Push to Secure Stubblefield Home Faces Minority Resistance
Prominent property owners in Walla Walla are being asked to fund a $10,000 contribution to bring the Stubblefield institution to the county.
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Although the circulators of petitions in Walla Walla praying the board of county commissioners to appropriate the $10,000 necessary to be raised for Walla Walla to secure the proposed Stubblefield home have met with the success anticipated in securing signatures, quite a few prominent property owners have absolutely refused to affix their names to the petitions. Milton Evans, who is interested in Walla Walla’s securing the home to such an extent that he has volunteered to circulate one of the petitions in the city, estimated this morning that in his territory one of ten approached has refused to sign the petition. The number refusing to sign, however, is so small that no difficulty in securing at least two-thirds of the heaviest property owners in the county is anticipated.
“one of ten approached has refused to sign the petition.”
The tension between public interest projects and the 'heaviest property owners' remains the primary friction point in local municipal funding battles today, much as it was when the Stubblefield Home petition was circulated in 1903.
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