Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — KICKING OVER NEW SEWER [ARTICLE]

KICKING OVER NEW SEWER

Property owners who assessed for the new sewer on Sonth street are kicking over the plan of putting in this sewer, which is now going on. It is being laid one foot lowerthan the outlet, and the outlet on Washington street is to be lowered some time in the future after the new sewer is laid. Competent tile and sewer layers say—and ordinary horse-sense bears out their- statement —that this sewer will be half filled or more with silt and clay, which will cake in the pipes, before the outlet sewer can be lowered. It looks like another of taking the taxpayers’ money without giving any value received for it, which is not an uncommon thing in our sewage system.