Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — How to Kill a Town. [ARTICLE]

How to Kill a Town.

If you wish to kill atowri, don’t put up ‘more houses thnn you are obliged to occupy yourself: If you should have an empty building, ami any ono wishes to lent it, i.gk 1 -UDout three times its.salue. Go alu- iad for your wares rather thau. purclta o them .of yOnr own merchants. Take seveiol New York and Chicago papers, but don’t take your home paper, or if you do, always, manage to be about threo years behind .with your subscription, and-wheu you go to settle with the publisher swear that you paid him for Ihe first year in advance but' neglected to bring the receipt with you. Look on every new comer with a scowl of suspicion, particularly if ho does not attend your church, or is not of your political be-, lief. A prompt and close observance of these rules wifi ruin .any town iu twu years. —Exchange.