Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-09-02

R. A. Miller was down from his farm
above Elk City the first of the week.
RI. Simpson was down from Elk
City the first of the week.
DIR. and Mrs. Darnell and Hurley Lutz
went to Portland this morning and will
return Monday evening.
Terry O'Brien, formerly of Yaqnina
has secured position as salesman in
Meier & Franks big department store
in Portland.
Prof. Holm came over from Philomath
the first of the week, preparatory to
coming over permanently as principal
of the schools this winter.
VIM. Dutton, of Little Elk, brought
down about forty head of fine mutton
sheep yesterday which he sold to Albert
Meaker, the stock buyer. They were
a fine flock of sheep.
Peter Abbey, of Newport hotel fame,
returned from Alaska the first of the
week. Peter has been sojourning in the
north for several months. He is not
very favorably impressed with that re-
gion and warns people to stay away.
It's is a little late in the year for
Strawberries, but we had them for dinner
today, nice, ripe lucious berries. They
were grown by Peter Schirmer, the Pool
slough gardener, to whom we are in
debted for our share of them.
M. Gregson returned the first of the
week from trip to Corvallis, Philo-
math, and other points in Benton coun-
ty in which he Is interested. He visit
ed his farms in Benton county while
gone, and reports everything in good
shape in the valley.
The Wells-Fargo express company
sends out an exhaustive circular setting
forth their reasons for not paying the
war tax. A careful perusal discovers
the true reason to be that they want to
save the money. They say, however,
that they are not certain that the
government intended that they should
pay the tax. They are certain OF one
thing, though they do not intend to
pay it if they can get out of it.
We are not in the habit of preaching
to our business men, or of complaining
of their ways and methods of doing bust
ness, but we do want to have a little
talk along business lines with them.
The town has been recently flooded with
lot of rubber stamps. We are sur
prised and grieyeds that many of our
business people bought them. Let us
reason together, DIR. Businessman, and
see if you made any money in the trans
action. You paid So for your rubber
stamp outfit. If you will use as good a
brand of stationery as the LEADER job
office furnishes you will save 81 .25 on a
thousand letter heads and $1.00 on a
thousand envelopes. To get your mon
ey back, then, to say nothing OF your
work in trying to get decent job with
your rubber stamp, you will have to use
about five thousand letter heads and en-.
velopes. By that time your stamp will
be ruined and you'will have to buy VI
another outfit. Another thing. The
taking of this business away from youl
local newspaper is simply giving notice
that you don't want newspaper to live
and prosper in your town, and that yor
don't want the editor to trade at youl
store, to shave at your barber shop, tC
buy meat at your market, or to patron
ize your other lines of business, for i
you divert his legitimate business from
him you make it impossible for him t,
patronize you. Do you profit in tina
way? This paper maintains three men
two OF them with families; do the mer
chants who patronize the rubber staml
men in Portland want people con
nected with the paper to send to Port
land also for their groceries, dry goods
etc? They do not, and would be uuicl
to complain if it were done. Then how
about reciprocity? The fact is, thai
these men, who under mistaken
notion OF economy, seek to tear down {
newspapers legitimate business haC
better slip out some quiet evening ant
throw their stamp outfits into the bay
and then come around and get som,
decent stationery printed. In doins
this you will help your own business a,
well as ours. And, by the way, did yor
ever get letter from wholesale house
or any decent firm in your life, that wa.
daubed up with rubber stamp?