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With a most satisfactory increase in wages, a wage scale, and regulation of differences with the companies, Bonne Terre and the entire Lead Belt is ready to turn its attention to growth and improvement.
Bonne Terre, with its well laid out and defined town site, its large proportion of the very best streets in the county, with its electric light and water systems extended to all parts of the city, with its splendid churches of all denominations, with its splendid public schools and with equally splendid parochial schools, offers to the people of the entire county the very best inducements to make this their home city. Nowhere else in the county will be found the advantages offered by Bonne Terre, and with splendid train service now afforded to all Lead Belt points, Bonne Terre should attract many people who appreciate the advantages enumerated above to which might be added the advantages of the Jones Memorial Library, an institution not equaled at any other point in the county, if indeed the State, and the means of recreation and social activity offered by the Country Club with its Club rooms, bowling alleys, golf course, and tennis courts, membership to which is available to people generally. These are a few of the things which appeal to people looking about to make a home, and there are others Bonne Terre can offer.
The recent increase in wages has been enough to justify the expectation that many of those who have heretofore been renters will become home owners and in this work the Bonne Terre Building & Loan Association offers a splendid means to that desirable end. The men who work here for the Railway, and also in and about the mines, are in very large majority Americans -- Missourians if you please. They are men whose every natural instinct is to make for themselves homes and in this they have the earnest co-operation of that splendid type of true womanhood, the Missouri wife, and with the better conditions made possible by better wages, and with the advantages offered by our city, it is not too much to hope that the dream of every steady workingman and his wife will come true and that they will soon feel able to own a home of their very own.
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