N THE pres'^iitation of a Bulletin, descriptive of a town, it is difficult to convey to the minds of the people unfamiliar with the locality the fundamental principal things which go to make a town a good place - wherein to live. • i,- i. Unlike the description of a piece of inert apparatus, as machinery which can be adequately described by photographs, drawings, and more or ess lengthy descriptions, a town cannot be given full justice on paper. This Bui etm ,s there fore presented not with the expectancy that it will do full justice to Bawn, but that it will serve as an invitation to those who are interested to pay us a visit, and be enabled thereby to obtain first hand, and in the only real way, his or her impression of the spirit of good fellowship and co-operation which prevails; and which attributes are, when all is said and done, more worth while than all the others It is with this simple expression that the employees of the Tallassee Power Company and residents of Badin extend an invitation to good homeseeking peo ple, white and colored, to visit the “city by the Lake,” and cast their lot with us.