The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1906-04-11
Prosperous Times.


country, has there been such prosp' r
Gus times, aud money been 30 plenti
full. For the past few years, crop
conditions have been auch that farm
ers, who are the backbone Of the
country, have made money aid have
begun system of buying for cash
what they need, and paying off old
and long standing store accounts
Why the other day collector for 6
mercantile firm not for from here
collected n Lii that had been stand
ing for twenty eight years! Think O.
that, will you, ana then say, if you
dare, that the people of this country
are not an honest people.
Our business has improved Won
derfully in the past three years and
men now pay their dollar down for
this paper, who used to ask for credit
until fall We have inaugurated the
cash in-advance system, but have lot
lots of our accounts run over this sea.
son for the reason that we bavo been
short. handed in tho Office and have
not had the time to 60 over our
books. It is campaign year and
every voter in the county should take
the Sentinel.Journal, 50 as to keep up
with all who are seeking Office. There
are lot Of odds and ends that have
accumulated on the Sentinel and op
the old Journal books that wo want
to make some disposition of. They are
old, but they are hanging against the
parties and new business wants to
be worked up and in order to give
the boys chance to settle this old
indebtedness, to subscribe over and
to renew their present expiring sub
scription (Which must be paid in ad
vance) we have engaged the services
of Mr.. j. p. Attaway to represent
us in the field, settle old scores, take
new subscriptions, and receipt the
present ones for another year, and
we hope no one will turn him away
empty handed.
We have given you our time, talent
labor and money to the putting out
Of q good paper, until time is no more
talent is nondescrpt, labor Is q de-
lusiOn and snare and money has
taken wings and flew away, and all
who owe these pastdue accounts,
have simply stolen our time, robbed
us OF our talent, beat us out of our
labor and purloined from us our
money. if they won't pay the account,
Now, the terms of subscription to
this paper are cash.in advance to one
and all, and all of our present and
would-be subscribers will greatly
oblige us by complying with these
terms.
We need the money to run the pa
per. Every dollar we get, outside
of actual expenses goes back into i'm
provements, and wo now have a lot
Of new and labor saving machinery
on the road that has to bo paid for
as soon as it reaches here, and as vet
the money is in the other fellows
pocket. You withhold your dollars
and cuss us f3r putting out such a
sorry paper. (We'd like to 500 the
sheet you'd put out it you were in our
shoes.) Printers have to bo paid
r'eekly, (they wont.wait until eve sell
our cotton.") houseront comes as rog-
plarly as clock work, ink, type and pa
3sr bills are "cash with Order" so hore
we are, up a stump" all the time be.
cause you owe US and are using tour
money to your Own gaiD.,, business
ID business" is trite saying and the
Jl3siness world makes us dance to
he time Of "cash", or we do>t get
What we order. All other business |
oncerns are in the same boat with
s The merchant has to dig up
ie ttcoin Of the realm" before he can
t,t the goods on his shelves to sell
on. Then why should we be forced
txa IN fH,, xJI,af ,.,l, h a x,t, ,un.lyod $50