Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
COUNCIL MEETING
Petition to Abolish Cistern-Railroad
Crossines--Cedar Street Sidewalk
Water Works Bonds Not Sold
Joint Meeting With Clinton Trus-
tees

Ives, Gorsuch, Williams, Schlatter
and Hanson were the councilmen
present at the tap of the Mayors
"gavel" last Monday night at the re-
gular council meeting. There were
neither street car problems or high
cost Of living complaints to occupy
the attention of the city dads, but
such problems as they have are
plenty and sufficient and the council
doesn't seem disposed to hunt trou-
BILE, going on the principle that
enough trouble win find them.
Minutes Of the last regular and
adjourned meetings we're read. The
clerk read a petition signed by about
the entire population in the south
western corner Of the town, request
ing that. the cistern at the junction
Of West Leggett and Brunell streets
be either cleaned out, filed up or
otherwise put in sanitary condition.
With only the drainage water from
the adjacent streets to supply this
cistern and no rains to replenish it
and flush it out, the water in this
cistern has become stagnant and the
odor of it is not as sweet incense.
The council. after discussion, novel
to instruct the Toledo and Indiana
Ry. Company upon whose property
the cistern is located to clean it out.
The Fulton Street crossing Of the
New York Central Railway came
next into the council spot light and
this brought to the "council-con-
sciousness" various and sundry rail
road crossings that are and have
been in perfectly rotten condition
and some of the councilmen gave
signs Of awakening to the fact that
the New York Central people are
slowly but nevertheless surely
boosting the grade of the tracks.
Every time you hear the rattle of
pneumatic tamping machines, said
one Solon, "you may know that the
tracks are being raised from an incn
to an inch and a half" Now if this
should continue, for say a hundred
years the tops of the tracks would
be on a level with the top of the
Gate Keepers house and a final
barrier would be interposed between
the @North and South sides" which,
unless the League of Nations" is
carried out and made an actual
working institution may in time be-
come the frontier between rival
municipalities which in times Of war
win be peOpled with armed guards.
Imagine in the years to come that
His Royal Highness the o, Lord
High Mayor of South Wauseon issu-
ing his ~ukaser to the effect that be
cause the merchants of North Wau'
seon persisted in paying " cent more
per dozen for eggs than the South
Wauseon merchants or bold thans
for y cent less per pound-"Nov
therefore it is hereby ordered that
all diplomatic, industrial, social and
commercial relations between these
two indepndent and self determined
municipalities shall cease and state
Of war is hereby declared"-The
scribe was awakened from this
dream just in time to hear a motion
passed instructing the city solicitor
to take mp the matter of railroad
crossings in the village with th'
various RAILROADS. and in particular
to demand of the New York Contra
lines that the Fulton street crossing
be either paved or planked.
Mr.. M. J. Dangler was present t
ask the council to give him access
and egress to his property on Ceda-
street by ordering an extension o
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