AROUND THE CIRCLE
HOW THE PRACTiCE OF HOME
TRADE HELPS EVERYBODY,
THE RESULT OF ADVERTISING
An Increased Use of Printers' Ink in
the Local Paper Brought Pros
perity to the Entire Com
munity.
"You'll have to stay over Sunday,
Mary, so I can have a chance for a
visit with you. Can't possibly get. the
time through the week. Business too
lively."
"Things must be getting better
with you, John. Last time 1 was here
you seemed to have lots of time to
spare. Said business had gone to the
dogs, or rather to the mail-order
houses. What made the change?"
"Well, to tell the truth, Mary, I just
wakened up one day and thought I
would give them fellows in the city a
little of their own medicine. 1 got
onto the fact that they were killing
me by feeding the people around here
on printer's ink in the way of adver
tising, and while I knew most of
what they said was lies the people
didn't know it, and I started into
show them what I could do. Not at
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The local merchant who must bear the burden of local taxation is en
titled to the assistance of every resident of the community. When you send
your dollars to the mail-order houses of the city you but add to the load he
must carry. Keep your dollars at home.
lying, you know, but at selling good
goods as cheap as the city fellows
did, and lots of times a little cheaper.
"I went to the local paper and pret
ty near soared the editor to death by
ordering a half page of each issue for
six months. Then I set about seeing
what I had to sell that the people
would want. I really didn't know
what was in that store until I started
to look it over. Some of the things
had been there so long I had forgot
ten about them. I hauled them out
and put a bargain sale price on them,
told the people about them in the
next week's Record, and gave the
prices, and say, 1 just couldn't get
them things wrapped up fast enough.
Ever since then I've just been buying
and selling, buying and selling.
Seems like nothing stays in the store.
Have hired two more clerks, and
they're everlastingly telling me we're
out of this, that or the other thing. I
found that telling the people what
you've got and what you are willing
to sell them for pays. I've paid off
that mortgage that's been hanging
over us for the last ten years, and
gave SIOO to the new church building
besides, and it's advertising that
did it.
"You'll stay over Sunday, won't
you? I've got to get to the store
now,"
"Jones ordered a new delivery
wagon this morning, Jane. Said
since the folks around here had
started to trade at home and quit
sending so much money to the mail
. order houses he simply had to have it.
You can have what I make on that
wagon to get that new dress with that
you've been wanting. Wish you'd
buy it of Jones though for he always
trades with me."
"Yes, sir, I figure I'm ahead a little
more than the freight on that buggy,
"besides getting a better buggy than
you got. I intended to send away for
mine, too, like you did, but 1 saw
Brown's advertisement telling the
kind of a buggy he had and the price,
and I concluded I'd look at it first.
He's making better prices than the
catalogue fellows, and he's paying the
freight besides. I figure that I saved
just about enough on that buggy to
pay the doctor's bill for Molly's sick
ness, and then, besides, Brown or
dered bis hay of me, and he's paying
a good pric; for it, too."
"Mow, my dear, you may engage
Mis-; Herman to give Princess music
lessons for the wave of prosperity in
the community has struck the minia
Ing they voted me a rafse In salary for
the coming year. In a talk made by
Brother Jones he explained that this
was possible because the people were
keeping their money at home rather
than sending it to the catalogue houses
of the cities, Brother Frank (the post
master) explained that the money or
der business of his office had dropped
to almost nothing within the past six
months. He said that less than a year
ago he was handling more than SI,OOO
each month in the shape of money or
ders, and that now the total is not one
fourth of that. 1 understand that they
will also increase the school teacher's
salary next term."
"A 12-page paper this week, I see.
Anything special doing?"
