The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-10
THE DBNIsON OF THE FUTURE.

HE DENlSUN Uf IHh fUlUhh.
1t does not take g prophet to tell the
future of Denison Those who have
seen towns OF the same relative i'm
portance in the eastern states, have
seen what Denison will become in time.
While it is perhaps true that there are
no surface indications of boom. Il is
also true that there exist no causes
for belief that The town will rot con
tinue to sake satisfactory growth and
No one can doubt but that within the
next dozen years the old frame struct,
ures on our business streets Will give
way to permanent brick structures
One building will compel another UNI
til the old frame structures are wiped
out entirely. BY the time this is ac-
complished the merchants viii have
learned that it pays TO have passabe
streets all the year round aud thus II
will happen that the business streets
and those leading to the depots will oe
paved. Proceeding this improvement
will be the building of a sewage system
and as people become more enlightened
as to the things of health, they will
wonder that the town ever existed so
long without this sanitary precauiion
and that property owners were not
compelled long before to comply with
the demands of good health and de-
cency by the erection of suitable water
closets in the business district. La a
dozen wears the Review will su ely he
published daily and we presume that
by year after the Bulletin will also.
In q dozen Years some OF the small in
dustries of the town will have grown
to large ones and our people will nave
employment the year rouna 1t is idle
to speculate as to the wonderful
changes which may take llace on ac-
count offpew inventions aad discover
les, butit is safe to say the telephone
viii De in nearly every home in the
lntry as we'll as in town and that
telephone order" business will
a large item with all our stores.
enison will be town of five thousand
inside OF ten years and we may look for
many great improvements if all
work together for the common good
lnd especially if the work of building
Up the city begins now. There is no
lime like the present and the merchant
Dr. business man who waits for prosper
1Jy to come to him will wait long time
The many business changes which
have taken place recently ere indica-
tive of renewed effort along business
lines. The year is to be one of push
and energy and activity.
The many projects which are talked
OF and which apparently come to moth
ing, are not entirely failures. They
show that public spiritedness is not
dead, that men are thinking and plan.
ming for Deniscn and in the end some
good will come. The building of the
new court house will give an air of sta
fbility to Denison 1t will encourage
permanent Improvements along othe.
lines. The building of the Carnegie
library will add to the culture of the
town and all these things together with
our college and public schools will at.
tract many people who wish to find q
quiet and we'll ordered home for their
families. No factor will be of more i'm.
portance to the material welfare OF
Denison than the cultivation of public
spirit. We had hoped year ago that
the business mems association would
be more of power for good than it has.
While it carried the street fair through
with great success it has failed in ITS
object of drawing the business men
closer together Whether there is any
special business or not the association
should meet once month if only for 8
comparison of ideas. The Denison o.
the future will be good town to live
in, it will have enough of the spirit O
the west to keep it alive and starring
ard it will have culture and refinemen
euCu h TO ike it desirable as home
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Through tir !Liiurrce OF Hon. j. p