Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-04
This and that from West Town
ship.
April 1st. 1872.
BY IGNATIUS.


Nr. Editor West Township boasts
of no city" of few hundred inhabitants.
therefore she has no Marshal who has
gone off on a far Journey" no "hoop-
pole nuisances to complain of, no -four
ishing Joint Stock Company for Manu-
facturing purposes" to compete with the
world, no stores Selling goods below
COST no 'fne saloon with a large keeper
too, nor no demand for tenant houses. =
We have an entire Rural Township.
and are content to great extent. And
why should we not be We occupy the
western end of the middle tier of town
ships in Marshall county, our eastern
boundary being mile and half west of
Plymouth, which city we claim to be
ours. Do not understand US to present
rival claims with Centre for as far as
boundaries go, she has her; but Ply
mouth is our market Of her we buv.
and to her we sell. When she aspires to
have her quiet interrupted by the roar of
machinery, we rejoice but when she
realizes that putting alone worketh no
good, that without men with means and
firm determinations, who not only pass
resolutions and invite others to 90 ahead,
but will go ahead and say to others, come
and let us d0 something; nothing Will be
done towards establishing manufactures
and building up the town-we mourn,
" hy? Because, if we judge of the future
by reference to the past, we fear that the
Plymouth Of 1880, will be the Plymouth
Of 1910 If men Of means residing in, or
near town or city, will not work for its
improvement, we feel that those living
hundreds Of miles away, viii not En-
cept the Court House, and what is the
value of the buildings erected in Ply
mouth within the last three years? well, ;"
says one, IF they who are here will not
work for public Improvement, we should
encourage others to come and do so not
transient ones; but those who will locate
permanently.
The idea may be good one; but who
will this encouraging fall upon Surely
not the citizens of Plymouth alone The
rural districts must assist in this We
should not wait for the action of our
towns, but let the country be alive to its
interest. True, West toWnshipmay Justly
boast of three fine churches, nine good
school houses, a number of fertile farms
under good cultivation, with farm build
ings of all grades, several blacksmith and
wagon shops, a grist mill, saw mills, and
young nursery OF fifteen or twenty
acres. Yet we might have more.
BY adding tUent or thirty more miles
OF board fence to the miles now standing:
by cleaning fence corners; by planting
eyergreens in the place of oaks; by sow
ing flower seeds where weeds grow spon-
taneously; by grating good fruit into the
stems OF Seeding trees; by feeding our
hay aud straw at home and enriching the
soil thereby, and by building neat and
commodIous barns and houses, we NAV
beautify our township and encourage
business men to seek our towns for places
wherein to carry on their vocations and
erect manufactures. Who will take the
lead? We want some worthy farmer to
head our reports to the REPUBLICAN for
the summer. If Argos takes the lead in
manufactures we will support her, as our
southeast corner points that way. If
Bourbon gets ahead we will certainly be
left in the cold. The future NAV change
us, but for the present we VIII look to
Plymouth.