Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-06-24
ADDRESS OF TOWN DOCTOR
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ing garden truck; principally cab
bage and pickles. Object being profit
per Sc, ultimately separated into S
and 10 acre tracts. Then follow this
commercial garden truck farm with
a sauerkraut, pickle, and canning fac
tory.
Establish a modern city hall credit
able to city such as Rocky Ford.
Add an agricultural department to
your high school courses.
Have full commercial course de-
partment.
High school band.
High school uniform cadet course.
A city armory.
A commercial club committee to go
after a college for Rocky Ford, to
keep your boys and girls ut home for
four years.
Take advantage of the enthusiasm
of the insurgents and democrats and
stand patters in the coming campaign,
and get some national lecturers here.
Boost your chautauqua in every
way you can. Plan special excursion
for it. You can do. big things through
your chautauqua.
Revive your creamery. The Ar
kansas Valley is going to have one
big creamery. Why not Rocky Ford
get it!
Promote your broom factory. Ev-
cry woman should sweep with a
home made broom.
Test your clay and laboratory by
competent chemist to know what you
have here.
Merchants remain loyal to one an
other.
Use only home-ground flour. Smoke
Rocky Ford made cigars. Use the
product of the home manufacturers.
Raise $4,000 industrial fund to
promote factory sites and buildings.
conserve your capital, advertise your
town and bring population.
Get an automobile factory here.
Get tile or sewer pipe factory, il
you have the clay.
One OF the greatest things. and the
thing you should do first and at once
is to grit your teeth and start tomor-
row to beautify your City in land
scape work. What an opportunity
awaits you! Climate ideal. Foliage
rich. Location good. Greatest oppor-
tunity for landscape work l know OF.
Beauty is good business. Get beau
tiful and become famous. Formulate
mcrcial club promote it. Let your
city. Park your streets. Cut down
your weeds. Trim your trees. Beau
shy and appreciate sour if:seryoir
park site. il is splendid. Go at it big.
for it will boost your City big. Do IL
tomorrow. Now come on for Rocky
Ford beautiful. l urge you to put
chandeliers around your park, and a
half dozen in them, as a great add
for your city. Also more lights on
Main street and your business sec
ton. n
Get a sisters hospital and make
this a hospital town. II you have a
cement rock. get cement mill.
Merchants should spend two per
cent of their sales in advertising.
You should have wholesale gro
Gerry house. 1t is practical. All mcr.
chants should take stock in it and
buy Of it: and send road men out;
You should have $4,000 federal
OF committee. Get after it and get
it. and accept nothing less.
Your women's clubs should adver-
tise a walk through your alleys, and
should do SO Ell massc.
Rocky Ford should have a govern
mcnt by commission. No town that
has adopted it has ever been disap-
pointed.
You should have n constructive
committee of farmers to promote
good highways: the best possible.
Your commercial club should boos,
for the best stores possible. Plate
glass and modern front.
Your abominable culverts should be
replaced by cement ones.
Discourage lawn fences, and try to
get all down in your landscape plans
You should have an annual winter
poultry show.
You should have poultry feed
plant.
An annual pure food show.
A vinegar factory.
] commend booster trips. Spend
three or four days in as many differ
ent directions.
Have a weekly booster day. combi-
nation sale. All merchants join. Take
large parties on auto excursions to
advertise 1t.
Have ladies' receptions in charge
of the chamber of commerce
Plan a boulevard or two in your
landscape plan.
Have strong baseball team in a
league il possible. Great town add
Plan band tournament
Cold storage plant.
Your churches should display a
more active interest in things helpful
to the city.
Get candy factory.
Offer prizes for lawns.
Offer prizes for gardens.
Cooperate with Santa Fc railroad
to beautify the right OF way into and
out of your city.