What We Have, What We Need
Oxford is well located in one of the best farming and stock raising communities of the state and the new division of the C. & N. W. railroad which directly connects it with the Milwaukee and Chicago markets. Along the tracks are acres of good factory sites which are lying idle. At the mill pomd there is good water power that is being wasted daily. We have in our village a goodly number of live business men who with a little pushing would congregate and form a business association of some kind. The following is a list of the businesses Oxford possesses: Bank Two Grain Elevators Two Physicians Drug Store Dentist Electric Light and Water Power New Grade and High School Four Churches Newspaper Four General Merchandise Stores Two Hardware Stores Two Barber Shops Two Hotels Two Restaurants Two Garages Creamery Livery Meat Market Pool Room Tin and Wood Repair Shop Lumber Yard Pickling Station Shoe Repair Shop Furniture and Undertaking Store Machine Shop Telephone Central With the excellent water power going to waste daily, a factory of some kind could be run with ease. What Oxford needs is a few manufacturing concerns which would employ from twenty-five to one hundred hands. During the last summer there were many bushels of tomatoes which rotted n the vines that could have been canned and money realized on the same if Oxford had a canning factory. Other garden truck is raised in abundance in and around our village. Boost brother, boost for a business men's association.
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