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FOUNTAIN WO?KCNOW UNDER WAYnnI.ItRH'K E* A YE.1IK NT TAKEN EE’ s AM) CEMENT CUXTRACTOK !a I’REE’ARIN'fi EXCAVATION.WORK WILL NOW BE PUSHEDWork ou the construct ion of t lie Joseph .Memorial Fountain in the center of the Public Square hero, Is now under way. Workmen have takeu up the brick pavement in the center of Sq «are .Hiram Peters, who has the contract for the construction of the cement hii.se, has a force of men at work* preparatory to beginning the cement work anti excavations that are necessary. The Interstate Company win run cables to the center of the Square for llu* lighting of the fountain.The work was held 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 furniture manufacturer, bequeathed the city the sum of S.VOOO, in his will, the money to be usOil In (he const rue-•:on of the Joseph M orial Fountain. Mr. Joseph directed ‘ha? I'm fountain In- placed in the center of the Tub-. ic Square*.I n ah !^pia iiiiip
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Shelbyville Shelby Republican

Shelbyville, Indiana, US

Thu, Jun 22, 1922

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