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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24
Building Operations Brisk.

Building operations have become
active during the week and there is
Il lively demand for carpenters. Work
was resumed on the Episcopalian
chapel Monday. Three churches are
now building, the one just mentioned,
the Christian church which is ap-
preaching completion and the Con.
gregational church the foundation
of which ia now completed and work
is being rushed on the superstructure.
Work on four or five fine new resi-
dences has been commenced this
week. Edward Sheppard is building
Il 81. 900 residence on his lots on Sec.
Ond street in the Anon addition near
James CrOwell's The building will
he IN the Colonial stvle and in mater
ial and finish will he second to none
In the city. Work on the found alton
Of u residence In the same locality
has. been commenced by Mrs. NJ. +.
Staley. For G. o. AndersOn's house
on Washington street the plans are
completed and the estimates OF the
cost OF material made up and the
work of getting the stuff on the
ground commenced. It will cost
$500. e. w. Story will build a
$1,000 seven room house ON the lots
south Of DR.. HewetsOn's which he
recently purchased from H. NJ. Ash.
baugh.
Try the fancy dipt nuts at Reeves
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24
Guaranteed Bank Deposits.

People insure their goods by land
and sea. The custom is of long
standing, 1t has not driven cap
able shipbuilders and navigators
out of business, nor retarded the in
PRODUCTION of improved methods of
house construction, nor yet laid a
withering blight of paternalism and
socialism upon the world. In view
of which we hardly understand why
a proposal to insure bank deposits
should produce such commotion.
The graranty of deposits, as en-
acted in Oklahoma or as proposed
in the Fowler bill, is simply a sys-
tenn of insurance. A very small
tax, or premium levied upon all de-
posits-something like forty cents
on the thousand dollars, we believe
would have covered all losses suf-
fered by national bank deposits thru
bank failures. Such insurance
would not put good bank manage
ment at discount.
Nobody deposits money in any
bank unless he believes it to be
thoroly safe. He choose one bank
rather than another because it is
more convenient or more accomo-
dating, or for some such reason.
He would still choose the bank that
did his business most satisfactorily,
and therein the good banker would
still have all his due advantage over
the Indifferent or poor one. Every
good banker ought to favor every
proposal which would improve the
banking business as a whole, which
would increase public confidence in
banks in general, which would tend
to make every man with any money
deposit it in some bank instead OF
boarding it, which would lessen the
probability of panic among deposit
ors in unquiet times. es.-Saturday
Evening Post.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24
CaptNevinsSustains
Serious Injuries.
Breaks Leg and Fractures Should.
er When Wagon Turns Over
a aBank.

Captain James Nevins had leg
broken, a shoulder crushed and
suffered other injuries by the over
turning of his wagon down an en-
bankment in Coyote Canyon last
Friday night.
Captain Nevins is a homesteader
in the Tucker-C -Clodfelter neighbor-
hood in Horse Heaven. He was
driving home with his wife and lit
tie nephew, about 9 O'Clock last
Friday evening and in the tortuous
windings OF the Coyote Canyon lost
the road and drove off an embank-
ment, the wagon turning over and
falling on him inflicting the severe
injuries, especially 50 to a man of
his extreme age. Mrs. Nevins and
the boy luckily were not much in
injured. It was necessary for them
to walk between two and three
miles to Mr.. Edwards for help. A
messenger was at once dispatched
for the Doctor and the party re-
turned to the place of the accident.
Mr.. Nevins was found to be suffer-
ing such severe pain that it was i'm
possible to move him and he was
cared for as well as possible on the
spot until DR.. Crosby arrived at 1
o'clock a. m. An opiate relieved
his agony and it was then possible
to move him to his home where the
broken ankle was set and wounds
dressed, and at last report he was
resting easily and improving.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24
N. P. Laying Heavier Sted.

This week the track laying crews
have distributed the new steel ratls
TO be laid on the main llne. This
crew will put down the new track
for stretch OF twenty miles begin
ming ut the bridge. The new rail- 10
an 85 pound while the old rails were
70 pound. The passing track here
will he relaid witt, rails taken from
the main line. During the summer
the track from PascO to EllensOurg
will he relaid with the heavier steel.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24
Taxes Coming in Fast.

