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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
Talks ON ADVERTISING
V.-Getting New Customers
And Holding Them
By Henry Herbert Huff

"Mr. Business Man, it costs just much for running
hundred dollars worth of goods per day. does nog You call
them fixed expenses Now the only way lower fixed expenses
is to increase sales Up certain point all business
brings added profit pays lay hold all you possibly
Advertising offers the best for increasing trade
New customers attracted by
ally low prices An instance told of old lady who
miles get spool of cotton thread for cents she purchased
several dollars worth of goods before leaving the The
has accomplished its mission when gets prospective patron
within the doors That the difficult part then up
to the merchant make the most of the opportunity and win
him for permanent customer
The merchant who utilities newspaper publicity the whole
world to draw trade from He confined to no particular neigh
borhood He knows barriers Wherever can send his ad
verng there he solicit business Some of the more amb
ous country merchants drawing business from the big owns
The advertisers opportunities unlimited Through the news
paper he reach people he perhaps
heard of his store"
"But how about holding them?"
THAT depends much upon the merchant &c the adver
using II customers receive satisfaction they continue to
But nothing HOLDS them like continued bargain offers
Have few Saturday Keen the farmers oe
ing what will come next"
What advice you give the starting in busness
what at with good judgment could imagined
than for merchant to town. store the shelves
and counters with goods attractive displays
windows put competent the counters and then
WAIT for business WAIT for people in buy; WAIT
Tor them to find what he has SELL to
learn of his exstence And yet for
to do ths Advertising would have carried all
prospective buyers He spares stock and
the finest negcs the greatest Should
inquire why he spends nothing for publicity would probably
say that pleased patrons and his displays sufficient adj
versng Word of mouth publicity best but it too slow
Window newspaper announcement often necessary call
tenton to it."
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11

Gilbert Masters bought a new
foot boat from Joe Hackworth for
$11O.
Mrs. Eliza johnson, of Lower
Bend, visited relatives and friends
here, last week.
Mrs. Ella Gould sold two hogs
to Mess1s. W. L. Witt and Sidney
Richardson for $22. Il
Mrs. Eliza J. Witt, widow of Wee
den Witt, is very i'll and not ex-
pected to recover; she had stroke
sof paralysis some time ago.
Uncle Joe Gentry, of Union City,
wa in this section Saturday.
George Richardson left last week
for Saybrook, Illinois, where he
will visit his sister, Mrs. Ella Bar
EFT.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
NO TOWN KNOCKERS.
How CoryviIIe Got Rid of a Bunch
of UnprogresSives.
THE YOUNG MEN ORGANIZED.

And the Cracking Critics couIdn't
Stand the Ordeal of Initiation Into
the Mysterious Order of the G. BIS.
A Story of Masks and Spades.
There was something doing In Cory
vile. The G. BIS were getting busy.
Who were the G. BIS? Oh, just fol-
low this little story and find out!
For many years Coryville had had
on hand an oversupply Of citizens
whose chief activity had to do with
knocking the town. These fellows were
but a small group, only four or five,
but they did harm. Half dozen mag
gots can spoil the best cheese ever
made. So these town knockers, these
croaking critics, were slowly under
mining the good reputation of Cory
vile by their incessant chorus of defa-
nation. Nothing suited them. They
opposed every movement for the good
Of the town. They croaked and knock
ed and clamored and hammered when
ever anybody suggested a street i'm
provement a new building, the organ
tzation Of a business mems club or
anything Of the sort.
Finally the G.. BIS were organized.
OF course they did not take the knock
ers' bunch into their confidence There
was reason and a good one for not
letting the knockers know. The G.
BIS were organized in secret. The
initial meeting was held in an old
abandoned schoolhouse half a mile out
of town. Grips and passwords and
other secret signs were adopted. Even
a mystic apron was devised, but it
was not to be worn where aprons
usually are worn. 1t was to be tied
around the head just below the eyes,
thus serving as a mask.
The G. BIS had been in existence
only month or so, holding their meet
ings every Friday night in the old
schoolhouse, when one of the knockers
discovered that such a society had
been formed. He straightway notified
his brother knockers. The group met
in grocery store.
Seems to be something mighty myS-
ferrous about it." remarked the chief
knocker.
Eyes; can't imagine what they're up
to-" said another. "The society seems
to have thirty or forty members, and
most Of them are the younger element
around town, young business men,"
''How did you find that OUT" asked
knocker No. 8.
'Why, one OF the members told me-"
replied the other.
Al Of which was quite true. It was
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
Me
Lincoln Centenary
The Assassination of
Lincoln
By JAMES A. EDGERTON

