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Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
REPUBLICANS
Will Meet Saturday in Mass
Convention.

The Republican convention Satur.
day bids fair to be a warm contest
between the adherents of Taft and
Fairbanks. Both sides are actively
at work and both sides are claiming
the advantage. The convention will
meet at l:30 o'clock p. M, and the
crowd will probably be so large that
a lineup in front Of the Court house
will be necessary.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
Candidate for Congress.

Frankfort, Ky, April II. j. &C.
Mayo, Of PaintsvilIe, is to be a can
didate for Congress in the Tenth
district, according to Representative
W. W. Hopkins, of Paintsville, who
was in Frankfort on business. Mr..
Hopkins said that Mayo would ac-
cept a nomination and would beat
Congressman John Langley so far
that the latter will never know that
he has been running.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
DIES IN ST. LOUIS.
Central Figure in Series of
Lawsuits.

st. Louis. Mo-, April 20.-Mrs.
Lennie Meadows, Of Fulton, KY,
central figure in quarrel between
a pastor and the citizens Of Fulton,
died last night at St.Luke's Hospital.
Mrs. Meadows was the daughter of
A. T. Mitchell, of st. Louis, and the
wife of w. w. Meadows. a wealthy
retired merchant and hotel proprie-
tor at Fulton.
Mrs. Meadows married life was
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23

Definite steps have been taken to.
ward the solution If the wood pulp
and newspaper cost question by
the introduction by Speaker Cannon
of a resolution for the appointment
of select committee of six mem
bers to investigate land obtain all
possible information" as to the rea-
sons for the increased price of white
paper, to the end that "needful leg
islation may be enacted"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
Wife No. Six.

Marrowbone, KY, April 2O.-In
the circuit court, in session at
Thompkinsville, on Saturday James
Trobaugh, aged 7S years, was grant
ed a divorce from Mrs. Mary Tro-
baugh. and on Sunday led to the
altar Mrs. Willette Wood, a widow
not yet 20 years old. 1t is Mr.. Tro
baugh's sixth marriage, three of his
wives having died and two others
having been divorced.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
Response Desired.

The Women's Federation of Clubs
are anxious to obtain reports of their
recent campaign on the educational
question. Those in charge of the
local work urge all who wish to re-
spond to the circulars sent out to dc
50 as sooIii ;.s ;s !; i;;ss: Gee: BE. G.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23

The damage suit of Robt. Hollo'
we'll and wife against about 80 al
legged night riders of Caldwell coun-
ty, is being tried in Federal Court
at Padueah this week.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
Partnership Dissolved.

County Attorney John G.. Duffy
and Senator Frank Rives have dis.
solved partnership and Mr.. Rives
has returned to his old Office on
Court street, next door to City At
torney Walter Knight.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23

All quantities under so pounds at
half a cent per pound. Special
prices on ton lots and over.
Ellis Ice & Coal Co.,
Incorporated.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23

Can he =nsArnaaEe,s...:y cured free
Of charge. Ba' se oflong stand
ing preferred. Just write your
name aud address. and description
of your case al q 'reaimert will come
to you abso'uri, prepaid by mail.
address,
OR. 3 GARFINKLE.
60sA 5th Ave. N Nashville, Tenn.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
OPTIMISTIC
VIEW TAKEN
Independent Telephone Men
In Session In Louis
vile.
PRES. HoGE'S REPORT,
All Lines Throughout Ken
lucky Will be Extended
During Summer.