The taxpayers of the county of
Benton are unusually prompt in
their taxes this year. This is a
strong evidence of the prosperous
condition of the property owners.
According to Treasurer r. B. Walk
er more than So per cent of the
taxes for 1907, or more than $780,
600, had been paid into his hands
by April 1st. The total amount
to be collected exceeds S146, 900.
The disbursements for the quarter
were $51,S54.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24
The New Boat "The KenneWick.

The construction work on the new
passenger boat 1.-The kennewick"
is about three-fC urths done now, we
are informed by James Crowell of the
kennewick transportation COM
pany. This week the contract for
bringing the bout over the Portage
road at Cello was made. The COM
pany have selected seats for the
passenger rooms similar to those
found ON the hest tourist sleepers.
They are OF rattan. adjust able to
any angle and have Il comfortable
foot rest Other furnishings are to
match. The boat is expected to
arrive here about May Goth.
Come In and try our ice cream and
cake at the Columbia Cafe.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24
taft By Acclamation."

company the team.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24

In double loaded editorial near
ly two columns long the Chicago
Evening Post declares that in so
far as anything may be humanity
predicted the nomination Of VIM.
Howard Taft at the Coliseum in
June is certainty" This state
ment is followed by a carefully rea-
soned argument to the effect that
the good of the republican party and
the good of the country will be serv-
ed by the withdrawal of 'favorite
son" candidates from the field and
the early notification to the nation
that Taft is the unanimous choice
of the republican party for leader in
this years campaign.
Referring to the list of avowed and
inferential candidates, the Evening
Post says:
Take first the race for the nomi-
nation. One year ago, in the judg-
ment of thr county, the prize lay
between Charles Evans Hughes of
New York, Charles Warren Fair
banks of Indiana, Philander G..
Knox of Pennsylvania, Robert M.
LaFollette of Wisconsin, George B.
Cortelyou of New York, Leslie NJ.
Shaw of Iowa and William Howard
Taft of Ohio.
His most friendly political
critics must admit that Mr.. Hughes
golden opportunity finally passed
with the half-hearted indorsemsnt
given him Saturday in the New
York convention. The movement
toward Fairbanks lost its substance
some months since and has vanisht
into thin air. Speaker Cannon,
held up as a powerful possibility
because of his close acquaintance
thruout the entire union, has Sc
cured simply a complimentary vote
in the state of Illinois, and only
four delegates elsewhere. Mr.. Knox
has Pennsylvania, but even Con-
grcssman Dalzell, his nominator-to-
be, has inadvertently admitted that
there is neither heart nor hope in
his candidacy. The absolute isola-
ton of Senator LaFollette in his
own party makes his nomination
an impossibility. Secretary Cor
telyou has not been considered
seriously since the brief cabinet cri-
sis of the winter made him under
stand that his campaign could not
be furthered by the use of federal
patronage. AS for Mr.. Shaw, he
has himself confessed that he has
reached oblivion"
The nomination of Taft by accla-
nation, as suggested by the Eve
ming Post, would be most happy
consummation. 1t would signal
lied a united party. It would
sound the death-knell of factional-
ism. 1t would mean the continual
ton of the great forward movement
inaugurated by Theodore Roosevelt.
It would be the dealing Of a stun
ming blow to the democratic party
at the very opening of the campaign.
It would be serving notice that the
republican party will take up the
tariff question as a business propo-
sition and adjust the same to the
current needs of commerce, indus
try and labor, in line with the pol
lev which in the past has convinced
the masses of the people that the
protective program is the key te
American supremacy thruout the
world.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-24
Opening Game at ConneII.

The Kennewick baseball aggre-
cation will open the season next
Sunday at Connell where they cross
bats with the local team. Kenne-
wick defeated Connell last year and
hope to repeat the performance in
the next game. The following is
the lineup for the team:
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29
ADVERTISING ABLY DISCUS.
SEQ.

