Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — “Have a Look” at Danville, Writes Boomer of That City. [ARTICLE]

“Have a Look” at Danville, Writes Boomer of That City.

We often have the pleasure of being remembered by our friends who have gone into new fields and helped to make them bigger and who have caught the inspiration of their own push And grown with the country of their adoption. Thus, we today opened a carton which contained a book entitled “Danville, the City With a Future.” You only get one guess who sent it. All those who have the good fortune to know him* will guess right For the benefit of those who do not know him, we will say that the book came from Frank P. Meyer, a prosperous shoe merchant of that .city, who grew to young manhood in Rensselaer and received his early mercantile experience in the old Ellis & Murray store. Frank is a sample of Rensselaer youth in a new field. He has been equal to the emergency; has grown in every way but in stature, and as he was never engaged in an occupation where physical development was necessary to success, his size don’t make any difference. He can push Danville with the best -of them “and then climb right into the push cart and go some himself. That’s “Dutch.” ‘ He penned on the beautiful industrial book the words “’Have a Look.” We have had and enjoyed it. The book is printed on a fine calendared paper and consists of pictures of public buildings, churches, factories, streets and residences, with a statement of the thingA accomplished in the past and claims for the present and the bright future outlook. It is the kind of a book that would make a man glad he was Identified with the town that published it. The writer visited Danville about fifteen years ago. That was before it took a tumble to itself. It was before Frank Meyer located there. Danville was then an ordinary town of ten or eleven thousand people. Then it woke up. Interurban railroads were builded and Danville got them and merchants went after the trade at more distant points and Danville grew by leaps and bounds. The 1910 census gave it a population of 27,871. There never was a real progressive town that was satisfied with a government census and the booster book claims a population of 35,000. That is going some. Danville is worth looking ajt. Our thanks to Frank P. Meyer for sending us copy of the “City with a Future."