West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-06-13
FACTS AND FIGURES
All Wool and Yard Wide. for Bro.
Reed TO Read aud Reflect Upon.
Correspondence Of Tho Argus.


GAINESVILLE, VA, June TO, 1901
We were not little disguised when we
read the answer in the Preston Republican
to fair and civil question given in TmF
ARGUS for information on the price of wool.
which as yet is unsettled.
"But what went we out for TO see A
Reed shaken by the wind -
We suppose that Bro. Reed would like 10
have some excuse for the seven cent reduction
on wool, but sorry to say that, like some of
our own lads, he is not believing like a
sheep, now, at Democratic meetings.
lie intimates that the editor of The ARGUS
is setting up howl about ,he price of wool,
bu, we will give hundred sheep to anyone
who will show that there has been one-ten,h
as much growing abou, the price of wool by
the Democrats in the past ten years as there
has been by Republicans.
We will also give Bro. Reed good sheep
for every man he points us to that sold his
wool at IL cents at the time stated. We
admit that wool was low in the panic tina,
was Matched by the Republican party in
1893, but the greatest part Of the reduction
was in times of Republican rule, and sta
tis,ics show that the price of wool and sheep
increased in the years 1896 and 1907, and
we are glad to think that the price will soon
be low enough so that the factories need
not work old rags and cotton into fabrics
and sell it to the poor for clothes.
Keep your shirt on, Bro. Reed, and don't
blame the Democrats for the panic your own
party brought on just before your Congress
men were reduced to SO members.
Come to GAINESVILLE and you can buy
yearling cattle at $40, calves at 81 40, sheep
at less than 81, eggs at 10 cents, butter at
IL cents, flour at $3.50, potatoes at 80 to az
cents per bushel, and you can pay high
price for all things that thr Trust has in full
control, and if things continue growing in
this cow-tall fashion you will have another
panic to blame the Democratic party for at
the defeat of Mark Hanna, who will be your
next candidate for President.
We are very VERY sorry to tell you that
some OF your adherents in this section, who
anticipated getting rich by raising sheep,
are wonderfully disappointed and are trying
to sell their flocks. They also realize that
their cattle are worth but little more than
they would have brought last fall, when
high prices were lecturing for the Repub-
licans. Bro. Reed will have TO quit talking
wool then and tell fish tales.
c. w. Cramer is preparing to erect two
buildings at Terra Alta for o. c. Crane.
Miss Lulu Dewitt, of Terra Alta, IS call
ing at our town, where she will remain for
few days, after which she will 90 to Key
ser, accompanied by Mrs. Lidia Cramer.
Ira Cupp is taking short vacation in our
town and will aflerward use the saw and
plane, at Terra Alta, for c. w. Cramer.
S. A. Durham caught a large turtle on
Thursday last, and. since the rest of the
family refused to help him eat it, he will
have turtle and turtle soup for long time
f. f. Jenkins and family spent Saturday
and Sunday at Piedmont.
Billy l. Tltchenell is slowly and surely
moving the J. ID. Browning store building.
SALLIE WANDER.