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O A. STEPHENSON, Editor and Pnfc.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1909.
DID IT PAY?
Does it pay to. colebrate the Fourth in
Reynolilavllle?
When the committee from the
Business Men's Association recently
solicited money enough to defray
expenses InoHent to securing attract
ions for the Fourth, they were met all
too often with the statement that the
celebration meant nothing to the
business men or town and that it
mattered little whether it was held or
not.
The celebration coat between bIx and
seven hundred dollars, fully half of
which waa spent right in the town and
county for advertising and materiala.
The day after the Fourth over
FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOL
LARS WAS DEPOSITED IN THE
THREE REYNOLD3VILLE BANKS.
Did the celebration pay?
And that sum does not by any meanB
represent the total that was taken in by
local buaineas men on the Fourth.
Probably a third more was deposited
within the following two days.
That Is the financial side only. In
addition the celebration gaye the town
wide spread advertising for its public
spirit in celebrating while nearly all
other towns In the section lay dormant,
It brought here thousands' who will
remember the town kindly and return
again during the year with resultant
good to our business men. Last, but
fully as Important, it kept in Reynolds
vllle many hundred dollars that would
have been Bpent elsewhere in the
absence of a celebration here.
In the face of all these facts will local
business or professional men ever again
haye the, nerve to beg off from con
tributing on the ground that a celebra
tion means nothing to the town?
THE THREATENED STRIKE.
The conductors and trainmen of the
Pennsylvania railroad are now voting
on a proposition to strike. The points
at issue are numerous some of which,
relating to conditions little, known to
the public, are very annoying to the
trainmen, but on the main issue, that
of an increased wage scale, there are
few who can see the fairness of the
trainmen's demands. The Philadelphia
Record, speaking of , the ballot,
epitomizes the situation clearly:
"The attitude of the conductors and
trainmen of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in the wage dispute now ap
proaching a climax is not altogether
encouraging to those employers of
labor who have heretofore found It good
business policy to deal liberally, with
their men. The railroad men and the
company are agreed that the scale of
wages paid by the latter is equal to or
higher than that paid by competitive
standard roads for like service. But
the men oomplaln that by paying
higher rates than competitive roads in
the past the Pennsylvania. Railroad
Company has led them to expect a con
tinuance of superior conditions of
employment,, and that in readjusting
wages only to the extent that readjust
ments have taken place on other roads
the company has not gone far enough.
The company answers that it is unfair
that It should be penalized because its
competitors have brought wage con
ditions up more nearly to a parity with
those which obtain on the Pennsylvania
system.
"The trainmen are voting to decide
whether their grievance is grave
enough to justify a strike. It is hardly
thinkable that they will elect to quit
their employment for the causes
stated. A prerequisite to a successful
strike Is a case strong enough to insure
a favorable verdict from the popular
jury. The concensus of opinion with
regard to the present dispute will un
douotedly be that the position of the
railroad men is ' untenable. If good
sense shall prevail a majority of them
will cast their ballots in favor of a
peaceful settlement."
It is announced from Rldgway that
Hyde-Murphy Co., have again changed
their plans and will rebuild on the old
site at Rldgway. Reynoldavllle, in
common With many other towns in this
section, made strenuous efforts to in
terest the Hyde-Murphy people, but it
Is safe to say that, failing to lund tbe
hig concern for ourselves, there is no
town in the state our people would
rather see get it better than Uidj;way.
Its removal from that pretty little place
would sorioualy injure the town's
prosperity.
August 7 to 13 will he Franklin' Od
Home week. Tbe coinniltteu ha ur
ranged for an arch' 60 feet bih and up
hroad as the street wlilch will ba ihf
crowning feature of the decorations.
In sharp contrast iu lbe usual
custom, tbe committee hxt deciued that
ao street stands or fakirs shall bjti"
mitlcd during the week.
'j ' ''NEVER AGAIN." -i
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It was the day after the Fourth and
th ) local people were feeling good over
l .s succeas, patting themselves on the
back for the way "we" handled the
event and taking that enthusiastic
interest in things that the public
uanally does after success has been
achieved and there is no more work to
do.
