Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-11-08
VERY STRONG APPEAL
For More Water, More Cleanli.
ness and More Alertness on
the Part of the City
Fathers.

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move on the part of our people to
raise money for the purpose of
establishing an electric plant is a
good one and highly to be COM
mended. The ready response IN
the way Of subscriptions to sane
shows that we have some wide
awake people among US. Whlle
that IS the case, the electric light
ing of our town is about its least
need.
Water, water, water, and clean-
illness. cleanliness, is the cry from
all sides. Water and cleanliness,
we must have and that without de-
ley, but so far as I am able to as
certain, no efforts are being made
in that direction. We are on the
brink {: ]. water famine and our
property stands today without pro-
lection BECAUSE ne have not enough
water to extinguish chicken coop
if fumes were to break out here.
While that is the case, there is
still another greater need, and one
that effects our very lives. While
the health of our town is greatly
endangered by impure water, the
sanitary condition Of the place is
absolutely death trap. No at
tention seems tu be paid to that
matter. Our city fathers seem 20
he asleep o. blind.
The condition of the town is
simply something fearful to COL
tenn plate, The streets are m,
Kept. Back lots reek with filth.
Hog pens are allowed in the popu-
Ious portions of the town without
any sanitary regulations of the
same. The smell from them rises
up under the windows Of people
who have to bear the odor and the
danger of becoming sick from
same. 1t simply amounts to
shame of the first water that the
town does aot attempt to correct
these evils.
The oity fathers may say that
DO complaints are lodged With
them, but that is nc excuse. Our.
we'll paid police force should be
required to examine all premises
two or three tiuaes week and re-
port what they fud, instead of
spending their time holding down
a few window sills in limited
space on the square,
1t " w,uld require too much space
to go into detail ABOUT these mat
ters. My aim is to call attention
to them as complaints are being
heard on all sides.
The duty of the police is more
than arresting a few drunken per-
sons; and the duty of the towli
council is more than meeting once
q month to try. those persons.
Those are the facts that l desire to
emphasize. The first care of cur
city fathers should be the health
of the town, butin Edgefeld, tha;
care seems to be Ignored,
l admit the fact that from Mayor
down, our city fathers are worthy
men, men of as good standing as
we have, but that does not relieve
them Of the charge of neglecting
the:E
0 1t is more important TO look
after the health of5the place than
it is to lay too much stress Oh
blind tigers, or the sale of a glass
of COCO cola or a.cigar on Sunday.
Enforce all of the ordinances of
the town alike without fear or
favor, but especially enforce,
strictly, every ordinance relating
to the sanitary condition of the
place. If the ordinances of the
place are not sufficient, pass others
tnat will meet the situation.
If our city fathers would turn
their attention to that matter, it
would surprise them as to how
small the cost would be.
There is not worse kept town
in South Carolina than Edgefeid,
and we need men to manage it's
affairs who will see that that stigma
be removed from it.
Smaller towns than THE, and
towns of much less wealth, can put
US to the blush. we must get out
of the old ruts and that before all
other. summer comes. The people
must rise in their might and de-
mand that such be the case.
VIM. P. CALHOUN.
A Creeping Death.