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wanner.■ Titusville's Paved Streets.Since I860, when Titusville throw oil' the swat.liing bonds of iU borongh state and stepped into the arena as an ambitious city, it has gone along its way each year adding something to its improvements, each year doing something to make itself store desirable as a place for homes. Very much is duo to the broad-minded men who served in its councils in the early days. The wheels of progress which they would keep in revolution were often impeded. There were those who could or would only work a brake. But the progressives had faith in the future.The first thing and the one of prime importance was the school house, anti fortunately the old ramshackle building on Main street and which sufficed fur all our scholars, burned down, and though some objections were made, the substantial structure on the corner of Main and Washington streets, pirn*nix-like, arose from its ashes. In time the Drake street school house, the Eira street school house, the South Side school house and last the high school building followed. Thus the educational need as it should, took precedence.The health of the citizen next claimed the attention of our city solons, and our great cloaca maxima, the Pine street sewer, and subsequently the lateral branches from year to year have been added, and the Ilolly system of water works built and extended,and improved, till at the present time it is not an idle boast to say that no city in this good old Keystone state of ours is so well equipped to ward off disease as Titusville.The comfort of the citizen came in last and insisted on having an innings. Tine demand was not unheeded. The condition of otir streets in 18((-7 ami the few years Jullowing could not longer be (oler-a ted. The mud was hub deep on Franklin street, a great hewn log made a cross-
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Titusville Herald
Titusville, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 14, 1893
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