Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 18, DeMotte, Jasper County, 31 March 1938 — AROUND TOWN [ARTICLE]

AROUND TOWN

’ Seen on the street: Fred Dykama with a dozen carp, one of which weighed about 15 lbs. A photographer taking pictures of stores. Mid Hart greeting friends. Art Lageveen going home for lunch. Emmet Erwin guying “Hermie.” Art Yeagley out again after several months illness. A regular tractor race on the main street (new’ slogan: DeMotte, the" tractor hub of the universe). Dr. Oosten going in the post office. Attorney Emmet Laßue, candidate for judge, smilingly shaking hands with friends. Herman and Marie coming across the way. and school kids all over the place; Observation: With nearly every other school in the state GIVING honor sweaters to athletes in order to promote school spirit,, the “high command” here allows athletes to BUY sweaters if they want them. Which attitude may have something to do with records made here and, «ay, at Wheatfield. You can’t make me believe that we

don’t have the material here! W’hat we need is a first class organizer, a worker, one interested in school and civic affairs, a co-ordinator one who knows HOW’., (And I'm not talking about the coach, either—he’s the hardest worker is 17 states he needs help, that’s all.) You only have to look at a man’s record to see whether he is really interested in his town —or in-him-self. A note handed to us says that “F. D. R.” stands for Failures, Debts and Droughts and Rains. We get so “used” to things that many times that we fail to see how they really appear to the outsiders —who really bring the business to town. For example, the way water is allowed to stand along the curb on main street. It’s been there so long many of us fail to even grumble over it. But when the women from the country come in and have to step out of their cars into 6 inches of w’ater what do YOU think they’ll do next time? You’re right!

People who want to build a new home are often kept from doing so by the high cost of building a sewer system, water system, and lack of electric lights. It’s the little things that make or break a town. Incorporation is the only way to guarantee a town’s growth.