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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
KNOWWHATYOUBUY
You Can See Quality and
Quantity in the Local
Stores.
PAYS TO TRADE AT HOME
The Purchaser Must Take Mail-order
House Goods on Faith-Keep
the Money OF the commu.
nifty at Home.

When the consumer buys merchan-
disc he is interested in three things
quality, quantity and price. When he
goes into the store of his local mer-
chant he sees the goods that. he is to
pay for displayed before him; he can
determine whether the quality is first.
class, and whether the quantity is all
that is claimed. These two points
settled, he should have a fair idea as
to whether the price asked is a fair
one or not.
But how is it when he attempts to
buy Of the big mail order houses of the
cities? The only guide he has to the
quality and quantity they are offering
is what the catalogue says, and the
catalogue is prepared with the one OBJ
ject in view of selling the goods.
When the consumer buys of his
local merchant and finds the goods he
has purchased were not as represent
ed he cen promptly take them back
and receive his money. When he buys
Of the mail order house in the large
cities he has practically no recourse
but to take what he gets and look
pleasant at the results.
1t is cheap goods and short weight
that is making mail order house
profits. They can buy but little, If
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31

any, cheaper than your local merchant
can. First-quality, standard merchan-
disc is manufactured on a very mar,
row margin of profit, but the mail
order house can win and pay big divi-
dends on enormous capital if they can
sell to the people an inferior quality
and short weight quantity of merchan-
disc at the prices they ask. Your
local merchant could do the same
thing, but you would not buy the same
goods Of your local merchant that you
buy of the mail order house at an
equal price.
Here is an item clipped from the
Parma, Mich, News which shows the
nefarious system of the mail order
concerns, and how they victimize their
patrons:
"a farmer purchased two sacks OF
binding twine of large Chicago cata.
logue house, and upon it's arrival this
morning ball was unrOlled and meas
ured with a ball of Plymouth twine
sold by local dealers, when it was
found that the Chicago article was just
306 feet short of that sold at home.
There being ten balls in sack, it will
be seen that the farmer lost 6,120 feet,
or over mile of twine on two sacks
by not buying at home. Then, too,
the mail order house product was of
an inferior quality, being full of knots,
and one farmer standing near during
the measuring process remarked that
1t would never work on binder. Now
We wish to ask you, does it pay to
trade at home? Ii there is anyone
who is skeptica of this story, Just
call and we will show you"--Parma
Mich, News.
Bankrupt stock, merchandise that
reliable jobbers would not handle be.
cause of it's poor quality, the refuse
of the factories made over into cheap
merchandise. These are the things
the patrons Of the mail order houses
are buying. Here is an extract from
an article that appeared in the Sioux
Falls, s. D., Leader which explains
this point:
"The mail order house selling vehi.
cles by the catalogue route, is more
than pirate, it is a turkey -buzzard
1t takes the freaks and failures that
have died for want of real merit, and
tries to stifie legitimate business by
selling the embalmed remains at a re-
duced price.
"The whole nefs-ious mail order sys-
tenn, in so far as it relates to vehicles
almost the exceptional order that is
is conducted on the theory that it is
possible to take an inferior job and
foist it on a credulous people by
means of a reduced price and the
honest reputation established by the
neritOrious original which. it shame
lessly caricatures. These methods
have been crowned with success sole
ly by reason of the fact that mail or
der houses put more skill, energy and
money into advertising than do the
manufacturers to whom the American
people are directly indebted for the
best vehicles on the face of the earth
''The mail order business is the
tquack doctor of commerce. 1t prom
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31

ises much and guarantees nothing.
The directions are always on the in
side, and you have to buy a non-re-
turnable package before you can find
out what they are"
A. G. Enderton, of Walter, Okla,
writing to the Shawnee, Okla, Union
Signal, says:
"" The mail order houses
are the worst offenders of the pure
food law that we have to deal with.
They are the people who use short
weight tin cans and every year the
American public is cheated out Of
thousands of dollars by this alone.
l see where some mail
order houses offer paint at about what
good oil is worth. Now, does anyone
think that q mail order house can buy
good paint stun cheaper than anyone
else?
Nov suppose you find out what
crude petroleum, like what is pumped
out of oil wells cost. Very cheap, is
it not? That is the oil that is used
and what about the paint stun? How
about Spanish whitening. with just
enough white lead to stick it together?
e."
The question of prompt delivery Is
another question which mail order
house patrons should consider. 1t is
filed promptly. The reason for this
delay is that they do not cary the
goods in stock, and must purchase
them after your order is received. In
Chicago, for example, no mail order
house will sell to any person living
within the city limits, and the reason
for this is that these concerns pur-
chase large amount of the merchan-
disc they are selling from the retail
stores of the city, the proprietors of
which refuse to sell them the goods
except upon the condition that they
are not to sell to the people of the
city. When you order articles of con-
siderable bulk they must be ordered
of the factories after your order has
been received, and the result is that
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
Timely Resolution,

