine cuIvcrt
down Market street, through the centre Of
town, to the imminent danger Of innunda.
tion of all between Front street and the
river. We 60 in for elceting set of off
GERS who will enforce the ordinances already
enacted, slut mp Me hogs that root up the
trees and shrubbery, and the "groggeries,r
in which our friend B. truthfully says, the
boys "are taking daily lessons" We be-
lieve in eleeting set of officers who will
grade gravel and clean the streets when
they need it, And we believe in clecting
a set of officers who will have at least rs
cents worth of work done for 81. All this
which we have enumerated can be done,
and the people of Fremont be much better
satisfied and the tax be no greater, proba-
bly,, not SO great, as The corporation tax of
1857. We conidentially believe this wM
be done and that taxpayers of this corpo-
ration will ponder these things between this
time and the first Monday in April, when
they will have chance to vote on the mat
ter, therefore, we say swatch and pray
In regard to the school directors, we have
not changed our opinion in tho least, we
think now as we did when we published the
article in question, and wo repeat the same
interrogatory put forth there "Can Fre-
mont live [and thrive for the next two years,
if no more school houses should be built 2"
We believe it can
We do not wish to retard the usefulness
and prosperity Of our schools, knowing full
well that the scholars now, are to be the peo-
pie in few years. We still think that we
have houses enough to accommodate tho
scholars who now attend There arc about
900 in the corporation who might attend
public schools, but out of that number only
about 500 are in attendance, and wo think
the acreage attendance will fall lower still.#
| There arc three houses and three schools on
the cast side of the river-enough certain
lily. On the west side is the Central school
house, large and spacious, in which are four
schools; one on Wood street, and ono in the
Session room of the Presbyterian church,
In all nino schools, which would give 55 to
60 to a school.
All that our correspondent says of the
value of Schools the necessity Of sustaining
them and enlarging their usefulness we full
| ly accord in. We grant the same in regard
to corporation matters, but we do protest in
the name of the people to such lavishnoss
where there is no necessity. When it is nee
essary and the people demand it, we car
acquiesce
The closing paragraph of our friends ar
ticle, comes right to the subject which we
have ever had before our mind since we took
charge of the columns of the JOURNAL, and
herein have wo had tho most bitter opposi-
ton that has met us. We have sought to
improve the morals of the community and
have ceased not to speak against immoral
ity, vice and oxtravagance, wherever we
found it, and we believe our labors have been
appreciated by the people, but it will not
do to project extravagant plans at the OK
pense of taxpayers, on the ground that it
would be gratifying to our vanity.
The subject is open for debate.
*Since writing the above we have beer
told by one of the teachers that the nine
schools, averaged will not number over sc
scholars each.
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