this ents ZS. rong. kG it. rst. a Js K. 3nC thei can Re TED The Somerset & County Star. VOLUME II. SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1893. NUMBER 49 Hstablished 1852. P. 8S. —DEALER IN— GENERAL .. MERCHANDISE. The pioneer and leading general store in Salis- bury for nearly a half century. For this Columbian year, 1893, special efforts will be made Unremitting and active in an- ticipating the wants of the people, my stock will be replen- ished from time to time and found complete, and sold at pri- ces as low as possible, consistent with a reasonable business profit. Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting your very valued patronage, I remain yours truly, for a largely increased trade. Salisbury, Pa., Jan. 2d, 1893. HAY, anteed. Speicher’s Drug Store! Behold We Are Come! Selah! And verily we are here to stay. Immov- able as the Pyramids of Egypl or a grease spot on a pair of ice cream trousers. we have with us a full stock of the purest and freshest Drugs, Druggists Sundries, Soap, Perfumes, Toi- let Articles, choicest assortment of Stationery and Books in town, Jewelry, Spectacles, ete. And Patent Medicines, Arctic Soda Water and Hire's Root Beer constantly on draught. Ice Cream Soda every Saturday afternoon and evening. Prompt attention and satisfaction guar- A. F. SPEICHER, Prop., : Elk Lick, Pa. P. S. HAY, Mrs. S. A and Royal. GRAYHAM and BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, Corn Meal, Oat Meal and Lima Beans. I also handle All Grades of Sugar, including Maple Sugar, also handle Salt and Potatoes. These goods are principally bought in car Goods delivered to my regular customers. Store in load lots, and will be sold at lowest prices. STATLER BLOCK, SALISBURY, PA. Taille, GRAIN. FLOUR And FEED. CORN, OATS, MIDDLINGS, “RED DOG FLOUR,” FLAXSEED MEAL, in short all kinds of ground feed for stock. “CLIMAX FOOD,” a good medicine for stock. All Grades of F'lour, nmong them *Pillsbury’s Best,” the best flour in the world, “Vienna,” “Irish Patent,” ‘Sea Foam’ THEY HAVE GOT fo G0! ™ oo > HARD TIMES, HIGH PRICES and BIG PROFITS can’t exist in this town, be- canse I have got the goods and make the prices that save people money. Have you MY NEW SPRING STOCK of Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Furnishing Goods, Notions, etc? Give me a call and see my line of Ladies’, ford Ties and Slippers, also a nice line of Men's, Bovs’ and Children’s Straw Hats. I remain your friend, GEO. K. WALKER. C.T. Hay’s Block, Salisbury, Pa. seen Many thanks for past favors. Misses’ and Children's Fine Shoes, Ox- Dry Goods Merchants Of MEYERSDALE, are Headquarters for LADIES’ WRAPS. Over 100 STYLISH COATS and CAPES iu stock, bought from the largest and most stylish manufacturers in the country. La- dies, call and see them. Prices low—from $2.50 Established in 1880. Fisher's Book Store, Somerset, Pa. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT: This large and heav- ily stocked establishment is now fully stocked and ready for the Fall and Winter trade. The Wholesale department sells to 90 town and country merchants in this and ad- joining counties and states. The attention of merchants and others in the Elk Liek and Mevyers- dale coal regions is called to our stock, and sheir orders and the orders of others solicited. Blank Books, Letter, Legal Cap, Foolseap and Box Paper. Envelopes. Inks, Pens, Pencils, Mucil- age, Pen Holders, Slates, Tablets, Justice's Blanks, School Books, School Supplies and everything usually sold at a well organized and well stocked retail trade is solicited for such goods as your home merchants do not supply. Mail orders prompt- Iy attended to. stationery store, at best wholesale prices. The CHAS. H. FISHER. WITHOUT THE Es BOW (ring) it is easy to steal or ring watches from the pocket. The thief gets the watch in one hand, the chain in the other and gives a short, quick jerk—the ring slips off the watch stem, and away goes the watch, leav- ing the victim only the chain, This idea stopped that little game: The bow has a groove on each end A collar runs down inside the pendant (stem) and fits into the grooves, firraly locking the bow to the pendant, T 4 10 that it cannot be A pulled or twisted off, Al an cost, on Jas. Boss Filled and other cases containing this trade mark— Ask your jeweler for pamphlet, Keystone Watch Case Co., PHILADELPHIA, Sold by all watch dealers, without o S. Lowry & Son, UNDERTRKERS. #t SALISBURY, PA., have always on hand all kinds of Burial Cases, Robes, Shrouds and al kinds of goods belonging to the business. Also have A FINE HEARSE, and all funerals entrusted to us will receive prompt attention FF WE MAKE EMBALMING A SPECIALTY. —WITH— Bicycles! to $18.00. = En seh: 7 Eg nh g Zw oN 8 fier ER] = = = =he = 2 2 > = hw S Z . 25s 0 Ly & 8:1: aA EY 2% Qu Z2a2%,. 