The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-02-01
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Boys and Girls Besides.
Smiths Country Store
TIME Evening--SPEAKERs, ,Sto'dry
Villagers who hare "Itdppened IN as
tsudt." H.
Mr.. SmHh.-Trade Is very dull now
adays; don't sell as much as I did
five years ago.
Mr.. JoneS.-Good reason. Things
are SO high we can't afford TO buy
You charge such awful prices, Smith.
Mr.. Smith.-Can't help it. l have
to pay 80 much more. When 1 sold
sugar at 10 cents pound, 1 made a
cent on the pound, and 1 only make a
cent now on 20 cents, and this. cent
don't go so far to keep nay family.
Mr. BrO,Cn.--I buy just as much ev-
er. don't see as there is much change.
1 used to sell my 600 bushels of wheat
for IS cents a bushel, or $3.50. OF this, ]
$3.50 went for family store bills, and
leaves $500 to pay off my farm debt
Now,. when sell for $3.50 per bushel,
or 5000, it takes about $500 for store
bills, and leaves me $400 to pay off
the debt. In fact these high prices suit
me. wish Mr.. Mccullough had kept
out of the Treasury, for he threatens
to make Greenbacks par, and knock
down prices.
Mr.. Price, don't sec as it makes
much difference. If there is twice as
much money going, and every body
gets twice as much for every thing he
raises, and pays twice as much for
every thing he buys, it all comes out
square at the end; and there is this
gain in the operation; those who save
money or make a profit, make double,
as neighbor Brown explains aboutpay-
ing his farm debt. 1aI
Mr.. Butler.-That's so. ..r.
Mr.. Green.-SO l think. g.,
Mr.. MOOre.-So do L.
Mr.. Bdker.-There is little draw
back. / keep the accounts of Widow
Roberts, who has the mortgage on Mr.,
Browns farm, and the four hundred
dollars he pays, don't go half as far
in supporting her and educating her
children. 4,... ....
Mr.. Tdris (the School Teacher).-
Yes it does, for ] only get thirty dol
lars month for teaching Mrs. Rob-
erts' and others children, and ] used
to get twenty-five dollars, with wheat
at seventy-fve cents.
ReU. Mr.. COrey.-And ! only get
six hundred dollars year, while /
always had five hundred dollars with
wheat at seventy-five cents and sugar
ten cents.
Several TOiceS.-That din't square.
Mr.. KnOr, editor. And you only
pay me two dollars a year for my
newspaper, which you thought cheap
at one dollar and fifty cents, five years
ago, though have now to pay three
times as much for every thing / use
in making q newspaper.
Mr.. Greene.--Why don't you raise
your prices too? ...
Mr.. .,hnOG.-People won't stand it
l must keep along with no profit, OF
even at loss, hoping for better times,
or else lose my subscribers, and let the
paper go down. Why, when 1 raised
the price from one dollar and fifty
cents to two dollars year, a good
many stopped the paper-among them
Mr.. Brown himself, though l paid hin
double for his wheat.
Mr.. Bro,Cn.-I didn't stop so much
for the price; went in for paying fol
my farm by extra economy.
Mr.. KnO1.-Yes, he followed my
advice for people to "econOmize and pay
their debts now" But let us see if
Mr.. Brown begun in the right place
On one Saturday l. published in my
paper that wheat had advanced tif
teen cents a bushel. On Monday Mr.
Brown went to market with his whea
and sold sixty bushels at one cent .ad
vance over the old price, and though
he did well. He came home boastint
about it, until he met neighbOr John
son, who got fifteen cents advance, be
cause he read my paper, and wa
, Wide-amake. Mr.. Browns loss on six
, ty bushels would pay four whole years
! subscription. E
Mr.. Bro,rn. Don't say anything
t more about that, Mr.. Knox, and pu
me down a subscriber for life.
Mr.. KnoT.-I have heard of severa
other such losses by those who stoppe'
my paper. Not to be too personal, a
l some of them are here, L will call then
A, b, @, etc. Mr.. A. paid four pc
: cent. more fees on seventy-one dollar
taxes, because he did not see the col
lector's notice in my paper, and thu
lost two dollars and eighty-four cents
to save two dollars. Mr.. Is. paid thre
dollars and sixty cents the same way
Mr.. c. failed to- bring his claim agains
an estate, because ne. did not see in m.
paper the legal notice limiting the time
That cost him thirty-four dollars, {
p save two dollars subscription. Mr.. L
sold two hundred pounds, of wool a
, sixty-two cents, because he did not Sc
. an advertisement OF Mr.. Smith, righ
i here at home, offering seventy cents,-
That cost him sixteen dollars, to saw
d two dollars, Mr.. F's. boys went dow
It to the village every night or two, (
get the news and local gossip, becaus
e they had no paper at home, and on
Is Of them fell into bad company and
n ruined.) / know twenty cases wher
people lost money for not learnin
-. what is going on. ] gather up all thf
y is going on in business and society
and condense it into my columns.
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