Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-05-02
sTURGIs TO THE FRONT.

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$4,000 Guaranteed 20 Build Court House
and Jail for Meade County.
By reference to the attached bond the
voters of Meade county will see that the
substantial, enterprising property owners
of Sturgis are willing to do their share
toward paying the expenses Of Meade
county. The bond entered into in good
faith is bond that the United States
would readily accept for one hundred
thousand dollars. The security for the
fulfillment of their agreement, which is
legally binding and can be enforced by
law, is beyond question. There is and
will be no attempt to deceive or defraud
the county in any way. The offer is not
one that depends upon any future con-
tingency or prospective values that only
exist in the imagination Of enthusiastic
town lot spectators, but it is bona fide
cash offer made by men who are legally
bound and who are abundantly able to
fulfil their promises.
If the people Of Meade county locate
the county seat at Sturgis the people OF
this enterprising, growing town can well
afford to contribute this additional
amount to their taxes. The people OF
Sturgis will derive more direct benefit
from the location of the county seat at
their town in the increase of the value of
their real estate than others, and it is
right and proper that they should relieve
the farming community, the mainstay OF
our future prosperity and wealth, of the
burdens of taxation as much as possible.
That the amount of money offered is
abundant to build and furnish the public
buildings necessary for the county is adj
mitted by all. The county thus relieved
from any extraordinary expenses in the
near future has career OF prosperity be-
fore it that is unrivaled.
That the voters of Meade county will
see that it is not only to their interests,
but that it is the right and proper thing
to do, and cast their votes almost sol1dly
for Sturgis for the county seat of Meade
county cannot longer be doubted. Let
the people of Sturgis and the farming
population stand together and work for
their mutual interests rather than for the
interest of those who only come among
us to speculate upon our necessities, and
undermine the very foundation of our in
dustries, corporations whose aecumula-
tons go to swell the bank account Of
nonresident capitalists rather than the
building up and improving of our own
country.
The bond entered into by the citizens
of Sturgis has been properly executed
and acknowledged by the persons whose
signatures are therennto attached and
will be placed in the hands of the cashier
of the First National bank of Sturgis
who will turn it along with the lease Of
the city hall--over to the incoming
board of commissioners to be elected.
The attention of the voters Of
the county has already been called
called to the lease executed by the city OF
Sturgis OF the town hall for the use OF
the county until the time arrives for the
erection Of court house and necessary
public buildings. The county will be
absolutely released from mourning heavy
expenses at the very beginning. That
the voters Of Meade county would with
out other inducements than the general
welfare Of the county have decided by d
large majority to make Sturgis the
county seat was certain and this offer is
gratuitously made believing II to be
nothing more than just and right to u.s.
laume obligations in proportion to the