Show ahall WE SELL elsewhere Fise where in this I 1 r ue i a notice to the citizens of st geoage call ing a meeting fir fr july 8 to consid er selling the electric plant this ib IS a matter of importance to the citizens generi generally lh they should hould turn out and make thease themselves I 1 ves thoralv cori conversant versant with mith the matter so that it if it leads to later action thea the may know exactly what are doing the city has an opportunity to sell on what appears to be very ad v terms to people who promise us better service at cheap er rates than now obtained and who have haie the water power and every thing necessary for the bervice they would put in a much larger plant on the banta santa clara creek creel and furnish light and power over a large territory we have liae always been in favor of municipal owner hip but the experience oi of this city with its elec trie trio plant hows homs us very plainly that municipal ownership is not al davs the best thing for the cit citizens iLens for instance the electric plant purchased six alx lx vears ago has bag cost the city 41 the receipts all told aie 21 to this must be added a bonded indebtedness burred to purchase the plant of making a total indebted 11 ness ess of 31 two years only 0 out ut of the six the city has owned the plant has it paid expenses during the severe windstorm ot of january last the line was damaged in many places and trans formers were burnt out the city found that it could not riot get a trans former anywhere in the wet ow ing to the plant being of an old style and an order had to be sent to hoew new I 1 ork for one where it was especially made this necessitated a big delay and it was three months before the c tv got the transformer then too it was sent by express and the express charges ii were ere about the same as the cost of the trans former itself making it very ex pensive the city now requires require s about 25 transformers but cannot get diem owing to lack of funds in fact it cannot keep its plant in real good order because it cannot afford it the service while the best the city can give is tar from satis fac tory the light and power pomer both fluctuate and this is attributed to lack ot of that the service is ii expensive no one can de nv liv an electric plant to give the best and most economical service should be in charge of a competent compe tant electa cian clan bt st george cannot iferd to hire an electrician and the plant has not the thoro care that it woul I 1 have in hands of a trained and arid skill ed electrician to make the pres ent plant anything like satisfactory a large expenditure of money m would d le te nees necessary sarv and this the city has not got these things should I 1 e consider ed by the citizens before they at tend the meeting called tor for the ath if the people felt atis atoned fied that the terms for the purchase of the plant are factory i we believe it would I 1 ie e to their L lest et inte iet to sell provided kinling I 1 in ling guarantees foi I 1 letter etter ind and cheaper service ire are obtained T ie city would then be released irom from tl e c care ire of maintaining in an unprofitable ible business busine qs and could devote its ener gies and the money aed into some chinnel channel thit that would mould benefit the city such aa as the improvement of the streets etc turn out citizens to the meeting on the ath and hear the pro position that is to be made to you in the meantime learn all you cm can abacut the cost of maintenance ot of the present astern ind and its probable cost in the future if maintained and figure out if it is worth holding on to next tuesday we me celebrate the birthday of the greatest grandest freest and most benevolent nation under the sun still a nation which we are all proud to call our own the braill gran 3 old united states of amer ica it matters not whether we are native born or adopted id opted ve me love her just the sime same and place her where she rightly belongs at the head of all the nations of theearta the earth As we read and reflect upon the condition of the war stricken suffer ing millions of europe we cannot help contrasting our condition with theirs and teel feel that we me are indeed bleed in this land of ours free and independent a government ot of the people by the people for the people we teel feel that the causes which induced the european Fur con fla gation could not exist lu in this country it is said of some of the Fur european countries that masses of their sold sol ierg do not know knon truthful iv what they are fighting for and this not because they aie ate densely agnor ant bu because their government is not of them and they have little voice oice in it such i t condition could not obtain in tins this grand country of ours where every man mail is a king the more ne me think of our glorious country and what it stands for the more we feel thit that we me cm can not lo 10 0 o too much in honoring its birthday I 1 et s all observe the glorious fourth with thankful 1 aarts and abundant rejoicing st george has now a sheet sprinkler a dandy too alno 0 o place that we know of needs one more and we hope to see it kept in use while the sheets need it since automobiles have come into corn con mon use there is considerably more dust flying about thin there used to be or so it seems to us ug dust duit is a menice to health it causes many throat ind and lung troubles added to which disease germs lurk in it and are inhaled when it is floating on the ur as it does here on the leant aa di dl tur bance of the ground during the hot dry rum mer months the street sprit kler will wll add much to the comfort of the citizens besides helping in the mat tei of keeping ke ping down domn disease its cost is a mere nothing in compan son with AS real value to the city and we me commend our city fathers for getting it arrangement Arrin gement have not vet been made so we me under stand for its AS use uge no time should belog be lost tin in this even if a sprinkling district where the most traffic IQ i has to be created W WP e have now got the sprinkler ind and by mean lot et it be of sms 4 k |