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Show WATER OUESHON. .jtf,'.J - In n IIUIc more thnii lvo moiitliB jjLv Lchl will Imvo nn election for city olH- . JL ccrs.mid, no doubt the political parties v &.' will soon commence to stir the political w ! I'0' nni m''t0 "ie '"""crvnt l'0'" ' $ '.SKr. ' Interest which will effect tho mntrlnl A , - ' welfare of tho people mid city. Thero . -.v h nre, perhaps, ninny points mid subject g which would Inlcrent tho peoplo to dls- f cuss, but, to our mind, there Is one 'tgt which Simula out mid abovo all other, ' ?&" nnd that Is the wnter question. Our '''. owu '9 ,lMI"S hundreds of dollars J$" rovenuo yearly for the Want of noro t' . '.j water. Improvements wiilou. woilld 'jtik .'- , and could bo inado, cannot for tho lack V - of water. Our lawn and garden pre- j, v ' sent n most dejected appearance to tho P . stranger who conies to town, anil to L'!' tho-owncrs ttioy arc an e-yo sore from - tho rlilng of tho sun until tho setting ., thereof. Tho highest aim of n good r .,-. . citizen ought to lie, nnd generally In, to " innko his home surroundings beautiful f nnd attrnutlvu iw far as his means will 0, , ' permit. In tho early spring ho lays t ' out his plnnsand during tho early rains V9 . nnd lluih of water nature reiond ! . " niostuoblcy to his touch. Hut July. I ' . , August and September como along In I '' (her turn, nnd thing commence! to go I backward. Tho sweet-scented flower I ' and tho verdure of tho lawn disappear. m ' . . To the observer this homo Is not what f " It was a month or two before and would i not sell for nnylhlng llko tho prlco. f'.1 Now every person who hni a home knows tho cause for this chnugo, mid yet, year after year, wo allow thU con dition to exist nnd nllow other persons nnd counties to appropriate tho wutcr which today should be flowing do.wn our streets mid water our gardens nnd lawns. OUR PAUMIKU LANDS. Lehl has about 1,000 acres of sugar beets on which sho Is losing II (teen & -or twenty thousand dollars for tho want J of water every year. In Lehl lrrlgu- E c tion districts thero arc soma 8,000 acres E , of land mid thero are hut fow ncrct but what would mho more ofa crop If they ej - ,,liadinore...wRterkIIere Is a, .subject' flflp '"' which demands tho best thought q our '' -ity and, as stated above, stands out and Wat nbovo nil others. |