The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1915-07-22
You Can't Keep
a Good Town Down

a GOOD own Down.
see by the Dermott News that the
stock law is up again for passage.
Well, you Just can t keep good town
down any way but this is the same trou-
bic that all little towns have when they
begin to grow Every city can tell you
of what fight they had to get the
country out OF town, but they always
succeed in getting 1t out. Little towns
are most always built up with farmers
that never do anything but farm, and
who are accustomed to having the
stock around to keep down the grass
and weeds As there is no law II com
pei the property owners to keep them
moved down. their system l. alright
for little town.
If the little town is not we'll located
for business, there will never he any
located in a fine country for business,
they can not hope to always use the
same old methods of farm life to run
town.
The business men come along looking
for new fields to develop. The. 20 to
building railroads and factories, high
schools. hotels and wholesale houses.
They begin to beautify the little city
and put on sanitary rulings for the ben
eft of their health and their families
health. and this cannot be done with
the stock on the streets. Then comes
the trouble of convincing the farmer
that there is no necessity of his stock
on the street, and ii takes three or four
wears to convince him that he is stand
ing in his own light, and in almost
every case the stock has to be removed
bp special law There is not one
not removed after short effort TO do
so
As have sand, YOU cant keep a
good town down. and Dermott is lust
as sure to make a good as any town in
the state. 1t has the best location for
any kind Of business of any town be
tween Little Rock and New Orleans.
The Rock Island Railroad will come
into Dermott as soon as they complete
their line to Pine Bluff. and this will
make Dermott one of the best points
know of for Touring mill. There are
several thousand sacks of chops used
in and around Chieot County that
should be ground in Dermott. There
could be flour mill located in Dermott
this fall if there We're a little effort
made to get one
Dermott can furnish two slack barrel
mills with timber for Is years. There
is not slack barrel mill in this coun-
try of the kind we should have to clear
up farm land, Dermott should have 4
canning factory running sin months in
the year.
Dermott needs and should have a
produce house to buy up any and all
the produce the farmers can and will
raise, This would keep the farmer :
money at home.
Dermott has been hit very hard by
the panic, but as the entire United
States was hit at the same time. il will
only delay the advance for a while
Some seem to think that the railroad
company having its yards and a little
work done at McGehee will hold Der
l., ~.
on Dermott whatever, for that class of
work has limit to il and there is no
way to advance it, inexperienced
people soon build the little town full of
grocery stores, and that kills the profit
and the town is soon full of empty
buildings business man looking
for a place to invest his money will al
ways pass up place of this kind.
Dermott is in the only good location
in this country for a branch works of
some farming implement company and
should have one.
Dermott has the best bunch of boost
ers in Southeast Arkansas and good
hustling young rea sestate man could
get Dermott to boosh for any improve
ments he would get in behind and try
to get for the town.
If the stock law passes, | hope the
city officials will not be too strict until
the first of October. This would give
people chance to get pasture, as
crops will be coming off then.
There are several rood places near
town that can be fe lced and rented
BUT to people at small rate per head.
Yours for Health,