Ogden Sun | 1905-09-05 | Page 6 | Will Water Company Accept?

WILL WATER COMPANY ACCEPT NEW WATER FRANCHISE IS SUBJECT OF COMMENT ex mayor looks glum and charles kercher Is stricken dumb from fridays standard 4 even bets are being made that the water company will decline the fifty year franchise one bet was inside 25 to 10 that tho water company will object to twenty different propositions but at the water companas comp anys office manager kercher has a white seal smile and is as dumb as an oyster ex mayor spencer looks a little pale and says the ordinance passed has the wrong title that it should read an ordinance granting ogden city a franchise to operate other peoples property tho ex mayor should remember that he was mayor when the first suit was filed claiming that the bothwell contract was null and void and that ogden city owned tho system he taught us that phrase and it Is hard to get it out of our mind the present city council is just giving your hyrum a dose of his own medicine first prescribed before spencer became an owner in the waterworks water works this paper expected to hear david eccles roar but spencer he was expected to back up the new franchise the people generally seem to bo satisfied with the franchise only one thing more could have been done that was to confiscate the whole system and the city take possession the mayor will not give the water works company a chance to accept or refuse the ordinance for a few days he thinks uncle hyrum spencer may be in too big a hurry to abot