8 =d TS8:24 | 2 qy SEZ: 2 \ > $2 == wv 3 dog = 9 nef 2221 O © # iii; © = = 7 es Eomi=5i m ong is 2=g 2 > ] 2.5% = i gS" ox i $225 ° 21822 ° Nd a - E=f== ¢ ; 4g? EP S gd 17233: % 4 2 cEEZZ2 0 bod — IN. Bog - <3 ==v id 5 g “gZi*3: 2 — 22%: 3 29 2 E18 % mn Eliz: a Q PZ a im — Se Ee RH 2 $EZE3E 2 sd? = Sg" 3 5 @ — = = a= 9 > sept 3 rms 2 Je ~ ZEEE = i 0 p> way=. ¥ ‘=n BE Zz = - £zp82 2 = i 9-3 3 oy he . = 2 i Riss = oer ii Rseg 2 3 i Pwo ® i Q2F% .3 2 RER7:t co) os a & rE 3.5% ® HDowt® = X EmM=% TREE Tt etre Su it Zeer HM3i;t 5 3 0 Ri: 5: = > 0e52% $2 iy REp 2 23 Ey Zp is g We are giving our agents Batra Induce- ments for cash orders. BEN HUR, $75 and $90. OENTRAL, High Grade, $135. $5 $10 and $20, Genuine Confederate 9 Bills, only five cents each; $50 and $100 bills, 10 cents each; 25c. and 50c. shinplas- ters, 10 cents each; $1 and $2 bills, 25 cents each. Sent securely sealed on receipt of price. Ad- dress, CHAS. D. BARKER, 90 8S. Forsyth St., At- lanta, Ga. Write for Big Discounts to Agents. Address, Central Cycle Mfg. Co., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. °, L. LIVENGOOD, Agt. at Elk Lick, Pa. prices that are right, give me a call. all kinds of furniture repairing. Bring your work to my shop. Frank Petry, Carpenter And Builder, Elk Lick, Pa. It you waui carpenter work done right, and at I also do T. W. GURLEY, JEWELER AND OPTICIAN, MEYERSDALE, PA, REPAIRING AND ENGRAVING DONE, R.B. Sheppard, Barber and Hair Dresser. All kinds of work in my line done in an ex- pert manner. My hair tonic is the best on earth—keeps the scalp clean and healthy. I respectfully solicit your patronage. WW. F.Garlitz, Expressman and Drayman, does all kinds of hauling at very low prices. All kinds of freight and express goods delivered to and from the depot, every day. Satisfaction guaranteed. W.F. EAST, Painter and Grainer House and sign painting and all other work in my line done in a substantial and workmanlike manner. Your patronage solicited and satisfac- tion guaranteed. P.O. Address, BELLE IT.ICEK, PA. TO CONSUMPTIVES. T he undersigned having heen restored to health by simple means, after suffering for sev- eral vears with a severe iung affection. and that dread disease CONSUMPTION, is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To those who desire it, he will cheerfully send (free of charge) a copy of the prescription used, which they will find a sure eure for CONSUMPTION. AsTHMA, CATARRH, BRoNcHITIS and all throat and Inng MavLapies. He hopes all sufferers will try his remedy, as it is invaluable. Those desir- ing the prescription, which will cost them noth- Ing, and may prove a blessing, will please ad- ress. REV. EDWARD A. WILSON, Brooklyn, New York. An Open Letter to Our Patrons, Friends and patrons, you will notice that THE STAR is this week reduced in size, and as you will doubtless want to know the reasons for the change, I will proceed to give them to you. In the first place, in order to get me to establish a newspaper in Salisbury, the business men of the town and some of the mechanics signed a document agree- ing to give me a liberal advertising and job printing patronage. This is all I asked and they said in “black and white” that they would give it to me. Some of them said they would be willing to give me a bonus to locate here, but I did not ask it of them. All T wanted was for them to promise me a liberal patronage, and as they seemed to take pleasure in making the promise, I confided in them and took it for granted that their signa- tures to the document referred to meant more than any empty promise. But T am sorry to say that to a great extent 1 have been disappointed, for some of the very men that signed my paper have never yet given me one cent’s worth of advertising or job printing. Perhaps they were only joking when they wrote down their signatures, but be that as it mav, I do not relish the joke. When 1 moved here from Nebraska, a distance of over 1.800 miles. T was acting in good faith and firmly believed that all those here who encouraged me to make the long and expensive move were also act ing under the influence of honest mo- tives; but it seems that some of them were not. They may have been only negligent in coming forward with their promised patronage, but as they have been frequently remimded of their prom- ises, that ean hardly be probable. However, it affords me pleasure to say that the most of my encouragers gave me a pretty fair advertising patronage, the first year of the paper's existence. and I was well satisfied with the same and had good reason to believe that it would increase instead of diminishing. But such has not heen the case, for ever since Jan. 1st, 1893, advertising space has been reduced on the plea of hard times, economy and various other things. This has been carried on until I now feel that it is my turn to economize, for I feel the hard times as keenly as anyone else. I can not very well economize at the stores, for it requires just as much mer- chandise for my family as it did when times were good. It is not expensive to run a store bill the way some men do it —buy and never pay—but I have always been in the habit of paving for what I buy, and, by the way, it requires a great deal of buying and paying for my family of nine. I have, however, been doing a great deal of economizing for the past three months, but with the exception of quitting the use of tobacco, none of my economy has been at the stores. In fact I have been practicing the most rigid economy. for some time, cutting off all expenses that are not creditable to have, but I must go still farther. If mv advertising patrons cut down their patronage to a mere pittance, which they have done, the only way I cun see out of the dilemma is to cut down the size of the paper, and for that reason I this week lop off two pages. If that will not cut off sufficient exhenie to suit the advertising patronage. 