Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — Recipe for Making a Live Town. [ARTICLE]

Recipe for Making a Live Town.

1. Sell your building lots at reasonable prices. 2. If you can afford to do so. donate a building lot for some large business enerprise, aud| thereby enhance the value of town property 3. Induce business men to locate iD your own town. 4. Patronize the business men of your own town 5. Always sum up your expenses wnen you visit places outside of your own town to buy goods. 0. Speak well of worthy public enterpt ises. 7. If anything should be undertaken that may be of benefit to the town do not .ipeak ill of it to others because you happen to be»prejudiced against it. 8. Speak to strangers of your town aud people. 9. It you have surplus money do not invest it in far-off ep dilations, but give yourself aud your town the benefit of it by establishing some profitable factory, 1". Encourage your local newspaper by -übscribmg for, advertising in, aud paying lor it.