Show I 1 SPLENDID J NEW YORK TOWN proportion of owners to renters in canton N Y Is approximately six to onee one A gazetteer informs us that canton new york Is id a banking post ellla village e the capital of st lawrence county on the grass river and the now new york central R I 1 ILI and d hudson river rall railroad rodd 50 39 miles northeast of waterdown Water fown it hns has extensive steam sawmills and flour mills boat works and manufactures of cheese and cheese boxes printing presses etc and Is the seat of st lawrence university its population Is 2757 11 there appears to be nothing particularly startling or noteworthy in these facts there are bigger sawmill attl towns along the kennebec more ambitious lour flour mills in minneapolis more cheese produced in any of a hundred scon sin stal towns and more boats built in any eastern harbor what especially distinguishes this northern now new york yori town Is that of the houses in canton are inhabited by owners that Is approximately 8 6 to 1 this pre precisely isely Is the Y condition that makes dioro ore directly than any other for splendid citizenship xio ilie pride and satisfaction that accrued accrue 4 to iha owner of a home because fact inevitably reflects itself in every ayery manifestation of that citizenship in his attitude toward his community toward his state and his government in his sense of civie civic and social responsibility in ills his attachment to hearth and family which Is the base on which our whole structure of civill ration resta canton new york must be a splendid town |