In buying an article which has
been literally advertised one quite
naturally assumes that he is paying
for the advertising. 1t would seem
reasonable that the shoe manufactur-
err who spends 100000 per year in
advertising and sells 100000 pairs
of shoes must needs add Ioc to the
price of each pair of shoes sold in
order to cover his advertising out
lay. If this were true, the manufac-
turer who advertised his product
would be laboriug under a great han.
dicap and would be- unable to meet
the competition-ofth the commandments
ing manufacturer rim the markets OF
the world. Fortunately the facts are
just the reverse and the manufacture
err who does 100000 worth of adj
vertising each year and who makes
100000 pairs of shoes each year Is
able to quote his produce in the open
market at 10 cents per pair less than
the price quoted by the non-advcr-
Using shoe manufacturer. The buy
ing public is beginning to understand
that the purchaser of advertised
goods does not pay for the advertis.
ing.
Who pays for the advertising?
Let me give you two concrete ex-
amples and in introducing them let
me say that the man who patronizes
he non-advertising merchant creates
fund which pays for the advertis-
ing of the progressive merchant.
I recently entered haberdashery
in Chicago, one of the dignified mems
furn shing establishments, the pro-
prietors of which do not believe in
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29
LITTLE HOME TALKS.

In the dead of winter the busy far
mer prepares for the life of summer.
The odds are against the fellow that
goes into the business OF farming and
doesn't take any stock in it.
The best way to tickle the arid far
mer is to teach him to tickle the soil
so as to retain the moisture.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29
TRUTH

$500 net profit. which he was able
to transfer to his private bank ac-
count at the end of the year, and he
did no advertising. This manufac-
turer this year has spent so far $I6,-
600 in advertising, has sold $4,000
worth of his produce and his net pro-
fits date after paying his advertis-
ing bills are more than $1,000 viii,
two months business still before him.
In addition to having made an in
crease of $I45,ooo in his sales and
of ST. 500 in his net profits, he has
been able to make an average re-
duction in the price of his product of
10 per cent.
This manufacturer, whose line is
machinery, has not personally paid
for his advertising His customers
who are today buying his product at
a reduction of IS per cent under last
years figures have not paid for the
advertising, and the companies from
whom he buys his raw materials
steel, iron, copper, brass, etc.-have
not paid for his advertising, because
the prices of these materials have
advanced during that period; and,
last of all, his employees have not
paid for his advertising, because he
has of his own free will or of neces-
sity advanced the wages in his shop
an average of per cent during the
year. This $4,000 worth of adver-
Using then was not an expense to the
people from whom he bought, was
not an expense to his help. was not
an expense to himself, and was not
an expense to his customers. Final
ly, it was not an expense at all, but
an economy.
Who pays for the advertising?
1t is not far cry to the time when
you and / will refuse to patronize
the non-advertiser, knowing that he
will not be able to sell us as good
goods at as low prices as the adver-
tiser. Advertising enables manufac.
turers to increase their output, en-
ables merchants to increase their
sales, enables banks to increase their
deposits, enables the laborer to in
crease his earnings, and costs ulti-
mately nothing. Advertising may be
as has been said, an educational force,
but advertising surely is the greatest
economic force in the commercial
and financial world.
Who pays for the advertising?
The other fellow. The one who
does not advertise and the people
who deal with him.-Franklyn Hobbs
in Trade Register.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29
advertising. purchased a four-in-

