Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-03-22
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company's prices of last yeur. Take
your pencil and figure the difference bo
tween hnlf tupply of last year and
this % or. pressure last yenr and oz
pressure this) and the 33f per cent. of
when you will reach: about 1Gi centi
against the consumer of four months
of gas this yenr, mud it all went out ci
town and into the pockets of the Stand
ard Oil Co. Does this pay? Which |:
entitled to greater confidence, the
Standard Oil Co. or home talent2
Summoned on Monday night by dis
patch to the death bed of a niece in
Southern Ohio, the editor OF the JOUR-
NAL returned at $3.50 on Wednesday
night to find circulated yesterday morn
ing Special Report from the five
Perrysburg Gas Trustees, in circular
form, which, II time and space would
admit we would only be too glad to give
in full this week. But neither permit
ting we will have to be content with
giving the opening and closing para
graphs, as follows:
At meeting of the Board OF Gas
Trustees Monday night it was unani.
mously Resolved the following special
report be submitted to the people
10 The People Of Pcrys6urg:
Having submitted our reports from
time to time to the Council, us the stat
utcs require, we feel that you are en-
titled TO full and clear statement of
facts and figures.
This method of reaching you arises
from the fact that we have no other
credituble channel of communication.
The trustees desire it TO be fairly un-
dcrstood by every taxpayer of this viii
lage that no gas well has been drilled
except under instructions from the
Council. Nor has any peH been located
until locatian has been considered, dis
cussed and unanimously agreed upon in
the board.
In the case of two, viz: Kelly No. 9
and Russell wells, the derrick seemed to
have wandered from the precise locality
agreed upon, no member seeming to
know how or why \!
The trustees desire to further State in
this report that not one dollar of this
ihibS SABthbitulC Dttu Oub
without the "sactionn of the Board
neither has any of them received, di-
rectly or indirectly, any profit "howevr"
small, in handling this money as trus-
tees, and rather heavy expenses in the
aggregate have been borne by some.
This statement is necessary answer
to the malignant insinuations Of the
Perrysburg JOURNAL.
Respectfully submitted.
N. l.. HANSON,
Sec'y Board OF Gas Trustees.
MARCH 10, 1889.
We sincerely trust that every tax pay
er in Perrysburg has been furnished
with copy of this report, and each
one of these have been fully competent
to analize the same. We would be glad
also il each Of these had been resident
and taxpayer of Perrysburg during the
county seat contest that they might be
fully informed Of the full plans and
specifications Of the present contest of
bonding the town on a "forlorn hope"
The old addage is that If q person
"deceives you once it is his fault, but If
he deceives you the second time it is
your fault" That simply means that
you should be on your guard against the
second deception and not trust the per-
son again who had been guilty of de.
ceiving you the first time.
After we have offered time and again
one-half Of the space OF the JOURNAL to
members OF the Gas Trustees, the Secre-
tary of which having claimed to be
a great friend Of the JOURNAL, how can
he reconcile the statement that this
method of reaching you arises from the
fact that we haze no other CREDITABLE
channel Of communication"
After the trustees desired that it
should be fairly understood by every
taxpayer OF this village that no gas well
has been drilled except under instruc-
tions from the Council" nor "has any
ueR been located until location has been
considered, discussed and unanimously
agreed upon in the board" is it not
singular that the board should be so
unanimous upon this subject, and after
such unaniniity Of the board and full
confidence In the man who had full
charge of the derrick that it (the der
rick should "wander from the precise
locality" agreed upon by this 'unani-
mity,' with " no member of the 'unani-
nifty seeming to know how or why!
We trust those who ponder over the
mathematical problems of the tables
gwen IN this Especial Report" will
reach solution of the real situation of
how $45, 900 in bonds can be issued
illegally" to reimburse the taxpayers of
the corporation for $4,000 supposed"
to have been taken from the Way np-
We also hope that they
will discover that S12 900 for the town
plant and other Items" of minor i'm
port are left out of tho tables and not
Unanimously" figured into the report
as the forms of legitimate business
require.
1t is gratifying to know in the closing
OF this report that none of this large
expenditure mas been paid out without
the sanction of the Board" and that
none of them has received "any profit,
however small, in handling this money
as trustees, and rather heary expenses in The
aggregate hare been borne by some" after
tile oversight OF the Council to make
any provisions whatever to pay the
Board for their services as such Trus.
tees of the interests of the town.
We trust that this report will prove
a penacea to The nerves Of the taxpayers
OF the village who have been subjected
to the terrible strain of "the malignant in
Of the PERRysBURa JOUR-
NAL"
The snrest means to rid yourself of that