The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-03-28
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WATER ROCKED.
In the Rays of Electric SplendOr,
On and After Monday,
& April 8th.
WaterWOrks, Sewerage and Elec-
trio Lights for Our Grow
ing City. ."
steady Employment for Our La
boring Men Throughout
the Summer.

Every Man to the Polls on April
e. Eighth and Push it
Along.
The notice for a special election, on
the afternoon of April 9Th, to vote
bonds insthe sum of $4,000, to put in
water Works, sewerage and an electric
plant, has, as was naturally expected,
awakened lively interest throughout
the village. The pros. and cons. are
flying about, though brief survey of
the situation only is needed to see that
the sentiment is strongly in favor of
voting bonds to add these much needed
improvements toward the building up
of this place. With the amount voted,
$40, 000Y the village can be we'll sup
piled with water conveniences and
sewerage, and be we'll lighted. This
is nos fanciful dream of mex
perienced visionists, but plain, practi-
cal actual facts, as obtained from the
experiences of perhaps twenty small
towns and villages in different parts of
this State, Wisconsin and Iowa, where
water mains, sewerage and electric
lights have been put in. It is urged
that the amount, $4,000, if voted,
would not be sufficient to carry out
such enterprises. That part of the
matter has also been carefully looked
up, in various places, under different
conditions as to soil and other natural
obstacles, in this connection, it is we'll
to call to mind, that very few places
are as orally situated as this, for
small expense IN doing such work, -
and that amount, it is found, would
amply provide for all that a village of
this size requires, putting mains of not
less than six inch size, and as high as
ten inch mains, where required. The
reduction in rates of insurance, if the
statements of reliable companies, who
are represented in this place, can be
believed, will range one-third to one
half less than at present. On Main
street, the rates on brick buildings are
one and one-half per cent, which would
readily be taken at one per cent, with
good system of water works, and
stock in stores with two per cent
rate, could, of course, get a like re-
duction. Some of the wooden struct-
ures pay nearly a five per cent rate,
and reduction of nearly half, in
their rates is still more attractive
feature than in the smaller rates of the
brick blocks. Great benefits may we'll
be cited in the way of irrigation of
lawns, and in improving the growth of
the hundreds of shade trees, that now
lead rather precarious life, and in
causing the taking root of the new
trees that are annually set out in this
city. By the inauguration of system
of water works and the putting in of
electric lights, we put ourselves on
record as an enterprising, go-ahead
community, just the kind that men of
means and ability are looking out for,
in which to locate and invest their
capital, in the way of new develop
ments. While giving us a favorable
standing beyond our confines, locally,
it gives a rise in value, to our property,
worth many times the small outlay
necessary to pay the small increase in
taxes to pay the bonds and the inter-
est thereon. Then, again, the labor
ing men of this town, have ample en-
ployment, at remunerative wages
through the summer season, of this
year. No other men will be employed,
and though the times are recuperating
somewhat, from the financial distress
of the last two years, the goal is not
yet reached, and without the proposed
improvements, there does not appear
anything on the horizon in the labor
field for this season. Men and teams
are both an absolute necessity, and by
voting to issue bonds, this work will
fall to their lot here, and give them
between three and four months work.
Let every laboring man, remember
this, and on Monday afternoon, April