West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-01-28

will be FIVE directors, two OF which
will be selected from our people at
home. IF the directors or major
ity of them would attempt 10 do any
funny business or to try to swindle
the stockholders at home, in less
than days time we could ask the
Judge of the circuit court to take
charge of the plant and put 1t IN
the hands of receiver. We think
The proposition Is very tair and
liberal one. We have 10 DOUBT but
what the stock would pay good div
idends. The good Lord knows we
need Just such a plant here right
now. We must either get more
manuf acturins plants here or down
goes the old town to about the
same grade as Marietta and Par
tkersburg and that Is as low down as
you can get. this side OF the internal
regions Every business man in
town can we'll afford 10 subscribe
literally. Every man ard woman
who owns lot Is vitality interest
ed. If we don't get some manufac-
uring plants here town lots In a
years time won't bring one halt
what they will today. Land in the
neighborhood of the city will go
away down. Rents will go down TO
low water mark. Fifty dollar rooms
WON'T bring twenty. Already we
can notice change 10 the price of
rents, and 1t will be many times
worse If we don't get a hustle on
u.s. Once let the town get down in
to country town rut and you will
never be able to resurrect the town
again work hard as you may These
are not pleasant things to contem
plate but they are facts, cold and
hard but absolutely true. We can
avoid this with proper effort. Let's
land this plant. 1t means work this
spring for at leas. a hundred car
penters, brick layers and painters.
1t means steady addition to our
circulating medium Of S. $40
week at least. Il means a perma-
nent addition to our city of at least
one hundred new families. II
means renters for one bun
dred houses in our city. This
would mean that new houses would
be built, which would give employ
ment to workingmen. 1t would
mean better schools better business
Ia every way, and what is best of
all, 1t Is permanent 1t would cause
many common day laboring men to
move here. 1t means everything
to US. Will the people subs cribe,
or set down and say It's a good
thing, you fellers push 1t along
That won't do, Every man has
got to get to work to raise this
money, and to do Sd won't be no af-
ternoon picnic Son of our pso-
who are vitality interested In the
success of our city did not contrib
ute cent to the other glass plant,
no blame IS made of this. but they
should come down handsom e'y to
this new second plant We think
the banks should subscribe. They
are interested. The merchants,
the teamsters, the laboring men,
every owner of lot, every man,
woman and child in the city Is In.
terested to the extent of few dol
lars at least. These a nd many other
reasons can be given, but all know
what 1t meaus-go dead and
damned forever as business city,
or else invest a suall sum and keep
things booming. There are just
two sides to the questionable or
live. There Is no middle ground. |
IF the city don't keep ad |
ding plants we would not give
thousand dollars for the best lot In
the city. Ii you own a lot worth |
two thousand dollars today you can
we'll afford to give FIVE hundred for
this plant. We believe our people
will subscribe for this plant. We
have never failed yet, and it's too
late to begin now, but let's all work |
and work hard. Work will begin |
on this plant inside of twenty-four
hours after the money Is subscribed |
Keep the ball rolling, and work |
and talk It up from daylight to
midnight, at least