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FOUNTAIN WO?KCNOW UNDER WAYnnI.HRICK EMYt.lIK.NT TAKEN Cl* s AM) CEMENT CUXTRACTOR !a PREPARING EXCAVATION.WORK WILL NOW BE PUSHEDWork on the construction of tbe Joseph .Memorial Fountain in the center of the Public Square here, is now under way. Workmen have takeu up the brick pavement in the center of Square .IT h am Peter*, who has the contract for the construction of the cement hii.se, Inis a force of men at work, preparatory to beg inning the cement work anti excavations that are necessary. The Interstate Company will run cables to the center of the Square for the lighting of the fountain.The work was lielrl up for several weeks, because of a strike of quarry-men in the Vermont granite quarrlei. which prevented the shipping of the block of granite to ho used in the fountain.Julius Joseph, who was a local fur-mintv manufacturer, bequeathed the litv the sum of $.VOOO, in his will,the money to be umhI Iii (he construe-•::oti of ihe Joseph M uriul Fountain. Mr. Joseph dir'ef.-d ‘hit I'm fountain he placed in the centre of the Pub-. ir Square.
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Shelbyville Shelby Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 22, 1922
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