parently was worth the money. Lat
err in the day visited the store of
haberdasher who advertises quite
freely, and while there I purchased
a four-in-hand scarf which was an
exact duplicate in pattern and quality
and made by the same manufacturer,
but the asking price and the price
charged me was only as cents. The
next day I visited mems furnishing
store which is owned by very lib
eral advertiser, and there purchased
an exact duplicate of the other two
scarfs for SO cents.
Now, please note that I bought
these three tiessin the city of Chicago;
that / paid so cents to the merchant
who does not spend dollar in adj
vertising; paid As cents to a mer-
chant who does advertise, and I paid
SO cents to merchant who is known
as big advertiser.
When l bought. the tie for As cents
I not only did not help pay for the
advertising of the store, but saved
S cents, and when l bought the Tie
for SO cents I not only did not paw
my share of the advertising bills, but
I saved IL cents. Now I was assured
by the last merchant that he made
a fair profit, to be exact, 22 per cent
on the sale, and yet I saved IL cents.
When I bought the tie for so cents
| created fund of I2 cents by pay
ing IL cents more than the goods
were worth and when bought the
tie for As cents I created fund OF
7 cents by paying 7 cents more than
the goods were worth, creating to-
tai fund of 10 cents, and l am firm in
the belief that this 10 cents finally
finds its way into the pockets of the
advertising merchants and pays their
bills. 1t comes to them, of course,
in an indirect, roundabout manner
in the form of increased sales, hence
increased profits, hence the ability to
sell goods at lower prices.
Who pays for the advertising?
Another concrete example and one
perhaps easier to comprehend, has
to do with the purchase of cake OF
soap. recently purchased cake
of soap in retail drug store which
is very liberal advertiser and for il.
I was charged ID cents and was as
sured by the proprietor of the store
that he made a profit on the trans
action. Later the same day I Wis
tied five retail drug stores interview
ing the proprietor OF each, and was
informed by each one that he never
advertised aside from showing goods
in his store windows. In each Of
these stores I was asked rs cents
for cake of .he same soap, the iden.
teal article which l had purchase 1
earlier the day for IA cents of an
advert ~ merchant,
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29

says that the health of the machine is
not always indicated by the odor of
its breath.
"The crusht worm will turn" but
the fruit grower is to blame if the
worm turns to cider.
The newly married couple usually
has to face a pretty long bill for
house furnishings, but the storks bill
is longer.
"What are you doing now," asked
a friend.
Nothing; Nothing" he replied,
land it is the hardest work I have
ever done"
Newspaper Reading.
Everyone should read a good news
paper and have an interest in the cur
rent history of the country. The diff
ference between the man that reads
and keeps in touch with local and ma
tional developments; and the fellow
that does not read and doesn't know
or care why big stick is used on
both bulls and bears, is the difference
between the prince and the peasant.
The studious, dligent reader de-
velops prejudices and opinions that
lead him to pursue his pet subjects
in the magazines, and it follows then,
as sure as the night follows the day,
that he will become marked and
sought after as one in authority.
Conversation.
Conversation is for the speaker; it
is he that gets the greatest benefit
from the intercourse. The silent,
speechless fellow in a crowd is pretty
obscure, and he always will remain so
if he chooses to smother any ideas
that may happen to come to him, by
not framing them into sentences when
the opportunity arrives.
An idea may knock but once for
expression, and if the feeble knock
is ignored it may never come again
and the speechless fellow loses; and
so does the whole world, but he loses
most who does not do his share of the
talking when his turn comes.
Your brain is different from any
other brain, and impressions made on
your mind are different from those
made on any other mind, and there
fore they should be expressed, and
the time to express them is when they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-03
Y. M. C. A. WORK IS
 WELL UNDER WAY
BIG CROWD IS EXPECTED AT THE ASSOCIATIONS BUILDING TO- NIGHT TO HEAR ELECTION RE-
 TURNS AND VARIED PROGRAM

The membership campaign of the r. NJ. c. A. is now getting well under way. the committees have nearly completed their organization and the enthusiasm is increasing. The results will be posted every evening at s o'clock and the stand ing will be reckoned in points. Every dollar paid in will count as a point Fol lowing is the present standing of the teams by points;
 Real estate and insurance, F; doctors, F; office men, Il; shop men, 6; steel and iron men, 6; independents. salesmen, col leges and schools, lawyers and bankers o.
 The Y. M. c. A. building will doubt less be taxed to its utmost capacity to- night. The supply of invitations has been nearly exhausted and much interest is centered in the various events
 The concert will begin promptly at 8 O clock and the following well-known tall ent will assist in the programmes: Miss Ida Nunnally, Miss Mary Battle McClung, Miss Carrie Wolf, Prof. W. H. Davis, Prof. A. J. Moore and MT. J. B. Tarrant. McAdory and Miss Cecil Myers will re- cite. Memolrs orchestra will enliven the occasion and the basketball, baseball and other athletic features will be pleasing and exciting. The election returns will be announced and posted as rapidly as they are received.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-03
ELECTION DAY IS ID BE DAMP AFFAIR Crowds Are Expected to Be
 Down Town Tonight FORECASTS ARE ALL IN Four Voting Places Will Be Open In the City, While 77 Will Be Avail
 able Throughout the
 County.
FORECASTS ARE ALL IN