1 will reduce the paper two pages more; if that will not do, T will discontinue it altogether and run an exciusive job printing office; and if an exclusive job printing office will not pay in this town, then I will trv to find a location where it will pay. T am not complaining of my job printing patron- age, for that has been quite good, right along, notwithstanding the fact that a few parties in this town have been doing the Chinese act by sending their orders for printed stationrye to the city. Some would-be business men will always send abroad for everything they can buy a lit- tle cheaper than at home and then imag ine that they are doing very smart buisi- ness, but thev are not. It never pavs to boyeott home industries. If the home paper is boycotted by a home business firm that sends away from home for its printing, the paper and some of its friends will always retaliate by patronizing such a firm just as little as possible. and in that way such a business honse will lose sales enough in one month, the profits of which would keep it in printed stationery for several years. Then what has the “Cheap John” merchant gained by send- ing to the city for his printing? Nothing but the contempt of all fair-minded peo- ple who have learned of his niggardliness toward the place where he gets his living and business. There are lots of things that T ean buy from such firms as Montgomery, Ward & Co., and get them delivered to me, all charges pre- paid, for less money than our merchants buy the same kind of goods at wholesale But Ido not do that kind of business. All the goods I buy away from home are such goods as I can not get here. or goods that T trade in on foreign and every man has a right to patronize his patrons, no matter where thev are lo- cated. Tt is the duty of every person to buy as little away from home as possihle Patronize home and home industries, for that is the way to make your town pros per. Here is where we make our money. and here is where we ought to spend it Don’t boycott the home printer, even if he has not got the facilities to do print- ing quite as cheap as it can be done in large city printing houses. The country printer will always do vour work as cheap as he possibly can, and the fact that you seldom see him have more than a thrice-earned living, is sufficient evi dence that his profits are small. In fact he isn’t ““in it” for profits with the coun- try merchant, for you often see country merchants that have acquired considera- able wealth. A merchant should be the last man in the town to send abroad for his printing, for he, above all others. must look to the home people for the patronage given him. But I will return to the subject of advertising, for as I have Baid before, my job printing patron- age has has been quite good, right along, notwithstanding the Chinese tactics of a few persons that have sent abroad for their printing, for which they ought to be ashamed of themselves. The fact of the matter is, during the past vear I have been keeping the paper alive mainly on the revenue derived from the job print- ing department of the office, but I am not going to do so much longer. The advertising and subseription department have got to pay all the ranning expenses of the paper, or Tre Star will refuse to shine. Business is business, and when any branch of a business no longer sup- ports itself, that branch ought to be cut off before it causes much loss to the pro- prietor, his town, advertising, It takes money to run a newspaper. The running expenses of THE Star office are from $100 to $150 per month—never less the former amount, and following is what our home advertising amounts to per month: P.S. Hay, Sinches...... S. A. Lichliter, 6 inches..... G. K. Walker, 6 inches.... S. Lowry & Son. 1%; inches... ............... 5 A. F. Speicher, 3 inches (drugad.).......... teat A¢ inch (prof. card) ........... J. L. Barchus, 7 inches... Frank Petry, 1 Ch... 0.0... Seminole Bitters Co., 115 inches... .... Va RB. B. Sheppard, lineh... co. 00 John J. Livengood, 1inch-.................. 50 W. FP. Garlitz. 1inch........, N. Brandler, 4 inches. 1.75 W.R. Bust, 1 inch ..... .. EAL Cy Te .50 R.M. Beachy, 3 ineh...................o.. . +H0 Dr.Shaw, ddneh. oo. ooo 0 ou on 0 En Dr. Biehty, Tineh........ 0.0. 0.0 Ll 0h 50 D. 0. McKinley, lineh.................. 0. 4 .50 H. Loechel, 115 inches. . : : 75 R. L. Walter, 2 inches... ... i... 1,00 C.. Wahl, 4incheS.&.c.....0.. 