Louisville, KY, April 22.-Forty
Independent telephone owners and
managers, representing practically
all of the independent telephone
lines in Kentucky, are in Louisville
to attend the meeting of the Ken
tucky Independent Telephone Asso-
citation, which is being held at the
office of the Home Telephone Com
pany, on Fifth street, between Wal
nut and Chestnut streets. Frank 6.
Hoge, of Pembroke, president of
the association, is presiding at the
meeting.
While this is the annual meeting
of the association, the purpose is to
change the date for holding the an
nual convention. Most of the mem
bers favor an amendment to the
constitution and bylaws providing
for the annual meeting to be held in
December. This amendment will be
adopted and the present officers of
the association will bere-elected and
will serve. until the regular Decem-
Der meeting. Other important
changes will be made in the bylaws
and constitution and new members
received.
President Hoge's Report.
At the morning session discussion
was given to the report of President
Hoge. He reported in detail the
work done during the year Of his
administration and told of the new
companies formed and the lines ex-
tended in that time. He said that
the total number of independent tel
ephones in use and operation in hen
lucky on April l was AZ, ,760. He said
that Kentucky offers a fine field for
independent telephone companies,
and said that many new companies
would be formed during the year.
1t is the purpose of al independ-
ent companies, MIR. Hoge said, to e2-
tend their lines, and much work will
be done during the summer months.
He said that hundreds of miles of
wires would be stretched and thou
sands of telephones installed.
"We want to reach the 100000
mark" said Mr.. Hoge, "and see no
reason why we should not"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
Icel Icel Icel

Our wagons are running daily
We solicit your orders at the follow
ing prices for the season:
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
TWO SHERIFFS
Renshaw Makes Formal De-
mand, Which is Refused.

Yesterday morning; Mr.. John NJ.
Renshaw assumed the Office of
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
Beautify


and be in keeping with the season.
Buy your Paint, Wall Paper aI
Window Shades from US. y
We sell the j. F. Kurfees Paint,
which is made in one grade only
and that the best. Thereis is no Sec
ond grade. This paint has all the
good qualities that a good paint can
have, durability, beauty in appear
ance, covering capacity and economi-
cal to consumer. r5
We also carry large u cSy
Lead, Oils and Colors and aiso
Brushes. Our stock of Wall Paper
is much larger than ever before
and everything entirely new, having
closed out our old stock last season.
A large selection of handsome and
beautiful designs.
We are selling these goods at pop
ular prices. Come and make your
selection now.
We have window shades in all
colors and to fit all windows and
mounted on the Harts Horn roller,
which is recognized to be the hGst
made, which is a very impoytSHt
feature in shades. Give usa 1all
before making your spring purchase
w. A. P'Pool & Son.
No. s. Main St.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
The Optimistic View.

All of the members Of the associa-
tion view the situation in Kentucky
from the independent standpoint,
with optimism. In the discussions
today they declared that the inde.
pendent companies were coming in
their own. Reports of the Legisla-
tive Committee were received and
the committee continued. This COM
mittee will look after legislation not
only in the state, but in the cities
and counties. and will help independ-
ent companies seeking franchises.
! The visitors will be entertained
with smoker" at The Seelbach
this evening. A number of promi-
nent independent telephone men
from out Of the state will be in at
tendance and pleasing programme
will be provided.
The officers af the association are
Frank c. Hoge, of Pembroke, presi
dent; w. J. Thomas, Of Shelbyville
first vice president; M. S. Taylor, OF
Lexington, second vice presidpnt; H
Bantin, of Lancaster, third vict
president; H. Jeffrey, of Paducah
fourth vice president; w. g. Turpin
of Henderson. secretary, and j. w
Chambers, of Winchester, treasurer
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-04-23
The Weather.

Partly cloudy Thursday. No de-
cided change in temperature.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
KEEPING UP-TO-DATE.
Pertinent Suggestions to storekeepers
AS to Doing Business Rightly.