ICoL. ght, 1908. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
WITT SPRINGS,

Mr.. ]. H. Richardson, of Rice
Station, was the guest of Fl. C.
Wits family, Sunday.
The W. N. Gould gasoline loaf
made a trip from this place Sunday
to the mouth of Polecat creek.
The first examination in the Nor
NAL School here proved to be sue
cess. Splendid grades were made
by those in attendance.
W. L. Witt bought of A..C. Glow
ers, horse for $50.
g. 81. Masters sold to Elliott
Brothers, of Rice Station, one four
year old mule last week for $12O.
DIR. j. B. Blackwell sold a number
of shoats alta 1-2 cents per pound.
Richard Tuttle bought a three
year old mule from James Adams
for $50.
James W. Tuttle sold a 3 year
old mule to John M. Elliott for 500.
Mrs. Mary Blackwell, aged "a
years, is very feeble. and is not ex-
pected to live many days.
Ye scribe had the pleasure OF
meeting one of Winchester's finest
citizens, Mr.. John W. Murphy.
MI. Murphy is n years of age,
yet he is nimble as Is year old
boy.
b. G. Witt has been assigned to
duty as store keeper and gauger at
R. c. Kennen's Distillery, No. sos,
at Vaughn's Mill, Powell county,
Ky, -a
Misses Lizzy, Grace and Lou
Ella Witt were guests of Misses Jane
and Hattie Witt Saturday night
and Sunday.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
Proposal of Commission.

The proposal of the commission is
interesting to Americans in
view of the fact that the measures
that are now being proposed in the
United States are so much simpler
and less expensive. In this country
the forests are already on the ground.
All that is necessary is to bring them
to state Of full productiveness. The
present annual production of forests
in the United States is scarcely more
than twelve cubic feet per acre of all
kinds of wood. Tha centuries of ex-
perience In Saxony, Switzerland, and
France show that the same kind OF
land will grow three to eight times as
much wood under wise forest manage
ment. Protection and proper cutting
begun now and steadily followed as a
policy will keep America from reach
ing point, where, like Great Britain,
it will be necessary, except in the
prairie region, to start the forests of
the future from the seed, and wait
for them to grow. A 1.-THE of the
great outlay which the British Com
contemplates would easily
guarantee this country's forest indie
pendence for all time. And the wood
needed each year could be got out of
the forests right along.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
ENGLISH COMMISSION
OUTLINES NEW POLICY
For Taking Care of Forests Nevef
Attempted BY Any Other
Nation.

After neglecting her forests for
hundreds of years, Great Britain has
come to the front with the most far
sighted proposal for forest work and
land improvement ever advanced by
any nation in a single plan.
The recommendations jast made to
the British Government by the Royal
Commission on AfforestatiOn and
Coast Erosion will make England
self-supporting in the production of
timber if successfully carried out.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11

