Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-06
PHILLpsBURd PROSPERITY,
We Need More Eiuuses for People TO
Live IGi.

Something must lie done and that
soou, too, TO take care Of the popula-
ton coming into PhiIlipsburg. Fer
the past three years there has been
scarcity Of houses TO accommodate
the demand. Twenty-Five good sub
stantial new tenant houses would ind
good occupants this winter in his
city were the houses built. The de-
mand is growing all the time-daily
men are running after our real estate
men begging for houses to rent. Ten
ant properties are commanding good
rentals. a house Of four Or five
rooms in good repair, rents readily at
from So to So per month. That pays
good interest on the investment. We
should have more of them, for as long
as Phillipsburg is a railroad town,
(and there is no question but what
she always will be) houses will
always command a good rental price.
Men with Il few hundred dollars laid
away, should bring it out and invest
in good tenant properties. They
can't lose by it. Property in Phillips
burg is staple, and will continue to
remain SO. Since the town was first
surveyed, the stability OF the place
was never SO marked as at present
There is -noinciination of boom about
it either, no fungus growth visible.
1t is all good solid "meat." Ii is
true, prices do not range SO high in
real estate as it has in spaSnodic
times gone by. But the valuations
are slightly increasing and show per-
manency in the increase. For this
reason PhilIipsburg is good place to
| invest money in real estate. The
natural growth of the town, is from
natural courses. 1t IS the trade cen
ter of a good agricultural county. 1t
is the outside pressure which is push
ing Phillipsburg forward. She has
got behind the country demands, and
should catch up. The country is her
resource for sustenance, and she
must be prepared to keep good faith
with her resources. Her business
men should work together and not be
selfish nor quarrelSome-aS most of
the growing in this world is uncalled
for anyway; most OF the 'kickS" IN
justifable. People are too prone to
see the unpleasant things and over
look the pleasant ones. Happy is the
disposition that huntS-for the better
and tries not to see or realize the har-
rying. So lets all pull together and
try and improve our city, ut needs ii
bad enough in any and everyday, try
and make it a better market than
neighboring towns, better trading
point, go under the bowels OF the
earth and see what is deposited there
try and get our fre-clay on the mark
cts of the world, work for better rail
, road facilities, a good opera house
more tenement houses built, any
old thing to inject more life and pusI
into the town, make it pleasant
place to live in, speak a good word fol
it, don't ridicule it, if you can't say q
kind word for it, please be silent. VIZ
sometimes hear people abuse and
make contemplate remarks about
, towns not PhillipSburg) when at TIT
same time probably all Of their earth
; ly belongings were IN that very tow
and the chances are if such people a
these would have to leave the towr
they would starye to death-aI
though some people are paralyzeC
5 above the ears to such an extent tina
. they are not accountable and shoulC
7 be excused.