The occasion was the first day of
the year, the time was the hour in the
evening " en- mellowing influences
seem to be more powerful with some
men than with Others both combined
to turn the thoughts of two acquaint-
ances, as they made their way home
ward, to the new year and it's pos
sibilities.
Il am gwine to make resolution
for the new year." said one with the
firmness that alcohol sometimes i'm.
parts.
What are you gwine to make res
olutions 'bout?" inquired his compan-
ion as he safely got over the curb
stone Of the crossing.
Il am going to resolve to live the
higher life,p was the reply.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31

you not only have to wait for period
of days and weeks and sometimes
months before you receive them, but
they come to you piece-meal and you
have to pay freight on a number of
shipments instead of on one.
Here is the wall of mail order VIC
tim taken from the columns of the
Crookston, Mimi, Journal, which ex-
plains this point:
Sir: | want to register my kick
right here on catalogue houses and
their misleading methods. am
frank to acknowledge that have been
duped to perfection. The only differ
ence between me and the other vic.
tins being that | am little deeper
in and that l am willing to acknowl-
edge the corn.
TO begin with, last fall | with her
who is now my wife, decided to pur-
chase some stuff to furnish our new
home. Accordingly we ordered all
our furnishings Of a-catalOgue house
two weeks prior to our marriage,
which we thought would be plenty Of
time to get the goods around. But
by the Internal planets let me tell you
yight here that all the correspondence
diplomacy, appealing and pleading has
succeeded in landing only kitchen
table and later a mirror from Pitts.
burg My wife tells me ought to be
thankful for these, for We no longer
have to eat our meals on dry goods
box and | can look in the mirror and
see what fools look like.
Our honeymoon has been a very
dramatic experience; cooking on an
old gas plate, eating on dry goods
box sleeping on the floor and borrow
ing few necessary utensils of friends
ard neighbors. No more catalogue
goods for us. We hope to get enough
more goods by April l to celebrate
all FOOLS day in fitting manner"
"A VICTIM"
Mr.. Consumer, it is to your advan.
tage lin many ways to buy honest
goods at honest prices of your honest
local merchant. See what you are
buying. Get what you are paying for.
Keep the money of the community in
which you live at home, and build up
your town instead of tearing it down
for the benefit of the mail order
houses of the big cities.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
STATE NEWS PIcK.UPs
LIE PASSED
Between Ex-Judoe and the County
Prosecutor.

SteubenvilIe, O.-The recent indict'
ment OF Fred Fairbanks and the issu-
aIce OF alleged illegal licenses In this
county was responsible for > sensa-
tional encounter in the juvenile court
between ProsecUung Attorney w. r.
Alban and sx-Probate Judge F. H. Kerr
at the close Of the court. Judge Kerr
was only prevented from striking
Prosecutor Aiban by Mayor Scott, who
interfered.
The personalities started over the
examination Of q witness, Prosecutor
Alban interrupting Judge Kerr in what
ne termed unfair examination. Pros
ecutor Alban charged Kerr during his
term Of office with protiting from
known Illegal marriage licenses to the
tune of $1,000.
Judge Kerr gave the lie direct, and
insinuated that Prosecutor Alban was
four years finding out that licenses
were being issued illegally and then
ne only took occasion to indict Fair
banks to gain notoriety.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
Will Build CuIverts.