true also that this member had viO-
lated no rule of the G. BIS. He had
been detailed to acquaint the knockers
with these primary facts concerning
the society. Immediately the knocker
in chief had expressed a desire to at
tend a meeting He was cordially in
vited along with his brother knockers.
When the five town knockers filed
into the old schoolhouse at the regular
Friday night meeting they found a
most startling assemblage. About for
ty men, with long white apron-like
masks concealing their faces and
reaching far below their shoulders,
were standing around the walls Of the
chamber, which contained no seats.
Every fifth man carried a blazing
torchlight Many Of the others carried
picks, spades and shovels.
The supreme sachem Of the G. BIS
advanced to the group Of visitors and
asked them solemnly If they desired to
be initiated into the order. They re-
piled that they did. How can a man
knock unless he is ON the inside? The
chief knocker laughed scornfully as he
assented to the initiation.
1.-THE ordeal is severe" said the SUI
preme sachem, ''but If you survive it
you are our brethren. Advance, G.
B.'sw
Fifteen Of the masked figures adj
vanced, carrying stout cords. They
quickly bound the hands Of the knock
ers behind them and fled the whole
group together with a rope. Then the
torch bearers came forward, the knock
ers were led outside, the other G. BIS
followed, and the entire party stopped
on the open space back of the school
house.
Without a word the men with picks
began to dig, the shovelers began to
shovel, while the torch bearers held
their lights high above the group. Aft
er the digging was well under way the
G. BIS started up a dirgeIike song in
doleful voices. Altogether it was an
uncanny scene.
"Wha-what are you fellows up to
anyhow" gasped the chief knocker.
Gentlemen, unmask," commanded
the supreme sachem All the G. BIS
unmasked, revealing the fact that they
were the leading young men of Cory
vile. Then the supreme sachem, who
happened to own the grocery store In
which the knockers chiefly knocked,
addressed the candidates for initiation:
1--WE are the Grand Burgers. We are
digging your graves. We have reach
ed the conclusion that few first class
funerals are needed in the interest Of
Coryville, and we have selected you
gentlemen for the honor Of furnishing
the raw material. For years you have
knocked and blocked every movement
for the good of our town, and we have
decided that Coryyille can get along
without you. However, we are going
to give you chance If you viii
promise solemnly to boost and not to
knock hereafter, you may take your
own time and die natural deaths. But
always remember that the Grand Bury
ers have the tools and that we can
dig"
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
MOUTH OF FOUR MILE.

J. D. Hukle sold horse for $3.50
to Mr.. Eads, at Ford.
John D. Wilcox bought COW in
Winchester Monday for $2s.
J. D. Hukle has rented the George
Mckinney farm this year.
Ellis Williams is moving to Rem
lex Station, this week.
Miss Burdeaux Ferguson, ac-
compabied by Misses Bessie Siam
per and Grace Lenick, of Richmond
Normal School, spent from Friday
until Monday with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ferguson.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Mitchell gave
a pound party Thursday night
All reported fine time.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
On Outside Sources.

Great Britain has long been de-
pendent upon outside sources for her
wood supplies. But the constantly
increasing demand for wood, togeth-
er with the overdrain already made
upon these sources, indicates world
shortage of wood unless those coun-
tries which now have 10 import are
able to establish and maintain their
forest independence and grow the
needed wood at home Most of the
countries of Europe have taken care
to keep up the home wood output by
looking after their forests before they
were destroyed or hOpelessly depleted,
and managing them for a sustained
annual yield about equal to the de-
mand. The British Isles, however,
are practically stripped of produc-
tive forests. If Great Britain is to
grow her own wood, she will have to
begin at the beginning, set out the
seedlings on treeless ground, and wait
for them to reach marketable size.
The Commission recommends that
this work of starting future national
forests from the seed be undertaken
"as a sound and remunerative invest
ment."
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11

at all? Nothing
can be gained
by rev in g
that painful cpl
sode now. That
there was a con-
spiracy there can
be no doubt, and
that substantial
justice was done
seems to be the
consensus of the
worlds opinion.
The only regret
in on n e elton
with it all is that
a woman should
have been exc
cuted. Lincoln's
life was SO mer-
ciful and chart
table, he so fire.
quently protect
ed the weak, he
hearkened so Of
ten to the cries
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11

