The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-10-13
RICHMOND
Enjoying An Era of Great
Prosperity According To
L. q N. Statement.

We have always contended that Rich
mond was the best inland town in the
State of Kentucky, despite the protests
of few KNOCKERS" who never did any.
thing since our acquaintance with them
except knock on the town. Now &c
those who persist in knocking on the
good old town, we would say you are en-
gagged in a most mental occupation, and
should get out of the mire and not throw
mud at your town and everybody. We
have, like all other towns, bevy of
professional loafers and knockers" who
really do not know and realize what is
going on about them. They sit around
and gossip and in their course OF con-
versaton they will talk about the great
prosperity, glory and grandeur of other
towns but none ever moves TO one OF
these prosperity towns of which they've
been hearin' so much about. When a
stranger enters our portals and drops a
kindly word about our town. these
knockers" get out their hammers and
begin to drive home whatthey think are
center shots and, of course, their ham
mering annoys the stranger within ouI
gates and he often leaves in disgust
When the stranger departs, these little
shrimps get together and have a big
pow WOW among themselves. What g
pity that "knocker" was ever born
The knockers" may knock, bu
nevertheless, Richmond is enjoying an
era of prosperity despite the little
school of calamity howlers abont the
town. We have heard much about The
| prosperity and progress of other towns.
and we have visited several of them, but
Richmond is as good and far better thar
the most of them. II is a true saying
Cattle away off have awfully Ions
horns" AS with cattle, so with towns
The best criterion by which to judge
the prosperity of a city or town is TO g
TO your hallway station and ascertain tn,
amount of freight being handled at tina
place. A few days since while in con
versation with our hustling and accom-
modating local agent, Mr.. Jonas Rucker
of the L. & N Railroad, he gave US ar
itemized statement of the number o
cars of merchandise received for Rich
mond during the month of Septem Der
1915. We must confess that the mum
Der received amazed and astonished us
1t was more than double what we hat
roughly estimated. Here is the pumbe
as furnished us by Mr. Rucker:
Coal, 80 cars; shingles, 2 cars; lumbe
10 cars: nails, 2 cars; cattle. 63 cars
pickles I car; oil and gasolene, cars
tobacco hogsheads and hoops, 2 cars
fertilizer, 5 cars; brick, z cars; sand,
cars; furniture, 3 cars; hey. 0 cars; corn
l car; mules. 2 cars; lard. car; salt.
cars; concrete stone; 4 cars; plaster.
cars; cement, 5 cars; lime. ! car; fence
? cars; automobiles, cars; bones an,
iron. car, sheep. cars; wheat, 2
cars; sugar. cars; rye. / car; machinery
car; iron, 2 cars.
The above figures show a total of p
car loads of freight received in this cit
during the month of September, an
this in addition 10 s car loads receive
daily by local freights working at pla
form. The average number Of car load
received daily by local freight was
making total for the month OF q
J cars, which added 10 the above figure
makes a grand total OF 40 car loads
2 freight received here during tile moni
of September, which shows an era
: great prosperity prevailing IN Richmon,
. The PASSENGER business was also goo
4 during the month of september, reacl
ing far into the thousands.