Middletown, O.-The Arkansas Cor
rugated Metal Culvert Co., incorporated
under the laws of Arkansas capital
5000, was organized here for the pur-
pose Of manufacturing a patent corru-
gated metal culvert at Little Rock,
the plant to be in operation April /.
The officers Of the company, all local
men, are c. c. Fouts. president; w II.
Johnson, vice president; J. p. Lang,
secretary; E. l.. Steuber, treasurer;
Hugh Morris, f. 0. Putney and r. r.
Williamson, directors.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
IN A CHILD'S LOVE
LONELY COUPLE FOUND HAPPI.
NESS IN LIFE.
Advent of Little Nellie Filled Void
Of Which Physician and His
Wife Were Scarcely Con.
scious.

Mrs. Dayton entered her husbands
study and sank into a chair.
"You look hot Eleanor" said DR..
Dayton, glancing up from a scientific
journal. Have you been out in the
SUM-"
"Yes, | walked over to the fresh
air camp to see the children who
were brought from the city this morn
ing"
81 wish you wouldn't go there so
often, Eleanor" he said, a trlfie Inn
patiently. "A visit to the fresh-air
camp seems to exhaust you more than
anything else"
But, Harry, l love to see the chill
dren. One such darling little girl came
this morning. She has yellow curls
and big brown eyes, and her name is
Nellie. l used to be called Nellie
when I was her age. She's from the
foundlings' home, and l couldn't help
wishing, Harry, that We"
Now, dear, don't bring up that sub
JCCI dEdlu 1Ou hhOW L uOuON N4C Vac
dom of adopting children, and you are
not strong enough to assume the care
of a youngster." The doctor smiled
tenderly at Mrs. Dayton. Haven't
you trouble enough looking after me
without flying to ills you know not
Off" AS he ceased speaking the tel
ephone bell rang.
I'm wanted at the camp he ex.
planned, hanging up the receiver and
reaching for his medicine case. "A
child lifted the top of a beehive and
has been badly stung."
An hour later Mrs. Dayton rose from
her porch hammock at the sound OF
her husbands voice. Here's a little
visitor, Eleanor!" he called.
She ran out to the motor car and
took in her arms limp little baby
girl. why, it's Nellie!" she said.
'Is it Nellie? l wasn't thinking
about anything but her stings, which
were pretty severe. Talk about
grateful patients, Elearor! When
managed to relieve the little things
sufferings she clung to me, and
simply couldn't get away from her.
So I told the matron we'd keep her
over night. You see her face and
arms are badly swollen, and she may
need more care than they'd have time
to give her at the camp"
81 like the doctor man." lisped Nei.
lie. 81 want to stay with him"
Mrs. Dayton kissed the yellow curIs
and laid the child in the hammock,
and the doctor disappeared into the
house, murmuring something about
preparing a soothing lotion.
One morning two weeks later the
matron of the fresh-air camp tele,
phoned Dr.. Dayton that the children
with whom Nellie had come were to
be returned to the city that day. She
requested him to bring Nellie to the
camp i'll time for the afternoon train.
To-day. Why, is the time up al
ready? Why-well, you see, think
my wife wished to keep hel-that is
I-hang it ALL beg your pardon,
| mean that we both want her"
He turned from the telephone and
saw Mrs. Dayton listening in the
doorway. Her eyes were bright and
her cheeks wore an unwonted glow
of health. She was a winsome pic
ture with Nellie hanging to her skirts
and the chain of flowers in her hands
! that she was weaving for the baby's
curls.
"Oh, Harry!" was all she said, but
the look of love and gratitude in her
eyes filled his own with happy tears.
Youths Companion.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
SHERIDAN VERY MUCH ALIVE.
Good Joke Brought of in the Days
of the Regency.

The First Gentleman in Europe die
tated to Sheridan letter making fun
of the grotesque appearance of a
crony of the Princes, Maj. Hanger,
at a bah given in celebration of the
Queens birthday. The Major, on
receipt OF letter, hastened to show
it to the Prince, who insisted that
only duel a outrance could wipe
out the insult On examining the
handwriting the Prince said he had
no doubt at all 1t was Sheridan's, and
the author. of "The School for Scan
dali was accordingly challenged. The
duel was of such vindictiVe deadli-
ness that it was not till three shots
on either side had been ;pterchanged.
and It'll Sheridan fell. that the honor
Of the Major was satisfied. KILLED,
sfiy G--!" exclaimed Capt. Morris, in
= voice of horror. and he and his
principal, the Major, fed the field.
Unspeakable was the relief OF the
lemossaful Major when Sheridan
turned up that night at the Princes
tiCa St W fksis - lAs'la Elsis
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
DREAMED COUSIN DIED,
And He Found It True-They Buried
Her As She Wished.

