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parently Jgives but, little thought to how his ;City affairs are being administered <until election or tax pay ing time.j
Usually heretofore Bay St. Louis has owed! a note in' the bank to pay curremt expenses and sometimes this loan begain as early as February Is This year on May 1st Bay St. Louis had a deposit, in the bank .of forty thousand j dollar* out of which they have redeemed some bonds, built a fire engine house and are now hopeful of retraining on a cash basis until October 1st when tax payments again begin.	'
A 40 inch advertisement of conscientious^ constructive community advertising appears in this issue of The Echo and it was also run in all editions of the New Orleans Item (jn Monday August 6th also in the Tribune on Tuesday August 7th, the Daily States on Wednesday August 8th and Times Picayune today August 10th.
It is an exact reproduction of a circular that has been mailed out to many thousand firms and individuals ?carefully selected? all over Ajnerica and you can draw your own conclusions as to its correctness also as to whether it will carry conviction into the minds of possible also probable investors.I
Every property owner resident or non-resident of Bay St. Louis will receive orie of these circulars by mail rtnd enclosed with it will be an urgent invitation to contribute to Mr. F. H. Egloff, Commissioner of Finance what they believe they should give toward an advertising fund that will be expended wisely %s the budget Of our City will not be available for this purpose until next year.
The copt of city advertising so far will be around six hundred dollars and the contributions received will develop who is who and what is what, aNn who are our aggressive, progres-
The Model |T Ford is still ore than eight million- of them an and many of them can be driven f three and five years and even long< ! Come iiTand see us ab?ut yours, expenditure may put it in?shape fo ands of miles of additional service.
EDWARDS BR
Telephone 224'
GULF COAST HAS LESS ?STORM?
HAZARD HERE
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Washington ! Dispatch SayS| Coast Less Subjected to Storms Than Elsewhere
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Merchants BAY ST.
The New iOrleans Times-Picayune a few mornihgs since carried the following interesting story, which i|s of advantage t<| this seiction of Bay St. Louis and contiguous territory, and well worthy | calling attention to.
?This Gulf Coast country of ours?, says the Tiirj.s-Pjcayune, ?is favored , in many wu1'. The federal weather
DR. J. C.
Physician
OFFICE:
Fahfy Drug Co. Phonle 30.
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