His Own Home Town

Excerpt from His Own Home Town This extract, a faithful example of the Gazette's trenchant style, was but a brief bit of the speech itself. Reported verbatim, with a cut of T. Elihu, it filled four columns. For if he was a little chary with vital statistics, such as might have comforted many, he did not slight what the Gazette happily chose to term the topographic and architectural changes. Swinging from the subject of the Trac tion Company's new extension, which inevitably must result in a tide of profit from those rural regions hitherto untapped, to that of the new Main Street pavement, laid by the Construction and Contracting Company, he came by easy stages to a mention of the new home of the Commonwealth Trust. And here he was upon ground safe from foreign criticism, carping or covetous.