Cameron County press. (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, June 13, 1907, Page 3, Image 3
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 v\ ' ?f sy s / 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. I Balcom & Lloyd. J 1| WE have the best stocked H general store in the county ft |jj and if you are looking for re- : j| liable goods at reasonable jl prices, we are ready to serve it || you with the best to be found. a pj Our reputation for trust- m II worthy goods and fair dealing <f is too well known to sell any I but high grade goods. M •I Our stock of Queensware and B Chinaware is selected with Bj great care and we have soma ffl of the most handsome dishes IS H IU g ever shown in this section, I| both in imported and domestic 0 makes. We invite you to visit p us and look our goods over. j| i I I i 1 i til I Balcom & Lloyd, j LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET IJ M THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT IJ I || LaBAR SI § #; II M !•« M *4 We carry in stock . jkf fcj the largest line of Car- ~ .^gggjajjg^w; | j kg pets, Linoleums and S/ ft] £2 Mattings of all kinds ever brought to this • jg M s;, P £r oabigliue """ Avery large line ol -lOR.TSE ?? Lace Curtains that can- pfl x r e e j\he pi e fluy - CONfORTABLE LODGING U Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- M M kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. est to the best. Furnished with bevel French jji^ plate or leaded glass doors. M Dining Chairs, j roR av I || Rockers and GEO. J. LaBAR, tkM High CliairS. Sole Agent for Cameron County. fcjg A large and elegant 1 112 ? El line of Tufted and H Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. *3 M Si Ns3o Bedroom Suits, COC S4O Sideboard, qaar- COfl solid oak at tered <ak 4)OU P* HI 28 Bedroom Suita, C*)l f32 Sideboard, qaar- CQI* £9 solid oak at 4)/1 tered oak 4)ZO $$ ** |26 Bed room Suits, COfl |22 Sideboard, quar- ff|C solid oak at 4>ZU tered oak, slu H A large line of Dressers from Chiffoniers of all kinds and |M| Kjg I s up. all prices. IJ J hi The finest Hue of Sewing Machines on the market, || || the "DOMESTIC" and "ELDRILGH.' All drop- |] heads and warranted. A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in J *2 6ets a "d by the piece. PJ As I keep a full line of everything that goes to M make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to enuin m erate them all. . ... M H Please call and see for yourself that I am telling tog you the truth, and if you don't buy, there is no harm II done, as it is no trouble to show goods. >1 GEO. J .LaBAR. |j TJJSrjZ>TStt.rPj&.3ZSLXIXrG- m *4 IXXXSXXSKXIXXXZSStSSXSXSSX&i 3