Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1916 — Boosting the Farmer. [ARTICLE]

Boosting the Farmer.

Live business men in a live county seat sometimes have one-sided ideas about boosting. Their efforts center on shopping excursions, street fairs and other attractions to bring the farmer into town, so he can spend money with the merchants. Building up trade for the farmers is often quite another story. But there is at least one county seat in Ohio that looks at boosting from two angles. The Marietta chamber of commerce runs shopping excursions into town. But it has promoted a million dollars’ worth of good roads through the country to take people round the rural districts; has started a movement to build up the farms, and has opened a market bureau to help farmers find customers for their products at fair prices. This county ships out more than a thousand cars of fruit and truck annually. A little time ago the chamber of commerce held its first banquet, and an interesting wrinkle was developed in the bill of fare. Everything served was grown in the county, and each county district was represented by what it grew best. The whole menu was a fine effort in advertising, at the county seat, the products grown roundabout.-—Country Gentleman.