"Not at all. That's to be the regular
size of the Record in the future. The
increase in business warrants it. The
campaign of advertising being conduct
ed by the merchants forced me to in
crease the size or encroach upon my
reading matter columns, and so I in
creased. Then, too, my subscription
list is growing. People who never took
the paper before say they want it now
if for nothing more than to ke"p post
ed on the prices the merchants are
quoting. Business in the Record office
is booming ail around. I have had to
advertise for two more job printers,
and have just ordered a new printing
press. By the way, is that horse you
offered me some time ago still on the
market? If so you can bring him
around. I want him for a birthday
present for my wife."
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON'.
TEN GOOD REASONS.
Read Them and Patronize the Mer
chants of This Town.
Here are ten good reasons for trad
ing with your home business people,
as given by an exchange.
Because: You examine your pur
chase and are assured of satisfaction
before investing your money.
Because: Your home merchant is
always ready and willing to make
right any error or any defective arti
cle purchased of him.
Because: When you are sick or for
any reason it is necessary for you to
ask for credit, you can goto the local
merchant. Could you ask it of a mail
order house?
Because: If a merchant is willing
to extend you credit, you should give
him the benefit of your cash trade.
Because: Your home merchant pays
local taxes and exerts every effort to
build and better your market, thus in
creasing both the value of city and
country property.
Because: The mail order merchant
does not lighten your taxes or in any
way hold the value of your property.
Because: The mail order merchant
does nothing for the benefit of mar
kets or real estate values.
Because: If your town is good
enough to live in it is good enough to
spend money In. —Gov. Folk of Mis
souri.
Because: The best citizens in your
community patronize home industry.
Why not be one of the best citizens?
Because: If you give your home
merchant an opportunity to compete,
by bringing your order to him in the
quantities you buy out of town, he will
demonstrate that, quality considered,
he will save you money.
Search for Old Cannon,
A tradition still survives in Luzerne
county, Pa., that when Gen. John
Sullivan marched through that region
in 177!) on his expedition against the
Indian confederacy of central New
York, he burled some superfluous
brass cannon along the Wilkes-Barre
mountain. To search for those revolu
tionary relics a number of the best
known citizens of Ashley have formed
themselves into an historical society.
One recent Sunday the members
scoured the mountain in the vicinity
of Laurel Run, but could find no reiica
except a few Indian arrow joints.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1907.
AUTO RACED
Down Grade and Ran Into
an Electric Car.
ONE MAN IS KILLED,
Another Probably Fatally Injured and
a Third Badly Hurt—Accident
in 200-Mile Endurance Run.
New York.—The 200-mile endur
ance automobile run under the
auspices of the New York Motor club
ended In the loss of one life and the
serious, If not fatal, Injury of two
other persons about three miles east
of Albany last night, when one of the
automobiles crashed into an electric
car.
Clarence McKenzie, of New York,
president of the Standard Brake Co.,
was killed Instantly.
W. H. Mosher, a bicycle policeman,
of New York City, and \V. J. Swan, of
New Britain, Conn., chauffeur, are In
a hospital. Mosher is badly Injured.
Swan is said not to be so seriously in
jured.
The car in the accident was among
the leaders in the race. The scene of
the collision was at Clinton Heights, a
station on the Albany & Hudson third
rail electric line system.
The main road crosses the tracks at
this point and there is a steep inoline
in the road. The automobile was go
ing down the hill and the electric car
going up a steep grade. The machine
was making good time when it crash
ed into the car. The occupants were
thrown from the automobile, McKen
zie being hurled over an electric cable
suspended several feet above the
ground. It is believed that death was
instantaneous.
Mqsher sustained fractures of the
skull, jaw and hip and probably in
ternal injuries. Swan sustained se
vere injuries about the head and body.
Eighteen of the machines which
started from New York finished be
fore 11 o'clock last night, the first ar
riving shortly after G o'clock and the
rest coming in at intervals during the
night.
A CRIMSON STORY.
Harry Orchard Testifies to Having
Committed 18 Murders and that
He Is a Bigamist.