Greatest successes in the retail
field, have been made by men who
have employed system in all branches
of their business. Men OF antiquated
methods who have made successes
would have made more money had
they been systematic in their bust
ness. Up-to-date methods of book
keeping, a system for checking over
goods as they arrive and as they 60
out when the orders are filed are most
essential. Stock should be kept In
such a way that the merchant does
not have to waste considerable time
before being able to know whether
he has any need of any line to fill
stocks.
One excellent way in which the
country merchant can keep his ideas
up-to-date is by spending a day or
two each year in visiting the large
cities and studying the methods EN-.
ployed by the firms engaged in his
line of business. A day off OCCASION
ally in some strange town where a
study Of windows and store interiors
and methods may be made is more
than helpful.
In the home town one can never get
away from the practices of his fellow
tradesmen, unless he benefits by ex
periences had elsewhere. In strange
place we are of the gazing crowd
and. we see things from a different
point of view than when at home.
Some criticism may point out q
fault that we have been guilty of a
hundred times and never noticed, and
criticism of a stranger sometimes
forces us to realize that we can i'm
prove in our own methods and we
profit by the suggestion.
A country town storekeeper may
learn much in a city but much of II
may be little suited to rural condi
tions. The small town merchant needs
some lessons from progressive mem
bers of his own class. Remember
that there are many who can excel
us in some ways. If we fail to keep
alive, some more enterprising com
petitor will beat us out.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
PRICE-CUTTING.
in the End the Consumers Are Not
Ones Who Gain 6eneft.

The average merchant is informed
as to the evils of price cutting. He
knows just where to draw the line.
just how far he dares go in lowering
quotations for the sake of drawing
trade. He realizes that even If the
principle of using leaders" to attract
customers is permissible, 1t is limited
in its usefulness and exceedingly dan
gerous when overdone. Not only is 1t
apt to degenerate into indiscriminate
cutting of prices, to lead to dissatisfac-
tion among customers. and has ten
dency, toward giving a store cheap
reputation, but it is inclined to arouse
suspicion among other merchants and
the people as well.
While the merchant is so thorough
ly grounded in the matter of price-cut-
ting the public has not been so gen.
orally educated. There are those who
exult when store managers are at war
believing that they may profit by the
losses of the competitors 1t Is just
the old fable of Aesop over again
the lion and the bear fight over the
prey until both are too much exhaust
ed to move, and then the sly fox comes
along and picks up the dainty and
bears it away to eat at his leisure.
The public rejoices over the price
cutting campaigns. 1t profits by them,
and on account of the fact that II
has been taught to consider prices
only, it feels justified in taking every
advantage offered It.
The store which starts campaign
of price reduction and bellows and
roars and screams for the sake of
drawing custom, will either go under,
because it has been foolish or be-
cause it has made up its mind to de-
fraud it's creditors, or else 1t sells
goods which are far lower in merit
and true value than 1t pretends.
The public loses, but it does not
realize it. If a store fails to pay its
creditors, the wholesalers and manu-.
facturers must make their losses good
in some way. If the store seeks to
foist inferior goods upon the public
at lower price, the public gets what
1t pays for, no doubt, but believes
that it has been cheated and robbed,
and comes to have a low opinion of
merchants as a whole. The whole
trouble lies in the fact that the pub
lie, instead of being prey to the
merchant, is really playing into the
hands of sharpers while seeking, too
often, to get the best Of the mer
chants.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
Seek to Attract Attention.

There are many ways in which the
average retailer can get up a cheap
though effectual advertisement. An
advertisement recently put out by a
Socal concern was cheap one in so far
as the expense of preparing and circu.
iating it was concerned. The fact that
it was a novel one, and one which
brought the subject matter to the very
door of the consumer made it a good
one. II was the advertisement of a
dye and cleaning concern. The
proprietor Of the concern seemed to
be the owner of very pretty Spitz
dog. He advertised his business
through the medium of this dog. One
day he would be red dog, another
day he would wear coat of green,
and so on for the various days of
the week. The odd colors attracted
the attention of all at once and in
many cases awakened sympathy. The
dog, as if jealous about his masters
business, had become perfect rover,
so the advertisement was seen about
Ahe town whenever the canine donned
a new coat. This is somewhat
after the idea employed by the man
sRgement of a large sewing machine
company that uses greyhoupds to ad-
vantage .
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
Loud and Lustv Advertising.