ID stone, ready TO
repeat our outrageous treatment of
him on the next great soul that comes
to help Us up the path through the
ages.
Lincoln's assassination had been
threatened from the moment of his
nomination for the presidency. The
only wonder is that 1t was averted un-
I'll the close OF the war; While he paid
little or no attention to the menacing
hints that came in every mail, his
many private and public references to
the subject show that he expected a
tragic death.
He often jokingly said that he was a
physical coward, yet no man ever
showed higher bravery or greater I'M
consciousness Of danger When at the
front during battle he needlessIy ex-
posed himself. He resented having q
guard placed about him and never rest
ed until it was removed. He went
about Washington unattended at all
hours of the day and night, and, while
his own utterances showed that he was
fully alive to the dangers, he never
made any provision against them.
IF they kill me-" he said philosoph-
ically, 1.-The next man will be just as
bad for them, and in a country like
this, where our habits are simple and
must be, assassination is always posi-
bic and will come if they are deter
mined upon it."
a hnnr h0 l. 4
not have been more exactly timed if it
had been arranged from all eternity.
The war was ending. At the last
cabinet meeting, held on the very day
OF the assassination, General Grant was
present, expecting news Of Johnston's
surrender, the last great act Of the con-
fiict. On the same afternoon the presi-
dent went driving with Mrs. Lincoln,
who said she had never seen him SO
happy. Upon her mentioning this
fact he remarked, "And well / may
feel so, Mary, for consider this day
that the war has come to a close"
1t was not quite at a close. His own
death was to be the last act of the gi-
gantic drama. That would end slavery
and disunion forever, past the power
OF any man to revive. The book would
be shut and sealed with his own blood.
No man could ever reopen 1t and turn
back its pages again.
Perhaps never in the worlds history
has grief been more universal and pro-
found I'm at President LincoIn's
death. 11iis man had the heart Of the
common people To the private sol
der he was father, to the negro a
liberator, to the nation a savior. to
the lowly man of every cline a broth
er. His death revealed his supreme
greatness. The cowardly assassin that
sneaked into his box and shot him
from behind in reality shot rebellion
and calumny to death, but never harm
ed Abraham Lincoln. He was secure in
the worlds heart forever. His work was
done. The Union was saved and slav-
cry was ended. Government "of the
people, for the people and by the peo-
pie" had been vindicated and perpetu-
ated- One more stone had been lifted
into place in the temple of democracy.
AS to the fate of the assassin and
Of the other conspirators, why speak
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11

w E os st''' p sts1s
cts. We do
not literally shy
rocks at them in
these days. but
pelt them with
bullets or with
adjectives quite
as hard. Woe TO
the III a n w h o
tries to help us
onward. for we
repay his love
and service with
hatred and revil-
ing and usually
wind up by muir
dering him in
cold blood. Then
we try to make
up for our base
ingratitude by
praising him aft
or he is dead and
writing his name
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11

Aeart, that the fate of Mrs. Surratt
Gems an uniting accompaniment in
The setting of his own tragic death.
Nothing of vengeance or harshness has
any place even in the shadows at the
end Of Lincoln's pathway.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
Results Can Be Obtained.

There is no question, the report
says, that substantially the anticipat-
ed results can be obtained. Experts
testified before the Commission that
"the production of timber in Great
Britain will be more rapid than In
SaxOny," which was selected for COM
parisOn on account of the close re-
semblance between the economic and
physical conditions in the two coun-
tries. Yet in Saxony the net annual
profits per acre from the national
forests has increased Alp per cent in
80 years, mainly, it was testified, be-
cause of "the more systematic and
careful management" The lack of
forests in Great Britain is the result,
not of natural conditions, but of bad
national economy. This is further
proved by the fact that there are a
number of private forests which,
though but indifferently managed,
are netting their owners large rev.
enueS
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-11
Two Separate Proposals.

