Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-04
MAKE THE TOWN KNOWN.
advertise In Various Ways, I'm. Don't Over
look She Envclope Method,

advertise In Various Ways, bn. Don't Over.
look She Envelope Method.
Perhaps no town III tho state of Now
York has increased so rapidly in wealth
and population during tho last ten ycars
as Middlctown, Orange county. The
reason is not far to seek. Tho energetic
people who comprise it's inhabitants
havo neglected no opportunity to fur.
thcr its prosperity and have worked in
unison to accomplish tho desired end.
They knew their town was we'll located
and possessed many natural advantages
and wcro not averso to acquainting the
outside world of these facts A wide
awake board of trade mado things live
ly, especially in advertising tho town,
and ono of tho methods employed may
DO used i'll any community with GER
tainty of good results.
4 town may bo we'll located and pos.
scss valuable water power or other COM
nercial and manufacturing advantages,
but if these desirable conditions arc
known only to the jewellers therein they
arc not likely to DO taken full advan-
tago Of So thought tho board of trade
of Middletown, and with it to think
was to act, and to tho ready wit and
energetic action of this organization is
due much of tho increase in population
and industry which has como to tho
town.
Tho method above referred to was
that the board caused to DO printed ell.
vclopes Oh which were printed the
points Of excellence of tho town, and
these We're furnished to tho business
men, with their business card added at
merely nominal cost. The back of tho
envelope contains the following infor-
nation, neatly printed and displayed:
COME TO M1DDIETowN, ORANGE COUNTY, n. Y.
Middlctown, n. ", is beautifully located CT
miles from New York city, the great Inetropo-
lis of the country; is the railroad and com
mercial hub of far famed and fertile Orange
county; is the most ilourishng and rapidly
growing young city in the Empire State. A
large railroad and manufacturing center. The
n. y, Lake Eric and W. r. r.. the N. x, O.
and W. Il. H.. the Susquchanna and ". r. r.,
and the G. and p d. Il. r. center here. Two
hours ride from New York city, an excellent
shipping point. low freight and express rates,
excellent passenger service, etc. a most de-
slrablc residence city, being clean heathful,
we'll kept and Shaded streets, well severed,
rents low, etc. a very busy, thrifty, go ahead
city.
Large mercantile houses large manufactur.
ing interests, the chief of which are the second
largest steel SAW works i'll the United States,
file works. silk and ribbon factories milk con-
denslng factory, type mandatory, carpetbag
factory, hat factories shirt factories, railroad
works, handkerchief factories, iron and brass
foundrics.
There is to be $4G0, coo expended in new build
ines this year. Noboom: u steady growth. Tho
state is disbursiny $4,000 for additional hos.
pitul accommodations; also $4,000 for II new
armory. a casino. costing 800, is i'll prog
rcsss of construction.
At the bottom of the envelope is the
following announcement:
Middlctown needs such factories as cigars,
boots and Shoes carriages, sash and blinds,
clothing, lnachinc shops, foundrics, furniture,
pianos and organs. metal works, firearms,
buttons carpet mills hats, straw goods, car.
shops. woodenwarc, boiler works, stoves,
gloves, tools, hosiery, silk mills toys, agricul-
tural implements and many others. Tho Mid
dlctown board of trade solicits correspondence
and will chccrfully give information.
On tho front of the envelope and tax
ing up about onc-third of the space is
the following:
Middlctown, n. Y, population, 1900. Three
competing lines of railroad to New York city.
Several branch railroads ccntcring here. Forty
passenger trains daily. Two express companies.
Thirteen churches Ten public schools. -Four
banks. Three daily newspapers. Three semi
woclilies. Two wccitlics. An abundant water
supply. Good hotel accommodations. The
Thrall hospital New York State Homeopathic
hospital. An excellent and well equipped
fire department. Free public library. Free
mail delivery. Electric and gas plants. Elk
ccllcnt slnitar; sewerage. A $4,000 armory.
Chldren's home. Old Ladies' home. Societies.
Board of trade. Board of health. Board O:
park commissioners. Two thcatcrs. One build.
ing and lonn association. Excellent private
school.
Tho idea is not original With Middle.
town and has been used with good re-
suits i'll numerous towns throughout
the country, but it is good adjunct tc
tho various methods which may be en-
ploycd to advertise town, certain tc
be farreaching i'll its effects and almost
sure to attract attention from quarters
where before the town and its advan.
tases were almost or wholly unknown.
Married at Ninety-two.
Elisha Kingsley is 90 years old. He