Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-03-14

department of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, cooperating
with the Northwestern railway
in laying out those grounds in
the most artistic way possible
that their beauty may attract
thousands to our city on their
summer holiday tours in the
future. Special mention should
be made here of the kindness
of Mr.. Wattles in preparing
for our use in this enterprise a
blue print plan of the grounds
to be placed with the above
mentioned engineers for use in
outlining the Towering shrub
berry of the grounds.
All this is what we we have
to offer as an excuse for our
first years work. Will the pub
lie accept it? Will they
say we'll done? Will they
help us on to further and
and greater effort? This town
is not longer to be known as
misery valley. 1t is too we'll
grounded in all that stands for
beauty of situation, for merit
among her people, for progress
sive citizenship not to build
better and better day by day
from this day on along all lines
of civic improvement mater
tally, socially, and estheticaly.
AS a town we have suffered
some discouragements the past
few years. We have suffered
from floods, from departing
population, from many and di-
verse other discouragements.
But thanks to the energy of
our business men these are all
being done away with. The
drainage canals will place us
beyond all danger of further
overhows. The return and en-
largement of our local railway
Interests gives us that sense of
STABILITY we have so much felt
the need of these many years.
The prospects of better crops
around US, on drier lands, with
more passable roads, more salu-
brious climate, more healthful
surroundings, more congenial
conditions of life generally
makes this an suspicious time
for us to put forth larger eff
forts in our endeavor to make
Missouri Vallay beautiful on
her several hills and her wide
expanse of fertile valley lands
as we'll. For our work should
not end at the city's gates.
Our country people are our
co-workers, our next door
neighbors, our source of supply
in many lines and we owe
them much and they can aid us
much in making this our own
country the beauty spot as
we'll as the garden spot of
] western Iowa, with beautiful
homes, lawns, highways and
J; hill tops.
With the rapidly increasing
auto touring the country will
soon take on a new relation tc
the travelling public and this will.
be shown in the greater pride
these our neighbors will show
in making it beautiful as any
parked town.
Our devotion must be unhag-
ging. The Chautauqua, if it is
to continue to be the greater
common school of the 20tf
century, must be aided in many
ways. We see no reason why
) it should not be a permanent
of our rural and town life, il
! connection, possibly, with oul
! county fair, with a suitable
| course of lectures on agricult
t ure, horticulture, arbor culture
road building, lawn making
2 etc. 1t was shown last year tt
: be a most practical adjunct o.
! the teachers institute. 1
3 should be 50 again this year
and bring the builders of tn
country and the advocators o
7 our faith together in goot
e works. The one dear object O
our hearts should be our library
a We, nor any mother in in Mis-
e souri, Valley should never fee
] her work done till that sourc'
: of intellectual activity in thi
e community is housed in a beau
4 tiful building OF its own, tina
D should serve not alone as al
d ornament to the town, but a
e the community's center of in
tellectual and social life
j There should be not only boo
s rooms and reading rooms, bu
a art rooms and rest rooms, TO