May 23, 1914 – With Mayor Finch in the chair, the postponed council meeting was held last Tuesday evening at which the question of a water system was taken up in earnest.
The necessary expenditure of some fifteen thousand dollars is an enterprise for a community the size of Petersburg was by the council deemed worthy of serious consideration. After the momentous question was thoroughly discussed, a committee was finally appointed and the preliminaries ordered commenced.
It was practically agreed that the council spend the money available in the municipal treasury this year toward the installat...
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