Before increasing sales taxes became the popular method to finance improvements, local governments often used bond issues to finance capital items, especially schools and government buildings.As some may be today, voters got somewhat poll-weary in 1958 as they had to decide several issues.A biggie on the ballot was a $750,000 bond issue to add two wings and air-condition the Hall County Courthouse. It’s hard to imagine today holding court and doing other business without air-conditioning in the warm months.While county offices are quite spread out today, in 1958 everything was pretty much in the courthouse, which was built after the 1936 tornado and remains beside the new courthouse on Spring Street and Henry Ward Way today. There was no separate county schools office.