Show NO MORE STANDOFF i COUNTY COURT COMPELLED TO FAY CASH FOR COAL Grocerymen prarr tIle Line Geddes Says the Jail and Infirmary Must Close Will Send the Poor to the Mayor Aid Societies Will Be Invoked 1 In-voked Selectman Geddes stated yesterday that in his opinion the infirmary and jail will have to close down The county court has no funds with which to maintain these institutions and to add to this discomfort A dis-comfort of Its members nearly all the 7 leading coal firms and the grocery stores I have sicnifled their Intention to in future I demand cash X Wolstenholme Morris Miller Miller I Mill-er Ellerbeck C Bird Sharp and Mason Co have decided that in future coal will be cash while the grocery firms say that if the county gets anything any-thing on tick i will have to submit to a higher rate Selectman Geddes said yesterday that the latter plan would not be agreed to and accordingly wrote the sellers of bacon ba-con and bras Informing them of that I decision I can see no way for us except to close the Infirmary and the jail said Geddes yesterday afternoon We have our I hands completely tied I do not propose to submit to the advance In price of groceries gro-ceries This making of one list fo prices for the county and one for the public will not do at all We are not warranted in paying a dvance I think at in the future I shall refer all orders tor coal and groceries to the mayor and that cases of extreme distress dis-tress can go to the aid societies We ca not keep our Institutions going without money and as we havent any we must quit It Is supposed that even the Lexow business bus-iness will have to stop as in the event of not having money to warm the freezing freez-ing and feed the hungry other matters to must remain in abeyance |