Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1916 — AN IDEAL CITIZEN [ARTICLE]

AN IDEAL CITIZEN

There is a gentleman in this town, known to us all, who is just about our ideal of a good citizen. He is making his money here, he is raising and educating his family here, and he expects to live and die here. When he has any money to spend he first looks carefully over the advertisements in this paper. If he finds what he wants he goes there and gives that merchant the first opportunity. in everything <he buys he gives the home merchant the preference. He occasionally buys articles from abroad, but they are cases wherein he cannot find that which he seeks in this community. He believes in his home town, and because he does believe in it and intends to continue to live in it he grasps every possible means of advancing its interests by keeping his money in circulation at home. He, to our mind, is the ideal citizen. Would that he were multiplied a thousand fold. For we need more of him.