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Show County Local3, The schools, as well as nearly all the meetings, ect. at Fountain Green have been obstructed during this week on account o f contagious diseases. dis-eases. The scarlatina is the cause of three deaths at Fountain Green last week within less than forty eight hours, and there are found scattered through town many sever cases of the disease. Councilar Green suggested at the council Meeting Monday night that the city could very profitably use ths spare water thev controled on the public square and plant it down to grass and trees. This is a go or.' idea it would be a great and lasting benifit to Ephriim to covert this or some other piece of ground into a public park. We hope Mr Greens ideas will materialize 1 tie f.phraim council are on the right track when they reason thusly: We will license other saloons, as the one which is already here will supply sup-ply all who wish to drink, and the city might as well have a revenue from two or three places of the kind as to protect one in a moncply; but we will not sell a piece of ground for that purpose, or in any waye n-couragethe n-couragethe building of such places And one gentleman remarked "We have sons growing up and I would not vote to sell a piece of gound for to build saloon on no, not if we weia offered four times its value for it. The Register applauds the gentleman |