Saint Mary's beacon., 1907-03-21
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fdfs1stionsof tie pnhlic, I trust you
will alIow ms ! small spaos Ia your
'valsah1s paper. !
Z The liae isiin ppeuasi Ion: Cen
fleld Harbor % Park Hall. and ths
Poles are dslivered s1zcrsst 7Gills,
ard vixen - waaaAsr pernafzs >lSsy
win be planted and wired.
We have In commissions is phones;
10 more subscribers want phones,
and when the line In complete, there
will be from 40 20 30 phones on this
branch.
There has been o great deal OF
fault found with the slow progress
OF this line. but i can assure the
citizens that telephone lines. like all
other entsrprfses. require money
and Q little help from the people. /
have received. mp 10 date. eISO5.
| will give my expenses later. In an
itemized account. 50 the people may
know where their money has gone.
OF the amount collected for the
line. you will note that $40 is con-
tributed by persons outside of the
county, There are other out Of
county people who have, promised
TO take stock In the near future.
Now, that thA6pring In approach
ing, trust that the citizens of 81.
Mary's will come forward and assist
in building this much desired ne
cessity. We have more natural ad
vantages than any county In the
State; oursoil though worked dosn.
ID naturally good our water advau-
tages are the hestinzthe Union but
you cannotsxpsct snssrprising and
monied people % loease In such o
dead place. Peopls who havs lived
in other sections where they have
railroads. telephones, etc.. will not
locate here. no matter what our nat
ural ad vansages are. 80. !
There Ia not nicer or more re-
6aed sst- of People In any seeunty
than In St. Mary's. but yet, there is
less public spirit In St. Mary's than
in any place / ever heard of. How
many men have really worked for
thisimprovement? lean count one
hundred who have given IL kick
10 one who has given IL q helping
hand. - - :
And. because a man subscribes
80 or go, he thinks he has done
the entire thing, and assumes the
right 10 talk against il. and dis
courage the FIRST man he secs III
he sees mistake, let him come and
help rectify it. Our company is one
made up Of the people and for che
people and we should all take an in
terest In it-n0t 3 men out Of our
entire section do. -
Now, that we are about TO start
up again. let the people come for
ward and assist, aud can assure
you the line viii De built in q few
months. We have only O very few
miles TO Valley Lee when we will.
have the assissanoe Of She people in
that section. why don's the Cedar
Point people join;ns al Great Mills.
and have q irea
/ viii assure the people of one
thing; there are few ofsas iu this
districtwho win build this line II We %
enly build one mile q .yssr. We:
want 0 Telephone Line and wa are
going TO have IL.
There is one thing. | wishto call
astenti6ns 10. the repairing OF the
line. We have bad our line cut by
parties, They throw sticks .at wires
and shoot glasses OF. Four times
has cur line been broken by people
cutting trees on IT,. hereby give
notice shat people caught destroy
ing the Company's property will be
prosecuted. Several parties. have
seen onr line cut. but will NOT In
form on the parties.
oUR List or SUBscaIsERs
Otto Trossbach. ach..................... a 20