Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-04-07
BY H. f. BLAKESLEE, Jackson.

A local paper at Greenwood has put
In operation unique scheme to empha-
Size the benefits of spending your money
Rt home A silver dollar has been
placed in circulation with card at
tached, on which each man who receives
1t in the regular channels of business
ean register the date and his name. The
paper in question offers to give a years
subscription for this dollar every time
II is offered at the office, although the
regular price of the paper is $3.50 Other
business men will likely offer pre-
MUM on the dollar and it Will be much
sought after.
The plan of this Greenwood ncwspa-
per is good one and worthy of cmula-
tion everywhere The mail order con
Germs of the North and East are taking
countless thousands of dollars from the
channel of Southern trade, and that,
too, for a generally inferior quality of
goods that will never find their way
back here. 1t should be impressed
upon our people that Il dollar spent at
home is left here and will come back to
the hands of the spender in the due
nav the toy That maintains our Stotn
institutions. cares for the sick blind.
insane and Indecent. cducatcs orr cbiI.
dren; pays tIg preacher and assists
those in distress. The dollar sent to
Chicago will likely not get back here in
100 years, if at all. Then, too, if n
man win consult his homo merchant bo.
fore buying. it is almost certain that
money right ut home than by sending
away and taking chances Remem-
Der that the Chicago and New York
mail order house contributes nothing
toward the calls for charity that your
home merchant faces almost daily; they
sent not a dollar to the people at Ham
burg or other stricken towns in Missis-
sippi last wear: not one made an offer
ING to the homeless poor in Meridian
not long since, and if reports are true
acted far different from what they
should; they make no contributions to
the orphanagcs. hospitals or worthy in.
stitut.ons in the State. 1t is the duty
of avery loyal Mississippan to think of
the.e things before sending money away
from home when you can buy a better
article right here at your door for less
money.
Too freouentlv the GREAT amount of
worl, done for tbe General rood of a
community bv n newspaper is not appre.
ciotpd as II .hould be- people generally
take these things too much for granted
and forget the fact that newspaper
have no more RIGHT TO ask an editor for
hllf.commn of space without offering
10 nav for tbe snme than Won have ia
ask tbe crocerymau for a barrel of flour
or bon of coffee Some American
stoipsmon i credited with having said:
ssEyerv voor tbc local MINER oiyes from
5oo TO 900 Iil,as for the benefit of the
con, n,unitv in which if is located No
otb,r agency cou ar will do this. The
cd;tor in nronortion 10 his means. does
moe ror III. town than any other man.
III oucht ia Inc literally supportcd, not
becou.c Won HI,e him, or admire his
wri!ino. but because local paper is
tbc hest investment a community can
croat tbought but financially il is of
moro hencGt than both preacher and
yeochcr Patronizc vor home paper
NOT os charity. but as an investment 8
II is refreshing. indeed. to note that a
efotosmon who was mdonbtcdly a poll.
t,ci,n as well, had given the deserved
credit TO country newspapers. How
i oyory word of # gospel truth.
roin, onor,tions oro farther od
..noo5 r", 5''HS s5r ,Po tima oF ycar tbon fo,
sonoroi Wars n,st
Tbo Farmers, Co.Onorotiyo I.nion i.
o,on~ ,he rigbt trocI os ovnreseod II
the following resolution recently
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a,mo,G,," aaorioo raiso "Ha o,r p,rn cat+le mules
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III l"II ~ ~ G,nto " nnJ ,rith two sucb now