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Show ; a I The Slopvillc Center Weakly News I A At a meeting of the city commis-j sioners held last night tho proposi-i tlon of building a municipal light and power plant came up for discussion! and a number of prominont citizens at -' tended and were asked by Mayor Jan-sick Jan-sick to pay particular attention to the proposition as tho city attorney out-: lined it, and the city engineer showed J his sketches and estimates of cist. There were the usual mossbacks in j evidence, and the tightwads showed ! a never ailing eloquence. It's a doggone shame that this town never can get any whero but some old-timer old-timer gets up and starts with the I 'Far be it from me to knock but" and ! then proceeds to knock with all his I knuckles and kick with both feet which remnids us that our friend the I Methodist minister suffers the same j kinds of pains as the editor of this ipnper in keeping his unrcgejierato tompor under control when the Royal Society of Ancient Moss-backs and i Close Fisted Tight Wads get agoing. Tho parson says the mon who com-1 posed "It's the old-time religion It was good enough for Moses And it's good enough for me"' ought to have boon shot at sunrise, and thero is really no reason, according accord-ing to editorial opinion that ho should not have been shot sooner than that Well, there was some fun after the tight wads had spoken of the economic eco-nomic impossibility of the whole scheme, and Uie Moss-backs were represented rep-resented by one whoso other name ought .to be the Ancient of Days. "No electric light plant for me. No electric elec-tric light plant for this city if I have anything to do with It Show me anywhere any-where in the Scriptures whero we are taught to use electricity, or encouraged encour-aged to bum it. Show me, and when you show me, you convert me." ! When he spoke that lino of rot he J was wearing a tailored suit, and his shirt had been laundered by a steam M outfit, and he had come down to the 9 meeting in an old Ford. 9 What are we goin' to do about it? m We aro going to forget the Moss-backs M and the Tight-Wads and do the thing fl that ought to bo done to make Slop- W ville a city of the United Suites hav- 9 ing its place on the map and its self 9 respect cleanly washed and perfectly B laundered. flj The only thing to do with the Moss H Backs and Tightwads Is to forgot 'em. H Even so. 'S Bill Thompson is building a new S barn, and Mrs. Thompson says that 9 perhaps by the time she reaches her jH eightieth year Bill will wake up and -W think that the old lady has as good o right to a clean and up-to-date home fl as the cows of tho pasture. Perhaps fl he will, she says, and then perhaps fl |