Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — How to make a live Town. [ARTICLE]

How to make a live Town.

1. Sell your building lots at reasonable prices. 2. If yott can afford to do so, donate a large building for some business enterprise, and thereby enhance the value of town property. 3* —Induce business to locate here. «. 4. Patronize the business men of your own town. o. —Always sum up your expenses when yon visit places outside of your own city to buy goods. 6.—Speak well of worthy public enterprises. . ;i> 1 7—ls anything should be under- | taken that may be .of interest to | the town, do not speak ill of it to j others because you happen to be prejudiced against it. V j 8 —Speak well to Strangers of 1 your city and people. } ’9.—lf yott have surplus money |do not invest it in far off speculations, bnt give yourself and your city the benefit ofj.it by establishing some profitable factory. y j ID.—Encourage your local newspapers'by subscribing for and advertising in them., , ' .“ We especially { recommend tile ' above to the prayfjjl consideration of onr citizens .one and all; the j last cause is good.—[Ex. v