The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-03-28
THIS AND THAT.
Pertinent Counsel Upon Various Sub
jectS of Public Interest.

JtCtS OF fuDllc interest.
So many of our townspeople have
changed their places of abode, within the
| past two weeks, that it is a difficult
matter to locate them. And the end is
not yet. l believe there would be less
moving around on the part of tenants If
landlords would make their dwellings
more attractive and supply the necessary
conveniences. Nine-tenths of the properties
in the town that are rented are little less
than ''rookeries," !" and so long as this
state of affairs exist tenants will always
be on the lookout for more convenient
| house. 1t would pay the average property
owner to supply modern conveinences, and
thus place themselves in position to
demand higher rents and retain a much
better class of tenants.
Shenandoah has never had a first-class,
complete directory of its inhabitants.
Every year or two a party comes around,
and they are induced to compile directory
of the town, expecting from the business
men and others the necessary encourage
ment, which they should receive. After
a short canvass they find out, through
the refusal of merchants and others to
advertise in or subscribe for the book,
that it will not pay them to carry out
their original ideas, and the result is an
old directory is consulted for names and
residences in order to finish the work in
as limited time as possible. This is why
we always get an incomplete and unreli
able directory, and the publishers are not
to blame.
| understand that Editor Doyle, of the
Sunday News, seriously contemplates
issuing daily paper from his Office.
have no cause to find fault if he does, and
will wish him abundant success Shen
andoah is large enough to support two
daily papers, since much smaller towns
can do so, but the trouble is we have not
the reading public that other towns
have. If friend Doyle is in earnest
about the project, he surely knows
what is best.
Although opposed to Judge PershinR's
re election, I am not one of those who be
lieve in driving him from the Bench be-
cause of his continued illness and
advanced age. During the time he has
held the position of Judge he has earned
the good opinion of all parties, He has
been an upright and fearless Judge, and
deserves better treatment at the hands of
those who are demanding his retirement
on account of his present illness and
incapacity from his duties.
1t is worth while being enterprising
and Shenandoah may as well be sin the
swim" as other towns. A few years ago
the progressive citizens of Hazleton saw
the only way out of obscurity by agitating
a city charter for their growing town and
at the following election succeeded in
carrying the project through Then
followed the agitation of new county
movement with their new city as the
county seat. In this they have also sue
ceeded, as the bill will pass the Legisla-
ture finally today and will then only
require the signature of the Governor to
make it a law.
Shenandoah, perhaps, cannot become a
county seat, but there is no reason why
it should not only be the largest and most
enterprising town in the lower anthra
cite coal region, but city as we'll. 1t
would make real estate boom as it never
doomed before, bring better class of
people here to settle and if anything
make the place solid and permanent.
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