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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1925
Page
5
Mayor W. W. Wertz told Kiwanis members there will be no tax hike for two years if a city improvements bond issue passes, and warned that failing to approve the bond could force higher city taxes to fund a bridge at Spring.
The mayor outlined chamber backed projects totaling 922000 with proposed seven cent levies to fund a Spring street bridge and related works. Costs include 144000 Saging street bridge 12000 filing bridge Magazine Street 235000 sewers 25000 Washington Street opening 190000 Summers Street widening 25000 Bigley Avenue realignment 150000 undergrade Capitol Spring crossing and 150000 Columbia Boulevard extension. The plan hinges on public support. no election pursued without voter mandate.
Chapters of the Order of De Molay will observe Devotional Day on Sunday March 2. Members are obliged to attend church services with special music and programs in churches where chapters attend as a body. Charleston chapter will meet at First Presbyterian Church near Virginia and Broad Streets for a service by Rev. Ernest Thompson. Colombia’s railway project is priced at 8,400,000 dollars.
The Kinxats club of Pennsvoro endorses a memorial highway proposed in the state senate by Senator Clyde B of the eighth district. Senator Johnson spoke at a Pennsboro Kiwanis event on the proposal. Walter Hallanan receives praise for orchestrating inauguration ceremonies, and editorials debate renaming West Virginia to Kanawha.
A Virginia observer contrasts Democratic and Republican budgeting from 1922 to the present, noting sharp expenditure shifts. The writer cites total annual government spending rising from $2,000,000 under Democrats in 1901 to $11,900,000 after 22 years of Republican rule and questions taxpayer concern. The piece recalls Democratic cuts to legislative staff and Democrats’ claim of cost savings versus Republican plans expanding clerical hires this session.
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