STICK TO YOUR TOWN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1989, 2 January 1890, Page 1

STICK TO YOUR TOWN.

Don't fret. Talk about it. Write about it. Beautify the streets.. Patronise the merchants. Be friendly to everybody. Advertise it in newspapers. Elect good men to all the offices. Don't grumble about hard times? Keep your sidewalks in good repair. Avoid gossips about your neighbeurs. Sell all you can and buy all you can at home. Do your trading with your home merchants. If you are rich itnvest something; employ somebody; be a'rustler.' If you do not think of any good word don't say anything about it. Remember that every dollar invested in permanent improvement is so much on interest. Be courteous to strangers that come among you, so that they may go away with good impressions. Always cheer on the men who go in for improvements, your portion of the cost will be nothing but what is just. Don't kick at any proposed improvement because it is net at your own door, or for fear that your taxes will be raised fifty cents. Don't use rubber stamps on your lettsr pads —that is a dead giveway on your business, on the town, and the newspaper published in it. Get your letterheads, envelopes,business cards, etc., printed at the local printing offiae. Never condemn the local paper uatil it has fairly misused you. If it has dealt with you unjustly write to it, I or go into the office and tell the editor about your case: if he is wrong he will lose no time in telling the public about it: Remember that no man does so much for your town as the local newspaper. Every paper sent out is an advertisement of the business, the rasources, and enterprise of the place ; and people get a very much better idea of it from the local paper than from any other source,