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r ■’mir-f: *m/.I'mIsUpon next Saturday the people will be called upon to determine by their ballots, the question as to whether the Shelbyville Flat Rock and Norristown Turnpike road shall be continued as a toll road, or become free. Justice to the farmers living along j J the line of, and near the road-, demands that the proposition should carry, for after making all the otherI j roads in the county free and requiring them to pay taxes to support the-II same, it is a great hardship that they^alone should continue to pay tolL 3!t To the people of Shelbyville generally and to the merchants in particular, it is desirable that the proposition should carry. Nothing that has occurred during the last twenty years has conduced so much to the business prosperity of this city as making tjie gravel roads ffee. Every merchant and business man has felt the beneficial Iresults of this action. Many opposed the purchase of this road at a former election, because of the prevailing opinion that the appraisement was too high, and that the same was not equitably apportioned among the townships. All agree that the present appraisement is a very reasonable one and fairly divided. The business men of Shelbyville could, not spendtheir time more profitably to themselves, or more advantageously to the community, than in devoting thebalance of the week to the work of getting out the vote in favor of the proposition.Eet us all unite in removing this last evidence of our county’s want of progress. The toll road is a thing of the past in many of our sister countiesand old Shelby should be abreast withthe times in this matter as she is in all others.
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Shelbyville Daily Democrat
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Wed, Dec 07, 1892
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