The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-18
IN A FIGHT
WITH BUTCHERS
Township Trustees Don
Their War Paint.
A CLEANUP IS NECESSARY
Slaughter Houses May be
Moved.
Butchers Declare They Keep Their
Slaughter Houses I'm a Sanitary
Condition and will Resent all Inter-
ference upon the Part of the Health
Boards.

The township trustees which COM
pose the township health board,
held an important meeting at the
office of the township clerk on east
Center street, last evening at Z o.
clock. Major S. N. Titus, John W.
Klinefelter and Clark Dix were pre-
sent.
The purpose of the session was to
take up the slaughter house pre-
position which has been bothering
the city health board for the past
several years. The trustees get down
to business In hurry-up, last night
They unanimously decided that the
slaughter houses, in their present
condition, are a nuisance to the COM
munity. The city health officer was
authorized and instructed to visit the
various slaughter houses south of
the city and compel the owners to
clean up the premises and place
them in strickly sanitary condition.
1T simply means that in time, we
will have to drive them from the
community; we can't tolerate such
unsanitary conditions right under our
nose. We are getting to be a city
here and we should remember that
1t takes a great deal of butchering
to supply the meat trade. Each
slaughter house kills ten beeves now
to where 1t used to slaughter but one,
We can't always remain n country
village" remarked u township trus-
tee Saturday morning.
One owner of u slaughter house
declares that he has been exceeding
ly sanitary and claims that he can
prove that all the blood and offal
from his place has been carted
away and buried.
81 have secured permission from
a farmer residing several miles out
of the city to receive all of the
filth from my place and / challenge
any one to criticise the sanitary con-
dtions at my place." remarked the
butcher.
The owners of the places claim that
the health officers have prosecuted
them to a certain extent,
"They are trying to run MS out of
| business" remarked n butcher Sat
urday. 1--WE believe that our meat Is
butchered just as clean as anywhere
lin Ohio and 1t hurts our business
when the health board gives out the
| impression that our places are filthy.
Just because the streams leading
from the slaughter houses are not as
clean as they might be, that has
nothing to do with the cleanliness ol
our meat he concluded.
The trustees believe that the
slaughter houses are entirely too close
to the city. IL they are made as
sanitary as is possible, then the
| stencil from the butcherlng would
not be a pleasant one for local re-
sidents to inhale.
1--WE expect that this whole affair
will end In a lot of trouble, but II
| It must come, we had better be
ready for IT. remarked one trustee
The butchers claim that they viii
do all in their power to comply with
the health rules but will fight the
Trustees to the last ditch, II they try
TO compel them to move.
/ We own our places out there an6
are conducting a legitimate business
II people don't like to live in that
| vicinity why did they build there;
I'VE we have been located out there
for good many years." remarked
one butcher.
Health officer Balm viii visit the
slaughter houses next Monday IN
company with J. w. Klipefelter and
the owners viii be given their ii