The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-02-12

N-'- ''A-AN hhnb t.iA YAK. e. II 10
Nrontsviila, md al othors will be
built in rams hou Bmld FIRST
o bridge across LoofbanS, and an
otner across the Wet Fork and
make 40 possible for the people Of
Sheridan, and tie Wes! Fork cotm-
thy, to get to GIan'syiNo end thcn
II 1t be possible to navigate the mud .
around Pig-root narrows, or down .
Phillips run, few Mt least Of the
present generation, viii come t. see
that wonderful unpaid for 100000
dollar bridge; which for all 7 know, /
may be like a good bridge thai once .
spanncd Tie middle fork Of Tygarts
Valley river in the county Of Up ,
shire or Randolph rot down before
it Was possible to get 10 i. with
tu-horse wagon. But bond the
county Tt is n Republican doctrine
that "a national debt is national
blessing Certainly it should hold /
good in the county as well.
Now NJ Editor this is another
"offusion" from the pen of Jonah
later even than the "last, but Jonah /
es not "8one mad, not so much has
initiated, he takes tic structures Of
the News IN the same WY tho boy /
did when the mules ga, Kicked him
cut OF the stable. He may be a
"born IDIOT he is not in any way
responsible for his birth but if
second birth should produce such
a political monstrosiiy a. birth I
have in mind, deliver me from being
"bon again" ia politics. Jonah
might vince, even squirm, at being
classed with "a LOT of thieves
bowling to cut, slash, and play
the devil" but as the truelson has
j 1.-THE greatest thief Is the first to
hollow-stop thief and he has been
thumped so often by the intellec-
tnal Hercules-one of the tNin
great minds who can tell to
unit how many horses. cattle, sheep,
swine, and chickens are in the State
be only feels good. Why did they
not count the vote that Dawson
received for Governor, and add to
their list the number Of asses?
Jonah did say, so long as the
Republican party is in power we
never can haye-Whatl n sufficient
amount of money to build bridges.
1t is one of the characteristics Of
the News to animadvent upon gar
bled extracts, wrestling" them to
his purpose Jonah here repeate
that under existing Republican law,
=. we never can accumulate surplus
in Calhoun county sufficient to
bridge the river at Grantsyille-
fact which the News admits, and is
t begging almost with teprs, fol
r Democrats 10 make it possible tc
get it IN some other way. Jonah.
f 1--WE dislike to take issue
r with so able an exponent as
| "JOnah, " but when he is SO
> plainly in error we deem il
~, our duty to correct him, lest
some voter be led estray by
= his argument.
/ In the first place, the pro.
h position is to vote on issuing
e $50, 600 6 per cent. bonds.
instead Of $4,000, as Jonah
claims, which will make &
$ difference Of $50, 400 in what
he claims the bridge viii cost.
8 And then deduct from The
+ amount left the amount OF
! interest that will accrue or
, the sinking fund in thirty.
q four years, and the interest
on the interest, which alto
t gether will amount to some
Q thing near $40, 200; and The
bridge will not cost much
4 more than the amount Dor
. rowed by bond. And we re-
C assert, with a thoro' knowl
n edge of what we are talking
e about, that it would moi
b increase the assessment more
y than 5 cents on the hundred
+ dollars valuation.
@ twenty-five years a 6 {
IS Gilmer county was like Cal
t. houn is now without brid-
II ges. They proposed issuing
% bonds and building bridges