00000 a0 1.75 Total $23.75 Oh, what a magnificent sum this is! Do you wonder that the size of the pa- per has been reduced? Of course that is not all of my advertising patronage, butit is the bulk of that which is regular. The Meyersdale, Somerset and Hyndman advertisements I am now carrying, foot up to $12 per month, but I do not have them during the whole year, hence they are not much of an item. The business locals T carry, will not average over $5 and all the patent medicine paper contains will than $850 per enough for the advertising I am per month, advertisements. the not amount to more month. That is not amount of medicine running, hut beeanse there are thousands of fools in" the newspaper husiness that take such advertisements at starvation rates. other publishers mnst take them at the same rates or not get them at all. The same can be said of ull other classes of foreign advertising, for that class of advertising is nearly all given ont through city advertising agents. The make the money there is in it and the publishers do the work. Nearly all the foreign advertisements in this paper are not paid for in cash at all. Some are paid in printing materials, some in goods of the advertiser's mannfacture, etc. ete, but [am getting the bulk of them through one advertising agency and am running them to apply on another print- ing press that the agency will furnish when a certain large amount of adver tising is done, agents I think IT have now made the situation so plain that even the dullest man in town ean form a pretty good idea of what it takes 10 keep up a newspaper in this town. The question now is: Do our buisiness men want a newspaper in this town? If go, give it a decent adver patronage. If not, why did veu promise me a good advertising patron age in order to get me here, and then, after the first vear, hein to ent it down to a mere pittance? You knew me and the kind of paper I edited before T moved here from Nebraska: von promised me a good patronage to get me here; now, deliver the goods and don't try to crnw- fish out of a promise that you placed vour signatures to and whieh [ had con: fidence in. Don’t cut down your adver Now is the time, more than ever, to advertise Wanamaker “Pulling an tisement out of n newspaper when times are dull is like a miller tearing out a dam when is low.” Ti to me some firms in this town that conld spend $10 a month in advertising and spend in very profitably to themselves at that. There store in town that hasn't got lots of goods that the public knows nothing about—goods that would find ready sale if kept constantly hefore the people through the medium of the local raper, The people like to know what vou have on your shelves, and their effort to eall and see what you have will always he in the same ratio with your effort to in- duce them to call by inviting them through the columns of the local paper. This is a fact which nearly everybody has noticed time and time again. Give them lots of business locals, for they are eagerly read and always with good re- sults to the advertiser. Tir STAR has been a faithful servant of this town ever since it was established. and ‘hat its Tabors for the improvement and upbuilding of the town have accom- plished a great deal in that direction. 1 hardly think will be denied by one per- son in the place. But THE STAR has not been receiving just treatment, and that is why I must now reduce it in size I had hoped to add steam power, this fall, as the cireulation of the paper has grown to such an extent that it ic almost impossible to print our big editions anv longer by hand. But after larger quarters and hoping for an in- creased advertising patronage sufficient to enable me to engine, 1 met only disappointment, and the cut ting off of advertisements in the name of economy has been ever, It is tising tisements because times are dull. said: adver the water fees that there are isn’t a moving into ger an have going on than next sible to get money on subseription, hence more also to impos prospects for an engine are very poor This state of affairs Every merchant in town should advertise and advertise liberally, and every mechan ic in the town should have a eard in the paper. That is the town hoom. If every does his whole duty in the matter of ud vertising, there will be very few foreiun advertisements in Ture STAR. Don't allow your local paper to go our should not exist. way to make the business man into the world looking like the advance agent of a gravevard, but give it a good adver- tising patronage world know that it is published in a live, energetic, enterprising community. Re- member that the newspaper is the mirtor into which the world looks to see what kind of a town you live in, and is usually judged by the appearance of its local paper. I stated in my first issue that I would give Salisbury as Inrge and as good a pa- per as her people are willing to pay for, and that is what I propose to do. Now which do you want, a steam printed pa per, a little sheet published by hand, or no paper at all? The large paper is tle one you ought to have. but your future patronage will decide what kind of a one you will get. Better arouse from your slumbers, do more advertising, organize a hoard of trade. change the name of the borough. make an effort to unite Salis bury and West Salisbury under one cor poration, put in water works, electric light, etc. That will be more creditable and more profitable than all the cutting down of advertisments vou can do in the next ten years. Submitting the foregoing for youu theughtful consideration, I am, gentle- men, Your Humble Servant, P. L. LivENGoOD. and therebv let the a town
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