Show A GOOD SUGGESTION The following suggestions which appeared some time ago in the Richfield Reaper if carried do more for the cause of temperance than any sort of prohibition will If you desire to kill the you must provide places in every that are more more entertaining than the wholesome places for the young Keep these places open from seven o'clock A. until eleven o'clock P. M. for three hundred and sixty-five days in the and the saloon will not get the Here is the article TEMPERANCE There has been some talk at sundry times of establishing a free reading room in Richfield land the following points out a condition which should spur public spirited person or persons to action in the matter of furnishing a wholesome place for strangers to spend a few hours while waiting over in this city for the arrival of Editor While we are talking temperance and local what is the matter with ing up a free reading room for A man said to me the other we go to Richfield and have a few hours to stay the situation is about like We can't afford to go to the don't like to loaf in the stores and it is either stand on the street in the or go into the the saloon we find warmth and a hearty and the temptation is strong to enter the saloons even if we do not care to If a room could be provided with a few magazines and some good wouldn't it have a tendency to cut off the supply of raw material which the saloons work up into useful articles for Of course where to get the money is the but is it not possible to do something on a small scale along this B. C. |