Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-01-26
Town and County Affairs.
MisrepresentatiOns

NUtWituoeouuip6 WI PioPoSSN oo"i"N
towards a small ind local faction of the
citizens of this c,unty. who have engaged
il a scheme, as selfish as it is wild and
unreasonable, toremoye he court house
from its ancient and central location, We
can not refrain fom indicating our citi-
zeus against themany false, and even ma
licious charges brought against them.
These charges ae made with full knowl.
edge oe their faseLood, in the hope Of
creating dissenson sEd enmity between
the citizens oos d e different sections, in
order to enlist he sympathy Of the biased
and prejudicedin their selfish schemes.
It has been charged that the county
court made appropriations of five hundred
dollars for keeling the town wells in re-
pair and for tn purchase of fire engines
for this place. Not one dollar has ever
been received (; the town for either pur-
pose!
It is also chged that the town wells
have frequentlbeen chained, and citl-
zens of the conty forbid getting water
from them. Nt one word of truth is il
this statemen either Some years ago
when it was 1t an uncommon circum-
stance, to Sc rom tceaty and thirty wag-
ons at one tp hating in a lise along our
main street b water at the wells, which
would somtiles take several hours
and block % lie crossings Oh the streets,
and deprive ,ucitizens of the use Of the
wells, an orderwas passed to prevent
such an unuece'ry annoyance, by insist
ing upon these goners watering THEN
horses at the cr1s. either above or beoN
the town. Theder was wise and good
one to protector streets from being
blockaded by theeat trains of wagons
then running on Valley road Bat
no citizen of theinty has ever been re-
stricted in the usf our water facilities,
fer purp oses for VII they were designed:
and it is fair innce that that gentle
man whose htrselfered for water il
this place, was ell too stingy to pay
for proper livery {, or too lazy to at :
tend to his horse telf.
The citizens alo' Stony Creek have
been told that theioad to the Valley
Turnpike has beeu vented from being
repaired and made st class road on &C
count of the court-ie being at Wood
stock, and that justoon as it is remov-
ed to Edinburg tha;d would at once be
made. What foolisEtatements /! This
pap er, the Herald, n the road ques-
ton was up, more IL year ago, advoca
ted its improvement an earnest man
ner, and we regrett e,ceedngly when
the work was given account of ex-
orbitant land damaclaimed by the
owners of the land ugh which the
road would pass, andccount of other
local discussions rs st be inferred
that they intend manting the Court,
and play liberal gath the revenue
Of the county, to adysheir own pri-
waite interests.
1t has, been told bJcertain nasal
orator that the RADICtRr appropria-
ted SUMS of money 70 repair of the
Court house, since the and those re-
pairs were entirely eessary. 1t is
true that those repair:re made, but
our orator ,C1s one Of hsDICAE COURT.
nor was he from, nor lie interest o.
this place.
We now give notice Ich shameful
m Representation shat be made
Without con tradiction # the matter
is persisted in we shall h some letters
written to different sectrthe county,
showing their duplicity ,nprinc ipled
course in trying to excl citizens Of
the county to feelings of rness and
prejudice against the cltif this place.
Award of Contracts
The Committee appo,y the Su-
pervisors of this county purpose Of
contracting for the buil3f new
Courtroom, met on Satu, ST for the