But In tbe rear of a well known locul
place that morning a half dozen of the
"Old Guard" of the Association wore
wearily stretched on the leather chairs,
talking it over and straightening the
accounts. They had borne the brunt of
the work the day before, and of the
work of advertising it before that; they
had seen their work come within an ace
of failure two days before through the
unprincipled refusal of tbe company
engaged as an attraction to fulfill its
contract; they had spent many hours
worrying over the way to secure new
attractions and so keep faith with the
people, and what hurt moat of all, they
had heard people who Bhould have
known better, Intimate that they were
simply fakir? deliberately deceiving the
people.by advertising an attraction they
never had. And now it was over and
everybody satisfied but they were
weary and tired and almoBt disgusted.
"Never again" groaned one, and at
the moment it was the heartfelt senti
ment of all.
We some times wonder if the people
of town realize the debt they owe to the
comparatively little group of men who,
working together under the name of
tbe Association, have done more to
keep Reynoldsvllle on the map during
recent years than any other force in
town.
Without any hope of reward other
than that which will come with the
town's continued prosperity, they have
kept unweariedly "plugging" along,
working on every industrial proposition
that develops, however forlorn the
chance, keeping Reynoldsvllle In the
people's eye on eyery gala accasion,
lending frequent assistance to home
Institutions asking for it, trying to
influence railroad projects that will take
years to develop, interesting outside
companies in the few remaining re
sources, notably the clay and coal, and
with an eye always open for the good of
the old town. Busy always, with so
little encouragement, what wonder if
they sometimes grow weary and groan,
"Never again."
But these men are made of the right
stuff and when the weariness of the last
event Is over, and the town again needs
men to look after its welfare, you will
find them in the front "once again."
VICE IN AMERICA.
"Vice in the great cities, alcoholism,
gambling and immorality are no more
hideous In America than elsewhere,"
writes the historian, Ferrero, in the
Atlantic Monthy. The difference is that
"in America there is still some protest;
In Europe there is silence." "Why,"
he asks, "are noisy New Year's eve sup
pers described as if they were the orgies
of Heliogabalus? This may all be ex
plained exactly as was the evil reputa
tion of tbe last century of the republlo
and the first century of the empire as
compared with the second century; be
cause in America the Puritan origin of
the state Is still not far behind us, and
the reaction of the moral consciousness
is greater than it is in Europe against
the progress of that extravagance, cor
ruption, and vice which accompany a
rich urban mercantile civilization."
President Thomas L." Lewis, of the
U. M. W. of A. has stated his
intention of making a personal cam
paign in District No. 2 for the purpose
of re-establishing the sub-districts
which his opponents abolished some
time ago, Lewis is a fighter from tbe
ground up and if he beards the Insur
gents in their own stronghold it will
result in the extermination of someone.
"Our business last month surpassed
all previous records for the month of
June," said, a local business man last
week. The statement would apply with
equal truth to many other lines if the
books were opened.
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York county is over run with locusts.
Fruit trees have suffered heavy damage
and special efforts are being made to
exterminate the pests.
I Careful Management
Has much tn do with the Buccesseul de
t velopment of every organization.
The executive staff of this bank is
composed of men who devote their en
tire time to the management of this bank.
Capital and Profits $131,000.00.
THE PEOPLES NATIONAL BAN
(OldeBt Bank in
THE POSTPONER.
The world is full of pustponers pro
craetinHtors who put off doing the thing
at the time they think of It, and keep
right on putting it off and finally never
do it. Along tbe pathway of life the
postpone are strewn like driftwood on
the strand. Tbey constitute the world's
failures the junk that has pecome rust
ed and corroded for lack of use. Some
acquire h habits of the poatponer be
cause they have not enough to do to
develop energy. Plenty of work engen
ders aqtlvlty, and spells achievement,
it Is surprising that so many young men
contract the habit of the postponer.
They should be so full of ginger and en
ergy that nothing can Influence them
to postpone the performance of a duty.
