The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-06-07
DOING SOMETHING FOR THE C0UN-

TRY. III .~-.
The Worthingten Board of Trade
recently appointed committee to pre-
pare and have printed some matter
setting forth the advantages of Worth
ington and Mobiles county. A citizen
of Worthington said to members of the
Board that it was right to send the
printing away as the ADVANCE had
never done anything for the country.
This man, Of course, only gave his view
and did not express the views of the
Board. lie was animated by personal
feeling or by political or religious
prejudice.
The Board of Trade canr ct, Of course,
allow such motives and such influences
ION Change" It must be made up of
men of all shades of political and re-
ligious opinion, who must agree to
disagree upon such matters, and agree
upon the vital object of developing cur
material interests. Men who carry
into the Board their personal spites, or
their political or religious prejudices,
must be promptly sat down on, if the
Board is to accomplish anything.
Since this ill-natured and prejudiced
individual has furnished us text, let
us take up the subject and see whether
the ADVANCE has "done anything for
the country"
10 begin with, and long before the
men who most hate the ADVANCE had
set foot in our midst, the editor of the
ADVANCE was working day and night
for Worthington and Mobiles county
During the first two years after the
community was founded, the "AD-
VANCE man' wrote letters to about
500 different newspapers in all parts of
the country describing the beauties and
advantages of this county. These let
ters were published and E. F. Drake
said that this was one of the best
methods of advertising he had ever
known. The "ADvANCE man =" made
Il special trip to Toledo, Ohio, at his
own expense and worked up the build
ing OF Miller Hall which was under
way within a month after the trip.
That hall, while it lasted, was of untold
benefit to the community, and it was
laid in ashes, criminally ard deljber.
ately burned, by the element which
hated and hates the ADVANCE. The
" ADVANCE man." seeing that the
boast had gone out that this was a
community of ''cl1urches and schools. =
called attention to the tact that there
was no church spire in Woythington,
pointing up to make good the boast.
Fnr Il month he worked and talked be.
fore he could get parties interested, and
then, finally, one Sunday afternoon, he
and Prof. Ilumiston got together on
the east porch Of the Worthington uo-
tel and laid the plans and made the
assessment which built the Union (now
the Congregational church OF Worth
ingten. Out Of his meagre means lie
put altogether, $500 into the building
alone, to say nothing Of the continual
payments made to support a minister
and a congregation which to Il great
extent hated INN. The "ADvANEm man''
was the fist to suggest street lamps
for Worthinston which we have now
enjoyed for years, and to urge and as
sist in the planting of trees, which have
given our village the name of Arbor
City,"
During the past eleven years the
ADVANCE has labored for tile develop.
ment of every legitimate enterprise.
When others were discouraged, the
ADVANCE was always enthusiastic and
breezy, pushing, suggesting, working.
contributing, advertising, helping to
put heart into the heartless aud to hold
up the nervelcss hands of the croakers
and drones who hated us.
The ADVANCE proclaimed Worthing-
ton 4 coming railroad centre, giving
reasons, facts and figures, when no one
else could ''see it," Smart ones laughed
at our RAILROAD hobbies" and when we
praised the country and published
thousands and tens of thousands of
items about our crops, our soil, our
advantages. they sreered and said,
''more of Miller's lies.''
When the ADVANCE two years ago
claimed the Burlington, the Milwaukee,
the Wabash and other railroads as on
the way to Worthington, the same
doubling element called us ''crazy'' as
usual, and stood around waiting to see
whether after all, the ''cle foo. ell:
wasn't right.
Last year when not another man
would put money into business build
ings the ''ADvANCE man:' led the
way by putting up the finest (thougl
not the largest) building ever built in
town.
Oh no, the ADVANCE has ''never
done anything for the country" if these
shallow croakers are to tell the story
AS matter Of fact, the ADVANCE has
done more for the town ana county in
any one month during the past ten
years than most of the croakers have
done in any one year.
The Boston Journal of Education
evidently with the ADVANCE in its
mind. urges girls to read the newspa.
per and says:
Not glance over it, but study it,
1t is worthy of study. DR.. Abbott says,
America gives a library to almost
every home, in the periodical publica.
tions,-the daily journal, the weekly
paper, and the monthly magazine. Two
copies of the Tribune cost eight cents
two copies "f the Union twelve cents.
The two carlieS of aif hor nanor ooa4n;.