Boise, Idaho. Harry Orchard
crowned his admission of grave
crimes Thursday when, continuing his
case against William L). Haywood, he
made a confession of the murder of
Frank Steunenberg by an Infernal ma
chine that directly opens the way for
his own conviction and execution for
the offense. He swore that the as
sassination of Steunenberg was first
suggested by Haywood, was plotted by
Haywood, Moyer, Pettibone and him
self, was financed by Haywood and
was executed by himself, after the fal
ure of an attempt in which Jack Siinp
kins had participated.
Orchard lifted the total of his own
murdered victims to IS, detailed the
circumstances under which he tried to
murder exGov. Peabody, .Judge God
dard, Judge Gabbert, Gen. Sherman
Hell, Dave Moffatt and Frank llearne.
Incidentally he confessed to a plan to
kidnap the child of one of his former
associates. Then under cross-exami
nation by the defense Orchard con
fessed guilt of the social crimes of de
serting his young child and wife in On
tario, fleeing to British Columbia with
Hattie Simpson, the wife of another
man, and committing bigamy by mar
rying a third woman at Cripple Creek.
The state began its corroboration of
Orchard's crimson tale by producing
the lead casing of the Peabody bomb.
Orchard ideneifled it.
WAS BLOWN OUT TO SEA.
A Man in an Airship Narrowly Es
capes Death in the Ocean.
Boston, Mass. —The breaking down
of his motor, which allowed the air
ship he was navigating to be blown
seaward, almost resulted in the death
of Lincoln Heachy, off Revere Beach,
Thursday.
Beachy had made a seven-mile jour
ney from Revere Beach to Boston,
sailing high over the city and passing
over the steeple of the Park Street
church and the state house dome,
finally landed on Boston Common,
where thousands of persons were at
tracted by the airship.
On the return journey to Revere
Beach the motor became disabled
when the aeronaut was a mile off
shore, over Boston harbor, and the
airship was carried some distance sea
ward. Beachy managed to partially
repair his engine so as to get back to
the vicinity of Revere Beach. When
several hundred feet off shore the air
ship settled rapidly and it looked as
If Beachy would be thrown into the
water and entangled beneath his air
ship. Men in rowboats and launches
who hastened to his assistance seized
the drag rope and were able to tow
him and his apparatus ashore before
he struck the water.
Dan Coughlin Is Arrested.
Mobile, Ala. —Dan Coughlin, ex-de
tective and saloonkeeper In Chi
cago, wanted in that city for jury bri
bery, has been arrested here. Cough
lin. who was going under the name of
Davis, arrived here a few days ago
from Honduras.
Knox Announces His Candidacy.
New York.—United States Sena
tor Philander C. Knox, of Penn
sylvania, last night announced his
willingness to become a candidate for
the presidency in 1908 should there-
Dublican party nominate him.
CARS TELESCOPED.
COLLISION ON THE WAEA3H RAIL
ROAD AT A SIDING NEAR
HICKORY, PA.
TWO MEN KILLED AND 11 PER
SONS INJURED WHEN PASSEN
GER RAN INTO COAL TRAIN.
Washington, Pa. —Two men were
killed and 11 injured in a wreck
on the Wabash road one mile east of
Hickory, near here, Friday, when the
Toledo express, westbound, crashed
into a coal train on a siding, telescop
ing the smoker and a Pullman car.
The flagman of the coal train, who is
said to be responsible for letting the
passenger train in on the siding oc
cupied by the coal train, disappeared
immediately after the crash. The
dead are:
FYank Blanco and Anthony Cchlume,
miners, of Avella, who were in the
smoker.
A relief train was made up and the
injured taken to hospitals in Pitts
burg.
The fireman and engineer of the
passenger train jumped just before
the crash. The former was but slight
ly injured, while the latter had his
nose broken. The smoker that re
ceived the full force of the collision
was almost, tilled with passengers. It
was in this car the two men were
killed. Mrs. A. G. Chambers, of
Wilkinsburg, Pa., and Mrs. Hilda
Steare, of Chicora, Pa., were the only
passengers injured in the Pullman
car. Both were bruised and are suffer
ing from shock. Passengers in other
cars suffered from shock and slight
bruises.
