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Waupaca Republican

August 17, 1894

Stab at a Waupaca Industry

It is noticed that Weyauwega has just paid Benjamin M. Goldberg $25 for counsel fees, and retained Goldberg & Hoxie to prosecute the Waupaca Starch company and compel them to “abate the nuisance” of depositing their potato pulp refuse in the Waupaca river. Weyauwega is perhaps not to be blamed for wanting their mill pond kept sweet and clean but why have they allowed an old slaughter house to be maintained for years on the banks of the pond nearly a half mile nearer the heart of the village than the head of the pond where the sediment of the road, farm and barn yard washings from up-river as well as the starch pulp has accumulated? A prominent farmer of Weyauwega told the REPUBLICAN that since the hurrah the old bones, etc., etc., were being fished out of the pond in “great shape”. Perhaps the slaughter house offal has had about as much to do in polluting the placid waters as the starch factory sediment. And perhaps brother Goldberg will get enough to pay his campaign expenses out of the deal.

Waupaca Republican

August 17, 1894

Messrs. Quarles and Goldberg, two noted attorneys, who have been heard at the Waupaca county court house are reported to have been retained by Weyauwega to prosecute the Waupaca Starch company for depositing potato pulp in the Waupaca River. They claim the waste pulp makes the water impure, injures their fishing grounds and is a source of sickness to the community. It has been demonstrated that potato pulp does not hurt fish; and while there may be some sediment lodged at the head of the Weyauwega mill pond it is not all potato pulp. We will venture to say that there isn’t a pond between Gill’s Landing and Peterson’s mills, above Amherst, where washings from roads, barnyards, etc., have not created more or less sediment, which, if stirred up will create a smell.