Madison, June 11—With the completion of Madison’s water and sewer system, which happy culmination is expected within the next few days; and with the installation by the town’s citizens of bathtubs and other plumbing fixtures, which adjuncts of the modern home are rapidly being placed, the town will throw off the last vestiges of ruralism and will assume in their stead the airs and manners of the truly urban.
Dating from the immediate future, the town’s grimy urchins will cease to take their Saturday night ablutions in family wash-basins and will henceforth disport themselves in porcelain tubs, or let down on their tousled heads sparkling showers from equally sparkling fixtures, as often as occasion required. Moreover, busy housewives will no longer have to wind and wind creaky windlasses to obtain wash water but will merely turn a spicket and presto! their pans are filled.
But a water and sewer system and plumbing bills are by no means all the reasons Madison folk have for believing that their town has outstripped the village class. A big brick firehouse and a shiny new fire engine are other arguments for a city rating. Indeed, the fire engine is probably the greatest reason of all, for since its coming the townspeople’s fear of a fire has been nonexistent. In fact, since it will never be known just how efficient the new equipment is until its efficacy is tested in quenching a would-be conflagration, a small blaze would be welcomed.
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“A Kentucky Bell,” light comedy, was presented at Intelligence high school, near town, Friday night by a student cast from Wentworth high school. And while the acting in spots was rather listless, on the whole the play was well done and enthusiastically received by a small audience. Starring in the production was Miss Lois McCargo, who played the part of Isabelle Douglas, an ultra-modern and democratic lass with a very conservative and aristocratic aunt and many illustrious ancestors.
To the aunt, family meant everything, but to the niece, a mere man was desirable, very desirable. Incidentally, the aunt had her cherished wish fulfilled and the niece had hers. Irving Williams, as Jack Cason, the hero of the play, was good. Between acts, a reading by Miss Henrietta Reid, and a story by Miss Gray were greatly enjoyed.
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A real estate deal of considerable proportions is about to be consummated at Madison, it is said, whereby the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Marketing Association will obtain the Auto-Serve building in exchange for Farmers warehouse and a sum said to be around $12,000. The Auto-Serve building was put up during the period of war-time inflation and is said to have cost in the neighborhood of $50,000.
Farmers warehouse is a nearly new brick structure and so far as is known is admirably suited to the purposes it has hitherto been put. Up until last year it had been used as a looseleaf auction house, but was taken over by the cooperatives a year ago and has since been used as a grading station. It is not known just what advantages the garage building possesses over the warehouse. Sentiment among many Co-Op tobacco growers near Madison is said to be against the proposed deal
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Monday, June 11, 1923
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