Small cottage houses are badly needed. In and all around the corporate limits are innumerable beautiful locations, most of which are now covered with useless weeds. If those who are able to build will do so, no fears need be entertained of a lack of good, paying tenants. Bolivar can be made to double its population in less than five years if the proper efforts were made. At this time there is not even a shanty that could be rented. This fact is patent to all. Will not some enterprising man or men take a view of the situation? Give the mechanics work.

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 10 Aug. 1867, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.