Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-05-20
STAND BY YOUR TOWN.

thlng last w eunesday evening when
it adopted contract with Camden
Interstate people providing for ten
arc lights to be located so as to
light the streets. This is big step
In needed improvements. The con.
tract goes into effect June lst and
provides that the town pay So per
month or $50 per year, for each
light, the same to be lighted from
dark till day light. There arc few
things that council should remember.
First, that a notice must be given
the company the day following the
night that any light refuses to burn;
that upon such notice only can such
outage of light be deducted from
the monthly bill due the company.
Second, that each lamp is to be six
and eight tenths ampere. This
ordinarily means twelve hundred
candle power light but upon being
asked the question Col Magoon and
Electrician Pagan Of the company,
stated that as the contract called for
a seventy-fve voltage it would mean
two thousand candle power to each
lamp. The contract is a fair one
and the price is low.
Under the contract by which the
present company purchased the Cam
den Interstate the new company was
to build large power house at
kenova. The only power house at
present is at Ashland, Ky, but the
Advance understands that the Keno
va power house is to be built this
summer. This will enable the com
pany TO furnish power for extra cars
in fact for all purposes needed or
that will ever be needed from Keno
va to Huntington.
While the healthy fever of i'm
provement is OH and the people and
the council have agreed to certain
brick paving and improving of all
other side walks why not push the
matter at once? Go at ii in a business
way and with that method which
lnsures success.
As the city has agreed to the water
franchise and is topay 81 900 per year
for fire protection why not build the
water works at once? Ceredo needs
fire protection and needs it now.
The Water Works Co has a good
thing of 1t in it's contrac: with the
city and the length Of it's franchise
and 1T would only be right to give
the people an opportunity to get
their share of this good thing called
water. Surely Ceredo realizes the
value of fire protection. The lack
OF 1t is hurting her abroad. If we
are in sluggish rut let's get out of
1t at once-wake up and push things.
The Advance understands that
there is surplus in Ceredo's treas
ury. This surplus when giving work
TO It's people and increasing the value
of its property is best used. But
the council should so calculate ex-
penses as not to bring about deficit.
There are certain privileges in Cere-
do that are taxed in almost any other
place upon which tax can be Justly
imposed, except here. 1t is not
necessary to enumerate them at pres.
ent. But it will not come amiss TO
mention one-dogs. Some one has
made the statement that there are
one thousand dogs, residents of
Ceredo. The Advance may strain
at camel and swallow it, but this
dog story is little bit too much of
a good thing. J h relator maybaps
has returned late one night from
Catlettsburg with his sense of sight
and bearing increased by that which
does not exhilerate but intoxicates
Evidently he could both see and
hear ten times at once. To the true
observer, the man who appreciates
trueness of life, the "more he sees
of dogs the less he thinks Of man"
Is worthy of all acceptation. Hence
all dogs should be taxed. a man
pays dollar on his poll when many
of nnr dumb frinnda dnnon L.