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Show u NO GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT THE new city administration has set about enforcing the ordinances. The Town Board and Marshal Mathews have been very considerate in giving everyone due notice of their policy to enforce these good laws which have so long been ignored by both officers and certain citizens. It is safe to say that not one of the several who have so persistently per-sistently disobeyed and ignored the ordinances or-dinances against allowing stock to run loose within the city limits, and also the ordinance making it a misdemeanor to keep unlicensed dogs have not known all the time that they were committing unlawful acts. That they have not been made to obey the law and to observe the rights of their neighbors is to their discredit. It has been impossible to grow a lawn, trees, or shrubs, or to beautify home places because of the loose stock. Who wants to go to the trouble to do these things and then have to build an unsightly high board fence around his place to protect his improvements? It is the rankest kind of selfishness for a man with stock in town to turn his stock loose to prey upon up-on his neighbor. As for the dogs, if for no other reason than the waste they cause at this time, their owners should be compelled to pay an adequate tax or they should be exterminated. Any dog worth keeping is worth the small annual an-nual tax. The News would be pleased to have the point of view of any man who opposes these reasonable measures for the protection of the public. - |