Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-01-07
coDINGToN COUNTY NOT IN DEBT.

Mr. John Uniting, a resident Of Hamlin county. comment.
ing the other day upon the possibility Of merging Hamlin ana
Codlngton counties, expressing himself in favor thereof, asked
the Saturday News to what extent Codington county is bonded
and the extent Of its outstanding Indebtedness other than
bonds, If he said, s'these two counties Should unite it
would probably be incumbent Upon each to take care of its
Iexistng debts
The Saturday News is disposed to think that Hamlin and
codlngton counties will never be merged into one. There are
reasons why it would be wise for them to combine, but we APP
lprehenea hat hat1loca interests, especially local and conflicting
Interests IN Hamlin county, will intervene to prevent consoh-
Idatlon, as was the case some years ago when the movement
got underssome degre of headway. X#@SN#9
So far as Watertown and Codington county are concern
Leg, there IS not much at stake. They can get along without
consolidation, and would reap. less benefit n proportion, We
the future building IL which will entail no small expense.
But along the lines Of economy for both. counties, the two
organizations should eongolidateabut, as We have already
suggested, the probability is that they will not.
But, answering Mr. outings question, we may say that
5Codlngton county IS practically out DC debt-does not owe 81
dollar that has not already been provided for id the way Of
tax levies.
Codington county has NOT i dollar Of bonded indebtedness.
g few thousand represented il the cost Of paving the streets
during the summer and fall of 1914, and for the payment Sc
these a levy has already been made.
While Codington county is not IN dent, it is but Just to say
that at the last general election the electors voted to bond the
county il the sum IF Twenty-Five thousand dollars for the pur
Of purchasing q poor farm and suitably equipping ii, SOL
that, when the purchase shall have been made and the build
ings erected, the county will be il debt to this extent only.
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Commenting on the theory that Editor Sem $of the Dead
wood Telegram might have met with greater progress III hsl
battle against vice, the ArgusLeader thinks that he should
SOugHl IdCLlCd SUI idLueT4 tldu tHe0IetlCdl$ EGJOfIl.l
adding: sin 30 years, Sioux Falls has grown from a ratherl
and sporty western town to one OF the cleanest and
most moral cities in this section, but the reform has not been
brought about with 4 sledge-hamIner. The steady pressure Of
q persistently educated public sentiment brings permanent
results from which there is not likely to be backsIiding. Tol
try to- reform al city with forty-two centimeter gums and al
neat-ax is more spectacular but il usually gets nowhere
The Richards law may be somewhat expensive; but the people ofl
state seem 70 prefer y rather than 10 rush into thesarIas Of new
and untried things such as was proposed at the last general election
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The South Shore Republican thinks that with ali those bones
which Mr. Geo Ws Egan@ is reported to have received from the unSl
truthful newspaper men De the state, and with his folrsyearss rest
he ought toS be III ae fettle8 for the campaign for the goyernorshp1
two years hence.
Since ths state central committees have declined rs make am
recommendations for stateso federal positions, both Governor Byrnel
ana P@resiaent Wilson have reason to bow down under their weight
of woe There isSnothing that grieves a public official more than tol
haxeto decide in favor Ill Only one of j dozen friends dAsamanding tel
same poations N8
Some. 81 these daysS ths aasstionso 81 ths ssysTnnaast ownership
ofS the railroads and 8of thes telegraph and telephone Hines will #bel
parsEaappt ans political dlsegsssens s. Or iassffstions Af fe trsna
South pa9otas asSsfs recent aaestine as Absraeen may 68 aseepfed8a
aNS aneacstlon Is rnaniaaonsly nasaadSA srssoluhona SIS 8sYofSof eos