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PLACE WANTED

For Granite Trough and Fountain Number Two

 

            The council did a humane thing when it ordered two granite drinking troughs and fountains to connect with the city water mains.  A glance at the one near the corner of the court yard most any hour in the day will attest the fact that it is well patronized by man and beast.  But what to do with the other one seems to puzzle the council.  There don’ts seem to be a unanimity of feeling as to where it shall be placed.  There is one thing when it is once established, as it weighs two or three tons, we don’t believe it will be kicked out of place like a football.  Number two was dumped off at the head of Main street, near the Danes’ Home opera house.  It was objected to there for various reasons and then the committee took it up near the school house corner.  Some one kicked for fear the kids would wade in the trough or play with the water, etc., etc., and we learn a petition was circulated for the council to put it in some other place.  Then they posted if off down town opposite Bridgeman’s blacksmith shop.  Now they are undecided about it but many farmers and others have been to the committee to see why it can’t be installed near the school house corner.  They argue that as that is the natural corner leading to the New London and Royalton Roads, the Weyauwega, Lind and Berlin Roads, also the various potato warehouses, starch factories, creamery, planing mills, grist mills, etc., that would be the right place.

            The REPUBLICAN believes the argument above mentioned is a good one.  Take a day when two or three hundred teams come into the city from the west and north, the drinking trough on Main street will have about all it can attend to.  If one was installed near the school corner all teams coming or going near that point can let their horses drink there.  We believe when the above good points are considered it will be found to be a wise thing to have the drinking trough there.  And we have faith enough in our school children to believe that the teachers and parents will only have to speak to them about it once or twice to have them refrain from meddling with the water.  Traveling men and strangers visiting in Waupaca speak in grand praise of the city’s enterprise and humanity in providing such substantial watering places.