Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1909-03-05
THE STORE THAT LElDS

As understand, the question Is
Resolved. . That II is for the best in
tofests Of Putnam that the city com
mencc its system Of sewerage during
The year leao." Our New England
father : taught both ~ precept aud ex.
ample The lesson Never contract for
any thing until You know where the
money i coming from with which to
pay and never depart from thu. mle
except ia some great emergency mud
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in ioak .gsH oot wHH use Naa he d
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Opponent saAs his IS lhr great eeet
sees fa#t euEaam Is ateut 10 IL
ass s4aisn VIVA sVtioas outbreak Il
sli#f.Efi4#fs# d fef~haH9 AslBg eaaisTa
Nan fEiz H#y ~ s., naE aHe thHH
saIe. oat iEeni should ~ fairly -8lo
q ~ sleHHd ee3e4e taes mike tbs
ittest sieFs Went7 iot ne have entirety
ass many examples proving The tafiac,
as THIS atsumeat
II Is enineuliS faif to contend thal
Mill I'm same conditions of soil.
climate, located GA tie same riVef,
simiiaf ciass Of people With the same
environments, twelve or fourteen miles
removed, that this distance would net
entet into materially change results.
Souihhfidge 1, twelve ct fourteen miles
from u. she Is said 10 have one Of
the finest systems of sewerage known
to this pant Of the country. She has
cnioyed this ensiable reputation Ter
many years, and YET only Two OF three /
Years ago she Was visited by the most /
severe seenfge ct aiphthena ever T
known IA this section, House after I
house, ia street after stteet. in differ
eat parts Of the town supported the +
carl marked shipbthefias II became +
81 alarming that citizens aud aathafi.
ties came together and decided To cal +
oul TIE state hoafd Vf Health. They
were ealied. They came. NJ more
rigid examination Mas ever possible +
than the one given 10 their sewers /
irem start Ia finish. and they reported /
The sewer system the best and in PER
feet order, Now, might not Palnam +
have had this winter all of the diph-
iberia scare which we have been af-
tlicied With had she possessed the ete I
giant system OF sewerage that South /
bridge has Is il fair for our openents +
10 claim that this outbreak l. due en- 7
iireiy 10 the fact that Putnam has no
system OF sewerage
True ii is that no sane man entitled t
even Ia standing roem in this TWEEN j
tieth century would contend for a mo t
ment that sewerage il mol convenient /
and often good thing Putnam needs /
sewerage, but the real question for Us
% meSt i this, whether Putnam i Al
the present time financially condition +,
cd Ia meet the heavy texpense Of sew
efage in the year t@n. Oar Mayor, in t
aa>Wer tesa question ~ one II oar bank /
officials. lately said thar the REASON We /
ili net cali a special meeting 90 lay !
=
shafe II tue expense Nss that the /
city would not vote II AZ this time.
Taksas me wpra q The AaseF n This /
matter, ! il fair 70 sappa>e On loP e a
year IL pFeS>sea ike i4N, thai II tue +
taNnasvus woaId NO yote tbs twenty
Thousand doiisFs wisA which t. pay IA
e4.ilsAsian. that thex viii a this siase
Nets this assessment In my laaS-
meat, men Mo would vcte against
>e@eEage tesias. under existing CIR
eanstanees, ~aalI vote Tor II later
waea VIZ have Disposed q the twenty
Thousand dollar matter, which oaF
President kaass Ne have never pssd =
eeal towards L essls e~lng paid BY
llAece u papef. sad being confronlei