Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-10-02
Communicated.
California Junction, Iowa,
Septe mber, 3O;h, 1902

September, 30sh, 1902
EDITOR Times: In last weeks
Logan Observer we find one entire
page devoted to rambling TRADE
of personal abuse directed against
several citizans of Harrison Co,
among whom are a few who live in
Cincinnati township. The wab-
ling gait and meandering brain OF
the writer. would seem to show a
desire to let the voters aud taxpay-
ers of the county know the condi-
ton ef affairs when the old board
retired and tho new board began.
Any intelligent tax payer who
reads such a childish attempt to
state facts, must be forcibly remin-
ded of a little boys quarrel: "You
slapped me first, now I'm going to
slap you"
We are sorry for any man who
casts ballot, or pays a cent of tax
who is not better posted on the
legislation of his county than to
believe asingle statement contain
ed in that budget of falsehoods.
We will only take time to note a
few of the misrepresentation con-
corning Cincinnati township.
The sidewalks of California
junction seems to trouble the adj
vocates of the recent supervisor
scheme. Our dirty little sidewalks
out here on the accreted bottoms
of the Big Muddy, have caused a
lump OF alarming size to form in
the stomachs of number of dys-
peptic politicians around. the Zoo.
who seem to find no purgatiye OF
sufficient strength to give them re-
lief II they will take the trouble
to look up the records they will
find that a number of years ago a
l mill tax was levied in this town
ship, as we'll as in other townships
of the county, for the improve
ment of the roads. This township
never had the benefit of this tax
during period of several years
when it was being appropriated
for bridges and other purposes in
other parts of the county. Our
township in the mean time, graded
its own roads and tuilt it's own
bridges, and by the way, it now
has as good roads as in other parts
of the county. just recently the
citizens in and around California
junction, petitioned the township
board to use our l mill tax in the
building of side walks. The town.
ship board sent bill for lumber
to the County Board, asking them
to allow the bill and deduct it from
our l mill tax, which amount did
not exhaust our portion of that
fund. The bill was allowed, le-
gally and honsrably, and with no
shadow of boodling or coercing,
but simply just and honest trans
action.
Now, Mr.. Observer, with your
two dozen allies, please tell us
how you get into your coo GA nut
that our side walks came from the
County Road fund, and where did
you get your silly notion that ".
A Smith stole it from the County
The House Consent Road Grade
is next taken up, in which w. A.
Smith is accused of taking the con-
tract at $4,000. These all wise and
especially precise characters whose
signatures appear at the end OF
that page of exposition of fraud in
the Observer, made very wild
guess when they say $4,000. This
grade only cost a tritle over $4,000
Now, if these gentlemen intended
to insinuate that this is a part Of
that $3.50, 900 the Observer claims
was squandered by the Ousted
Board, they are again away off of
their perch and had better 90 and
get an old mother goose book and
study their little piece with more
diligence. This road grade was
the outcome of a joint action be-
tween Clay and Cincinnati town.
ships, and was built with the old
Swamp Land fund belonging to
Cincinnati townships, together
with a portion of its / mill tax and
from the same source in Clay town.
ship. The men who represent
these two dozen signers in the