The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-10-08
Mr.. Hill and the Ditch Question Cor



! In our issue of last week We published the fol-
! lowing article
| George Hill Esq, the aspirant for County Com
missioner on the Vallandigham Ia conservative
! ticket took contract obligatng himself TO con-
| struct part of certain ditch in Milton township.
! lie commenced the work, and, when aboHt half fin.
lshed, finding he could not get it done i'll time 10 en-
ter upon the books for that year, went to the Trus
tees and asked for an order, This was given him
| upon his honor AS a gentleman that hG would put
on a force the following week sufficient TO conclude
the work In fortnight. The Auditor levied "A tax,
and it WAS collected and paid over TO Mr.. Hill,
amounting to about ninety dollars, and TO this day
not another stroke has beer put upon said ditch by
| him II this was not a clear case of swindling,
! hhen we never heard of one. 1t cannot even come
tuuder the mder term of obtaining money under
| false pretenceS.
Nj. Hill informs that the ditch above referred
to was taken by him, the consideration being ninety
dollars but that the gOrk MAS not finished aud the
orders advanced for the same, is not true He had
done the work the ditch, which was satisfactory,
and accepted by Edward Campbell and William
Eckley, as trustees. We take pleasure in making
| this correction.
| 1t seems, however, that George W. Hill had a
hand in another ditch transaction, (Which uufortu-
nately got mixed up with the aforementioned ditch
as will be seen by the following letter
MILr0S, Oct. 7th 1869.
| Mr.. j. W. BAILEY - Sir - BY your request
send you statement in regard to a certain trans.
action between George W. Hill and the Trustees
of Milton Township which took place about the
wear ls54.
Edward Campbell, Joseph KeiAer and myself
were the Trustees. Some time during tue term of
tue official services of these Trustees, Mr.. George
W. HlI as agentof his brother WiiiStQp Hill, came
to the Trustees and wished them to issue an order
for eeFtain job of ditching, amounting to about
two hundred dollars, in order to get il 0a TO the
duplicate tnF that year. As the ditch not fin
ished the Trustees objected to the issuing Of an or
der. Mr.. q. W. Hill, however, urged the matter
and pledged his honor that the work shoud be COM
plelei In twenty days IT the Trustees would accom-
mNdate them 10y giving an order beioTe the work
was done. Whereppop the TggSteas, Trusting 10
their honor Us gentlemen, issued she ord r IN them
for their accommodation. The work has never
: been completed, Tnv Trustees narrowly escaped
suit NJ law In consequence of the nunperiormance
OF their or his \G. W. Hills agreement to dnish
the ditch, Yours truly
iSAACTAN rASsEL.
We ask voters to read this letter the second time,
aud then ask himself it he can conscientousy sup
port such man for the important office of Com
missioner The most oaioious persons interested
in the behalf of Mr.. Kill in this matter, were Hig
gins and Hollenbeck. These political traitors,
urged MIR. Hill to bring an action against Us for
libel Higgins took the pains to go after Mr. Hill
ana write out statement, which had no more to
10 with the case we really meant than man ip
the moon. iInllenheck il was, We presume. who
wrote the statement which it was intended fol US
to publish VITA Higgins card, which was signed by
MeSsrs CAm96Sll and Eckey. Two m,re con-
temptlbe sneaks than Higgins AMI II ,llenbeck do
not tread the soil of Wood county, As to Mr..
hill' aside fOm his politics. We have no confidence
in the man, and the transaction Mr.. Van Tassel
refers TO- proves him to be anything but the man
t'r the place Let the voters see to it that the
advance county order and ditch men arc kept in
safe distance from the treasury. They have not
only deserted their party themselves. but are using
every etrt To sell it our, root and branch tp prp-
slavery conservatism and Democracy, in order to
ride into office. Out upon such treachery.