Kent, O.-Two months ago Claudia
Lemmons, aged q years, said to her
parents, at Akron: when die bury
me in my white dress in couch cas-.
ket, and place a red and white rose on
my breast" She was evidently in per-
feet health.
Amos Lemons, the girls father,
appeared in a dream, it is said, to his
nephew, Alva Lemmons, Of Kent, say
ing that his daughter was dead. The
nephew, worrying about the dream,
telephoned to Akron and was told that
Claudia had dropped dead when go-
ing to her work. She was buried and
her wishes were carried out to the
letter.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
RAISING Money For peserter.

Cleveland, O.-Prominent Cleveland
women have interested themselves in
the case of Frank Lucas. Of Cleveland,
who deserted from the United States
navy two years ago for the sake of
his wife and children and was betray.
ed month ago by his brother John.
Wealthy women began a movement to
raise money sufficient to bring Lucas
home and get him on his feet so that
he and his family may resume house
keeping.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
FIRE AND WATER
Did Great Damage in Furniture and
Carpet House.

Columbus, O.-Practically the entire
stock of the Bell Dana Co., North
Third street, was ruined by fire and
water. The stock is estimated to be
worth about $4,000 and It is believed
that the loss will total $4,000, which
is covered by insurance. The company
is enc of the large dealers in furni-
ture, carpets, etc, and occupied the
six-story building of e. o. Sohoedinger,
who occupied the other half with a
metal business. He was unable to
estimate the loss on the building,
which is considerably damaged. The
fire is supposed to have originated
from defective electric wires.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
chamnion "cheMer."

Dayton, O.-Adam Stine, president
Of the soldiers relief board, claims to-
be the champion tobacco chewer or
the Buckeye state, and in substantial
tion asserts that he has consumed
more than 10000 ounces during the
62 years he has "chewed."
He is still hale and hearty in his
18th year; and believes tobacco chew
ing has prolonged his life. He esti-
mates that he has disposed OF about
eight acres of the weed, and that It's
cost would exceed the price Of a. we'll
located city lot.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
RAREFooTEo IN WATER
She Was Forced To Stand Until HSs
Feet Were Frozen.

Waverly, O.-Charged with having
forced Rosa Hervey, their 13-year-old
niece, to stand barefooted in ditch
until her feet were frozen, George
Hervey and wife, colored, OF Morgan
town, were arrested. The child pre-
sented pitiful sight, her body covered
with burns and bruises, her toes and
fingers so badly frozen and gangren~
GUS that they will have to be ampu1
tated. Hevey who is a preacher, adj
mits that the child was inhumanly
treated, but charges his wife with be-
ing responsible for her condition. The
sight of the child so infiamed the large
crowd present at the hearing that the
prisoners were at once hustled into
Jail to avoid mob violence.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31

Woman's place on the newspapers
to-day is due to the law of demand
and supply. She has not crowded
man out. It is distinctively a posi-,
tion into which she has neither forced
her way nor sought in ever SO limited
a degree to oust man from that do
main in which since the invention OF
the art Of printing he had held eXclu,
Sive right
With the evolution OF successive
stages of progress the necessity OF
woman's work on the press became SO
apparent that the cry went forth
throughout the land. And it was be-
cause of that cry that this great field
Of woman's cleverness and industry
was opened up.
With trembling feet the pioneer
woman writer's crossed the threshold
Of the newspaper offices. 1t is with
assured tread she makes her way
to-day. In the comparatively short
space of time in which woman has
been an acknowledged factor on the
staff OF the daily press she has ac-
complished much. Before her there
yet stretches vast worlds. to con
quer. But that she will conquer, that
in the future she will achieve success
in this occupation is long since a
foregone conclusion.
Not the least powerful factor WON.
an brings to her work as newspa'
per writer is that birthright, intuition.
When added to this her keenly observ-
ant powers become trained along the
necessary Zines and her natural ten
acity of purpose has the strong slim.
illus of competition with men, it will
he realized that success is and must
continue to be her portion.
AS in all else Of the country S
work, there is great deal of human
nature in the newspaper world and
when a woman enters into such 3stiye
shoulderto-shoulder rivalry with men,
as has now of necessity developed in
all the active press matters of the
day, she must understand from the
start that she can expect no quar-.
ter To be upon the staff of an up
to-date daily means an amount of
work more exhausting mentally and
physically than in any other wage.
earning occupation can fall to the lot
Of human being. To be upon the
staff OF powerful newspaper means
TO live at concert pitch day after day,
month after month.
1t is only by the strictest observ-
ance Of the hygienic laws relating
more particularly to the regular eat
ing Of simple, easily digested, nourish.
ing food that any one, man or WON.
an, can expect to stand the strain.
Newspaper work at all times wears
upon the nerves, and yet, strange to
say. it Is women who bear it best.
Seldom, indeed, do they go under
from the effects of this work, while
the number of physical wrecks among
the men is wholly out of proportion
This, be it understood, where the
work and hours are identical.
1t sounds at first paradoxical to say
that the life of newspaper writer
is one of incessant repression and
continued development. The ire
mendous rush of competition, the be.
ing in active touch with the great
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
NATURAL GAS
offered To Cleveland From Territory
That viii Supply Cincinnati.

