Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-03-07
ADDRESS BY CEDAR
RAPIDS BOOSTER
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used to josh considerably about the
M. & o. it is my opinion that this Club
can point to 1t as one Of the best ad-
vertising assests this town has. Not
many communities can boast 9f own.
ing and operating their own railroad
system. Don't forget this when you
get out your next booster literature
don't want to tire you with a
lot of burden-some statistics but dc
you know that in 1914, the latest fig
ures available, Delaware county
raised 88,240 acres of corn, yielding
3.398,S55 bushels? A lot of that de-
crease in population which spoke
about "a few minutes ago must have
been Irish because this country only
raised S57 acres Of potatoes while all
that corn was growing, yielding S5,2S7
bushels with value Of $47,546. OF
course if there are three or four
bushels of that 1914 crop in cold
storage around here now those val
uation figures will have to be doub-
led. There are forty-one church or
CARNATIONS in Delaware county with
. total Off 6,295 members ;s33, l2av Of
|Whomb go1to Sunday school. There
are thirty seven churches with total
seating capacity of 1861 and a to-
tai valuation Of s3S7kA0. There Is no
excuse for Delaware county, people not
going to church when there are &C
t4an,usy.1>Aie.as--Aa r moro ta,tfrI A,esf -Aiae
total population Of the county. This
information can be disseminated to
prove that you areha peace loving
and law observing community.
Sixteen creameries in Delaware
county, for the year ending June 50,
l915, t,Made 2,S27,932 pounds or ,bpt-
ter. Of this amount 1925 pouhds
sold in Iowa, exclusive Of what was
used by their own patrons and stock
holders; and 2,104,788 pounds went
to eastern markets Think what an
advertising value those butter prints
would have il every pound carried
the announcement: Made in Della
ware county, Iowa" The amount Of
creamery butter sold III Iowa by this
county was only exceeded by Polk and
Woodbury. counties, both of which
counties have cities which alone con-
sumo enough butter to more than
make up the difference. Thus it
might we'll be said that old Della
ware county still leads the state in
creamery butter production. This
county did beat Woodbury. county in
the amount of butter shipped outside
the state.
Do any of you men know how many
automobiles there are N Delaware
county? No doubt you've often Won
dered and some of you may have
ventured a guess. Last year-1916,
the number of autos registered from
this county was 1882. Delaware
county had a population of 1864 in
1915. If you figure four persons to-
the family, which is a reasonable
average, you will find that the good
roads committee of this commercial
club ought to be able to interest a
third of the population In this county
into spending something besides
promises in Keeping the roads pass,
able in all kinds of weather. II it has
rot already been done. an effort
should be made to have every road in
the county marked from the border
line of each adjacent county with
signs indicating the distance and d.
rection to this city. For instance mo-
florists driving. from Cedar Rapids,
Dubuque and similar towns
should be confronted the minute they
cross the county line with signs every
mile or two telling the distance yet to
be travelled to reach Manchester. This
county contains ST. square miles, SO
it wouldn't take so very many signs,
and here again is fine opportunity
for some local advertiser. One of the
big Cedar Rapids stores has used
these markers very effectively.
While on this subject of signs, here
Is another suggestion that may have
some merit. Why don't you erect an
electric sign in that little park near
The end of the Illinois Central depot,
bearing slogan something like this:
"Manchester-a good place to live
30 that those who ride may read.
have bunch that if this matter were
taken up with the owners of your
electric light plant they would be glad
to furnish the juice free as their con-
tribution in helping build up the
town. You know the more people
who locate here, the more use there
will be for electric stoves, electric
sr eepers. electric lights, etc Those
Of you who have travelled to the west
coast undoubted by noticed the
booster spirit that exists in
all towns, large and small, through
out such states as Washington, Ore
gon and California. The Commercial
clubs in those towns-and every town
has some sort of a booster club,
maintain little information bureaus
the depots where travel
tired tourists may regale themselves
with up-to-date literature concerning