The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1911-06-09
OUR TOWN.
We Can Make Il Better i
Ne Try.
Isuin Citi1sus Should Get Busy and
BUut Her AinHiages. Which
sTe Numerous.

Any place is just what the men
vho live ID IL make a.
Don't 81 around and damn yonr
town A town is Just as good or
INST as sad a. the people Who are
dAmning H.
A town Is seldom the result OF
vsrgin natural conditions In any
even, il was nan Who saw the nat
ural advantaEes--and fr-gaehtiy y
uas some one Individual
For illustration; There Is no
natural rrason Why Cleveland should
have been the oil center OF the
World There are no oil wells in
or about the community. So
fAr a. oil Is concerned. and
a a shipping point il Is no better
than a dozen and one other towns
II vas simply JOhn D. Rockefeller,
he wanted to live in Cleveland and
his individuality. lis personality,
brought the oil TO him.
there L no reason Why Boston
should b. the shoe market Of the
world. there are no hides there,
They Are al shipped from the West.
SIMPLY some man Who knew hoS
% make shoes on large sale want
Cd 10 live there and his success en-
oourSged others To follow in his
wake.
There is no physical reason Nhy
Chieago should b. the meAt-parking
oentsr Ot the world. II could as
vel have been ST. Louis simply
cid pm Armour wanted 20 live
Ih-re.
In nearly ever town you visit
yoa hear some resident say. As.
nis Amt nOthia bat an oyergroNn
coantry village
The resident Of any town that
kakes such a statement wears Shis-
hers and boots at heart
OF ooarse. Il your town isn't sPOr-
y enough for you. Why, you can
nove-that Amt the towns fault
II yoa g., too sporty. yOuu have
10 move anyhow.
Il isat the sports that make a
toUn-it's the jays
TIE man shat gave the light for
Ne sports on the Great White Way
vas a tay-Thomas A Edison. a
iay telegraph operator from Indian
aDolis-
John D Rockefeller. Who. in a
money way. Is the ideal Of even
port. v~s a tAy NON Richford, NeV
York.
Russell SAse.WhO loaned money ID
TIE ssS-ss - ssz=Ss vas a jAy-hs
started By jumping counter in a
ooanfry store
Some iAy from Connecticat weni
70 the Worlds Fair al Chicago in
1883. he SCI " a stand on the
Midway and sold wooden nutmegs
70 the sports for souyenirs- Finally
Ae ran out Of wooden ones and
sold them the nal thing At twenty,
five cents a throw
William Dean HOwellS. AmeriCai
foremost literary eAaraSter. vii
take Eore pride in telling you ot
The DAYS when he set ype as !
hy printer on the sentinel AZ Ash
Abala. 0hiO. than his literary sue
oess Of lSser years-the dayi
when they used shoe pegs to spac,
The uPe. aud about a printer get
ting drunk and using a plug o
Star toabcco for a cut.
Nearly ever man in art science
literature. Industry and oommeru
here In America today either IS o.
was jay.
CincinnAu Is the supply esate
q The South. Years akO. at II,
waning of the river traffic. il "a
aoopt 70 give Place to Louisville
and Memphis in the oOmneroe o
tAAs territory.
\ The citizens Of Cincinnati 20
basy and built The CincianAti SOalh
cru RAilroaa.
nis rOsd was the dream Of a jAy
lAey called him iAy dreamer. bu
hls dre4n SAVED the town.
foa hear people OF the Far IVES
IN merAnsile. industrial. artistic an
erAentine pursuits. saying; III "
were only in cAleAgo Ne could a
er 50 - and So In ChicaeO 20
he~r 0en says II We wsre only |
New loEkr When IN New York 70