Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-05-21
AWAKE, MY SOUL. GwAKEf

| Sidney Herber has painted large
Bulletin Board in bold letters and placed
it opposite the Burlington Route station.
The Board states the advantages of our
city as place of residence and points
of interest hereabouts. 1t is sure to
attract the eye of the traveller and leave
an impression upon his mind. 1t is
good move and he should be highly
commended for his energetic efforts to
awaken the public spirit to the necessity
Of boosting for business for our town.
Mr.. Hsrber has also made draft of
an esplsnsde for Custer avenue that is
an excellent suggestion and should be
acted upon without delay. His idea is
to make an esplanade S-fest wide in
the center of the avenue in each block,
set it with hardy trees and shrubbery
interspersed with rockery of unique
design or small mounds of quartz and
specimen rock from the mines and
quarries contiguous hereto-thus show
ing our underground products to good
advantage and placing them where they
would be ga beauty and Joy forever"
or SO long as they are properly cared
for, by persons having the welfare of
the city at heart.
Each business man upon the avenue
could place tree or shrub and care for
it the same as if it was in his own pri-
vate yard, and 80 branded and recorded.
The CHRONICLE feels assured the mining
companies operating in this bailiwick
would take pleasure in placing specimen
monuments where they can be seen and
admired, and would take pride in keep
them clean and presentable to the pub
lie gaze. 1t would add much to the
general appearance and beauty of our
city and would attract the attention of
both-the tourist and the investor.
The Avenue is plenty wide enough to
make such an esplanade and leave ample
room on each side for traffic.
Some of the inhabitants of Custer
City need more Twentieth Century vim
and vigor than they have exhibited in
recent years, at least. This is the most
feasible and economical plan yet devised
to adorn our waste places and beautify
our thoroughfares. Anyway the CHRoN-
IcLE deems it worthy of consideration
by all who favor the betterment of COM
munity interests and conditions.
| If only one block was so arranged
and completed this season, it would be
a worthy project we'll begun. Next year
another block or two can be completed,
and so on each year until the whole city
is made beautiful All the streets are
wide enough for such plots to some de-
gree. These plots will be 80 arranged
as not to interfere with the alley cross-
ings.
| In order to inculcate spirit of i'm
provement among all, the CHRoNIcLE
suggests that ladies' auxiliary consist
ing of one member from each fraternal
order could materially assist in this no.
BILE work in experimenting the care and
cultivation of the beds of flowers and
foliage plants in each esplanade. For
instance: The Eastern Star ladies de.
sign could be fve-pointed star; Re-
bekahs three-links; other orders en-
blematic designs in like manner. 1t is
our opinion the ladies would enter
heartily into the scheme.
| Were it Necessary our reporter could
mention cities in Missouri and Kansas
that have been made beautiful by the
concert Of action of their citizens. The
people of Custer are just as intelligent
and proud of their habitation as any
other community upon this mundane
sphere. What Obstetrics need is some
thing to stimulate them to eradicate the
hook-worm from their system and arouse
their energies. If we will but roll up
our sleeves and 60 to work with the de-
termination to accomplish something,
we would soon surprise ourselves by
changed condition for the betterment oi
our surroundings.
Other cities are waking up to the i'm.
portance of extoling their advantages in
order to obtain their share of the immi-
grafton that is moving westward. Custer
has lain dormant for many years. We
should now wake up and get in action
or our neighbors will outstrip US in the
race for supremacy. The Grand Archi.
tect of the Universe, through Dame Ma
/ Esss ha0 xutfh hn
beautiful environments of any place il
the Black Hills. Let US act upon thii
suggestion at once and have our street,
conform to the beauty of our surround
ings. 1t will not detract any from tn,
, volume of business done in q CONNER
J cial way, but will have tendency II
add thereto.
Il This project can be accomplished will
! very little cash outlay if the bushes
men will take hold with vigor and worl
in harmony; each one doing his par
cheerfully. Mr.. Herber has offered t
superintepd the construction of the firs
. esplanade-if the citizens SO desire.
This is matter of much import. &c
in action right away. What say you
Q Shall we boost and become city or re
+ main sleepy hamletP
II The proposition is up to the taxpayer
d to decide NOW the most important er
in our history and future welfare
Therefore let Us
Work, for the night IS coming
i Work, thro' the sunny noon;
l. Fill brightest hours with labor
r. Rest GENES sure and soon,
oI Give every flying minute,