There can be seen every once in a
while the front of some erstwhile dig.
nified store plastered with flaming red
signs, announcing unheard-of bargains,
tremendous reductions, sensational,
disastrous, ruinous cuts in price, and
the rest of the well-worn expressions
so common to the cheapest grade of
stores. 1t seems that a merchant
is extremely apt to succumb to the
wiles of the man who believes in ad-
vertising through megaphone and
with a bucket of red paint. What man
has the most inf1uence-the man with
the loudest voice? What friend gives
advice which is heeded-the man with
the heaviest tone, who yells in your
ear and enforces it with crazy gestic-
ulations? Does the man who exag-
gerates extravagantly claim faith and
trust the most? Advertising is right
and proper but advertising with such
methods is cheapening and harmful.
1t appeals to the senses in the wrong
way.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

LoCkPoRT.-The government Off
cials have notified boat captains at
Olcott Beach, In response to inquiries,
that the waters in Lake Ontario will
probably not recede this year. They
are two feet above the normal level
due to the fact that dam has been
constructed in the st. Lawrence. The
rise in the water has worked immense
damage at the beach.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

GREENSBURG.-T suit for dam
ages of G. w. Kiser VS. the Kerbaugh
Construction Co. ended, the jury
bringing in a verdict for $615. This
was the second of 26 suits instituted
by residents and property owners Of
Bradenville as a result of an eXplo-
sion of dynamite in 1903 that wrecked
the little town. In both instances
damages have been awarded.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

KlTTANNING. -Gored by a mad
dened bull, George Stivanson narrow
ly missed death. He was one of sew
eral Leechburg men camping along
Crooked creek, and entered the bulls
pasture. 1t attacked him and gored
his left side, making a cash Is inches
NAL had trampled him, infiicting seri-
Gus injuries.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

BUTLER. "A severe wind storm
swept Marwood and the countryside,
causing damage estimated at several
thousand dollars. Five oil rigs were
leveled, acres of timber destroyed,
buildings blown over and telegraph
wires along the West Penn railway
torn down.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
HARRlsBuRG.-state Health Com

RRIsBURG.-State Health Com
missioner Dixon has hent letter to
the state pharmaceutical examining
board regarding the free distribution
of anti-toXin in which he emphatically
answers in the affirmative the COM
plant that the distribution is not
worth while. The commissioner
quotes many figures to prove that the
distribution is highly beneficial.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
PHILADELPHIA.-The BODY of \

PHTCNUEEPHTA,- body of Mrs.
Annie Cassner, aged q years, was
found by the police lying on the side
walk with a stab wound in the heart.
A bloody butcher knife found lying in
the street a square from the body led
to the arrest of Robert Brown, aged
% years, butcher, who had paid
court to Mrs. Cassner before her mar
riage.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
HARRJsBURG.-Food Commissi

er Foust in an address at Erie is re-
ported as saying that eight years ago
80 per cent of the food specimens pur-
chased for testing in the open mar
kets of this state were adulterated.
The vigorous work of the inspectors
has reduced this percentage at the
present time to between three and five
per cent.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
GRE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at

GREEN VII L E.-Trouble at the
Filler mines at Pardoe following the
strike in the Butler-Mercer coal fields
and the determination of many opera
tors to work non-union eliminated in
the burning of the pump house and
hoist by incendiaries.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
scRANToN-The informal,

sc RAN T o N.-The International
Text Book Co. at its annual meeting
decided to push its correspondence
school work in foreign lands. A $780,
100000 concern, known as the Interna-
tional Educational Publication Society,
has been formed to carry on the work.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

ONONGAHELA.-J Vernon Smith,
brakeman on the Monongahelia di-
vision of the Pittsburg, Virginia &
Charleston railroad, was thrown from
a car and so badly injured that he
died at Memorial hospital here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
FRANkLIN.-Miss M

y TfFNTNTN I'M FIISo 4TdI y IIUDIGT,
aged sc, pulled the plug out of an al
cohol barrel to see what it was like in
side. The vapor ignited from a lighted
match in her hand and she was severe
ly burned in the explosion which fol-
lowed
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
coNNELLsVILLE.-As the res

NNELLSVILLE.-AS the result
Of an explosion of one of the 13
naphtha tanks of the American Reduc-
ton Co. along the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, near West Newton, four en-
ployes were seriously burned, one fa-
tally.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

HARRISBURG.-W. B. Harman,
foreman of the Pennsylvania railroad,
was struck on the head by tie while
directing some work near this city.
His skull was crushed and he died
in few hours.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
GREEN Blu RG.