Cleveland, GA. S. White, of New
York, representing the Columbia Co.,
which recently secured control Of the
two Cleveland artificial gas companies.
proposed to Mayor Johnson to furnish
the city natural gas from the same
West Virginia field that will supply
Cincinnati. Mr.. White says Cleveland
by using natural gas. 1t is claimed
that the Columbia Co. and the East
Ohio Gas Co., which supplies Cleveland
with natural gas. have nothing in COM
mon,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
At A PISTOLS POINT,
And in Fear Confessed Ne Blew Up
Mcintosh, Declares Mecaskoy.

Akron, O-Thomas MeCaskey, who
confessed to the police that he placed
an Internal machine in the tooIehest
of Andrew Mcintosh, causing the death
Of Mcintosh when he opened It few
week ago, now insists that he was
forced into his confession by the pOllos
at the point Of q revolver.
. McCaskey made this declaration to
Rev. A. NJ. Bailey, pastor Of the Firss
Baptist church, who visited him in his
cell at the county jail
They sweated me till ! was half
crazy" declared McCaskey to the pas
tor. IT dida't place the internal ma
chine in the chest, but when they held
the revolver at my head and demanded
that l say did 1t, what was ] TO do?''
Rev. Mr.. Bailey says he will demand
an investigation of the detective ds1
partment
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31

dinner table. "How-how-how is
this?" he stammered. "I thought l
had killed you!" "No, my good fel.
low" replied Sheridan. II wasn't
good enough to go to the world above;
nor as yet quite bad enough to go to
that below; therefore, ! deferred my
departure. But, say, Hanger, didn't
| die well?" 1t was then explained
to the mystified Major how he had
been hoaxed by the Prince, who had
arranged that the pistols should be
charged only with powder.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
PINNED DOWN
BY An Overturned Engine For Three
Hours in Zero Weather.

Toledo, O.-On entering this city the
engine of Lake Shore passenger train
No. 23 was thrown from the track by
the deraller at Tower X. The engine
overturned, pinning Engineer J. w.
Brunswick, of Detroit, to the frozen
ground. In that position Brunswick
remained for three hours, one leg
broken, an arm mangled and the tenn
perature at zero. When removed he
was taken to st. Vincent'S hospital
He may recover.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
After M, &, Conference.

= Cincinnati.-Dr. Davis w. Clark, W.
B. Melish, William c. Heron, DR.. j.
B. Young and E. P Marshall were ap-
pointed at the conference of the Gin.
cfnnati M. E. committee to bring the
next general conference of the NJ. f.
church to this city. They will go to
New York to appear before the book
committee
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
Wifn kIeens Insurance,

incinnati-Creditors of A. T.. Rfch,
the absent .Ci9cinnati broker, can not
secure the insurance policies which
were issued On his life. Referee Greve
decides that these documents belong
to Mrs. Rich The face value OF them
amounts, TO about S45,000!
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-31
Basket Ball,

Piqua, OH fast but rough game
the New York basket bali team de-
feated the Piqua Y. M. C. A. Ave by
the score OF 16 to II. The visitors
were heavily penalized for fouling, burt
Piqua was weak in throwing to the
basket. The visitors passing was SD
Derior only at times.