The report embraces two separate
proposals, involving the forestation in
one case of 100000, and in the other
of 100000 acres. The former pro-
pOsal calls for the forest planting of
100000 acres a year for sixty years
at an annual cost of $450,00O at the
beginning to over $15,000,000 at the
end of the period. After the fortieth
year, however, the forest would be-
come self-supporting. After eighty
years, the forest would have a value
of $2,910,000,000, which is $780,
100000 in excess of the cost of pro-
ducing it, and would yield a net an
nual revenue of $87 100000, or 1913
per acre from land now barely pro-
ducing 80 cents per acre. While these
estimated returns are more than half
again as much as the highly developed
forests of Saxony yield, it is consid-
erably less than the net revenue from
the historic town forest of Zurich,
Switzerland, the Sihlwald. In volume,
the annual estimated wood production
would exceed the present annual wood
imports to England by 100000
'loadS."
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-15
Uncle Sam Hits Saloons

President Roosevelt some time ago appointed a COM
mission to study the problem of how best improve the
conditions of the people in the District Of Columbia,
especially from the standpoint of their physical social
and moral welfare
The commission upon completing it's Investigations,
submitted it's report and recommendations the Presi
dent, and he in turn transmitted them to Congress.
Among other things the report says that the families in
vestgated could add average at least one
to their overcroWded homes if the money expended for
tobacco and ntoxicants devoted to paying rent
To restrict the consumption Of these socalled harmful
agents. the commission favors educational methods,
cial settlements and proper amusements.
Prohibition of the sale of tobacco and ntoxcants to
persons under q years old greater restriction in the
sale of proprietary medicines containing alcoholic nox
cants and in the licensing Of saloons in residential and
manufacturing sections; making drunkenness INSIDE
meanor placing habitual drunkards and drug habtues
under legal restraint and the establishment of play
grounds and athletic fields to promote Temperance and
chastity are strongly recommended.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-15
Iowa Governor Speaks Out

DIES MONIES, JAM 12.-In his first message to the
legislature Governor Garst today urges effective
regulation of the liquor traffic.
There is doubt, he says, that the trend of the
times is in the direction Of the thorough control and
reasonable restriction of the traffic in Intoxicating
liquors. believe that the law should be amended and be
made effective in every community in the state would
also recommend that you memorabilia Congress for a
change in the revised statutes that would be def
ntely provided that the initiative for issuing federal
license for the sale of intoxicating liquors would be with
the local community directly interested The federal
government should not legalize the liquor traffic in
places where the people do not want it to be egazed
tolerated.
So many Ohio counties have gone dry that the liquor
people have quit Growing the defeat Of Harris
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-15
Tennessee to be Dry


Carmack did not die in vain The following dispatches
need no COMMENT
NASHVILLE, Jan. 13.-The bill to prohibit the sale
of all intoxicating liquor in Tennessee passed the lower
house of the general assembly this evening The vote
81 to SO. Fifty votes is majority
NASHVILLE, Jan. 12.-At :O2 this afternoon senate
bill No. l. providing for the prohibition Of the sale Of
liquor within four miles Of any school house Tennes
see passed third and final reading in the senate. The
20 to 49, Senators Barkerville of Sumner and
Swab of Claiborne voting with the eighteen who have
been known as state widers 1t is expected that the
house will pass the bill tomorrow.
Immediately after the vote in the senate
nounced the widest disorder prevailed, and
motion to adjourn could be put and carried frantic
crowd surrounded Holiday and Mansfield floor leaders
of the prohibition forces and the celebration took the
form of love feast The debate preceding the passage
of the replee with sensational Incidents
of which former Governor John l. Coxs speech
in defense of his past record and his present attitude to-
ward temperance legislation.
Sensational Charge Made
Another was the charge made by Senator Dancy Fort
of Montgomery county of intimidation against Rev Dr.
E. E. Folk whom he termed the ''high mogul of the
antisaoon league Senator Fort charged that DR.. Folk
had threatened to ruin him relgiousy well pot-
caly if he voted against prohibition and further
charged that Folk attempting to carry out his threat
by publishing in his paper insnuaton to the effect
that Fort was infde
In the house Representative Cooper introduced reso
luton based published reports to the effect that Rev.
E. B Chappell and Rev. B. F. Haynes prominent Metho-
dist ministers of this city, have stated that efforts
being made to seduce and corrupt members of the legs
ature The resolution authorized the speaker to issue
citation to Chappe and Haynes to appear instanter
before the bar of the house and file and make specific
charges giving the of the guilty parties the
rupted member the witnesses and the parties who
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1909-01-15

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