Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-01-10

such items as town taxes may b,
properly expended for? We doub
If any one can name such an item;
on the contrary, we believe all i'm
portant roadway approaches to the
Hill have frequently, if not always
been, as the public well has, a
charge upon the Taxpayers of tn,
county at large. If we are wrong
in this last statement, we will cheer.
fully retract it as soon as the proof
of our error u shown.
SURGICAL orERATIoN NOT SUCCESS
FULL.
After the appendix had been re-
moved and the n. 81 w. was fairly
in operation, things appeared to be
more active, the citizens Of the town
found it so easy to visit the Ohio
river valley towns. Coupled with
the hearty welcome extended by
their friends and formers neighbors
living in the valley towns they
came to visit, then to trade, and
many to remain. This soon made
things dull for the merchants at
Wayne. The old leading, trading
center of the county had lost its
prestige; it's hotels and boarding
houses were only hitting the aver.
age visitor for a diuner in place of
the former stop of day or two;
true this was met in part by charg
ing friends 80 cents, and all Others
80 cents a meal, same for bed, in
place of the former dollar a day
rate.
That there has been for number
Of years a marked decadence of our
county seat as a town, shown by Its
loss OF active citizens that have
moved away-its loss of business to
its merchants, shown by their with
drawal from trade, one by one, the
increasing area Of its best building
sites, wholly abandoned now, where
but few years ago stood hotels and
business houses, is fact patent to
every citizen of our county that has
occasion to visit the county seat two
or three times year; and that the
surrounding country, once natural
ly tributary to the county seat as a
trading point, has been cut off IN
every direction, almost on every
road leading there, bv local mcr-
chants with general stores, is also a
wellknown fact TO our county peo-
ple-to all which the added facilities
to get away to trade, afforded the
residents OF Wayne itself by the
railroad, has robbed it Of the major
part of its own support.
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.
While this situation at the county
seat is well known TO all the citizens
of our county, no citizen Of Wayne
can be blamed in the least for this
unfortunate condition Of affairs
They did not create it and individ-
ually or collectively are powerless
to correct it. Wayne is not the On
ly town that has suffered by the
passing of railroad through it;
there are many similar instances
throughout the country: like cause
produces like effect" wherever
found.
THE TAXPAYER HAS DONE HIS PART
Now, for a moment let US consid
er what has been done by the tax
r payers Of the county at large to aid
r the county seat town in maintaining
its original position as chief town o.
, Wayne county.
They have Juilt four court houses
+ each Of which, according to its time
r being a better building than wa.
b ordinarily found in counties oil
e Wsyne's equal, either in wealth oI
population, together with two OF
E three Jail buildings, deemed suhi
= cient at the time of their building
e to meet the necessities Of the county
$ representing, all told, probabl,