Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-08-02


TnE UNION AGArS.-We are compelled Ia
res road to.some Of the sbosll't Of the Tnios.
Ii seems that we were mistaken as TO the nar-
ticular building intended 10 be donated to the
county by tho yry liberal u citizens Of tie
hub Of the universe, lama City. There is
no doubt but that the Umpire Block is a
magnificent building, we were not aware
however, that this Block had a basement
story. We at one time passed along in front
Of this Block, and noticed that it had some
kind of q "dng out" under the same, which
we took for a aEislery,a ms there seemed to lie
quite a supply Of uater, perhaps two feet in
debtb, we could see no use of such a place un-
der such a Zine edifce as the empire Block
being covered with water unless it was for
the pupose of raising fish so as to have a full
supply Of fresh ones when they were not to be
had any other place. Bat it seems now that
II is sought TO be made a county institution SO
that I'LL may have equal rights Of the same
Unless the county should need ii for that pur-
pose II will be quite nm additional expense to
ditch the thing and let the water out. 1t
might, be well, however, for the county to retain
1t IN case size accepts Inc donation. for in doing
50 the prisoners can have q constant supply of
hsii and a good place for bathing 1t is GER
tainly a capital idea, Bro. 1nham is it not IN.
Certainly the county will be Under lasting OBJ
legations TO you for your forethoagtlt. 1t hurts
the Union editor to see the CcuRr House going
up so rapidly. and to know that not less than
three Brick Blocks as larre almost as The
great () empire Block, are now under full
Roadway in Toledo. lie is a monstrous JIo,c,
but then with oil bis ability in that direction
he cannot save his city form its backward
movements. There is No DOUBT but that AN
extra session of the Eoard vii. he called to
accept the very liberal offer Of The Tama Cit.
ans. Would not Bro. lneham like 10 have a
transcript of tl.eir proceedings in Ibis case, or
would he be satisfied viii. merely a :.synop-
Sis ca.
The following amuseing piece Of reading
appeared in the Inioa:
VIZ, iHc surscfl0cfS, citizens OF lama
County, Iowa, having read, and do approve
the article in the Tarna County UNION Of July
IL, 1900, relative 20 the county records ana
the proposition therein made 10 donate to the
county suiiabic rooms for coart and Office pur-
poses, do hereby guarantee to The county at the
rate OF our assessments, The carryinr out and
f~n!hiimeHt OF the statement nude in that ar
,iele in good faith, upon the conditions named
therein
We have taken some pains to look over the
assessments, and are prepared with the fig
ures. It will be well for the public 10 kno,c
as TO the responsibility in a financial toint. of
the Subscribers, and We will jus, say that,
with a view to finding out that, we have ex-
amined the assessment records. and End that
about one haJ Of them don't pay taxes enough
to school their children and many Of them are
execution proof. We have hearl several men
IN Toledo say That tley would like to sell
some noes against some Of the "subscribers''
for MY rants on tie dollar, that their notes at
these figures were d~4llsalo, this being The case
We certainly doubt the financial responsibility
OF a great many Of these parties. How it is
with the others we can't say as we didn't no.
tee them.