The vidette., 1922-03-30
GREATER IUKA

Ne fairmirded re'son can say
Iuka has not been growing ana sub
-tantially improving for the past 10
years. Although we have had sew
eral fires in our business section,
yet the debris is soon cleared away
and there now stand more substan
tial buildings and all occupied by
business firms. Our freight office
shows large increase in goods of
all kinds shipped in here and dis
tributed throughout this territory.
We have better streets and side
walks, better school building
than we had a few years back.
Now as the ladies have organized a
Civic Improvement Club and the
mea have organized a Chamber of
Commerce, let us all pull together
for one great cause-A Greater Iuka
Now the question arises what do
we need? Right here are few
things | wish to mention as starters
for US all to consider. OF course |
fully appreciate we are a small COM
munity yet if we all work together
we viii soon accomplish much to-
wards these ends, In the first place
we must make our town such a one
that people elsewhere will want to
c)me here and invest in home and
a business and become one of us.
| will mention a few things Iuka
needs badly in order that it may be
the town il should be. In the first
place may mention our streets need
re pairing and rebuilding. While
we have some fairly good streets and
sidewalks we need more. We need
system of water supply as we'll as
a sewer. We have several strong
fl )wing springs near town that
might be harr essed" SO as to fur
nish this entire town with a most
wholesome supply of water. On
account of the peculiar topography
of our town it seems a sewer system
could be built at not too great an
expense. Such system built in
NO separate units-one on the
north side of the railroad and the
other on the south side could have
natural drainage through the
same creek, Hence a goo water
supply and sewer system would
solve TIE Question OF health to
great extent.
We should have a hosp tai of
enough cal acity to supply the town
and immediate vicinity, Our num-
Der of regular practicing physicians
is very limited and in case of very
slckly season it is almost impossi
bic to get physician. Sooner or
Liter we are going to see it to be
great advantage both from health
a I'd fni n 3ial standpoint to have q
h spital, for nowadays before
y,ung man can enter a medical col
lage he must complete high
school course, then take two year
pre-medical course and then attend
regular medical college Tor four
years, and the consequence will be
young man who has time and
money TO spend in these six years
Of preparation will not locate in the
small towns or rural districts, hence
the hospital is our only hope to get
bedside protection. We are taking
our patients to Corinth, Sheffield
and Memphis every week, entailing
much risk, suffering and exposure,
because we have no hospital here
If we had a small hospital in a re-
tired, quiet place, with at least two
trained nurses in charge all the
time, and a good operating room
With few beds, our own local ply
sicians could use it and if necessary
they could call a specialist from
the cities and this would save us
much money The cost of trans
portation of patients, the ambu-
lance and other hotel bills, and r.
r. fares to and fro for both patient
and physician attendant as we'll as
any friend or member OF the family
would be saved, We have to pay a
heavy expense for doctors, nurses
and everything else ia the city hos
pitals. No doubt if our physicians
here would get together and figure
up the money that has been paid
0 1t in one year on an average in
Ding to Ii aspitals, they c)uld sh Nv