I decided to have some fun. In 1910 a booklet was created that contained the Villages Ordinances for Springville, lets learn about some of them.
Part of Ordinances 1,read that… No person shall within the
limits of said
Village keep or maintain any disorderly or gambling house or
house of ill fame. No
Person shall take part in or join, aid, or abet any riotous
or tumultuous assemblage
upon the streets on in doorways or stairways adjacent
thereto or loiter about such
places. (Geez, you need a dictionary to figure out some of
these don’t you) And, no
person shall use or engage in any profane, vulgar or obscene
language or conduct in
upon the street or public places. (guess you got to keep
your swearing to you own
home!) No person shall, on Sunday, nor upon any other day,
between the setting and
rising of the sun, make or contribute to the making of any
loud noises, or fires, or
discharging of guns, or be guilty of any loud hallooing, or
yelling or blowing
trumpets, beating on fences boards, buildings or rattling
any sticks or bones, oh and
no ball playing or any other games on Sunday. WOW, can you
believe that. If you
violated this ordinance, you shall for each offence forfeit
and pay the sum of $10 for
the use of the Village.
To give you and idea you could by a nice coat or a suit for
$10, a dress was
from $2 to $10, a pair of shoes, $4 and up, a kitchen
cupboard was $7.50 – $16.00,
Coffee was 25 cents a pound, Bread 10 to 15 cents a loaf, so
we are not talking a
small sum they had to pay.
The Ordinances regarding sidewalk usages read in part as
follows …No
person shall ride, drive or lead any horse, team, cow or
other animal on sidewalk
except a dog. No person shall slide upon any sidewalk on a
sleigh, sled board or
other contrivance. No person shall by selling or advertising
goods upon the streets,
attract a crowd and obstruct the sidewalk. No person shall
construct any sidewalk,
except under the supervision, and on accordance with the
direction of the street
commissioner. Again, if these are violated you shall be pay
the sum of ten dollars for
the use of the Village.
Now this next group of Ordinance (#3) is the best … ready,
Every person
operating a motor vehicle on any of the public streets or
alleys of the Village shall
drive in a careful and prudent manner and at a rate of speed
not to exceed 15 miles
per hour. The Model T during this time frame could go up to
45 miles per hour, got
20 to 30 miles per gallon, and started with a crank, just to
give you an idea. No
person shall race or run any horse or team or engage in fast
driving or trial of speed
in or upon any street, lane or alley in Village. No car,
engines, or trains shall stand
upon any street crossing longer than five minutes at one
time. No person shall
cause, authorize or permit any horse, cattle, sheep, swine
or other animals to run a
large upon the streets or alleys or public ground. The same
fine would apply as the
others if violated… a sum of ten dollars for the use of the
Village.
Ordinances 5 reads in part, no person shall swim or bathe in
open water,
exposed to the public, within the bounding of the Village.
Now we laugh at some of
these, but if you think about it, for there to be an
Ordnances, these thing must have
happened. No person shall willfully or maliciously break,
tear, injure, remove or
deface any building, fence, awning, sign board, tree etc, in
the Village, including
inciting or inducing dogs to fight, anywhere on the streets
or public places. If these
were violated a sum of ten dollars was charged for the use
of the Village.
Ordinance 7 was for the licensing occupation and read , no
person shall
pursue or exercise any of the following trades or
occupations within the Village,
without first obtaining a license, for Auctioneering, except
sales by executors,
administrators, or by residents in good faith disposing of
their goods, three to ten
dollars a day for license. Hawking and Peddling was two
dollars a day, Circuses,
theatres, exhibition or performances, amusement devices, was
fifteen dollars a day.
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