Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-28

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neighboring cities Lewiston, Augusta
and Waterville have finer business
buildings than we possess. 1t is out
of the question to tear down the old
buildings on Water street and erect in
| their place modern ones. Are we do
ing the best we can with what we
have?
The merchants in nearly every city
| have their store windows lighted
every night. We ought to have ours
lighted from dark until $50 or perhaps
| 10 o'clock evenings. People riding on
the electric cars, or passing through
our street evenings would meet with a
bright welcome, also showing signs Of
life and p-to-dateness on our part,
and that we did not die with the set
ting sun. l would suggest that we
| cooperate with the commissioner oil
streets, when the streets are bare, to
have the street sweeper used twice a
week. After they have been sprinkled,
and have the dirt removed, they
ought to be washed out with a fire
hose once week after sweeping, and
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uneven condition Of the paving, but
sweeping will make a big difference in
| the appearance Of the street. l would
suggest that each individual have a
garbage barrel in which to put all the
| litter and decayed fruit, to be hauled
| away once or twice 4 week in the
| city teams, as occasion may demand,
and not disfgure the street by throw
| ing decayed fruit into them. thereby
| breeding flies and disease. Finally,
| the Merchants Association cannot be
run by few men alone, successfully.
We need the help Of every business
man in Gardiner. willing to serve on
| committees and get under the load,
| pay their monthly dues into the as
socation and thereby create fund to
advertise Gardiner and her enterpris-
! ing merchants in Some suitable man
ner In other words to put our city
on the map, as other places are do
ing.
Remember-that in order to make
| a cleaner, buster Gardiner. we must
I join interests-Be Booster
Mentioning the motto Of Booker T..
Washington. the speaker paraphrased
it as follows in conclusion:
"Gardiner merchants can't do their
| best and fail-they simply can't"
Ernest L. Goodspeed
Ernest l.. Goodspeed gave the fol-
lowing optimistic address which is
worthy of the thoughtful perusal of all
| Gardiner residents He had been as
signed as a topic 1.-THE Gardiner Of
! Tomorrow" and said:
Il deeply appreciate the privilege
of being present at q meeting of this
nature and the honor of being asked
| to speak. Although 1 live in Ran
dolph, my place Of business is here in
Gardiner, and my future is closely
| linked to the future of Gardiner by a
chain Of social and business inter-
ests. AS the youngest member of my
profession in this city, I naturally look
forward to the future. rather than
back upon the past, and hope to help
| in a small way at least to make this
bigger, buster. and better city than
! it ever was before. -.
! Your committee has asked me to
speak briefly on the, Gardiner Of to-
morrow. While we can only phOph-
ecy as to just what the Gardiner of
tomorrow will be. there is one thing
Of which we may be reasonably sure,
that the Gardiner of today will not
stand still. tt is not in the nature
of a city any more than an individual
to remain the same while everything
around him is changing. We shall
either grow larger or smaller, buster
or quieter, better or worse than we
are today.
Which course our city will take
will depend more than anything else
upon the broadminedness. the pro-
gressiveness. the public spiritedness
Of it's business men. Our water power
facilities, our fortunate location.
which renders us easily accessible by
rail aud water to the business centers
of this country. and all our other adj
vantages and natural resources will
avail us nothing if we have not the
wisdom to encourage their fullest de-
velopment." t4. +. 49,. ..,
| Illustrating the point the speaker
read a prayer recently offered by the
Rev. Levi NJ. Powers at the in
augural exercises in Gloucester City
| hall at a meeting Of over 1900 of its
best citizens, carrying plea for city
betterment. The prayer follows:
I'VE wish, o God. that these people
might be blessed: but perhaps we are
asking, too much. It may. be that the
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