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
Unseasonable Weather Continues to
Hinder Trade, Especially in the
East and South.
New York.—ll. <l. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Adverse weather has made the sea
son another week late, both as to dis
tribution of spring merchandise and
progress of the crops. Transactions
during the few days of seasonable
weather thus far indicate that settled
warm weather will bri.'ig out much
business, but so much time has been
lost that few merchants anticipate a
normal volume in the aggregate, and
large stocks will be carried over or
sacrificed at bagain sales.
Wholesale trade in fall and winter
goods is brisk, large duplicate pur
chases because of the cold spring hav
ing depleted stocks in the hands of re
tailers. Manufacturing plants operate
at full capacity in more industries,
cotton mills making remarkably favor
able returns in view of the weather
and cost of raw material. Dispatches
from leading cities indicate that the
business situation is much more satis
factory at points in the west than in
the east or south.
Buying of steel products has in
creased, and the forward business in
all forms of iron and steel is so large
that no material change in the condi
tion of this industry can be expected
this year.
TO CURB THE TRUSTS.
A Conference Is Held at the White
House —Harriman Is Immune from
Prosecution. *
Washington, D. C.—A notable con
ference on the subject of trust prose
cutions was lield at the White House
last night. Those who participated
w»re President Roosevelt, Secretary
of State Root, Secretary of the Treas
ury Cortelyou, Secretary of the In
terior Garfield, Secretary Taft, Attor
ney General Bonaparte, inter-state
Commerce Commissioners Knapp and
Lane and Frank Is. Kellogg, of Minne
sota, special counsel for the govern
ment.
That E. H. Harriman, the railroad
magnate, is immune from criminal
prosecution as the result of his testi
mony before the inter-state com
merce commission in New York re
cently; that the question of prosecu
tion of bituminous coal carrying rail
roads should be left in the hands of
the attorney general, and that prose
cution of the anthracite coal roads
will begin in Philadelphia probably
next week, were conclusions reached
at the conference.
Following the general conference
Attorney General Bonaparte remained
with the president to discuss the so
called harvester trust. It is thought
not unlikely that the question of prose
cution of that organization will be left
in I he attorney general's hands.
Will Sue Army Officers for SIOO,OOO.
Highland Falls, X. Y.—Lieut. Col.
Charles G. Ayres Friday night
declared that he would support his
wife in the action she has instructed
her attorney to institute against Su
perintendent Hugh Scott and other of
ficers of the West Point military acad
emy. Mrs. Ayres' attorney has been
instructed to file damage suits aggre
gating SIOO,OOO against Col. Scott,
Lieut. Col. Robert L. Howse, com
mandant of cadets; Capt. Llewellyn
W. Oliver, assistant instructor of tac
tics, and Lieut. Col. Stephen C. Mills,
inspector general. Airs. Ayres bases
her allegations upon alleged discourte
sies received at West Point which cul
minated in her being forbidden to
enter the reservation.
A Fatal Collapse.
New York. —One man was killed,
four • others badly injured and
may die, and live others cut and
bruised at Mariner's Harbor, S. 1., Fri
day when a scaffold on which the men
were working gave way and hurled
them to the ground.
Staamcr Wrecked.
Halifax, N. S. —The steamer Bridge
water, bound from eastern Nova
Scotian ports for Halifax, was
wrecked at Port Deckerton, 100 miles
east of this city, Friday, The passeu
gers and crew were saved.
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great care and we have soma
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makes. We invite you to visit
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Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library
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est to the best. Furnished with bevel French jji^
plate or leaded glass doors.
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tog you the truth, and if you don't buy, there is no harm
II done, as it is no trouble to show goods.
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