GREENSBURG.- -Anello Costable.
21 years old, an Italian, was shot
through the lung at Mount Pleasant
during a dispute over a $3.50 board
bill with Nicola Visconti. He may
die. Visconti escaped.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

HARRiSBURG.-S Game Com
missioner Kalbfus just after his re-
turn from trip to the game preserves
in Clinton county said that game will
be plentiful this fall
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

PHILADELPHIA.-With every ap-
pearance of having been strangely
poisoned by drinking ale, w. H. Will
son, physician, was suddenly strick-
en- i'll at his home and died shortly
after being admitted to a hospital.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

WASHlNGTON.-With the marriage
Of Miss Sara McNelly and Miss Flora
Sharpe, 76 members of the Sunday
school class of H. w. Donehoo, at
Cross Creek, this county, have en-
barked upon the matrimonial sea.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

GREENSeURG. Vincent Pustett.
aged 6S, native of Bavaria, for 35
years known throughout western
Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio as an
eccentric bookbinder, is dead here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
BEAVER FALLs.-William Bloc

BEAVER FALLS.-William Bloom
field, one-armed man, saw S-year-
old Chris Kaercher, son of a local po-
liceman. struggling in the Beaver river
and plunged in after the drowning boy
Although handicapped by his clothing
and having but one arm he managed
to get the lad ashore.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
BEAVER r

BEAVER FALLS.-George w. Muir
ton, ager So, a well-known citizen
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head, dying instantly. Ill
health and dependency were the
cause.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

WASHINGTON.- - Lawrence Peter
son, 16 years old, of Donora, squeezed
nm old mine cap in wise. In the ex-
plosion that resulted Peterson's face
was horribly burned and one eye was
destroyed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

AlTOONA.-To save the life of a
pet fox terrier James Davis, II years
old. sucked the poison from the
wound after the animal had been
bitten in the neck by a copperhead
snake
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

WASHINGTON. - Frenzied by liq-
nor, James Bruse stood at a crowded
street corner and emptied a revolver,
apparently to see the crowd scatter
One bullet passed through a window.
No one was injured
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
Chinese Salt Lax.

In China the salt tax is a govern.
ment monopoly. 1t In one OF the prin.
cipal revenues of tho empire, yielding
about sS, S,0Q9, eco & year. ---.----
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
MONONGAHELA.-A

ONONGAHELA.-A new 50-ton
open hearth furnace at Page Woven
Wire Fence Co. was lighted recently
Mrs. f. S. Ougheltree acted as sponsor
in the firing of the furnace, which was
christened Betsy"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
Picked Up in '->zst'4S
<st'f*~ssS"E Pennsylvania

YoRk.-The Rosedale -four mill and
six adjoining buildings were destroyed
by fire in Railroad borough, causing a
loss of 81 900.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

NEW CASTLE.-Frank II. Ruby of
Beaver Falls sustained perhaps fatal
injuries at Mahoningtown. He swung
aboard a freight train, his foot
slipped and he was dragged several
yards.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

WASH INGTON.-During an electri-
cal storm which passed over this com
munity three large tanks of the West
Penn Oil Co. at Meadowlands near
here, filled with oil, were struck.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

NTOWN.-Gasoline spilled by
a boy, who wiped it off with a rag
and set the rag on fire, almost
caused the destruction of the village
of Baumanstown, Carbon county.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

ITTANNING.-Mrs. VIM. Thaw's
Meromial church, erected in memory
Of her father, the late Josiah Copley,
was struck by lightning and totally
DESTROYED
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09

MONONGAHELA.- DonneiIy,
aged 35, unmarried, was instantly
killed by a Pittsburg & Lake Erie OBJ
servation train.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-09
kiTTANNING.-J. A.

III iANNlNS.-J A. hay, ldnd
agent for the Pittsburg Buffalo Co.,
filed here the satisfaction papers can
ceiling a $3,OO0,OOO mortgage against
the company in Allegheny, Armstrong.
Greene and Washington counties.