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

Until Fairv'ew' began to show
marked signs of rapid decline and
along about the late eighties Fair
view" gave up it's young life and
passed on to the great unknown.
Then "Uncle Sam" stepped in as
Guardian ad Litem" and official
iy christened the city on the hill,
Wayne G. H., under which name
the fair city fingered along, it's
citizens seeking various tonics.
Some sought the waters of the
Twelve Pole for "cat fish" and for
awhile made it lively for the cats
by something which they threw in
the deep holes and had to explain
IN various ingenious ways in open
court. Others tried raising liver
coiored dogs for the eastern mar
kets' and finally they Incorporated
about the whole of the male popu.
lation into a "Trotting Park and
FAR Associations" we don't Just
recall which expired first, the as
ISOLATION or the time limit on the
obligations given for the capital
stock of the enterprise. However,
Vt, like the liver colored dog en-
terprise and everything else, d.i ed
out.
In the early Nineties the building
OF the N. 81 w. gave new inspira-
tion and hope, and for q while the
people thought the situation more
promising; the citizens began to ''sit
up and notice things" but as the
coming and going was now by cars
that landed you down in the "bot.
tom," it seemed to be more cup
hill work" than ever.
Then q counsel of wise men was
called-something had to be done
andiit was finally decided that the
name, Wayne Court House, was
TOO cumbersome and old fashioned; {;
too much like county seat way
back in the mountains, for a rail-
road town; the, contract ply
sician of the county was called and
wayne G. H." had its appendix
removed and the county court, we
suppose, paid the bill, as usual, out
of the contingent fund"
More fires occurred, more blank
spaces appeared; amongst the
buildings lost by fire, court house
No. 8, new, modern brick build.
ing costing from & 8, 900 to $50. 900:
for the want of little care, and
less water, was doomed to 90 to
ashes almost before the mortar in
the masonry had set; with no insur-
ance, a dead loss, hopelessly gone
10 JOIN the ghosts of court houses,
Nos. one aud two.
Surely the community in whose
charge and care the taxpayers of
The county had placed their public
buildings and records, valuable be-
yond price, to guard and protect, as
a most sacred and honorable trust,
should for It's own sake contain
some one man with sufficient inter.
est IN his town and county to see
that building Of such cost, entrust.
ed to it's keeping was, at least, kept
insured; and that community should
90 farther, especially after having
been incorporated for twenty years,
with power to levy and collect tax
es for public improvements, II
should be able to show that it had
made SOME PROVISION, according Il
It's means, to protect the public
property from fire; should be abl,
to show that it hal provided a few
buckets and ladders at least, foi
such an emergency--dug few cis
terms and held them sacred for us,
only in time Of fire; particularly
after their town had been repeated
ly swept by fire, its citizens pow
erless TO save anything too big fo
two or three men to carry. Car
anybody refer TO an instance Wher
our county town, as community
as an incorporated town with tn,