The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-10-30
IUKA.


lloW WOuiu YOU Ike W Scc iuhd
a town of 1000 by the end of 1929
Think of how much joy this would
place within ysur being, then get
ready to do your full part, and the
desired result is entirely possible.
Why be contented to live here,
with other towns all around forging
to the front, and let this town re
main the same size foreverf We
must be up and doing if we expect
to get anything out of this waive
of prosperity which is flushing
every town with some great oppor-
tunities. We all know that within
our little village, we have quite a
bunch of real live people, that
would make excellent boosters, but
they have been drifting along, not
thinking much about the pride and
interest they really have in their
their home town. It's certain we
all believe in the town, or we
would not be living here; so all
that is really needed is a complete
organization composed of every
man, woman and child in the town
to be ready at any and all times to
boost for the town of their choice;
for a bigger and better Iuka,
silver and gold We have but little,
but such as we do have (boosting)
we can give out In abundance
Ford has had good ear for a long
time, but it was not quite well
enough organized to crank; but
now he has it well organized |
and has put the cranking to it
and ii goes glimmering. So has
Iuka been a good town for long
time, but not organized at all,
hence it has beeu impossible
to start it. All we need to do is to
get it well organized, SO it will
crank, that any time we put the
cranking (the boosting) to it, it'll
will start; then we will have no
trouble whatever in getting the
things here that will make Iuka a
bigger and better town, and what.
ever helps the town helps you and
everybody else. So let's press
gently but firmly on the forward
pedal and get started in, low, un-
til we get to going well and get all
the little things the town needs,
thea drop back in high and 60
after the bigger things, the maun-
featuring plants and new indus.
tries of all kinds, everybody likes
to live in a good live town, and its
up to you whether you live in a
live one or a dead one.
Had you ever stopped to think,
that if you knock the town or
you live in, you are a
traitor to your country, an enemy
to its interest, a Benedict Arnold
If you please, not entitled to the
respect and protection of your ,
or the laws of your
country; think of this next time
you start to knock your home town
and you will not do it, you will ,
move first; yoar neighbors will ,
gladly assist you in getting trans
if you have any trouble
along that line, and they viii feel
Afterwards that they are relieved
of a great burden, and place a man (
in your place that is willing to j
stand for the things that will help ,
his neighbors and bis town.
Every town that is gaining
prestage, and making definite
moves to the front, has back of it ,
/ real live Chamber of Commerce
DR. Business Mems Club composed !,
IF the best and leading business
men of the town, who are directing
very move. They are not drifting
hey are not sitting back waiting for |
new enterprises to drift into the
own by chance, but they are going
)ut after the things they want; no
5own or individual ever got any J
where by drifting. What chance
would the finest vessel afloat have /,
Df reaching definite port across
the Atlantic without a rudder to
guide it to that port?
Iuka, owing to the present pros
porous time throughout the coun-
try. is breathing just little now,
and the time will never be better
to take hold and push Iuka to the
front than now, while times are
good and money plentiful. Look
what the Chamber of Commerce
has done for Memphis in the last
few years, also what the Chamber
of Commerce has done aud Is doing
for the town of Florence, lets gain
by their experience, we can do
something worth while right here
if we will only try. ! have quite
a bunch of letters on file, and re-
ceiye letters most every day from
parties and firms that would mean
much to Iuka if we would only
come together and work together !,
and encourage them to locate here,
and we ought to do it.
Another thing, Iuka needs to be
advertised and boosted In every |
leading newspaper within $50
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