Connecticut western news., 1890-02-05
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| afternoon and evening. Major Camp bell, the coachman, with the little ponies and liliputian coach arrived here Monday afternoon and after the street parade on Tuesday left for Lakeville, where the company appear this (Wed- nesday) afternoon and evening.
 The Republican Standard of Jan 31 issued large supplement, giving a historical sketch of Bridgeport from 1921 to date. Bridgeport's phenominal growth and steady prosperity are clearly shown. The present manufacturing industries. the merchantile, banking and shipping interests, the churches, schools, etc, etc., are we'll written up, and the pictures or illustrations are very good. It takes about 50 columns of The Standard to do justice to the subject.
 s. c. Bradley, Of Manchester, Ct., general agent for the United States Mercantile Protective Association of New York city, for collecting bad debts, was in town last week looking after the l interests of old members, getting new members and introducing the new system of collecting, which is meeting with great favor wherever it has been introduced. On November 18th the editor of THE NEWS began trying said new system of collecting doubtful debts and he has already collected about $12O from longtime delinquents. We advise business men to try the U. s. M. P. A. system of collecting accounts of long standing.
 The Womans Relief Corps was organized Friday afternoon. in Armory Hall, by delegated authorities from the department, Mrs D " Smith, of Nor folk, Mrs G E Newel, of Plainville. Mrs E D Horn and Mrs l. Shaver, of Winsted. The following is the list of officers elected President, Mrs D W Harden bergh i; senior vice-president, Mrs F 0 Eddy; junior vice-president, Mrs M H Roraback; treasurer, Mrs l. A Barnes; chaplain, Mrs A H Adams; conductor, Mrs M 0 Evans; guard, Mrs B s Sackett; secretary, Miss Fannie Whittlesey; assistant conductor, Miss Catherine Whittlesey; assistant guard, Mrs l. A Caldwell. The installation of officers took place in the evening, in the presence of the members of the Cowles Post. The charter will contain the names of eighteen charter members and the Corps No. 39 starts with very fattering prospects After the installa- tion, appropriate speeches were made by Post Commander H Schamerhorn, Past Commander, and Department Chaplain Rev Hiram Eddy, Quarter master H M Adams. Judge A T Rora- back and Past Commander A P Briggs. Tables were spread at the close of the exercises and the evening ended in pleasant social way.
 We would like to say just a word about job printing which we think will be of interest to every business man who has occasion to use anything in that line. Just like almost all kinds of business, 1t Is overdone, and the conse- quence is nobody can make any thing out of it. The merchants and other business men in town where there is q printing office will wait till some drum mer comes along soliciting orders, and then give him their work in preference to patronizing their home printer, and nine times out of ten they will pay more than the home printer would charge for the same kind of job, and then again they have to pay the cash, whereas on the other hand the home printer would be glad to do the work and in most cases take his pay in "truck" or charge 1t up and wait year for his money. There is another class of customers that are still worse to deal with, and that is the kind that want something for nothing and a house and lot thrown in ]" They come in and want 1000 noteheads, or some other staple article, which the printer has regular price on, and which if he has any regard for his financial interests he will stick to, but ! the would-be customer has heard of some concern that is doing "just the same kind of work for about half what we charge" consequently he sends his work and his cash to the distant town or city, and the job comes back perhaps the printing is little better and perhaps 1t Is not-than he could have got at home, but when he comes to write on the paper, without be is a man possessed of an abundance of " christian fortitude" you can bet he will use language not very compliment tary to the printer that |" worked off some of his cheap stock on him, and which he could of got at home-had he just mentioned the fact that he wanted "mighty poor paper but some very pretty type on it,''-at the same price Jess the express) that he paid the distant printer. While we do not care to work off" any cheap stock on our customers, we have "got it'' and if you are looking for that kind don't waste your postage stamps in writing to somc distant place, when you can get just as "poor stock" at the same price at home. The above would apply equally as we'll to other lines of business, and the l moral would seem to be. "That any thing that is awfully cheap is liable to