Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-05-22
CONTRACT LET.
For City Electric Light and Water
Works Plant.

FOr City Electric Light ana wafer
Works Plant.
The city council on Tuesday re-
Pceived the bids for the electric light
and water works plant, and at a
special meeting held yesterday
awarded the contract to j. G. Rob-
ertson, OF ST. Paul, for $26, 800, that
being the lowest bid submitted.
This contract includes water works,
electric lights, power house. steel
tank and tower, everything COM
plete except the well, the contract to.
drill which has been awarded to j..
F. Mccarthy, OF Minneapolis, at
$4.75 per foot for a ten inch well,
estimated cost OF which will be about
$1,000. The specifications for the
electric lig bit and water works plant
provide for an so horse power Ideal
Tandem Compound Engine with
condenser, a Fort Wayne Dynamo,
a Springfield Improved Open Feed
Water Heater, one Horizontal .Tubu-
lar Boiler, one 100 horse power in
ternal Furnace Boiler, manufactured
by the Springfield, ILL.,, Boiler Mig.
Co, one $4,000 gal. steel tank
mounted on tower so feet high
manufactured by the Chicago Bridge
and Iron Co. The electric lights will
be put in by the Fort Wayne Elec-
trical Works, to whom the con-
tractor will sublet this part Of his
contract. Eight arc lights and 80
street lights will be put in for the
present.
A Good Word for the Local Paper.
| The Alexandria sPost-News has
noticed the lack of appreciation and
support often given to the best ef-
forts OF newspaper meI, and de-
plores the fact in the following
article which we reproduce:
And just here, it might be said
that it is remarkable how little the
business men Of any town appreci-
ate the value OF a good local news
paper Men prominent in public
affairs, men who ordinarily think,
men who are interested in increas-
ing the welfare OF the town and are
on the outlook for ways to promote
it's prosperity, often, very often,
show no appreciation OF their home
paper. They never hesitate to crit
icise it but it never seems to occur
to them to commend it. They
never hesitate to blame but appar-
entity hesitate to give the paper any
credit for fear it may detract from
their own prominence and the obli-
cation the town is under to them.
If there is a chance TO legitima tely
and deservedly help the paper, they
do the other thing; their public
conscience becomes over acute and
they are utterly oblivious of the
fact that the paper even does any
thing for the town Or is at all fac
tor for good in it's life. If it were
not. for the commentator they get.
away from home, the appreciation
OF non-residents, and of their breth-
ren OF the press, we believe half the
editors, discouraged and sick at
heart, would close their offices or
would put them on that strictly fin
ancial basis, to which the city
dailies are fast coming. An editor
who owns his own paper can con-
duct his business on one of two
principles: He can love his busi-
ness and edit his paper with an am
bition principally to benefit his
town, his state and his country.
BE can largely disregard the fnan-
cial factor, can issue, not as good a
paper as his support warrants, but
the best paper his support makes
possible. He can rank himself
with the schools and the churches,
and, taking himself and his work
seriously-though no one else NAV
strive with his whole soul to do
more than his share in the elevation
and betterment Of mankind. Or he
may do the other thing. He may
regard it as purely a business ven
ture. He will get ont then lust as
cheap a paper as his field will per-
nit. He will charge for every line
he can get returns for. No one but
the man with cash in his hand will
get any favors. He will have no
decided views unless the inducement
is large enough to offset any possi-
BILE loss. The news end of the pa
per will always be sacrificed to the
business end. What pays cash will
receive prompt attention. There are
such papers and local lack of APP
probation and consideration is rap
idly increasing the number.