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Show Perhaps there Is no question fraught with (renter consequence thau is the water question to Hie psaple of Lehl Koine two or three weeks ago believing it would be an improvement for our city lo have a street sprinkler, we called the atUwtlou of our council to thatfact atat-lug atat-lug that an artesian well could bo drove for tho purpose of filling the sprinkler and at tho same time be usee! as a public pub-lic watoring luce. We believe yot It would be n good thing to do and In addition ad-dition we are quite sure that the driving of a number of artesian wells for the purpose of supplying the tewn with water would prove to be one ! the riciiteit blessings imaginable. Our town today is suffering for the want ol n ater. Improvements are retarded, enterprises en-terprises are abandoned and all because we are too neglectful of or indifferent to the facilities we have under our very noses. For a few hundred dollars this tdun could be supplied with wAtei enough to w ater every city lot or nearly to. The walls that hye lately been drove establish this fact and if mau hnu niaans at bis command today there .a no enterprise he could eater into that would bring him better and quicker l-turns l-turns than tUe purchase of certain tiaci of laud, where he can drive artesian wells and get an abundadretf water and ell the water to ua at a food round fig-are. fig-are. This being a fset and to aave the people from thus batne; imposed upon to what better use could a tew hundred dollars be put by our city council. It would prove one of .the greatest blessings bless-ings imaginable to this town and .to Us people To our city council w would say, "Here Is a subject fraught with the hot interest ol the whole people. Give it consideration, mitkeut delay ere ills too late . There are thouianda ol dollars dol-lars lu it for tho town and .everlasting honors (or yourselves, |