Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1918 — Keep Money In Town. [ARTICLE]

Keep Money In Town.

Plant your town so as to disicourage the movement of the people ipto outside uncontrolled areas for purposes of buying supplies, so that the man W’ho wants your people’s trade must establish his store on your Jhnd and come with his family and clerks to live in your town. Make it, in other words, a self-contained and self-suf? ficient town by every legitimate device. If possible, make shopping attractive by the provision of a good store center, lights, arcades, etc., so as to draw trade from the neighboring villages and farms. Your commercial values will be your “velvet” and you can make your Main street frontages worth SSOO a front foot