Election day dawns dark, damp and dreary. At o'clock the polls will open, and the voters. out of sheer party spirit, will have to trudge through the rain to cast their votes. No gaudily stream cred carriages will halt at the curbstone to hurry away to the polls.
 It is hoped that by nightfall the heav- chs will have ceased their weeping for the defeated Bill" and the crowds will gather on the streets in front of the flashing canvases to find out whether his name begins with "B' or or"
 General forecasts are to the effect that the good roads amendment is the only safe winner on the Alabama ticket, eX- cept the democratic nominees. There is no doubt but that democracy will carry every district and every state office, all though the republicans are making great claims.
 All forecasts of campaigners in Ala hama have been made and printed. The procession is ready to start, the prelude has been played.
 young places are prepared as usual aI four places in the center of Birmingham, the city hall, the Second ward, the ice factory, and the southside fire depart ment, while boxes are placed in the re- gently added territory, and there are 77 boxes in the county.
 Tonight, as quickly as the votes are cast, and the machinery can discov- CT the trend of affairs, they will come flashing over the wires and upon canvas sheets all over the city, in the clubs and theatres, the returns will be watched by thousands.
 Better facilities have been prepared this time than ever before. If it is a land slide in any of the deciding states the result may be known by 9 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-03
DAYS RECORD IN
 COUNTY COURTS

In the three divisions of the city court l and in Judge Colemans division of the circuit court no sessions will be held to- day on account of the national election. It is probable tNat all of the other d. visions of the county courts will ad-
 Journ early in the day.
 In the first division of the city court
 yesterday the following cases were dis
 missed: J. c. Turner ct al vs Walman
 Machine and Foundry company White
 Blakeslee Manufacturing company vs. w. L.. Cornell, Eugene Foster ys. Bank of
 Ensley and Maude s. Hooper vs. Henry W. Perry ct al. In the case of Julia Grover vs Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company a judgment for $9O
 was rendered. A judgment for the plain tiff was also rendered in the case of the Corona Coal and Iron company vs. E. w.
 Brandon.
 In the second division of the city court
 the case of Katie Coefeld vs. Birming-
 ham, Railway, Light and Power company was on trial. It was a suit for $lOW0
 damages for alleged personal injuries.
 The case was placed in the hands of the jury just before the adjournment of court
 l In the third division of the city court
 d verdict. for $50 damages was returned
 in the case of Will Jones vs Birming- l ham Railway Light and Power company l The plaintiff in the case of John C.
 Parks vs. semet-solvay company failed
 to make out a case and the suit was 1 dismissed. The case of R. L. Lott Vs D. s. Fades is on trial. 1 In the ehancery court the following
 cases were disposed of yesterday: Carl Carlson ys. Eric Ericson. decree sustain
 ing demurrer; D. II. VanIngen vs. r. J. Duffey, decree everything demurrer Standard Portland Cement company Vs. ]. c. Bass ct al, decree sustaining de-
 murrer.
 In the case of J. E. Dryer, admnistra- tor. vs. Alfred Eubank ct al, the register
 made d sale of certain piece of real
 estate for $106S. 4s.
 l The cases of l.. H. Harrison vs. C.
 A. Howze and H. c. Hodges ct al. vs.
 Walter Mims, petitions for receivershlps,
 are set for trial in the chancery court today.
 In Judge Colemans division of the clr- | cult court yesterday a judgment in favor | of the defendant was rendered in the case 1 of Julia Booth vs. E. l. Dupont PoWdef company.
 In Judge Lanes division of the circuit court the case of Daisy Hamilton Vs. | Louisville and Nashville Railroad com pany is on trial. It is suit for dam ages for alleged personal injuries.