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with families were constantly leaving, not because there 

 was no work to be had but because there were nd 

 houses in which to live. 



So far as modern improvements were concerned 

 the town was well off. Two separate electric-Hght 

 systems made things brilHant by night, while two water 

 systems and good sewerage provided satisfactory sani- 

 tation. Telephones installed by a local company, and 

 well patronized, made gossip easy and facilitated busi- 

 ness. * H: H= * 



Signs of Decline 



The beautiful school building was offered for sale. 

 The walls, which are tinted, are adorned with pictures 

 and maps. There is a good sized cellar, with a first 

 class steam furnace in excellent repair, as are also 

 the plumbing arrangements. The desks and seats are 

 likewise in good condition. There are eight hundred 

 feet of running black board more than forty-two inches 

 wide. Many text books, a good deal of laboratory 

 equipment, and two organs are also included. All of 

 this is for sale and still no purchaser comes forward. 

 What a rare opportunity for any one with a weak- 

 ness for white elephants. 



There is another side to the picture. Instead of 

 paying for the school building entirely out of current 

 expenses, the township issued three thousand dollars' 

 worth of bonds. These were in six series of five hun- 

 dred dollars each, payment on which was to begin in 

 1902 and continue for six vears. As it turned out, 



