The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-01-10

before Norfolk today, as has been the
case for some time past, is the matter
Of securing an industry which will
make use OF the now abandoned and
deter, ating property once occupied
by the Norfolk sugar factory.
The empty sugar factory buildings
would make an ideal home for a mum.
Der Of industries that might be
launched. Every day lost means a
big loss to everybody in Norfolk.
With the present state of affairs in
the eastern financial world, 1t would
appear that, once operations are re.
sumed, industries will seek the small
er cities more than ever II heads of
prospective industries knew of the
Norfolk sugar factory, 1t is possible
that few weeks would close the deal.
Apparently the greatest need in this
sugar factory matter is the need Of
presenting the opportunity to the
right man.
The News believes, and suggests
for serious consideration, that the
problem might best be gone at by in
serting an advertisement in some ma
tional magazine such as the Saturday
Evening Post or Golfers or some 9TH
er medium that would practically COW
er the United States. The ad. should
tell what Norfolk has to offer by way
of buildings to the right industry
Results would follow. That is the
only way anything ever will come of
the sugar factory. We can sit here
and twiddle our thumbs for a thousand
years hoping for something to turn up
but If we fail to let the right people
know Of the proposition, the old sugar
factory building will stand idle and
deserted.
Norfolk once put up $150,OOO to get
be wise now, when we have so good
an offer to make, to spend few dol
lars-a hundred or even $500 or thou
sand if necessary-to get another in
dustry into those ghostly walls?
Norfolk is not so well known the
country over as we might hope-or
even suppose. Norfolk is the axis of
the globe so far as this section is con-
cerned, but people out in the far ends
of the nation exists who have never
even heard of us. Norfolk" they
would ask you. Norfolk, Virginia."
Norfolk S federal census only chalked |
up 1000 people. OF course we who
live here and know that large num-
Der of people were not counted be- |
cause they lived outside the city linn
its, understand the matter. But the |
investor down east doesn't know that, |
and he doesn't know enough about |
Norfolk's location or its sugar factory |
building to make it seem worth his |
while to take trip out here and look
us over
What Norfolk needs today is pub
licity. Norfolk has a message that it |
wants sent to the world-the message |
of it's location and the message of it's
empty sugar factory buildings, await
ing use.
That message, spread all over the
United States map, would undoubtedly
catch the eye of somebody who is
looking for just such a chance and
just such town as Norfolk.
Therefore it's up to Norfolk to de-
liver the good word and begin to grow.
The town that aggressively goes after
things is the town that lands factories.
And factories we need, just as we
need more wholesale houses.
The advantages to this or that kind
of wholesale house could be put down
in an ad. that would be carried to the
four corners of the country.
The News isn't trying to sell adver-
Using space-not in this instance. 1t
isn't working for commission. But
it does have the interest of Norfolk at
heart and it is willing to put up its
share in cold cash to buy a little pub.
licity which will go out into the broad
land and tell the people whom we want
to reach, that there is a great big
strong empty building out here on the
prairies awaiting wheels and belts and
workmen to turn 1t into factory and
a successful one; and that out here
in the northern part of Nebraska, with
the greatest territory in all the world
tributary to it, is growing, thriving
city of 5000 people which presents an
extraordinary opportunity to wholesal-
ers and manufacturers; town of g.
900 people which ought to be city of
10000 people right today.
Over at South Sioux City, Neb., a
little bit of town right under the
nose of Sioux City, distillery is being
built today. Upon its completion
small army of people will find employ