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Village Ownership of Water Supply Considered

Event date: Aug 4, 1905

The committee appointed at the village meeting to investigate the subject of village ownership of the water supply met in the offices of E.W. Gibson Saturday night for further consideration of the report submitted by the civil engineer who made a survey of the local territory. George E. Crowell, owner of the Chestnut Hill reservoir, was present to discuss the matter of the valuation of the system now in use and what he ought to receive for it in case the committee recommended its purchase by the village.

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