Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-08-18
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lose admonitory articles ap- '
arently coming from the Edi- :
,rial Sanctum which contains {
mong a host of other things .
ODDLY dash of aqua forts and
eals out straight handed to the
ommittee on streets and side
walks of the town council some
Kings that some of its members.
hough used to many unkind
;uts, will not stand for, unless
The HERALD wishes to couch a
Joke in a thrust of its vitriolic
pen. This article among other
accusations goes on to say that
the streets, alleys, cutters and
sidewalks of the town are in an
un,hinkable condition /; that
though the citizens of Woodstock
appear before the city fathers
upon their knees and with tears
in their eyes and with lamenta'
tons and protests and with
plead:ngs and applications, the
stony hearted men that comprise
the committee on streets and
sidewalks, remain as adamant
and are oblivious to the alleged
unsanitary condition Of the
streets, sidewalks and cutters of
the town.
That though the HERALD holds
out a red flag and waves this po-
tential signal of the existing
presidential condition of the
lstreets and cutters and that
Though the aforesaid pleadings
land supplications of the citizens
are hourly and daily made knowr
to the aforesaid city fathers
these heartless wretches ignore
every humble protest and doom
. the patient and long suffering
!citizens to all the maladies, al
the dangers that are threatened
by the thoughtless enemies O
the town who Bring about thi'
Icondition by the careless and in
discriminate habit of dumping
ashes and other matter in thu
'Ipublic streets to clog up thu
Igutters and sewers, sewage il
the cutters to pullute the public
, drains and waste paper apon tn
Istrects to drift here and there t
r Tournament the sidewalks ant
0 thoroughfares.
II Now the members of the stree
committee encourage and con
t done all this and invite the citi
zens to continue this practice a
: a means of rectifying the exist
ling conditions. There is but on
way to solve the question aske'
lin last weeks issue. There j
but one way for a town or city t.
make sanitary its streets ant
drains and beautify its public
Ithoroughfares and that is by til,
hearty and loyal cooperation o
all its citizens and by the as
lsiduous efforts of live news
paper, and by the untiring laboI
of its officials to enforce the la ".
that are made for the strict pub
lie sanitation. which means tn,
health of its citizens, the clear
appearance Of its streets and til.
general welfare of civic CON
ditions. 1t is utterly impossible.
for any city council. much less z
Icommittee from that body, to
Ienforce sanitary laws without
the hearty support and cooper
ation of the citizens of munich.
!pality.
| To the writer's certain knowl.
ledge there never has been a rea.
Isonable request from a citizeu
Irelatiye to the aba tement or cor.
ERECTION of a nuisance or unsani.
ltary condition existing within
1.-THE towns limits, but which has
been given prompt attention by
1.-THE street committee as soon as
it was practical. In numerous
eases the chairman of the street
committee has visited points
within a day, that lie the dis
lance of the length and breadth
of the town. We hear protests
from parties who wish to assail
the manner Of living of one
neighbor, but who prefer that
protest to come through . mem
Der of the council rather than
that it would come through
them. We have been called to
decide contention over the 10.
cation of a line fence, the par
ties to the contention holding
diametrically opposed ideas.
though we were roughly de.
nounced tor not agreeing with
both sides. A citizen living on
one side the street will ask for a