Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-09-03
Two Pictures of a Town.

By Leigh Mitchell Hodges in Philadelphia North America
On my down town the other day
Wasn't your home in CARTHAGE" he asked
told him waan1 still is for awayss home where folks
II Carthage has stepped back
| What sort of psce is it. snyhow?"
WELL said tits little cities in the land and
its chief beauty lot of fine old forest mostly oaks tell
they re proud of them tool Why if along
for factory whose
be turned down instanter
HE might give persons thousands year
to the trade the place but that would
pie love their trees and they d fight for them
They've unusual masdamized them and
tilted them drain quick Twenty minutes downpour
cross anywhere without spelling shine
They think much of those came along
with proposition big to be
hauled cogwheeed days that would
Carthagnan would consider it, atho might add
cal payroll.
you they have the right idea They
good home surroundings and Carthage has any
place Many these built quarred right
there which getting famous their pride justified And
pride!
IF scOundre should night ashng crude
oil or tar on the walls of those homes tar and oil him And he
tried defend himself by claim that give
to the ns' asyum but think he'd take little tar along with him.
even at that Homes something to those folks"
yet they voted saloons in again." said the
Yes but that country run over to
Carthage their Why high school is regular
marble palace and whole
system They're keen about their children that should
damn, he'd be fired before recess.
And Carthage has clubs than size
ones Their three Shakespeare clubs would be credit
city.
Orce newcomer happened thought
over She ddn but for good while after this
around she was treated coo Then she learned what
"a ID apolog zed to some of the clubwomen
O course knew spoke careesy said them
ouve lived here you'll on
erythn that makes for better living and higher thinking
And they voted the saloons in?" said man.
Yes but ought the fine churches
Those when SHOWS or
blows The for the religion too as well
d of its spiritual worth
f you'd see it, I'll send little thau
give some idea of what the place is like"
mo thank you said the You've told I've
already formed fairly accurate picture"
Il take Carthage place more for
than wouldn't industry whose
poison fumes lives rather than leaves
Evidently of those Carthsgnans concerned about
minds bodies this Industry
times $500 week from the local payroll.
houses I'd of place where tbeyd
soed
those who strike the families homes and
damage far beyond that claim giving
extra employment or putting more money in circulation.
fair photograph that would fire
damn,
daily whose vile pouted without regard
children make damn look like
four homeopathic pill in the of fourteen-nch she'll
Those clubs form nice background but that quoted
impressive toothpck sticking out of sand
the of Sahara when Carthage
has welcomed back the one worst Of better living and higher
thinking ~
if should to frame it, Id make mental moulding
where the thing
something that than nohn invited
on that won't with by
Yes I've got picture Carthage But majority of her peo
others have copies like mine they'd order the
stroyed and arrange for another sttingL"
Not in whole great county
lated. a whitening commentary on saloon =
See John arycorn the picture Of Jack Londons the