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OTTUMWA NOW OWNS IITS WATER WORKSOfficials of Private Company Receive Pay for Plant and Leave for East,Ottumwa, Iowa. Dec. Lj.—Ottumwa now owns Its water works. Armed with a pile of high embossed papers worth $275,000 and a warrant for $5,-000, President W. H. Silngluff and his associates of the Public Water com* pany. now the Ottumwa Water Works company, left last evening for thdr homes in the east.The transfer of the water plant purchased by the voters of the city at a special election look place yesterday. President SlinRluff turned over the deeds, abstracts and other papers after they had been accepted by the city's attorneys. In return he received the $275,000 In bonds and the $5,-000 clicck.The formality of transferring the property from the stockholders to H. L. Waterman, D. F. Morey and Henry C. Will luma, the water trustees, was short. The transfer was mado at a special meeting of the city council called by Mayor S. P. Hartman.
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Waterloo Reporter
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 17, 1910
Page 8
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