Men stand hesitating about entering up
on an enterprise. As they stand still
conservatism grows and finally they re
fuse to make a plunge. In driving
through the country one can discov
er which farmer is a postponer and
which Is tbe man who does It at the time
hs thinks of It. The postponer's garden Is
full of weeds, his fences are down, his
wagons and farming Implements are
standing outof doors, the pigs are proba
bly rooting up tbe lawn, because of post
ponement In repairing the pen, and
something suggestive of slovenliness Is
everywhere apparent about tbe place.
And it Is the same with others. The
man-who puts off until to-morrow what
should be done to-day will find some
thing on the morrow to put off until the
next day, and so his troubles multiply
and compound until tbe case becomes
absolutely hopeless. Don't be a postponer.
ADVERTISING IS TALKING.
Advertising is talking. A business
man cannot very well stand at the door
of his place of business and tell the pas
Bers by of the goods he has for sale, and
their prices. Even if in a measure he
could do It the result would not for var
ious reasons he very satisfactory. But
through the medium of his local paper
he can reach the whole community in
the most effective way under the moBt
favorable circumstances. Of all the
varied forms of advertisements experi
ence has conclusively proved that there
is none that brings such returns as gen
erous, attractive advertising In the col
umns of the newspaper. It is read in
the quiet of the home and discussed by
the whole family, and the result to the
merchants is increased Bales and en
larging business.
FOR SALE
IJ am moving away
and will-sell my
CarpetChain Loom
and all fixtures very
cheap and show the one
whojkwants to buy how
to weave and warp a9
IJhave been doing. I
have about all the trade
for 45 miles around here.
The one who buys the
chain at cost will get
loom free as it is in
better condition than a
new one.
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TcofccI Demay
BOX 358
Reynoldsvifle, - Pa.
REAL ESTATE
Rent or Sell
E. Neff, Justice of the Peace
Reynoldsville, Pa.
ROYAL ARCANUM,
Reynoldsville, Pa.
Meets every second and fourth Thurs
day in I. O. O. F. hall.
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Resources $641,000.00.
the County)
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the first telephone in public use. It is
still the first. Its employees are num
bered by hundreds of thousands its stations
by millions its annual calls by billions. It is
the standard of all telephone systems.
The Bell System reaches everywhere;
across the street to neighboring communities ;
to cities half-way across the country. f
The Bell is the one system for you because -it
does not confine you to local calls only. It
keeps you in touch with far-away interests at .
all times. However distant your wanderings
take you it keeps you in touch with home.
The standard system the ever-ready sys
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HSYLVASWA RAILROAD
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"The water is fine;
From gay Atlantic
Cape May in the flush Of
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j where the rare beauty
T5
AnIndlana county man was fined (20
last week for, driving a carriage on a
narrow road in such a manner m to
prevent an automobile following from
passing for, several mlleB. It waa
proved before a justice that tho man
driving the horses had taken spocial
pains '.o prevent tbe auto getting past
him. Suit was brought under the aot
of 1820 forbidding obstruction of tbe
highways. -
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Telegraph Company
BELL SYSTEM
CALL OF THE
come in!" '
City comes the call; from witching Wildwood; from
her rejuvenation: frnm Ashnrv Part and Tina RraVi
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of the country with its
crests of the incoming billows; from all the wave
washed coast of New Jersey, qpmes the summer call'
of the sea. V.. ' 1
To all these delightful resorts, the service of
the Pennsylvania Railroad is high-grade and; con
venient. To Atlantic City, Cape, May, Wildwood,
and Ocean City, direct connection is made via the
Delaware River Bridge without transfer across
Philadelphia.
To Asbury , Park, Long Branch, and
v the Upper Coast resorts, good service is
provided by through trains from Philadelphia.
The call of the sea is on. It promises
a regt lar dividend of pleasure, and an extra
grant of health and vigor to those who
heed it. .. -
Will you come?
All efforts to find 'Jemima Hill, the
14 year old girl who so mysteriously dis
appeared at Anita two weeks ago, have
been abandoned Tho kidnaping theory
is generally accepted.
Wilbur D. Hawk, who wim assistant
In the high school at Reynoldsville last
year, has been eleoted principal of the
publlo schools of Vandergrift Heights
for next year. New Kensington Dis
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