The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-07-30
GREENFIELD.
july %, 1891

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Greenfield has bid farewell to dust.
The waters of Paint Creek now fizz and
bubble and spout in every street and on
nearly every grass plat and flower bed
in town, and the citizens are enjoying
with every evidence of satisfaction and
delight the novelties and the benefits OF
the newly completed waterworks. On
Tuesday evening the final test was made
and the result was sufficient to satisfy
the most conservative. According to
the stipulations of the contract with Mr..
Martin, four streams we're to be thrown
simultaneously to the height OF the
Town Hall steeple. The pressure of
the stand-pipe alone, while the engine
is not running, is sufficient to play
stream against the face OF the clock dial,
which is within twenty feet OF the top
of the tower. When the valve which
cuts off the staud-pipe is closed and the
direct pressure of the pumps is applied,
the stream rises easily to the height of
l4O feet, fully twenty feet higher than
the flag staff, which surmounts the tower.
Similar tests at the fire plugs in different
parts of town give equally satisfactory
results and when the committee paid to
Martin the thirty.fve thousand dollars,
the contract price, the last vestige of the
microscopic opposition to the water
works disappeared and the voice of the
people was unanimous in commendation
of Mr.. Martin tor his promptness in
completing his great work in less than
one hundred days and of the citizens
themselves for the enterprise and pro.
gressive spirit shown imp essing them
selves OF this great modern convenience,
The question of water supply, which
seems to be giving your waterworks
committee trouble, wassolvcl in simple
and satisfactory manner. The plan of
simply driving perforated pipes diagon.
ally into the bed OF the creek
was abandoned and the following
plan was adopted: A trench twenty
feet long and about twelve feet
in depth was sunk in the creek bed and
walled up with heavy stone. In this
trench the perforated pipes were laid
and the whole was covered with heal =
timbers, and on top of this were placed
layers of loose stone, gravel and sand.
This under ground chamber receives a
constant supply ofpure cold water which
wells up from the sandy bottom and
through the sides OF the trench in such
force that the pumps were not able to
lower it preceptibly. The water
is perfectly clear and contains only a
small amount of mineral matter. As
the creek never runs dry the well will be
kept constantly full by the percolation
OF water through the deep deposits OF
sand and gravel which underlie the
creek channel and the broad bottoms OF
Paint. Greenfield sends greetings to
Hillsboro and wishes she may soon
know the pleasures and benefits which
flow from waterworks.
The hearing of the charges against
High Marshal Scott Powell +, at r.,
been set for Wednesday evening. After
the third attempt the prosecution sue.
ceeded in drawing up the service on
Powell in such legal form as would
stick. The first paper failed to specify
that Powell was Marshal of Greenfield
the second lacked the requisite number
of seals and 9. SIS, but at the meeting oi
Council on Thursday night the technical
defects were remedied and Powell hes
been properly summoned to appear be.
fore that august body on Wednesday to
answer the charges preferred agains,
him by three citizens of the town. The
charges arc Of most serious nature, in
volving among other things the extort
ing Of money from prisoners and failing
to make proper. returns of money re-
ceived to the council. The hearing o.
the case is expected to bring out some
rich and startling developments and
great interest is felt in the result
Dickey and Irwin & Wilson have beer
retained by Powell. Mills Gardner will
assist Eckman in the prosecution.
MARRIED