Show THE DEAD TOWN did you ever cointo a town and as aa you stepped from tho the train have it strike you suddenly that tho the town waff was dead have you ever had a town described to you as a dead town havo have you over stopped to analyze analyse just what la is meant by those these words dead town in tho the last analysis they mean just one thing and that to is that all the business places in that town do not advertise A dead town has ha certain positive aspects of comise which are as bald as a piece of crepe hanging on the door of a private house borne of tile the stores seem beom to be merely existing their shelves are covered with apparently goods and those store storey I 1 keepers seem beom to bo be vying with each other to see aoe which will win will the first I 1 I 1 prize as an the town grouch it you I 1 talk with them they knock the town they knock business they knock tho the mall mail order houses th they ey are contin 1 aall complaining that other people thail do business and make money but that they dont som to be able to sell anything they guess it Is the town yes that Is it the town it 11 you ask them it they advertise they will loo kat you in amazement the use of advertising when business Is so ao bad no h 1 would ray he advertise ile he throw good money after bad on the other hand go into a live town and what will you see the merchants have attractive displays in their stores the dally daily or weekly newspapers are filled with big announcements of special sales salea or low priced goods everybody Is wor ing and everybody Is happy and boosting it if you want a live town get behind the newspaper and the newspaper will do the rest the paper Is live enough it the people are alive th the surest test of a live town Is it a liv live newspaper and a newspaper cant be alive unless the town boosters boasters bo do ther share chare subscribe tor for your home paper and stop borrowing your neighbors paper each week in ohp hope that you are e saving a few nickels it some of the people who make a practice of borrowing their neighbors copy of the progress each week could hear some of tho the comments which their neighbors make regarding them as wo we have hoard acard they would never borrow another paper as lone as they lived Sub cribe tor for the progress and avoid these caustic co menta it will I 1 cost you but per year and it must bo be paid strictly in ili advance at ae the post office department will not permit us to do business in any other Il manner lanner A now new story la is starting in this issue and another one will start ln our out i 01 1 ing issue it the plates of it arrive in time little I 1 enot it will boscart bo start oil ed in a later issue you cannot liopo hope to be able t oread all of these excell ent stories unless you subs subscribe and davd a cop of your own coming tt you each and every week of the year nut sed |