Show MODERN HOTEL NEEDED one of the most pressing needs of aliis community if we are to get what we are entitled to is a modern hotel not a two or three hundred thousand dollar one but one with about thirty five to fifty rooms strictly I 1 modern in every respect and costing between twenty five and thirty thousand dollars in pointing out this need we mean no disrespect to those people who are keeping our hotels now because it is our firm belief that they ure are giving very Ivery good service for the opportunities they have but the fact that the buildings they are operating in n are arc riot not modern is against them arid and they are losing and the community is losing everyday many dollars for the simple reason that traveling men and others refuse to stop at a hotel which is not lot steam heated if it is possible for them to reach one which is ii during the winter time they plan their drives to avoid such places it speaks well indeed for the local hotels that traveling men will drive many iv miles to get to eat cat here tb there ete be no more convincing aarti anent men t in favor of the people who a are te managing nan aging them but the profits of a litel intel come not from the meals it serves but from the rooms it sells and it is a direct loss to the tois and to the community to have travelers drive on to the next neu city to sleep even though they have gone out of their way to eat with vs us A typical illustration of what might be done in this community is is I 1 af afforded us at fillmore Weba we have veit it falm pretty good authority that the day hotel in that city which can 11 in 1 an emergency equip forty rooms and which asvery is very modern and a place it at which you like to stay was built at a cost of about twenty thousand dollars and has proved a mighty good investment traveling men plan their drives to stop at the day hotel and those who pretend to know kno tell us that the proprietor who borrowed half the noney to build it has in a few short years pa paid id for same and is now loaning money in lots of there is an opportunity here for a investment in that direction and the man or set of men who take advantage of it will do dc the community a real service |