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The La Jara chronicle., 1909-03-12
) EVENTS OF THE WEEK 5


Little Svetty" is here again.
Dad Hill has gone to Alamosa.
The Sunny San Luis? Fine
and dandy.
Miss Laura King is visiting in
Grand Junction.
See Scandalous Charles about
signs or any sort of painting.
DR. Schenck has had a very bad
week but is now improving.
Il. q. Oliver now keeps fine
supply of fresh fruit on hand.
We claim King Cole Cigars are
better than best. At Dewdrop Inn.
Geo. w. Copeland came in the
first of the week from Garden City.
Fomaldehyde for treating seed
grain at the La .Jara Drug Store.
b. w. King reported l6 home
seekers stopping at his house the
first of the week.
Mrs. Geo. S. Lovett was a pas
senger to Denver on Tuesday
nights train for few weeks visit.
1t is said that the Conejos Flour
Mills have plans drawn for a grain
elevator and storage bins at Boun-
tiful.
a neat sign ornaments the front
of the Murphy Newcomb hardware
store. 1t is the work of Scanda-
lous Charles.
j 7. Norton and his right. hand
man VIM. p Fisher departed the
first Of the week after showing "A
number of land buyers around.
Mrs. II. H. Harper of Durango,
who has been visiting relatives
and friends here for a month past.
left Sunday morning for home.
W. G. Flintham was an arrival
from Denver the first of the
week and is visiting his mother
and attending to business matters.
Read the thrilling story in
another column of the La Jara-
Cuban party being chased by
lion in Florida Can you blame
the lion?
The Murphy Newcomb Hard
ware Co. received two car loads of
farm machinery the first of the
week. Plows, drills, harrows, etc,
of the latest and best design.
A. &. Hahn has sold his interest
in the Excelsior ranch and the
firm name is now Norton Bros.
Mr.. Hahn is in poor health and
has been at Hot Springs, Ark,
nearly all winter.
Harry Serversen, "A resident of
La Jara 10 or II years ago is back
again visiting friends here. He
has been mining at Aspen and
in the Gunnison country where he
will return as soon as the snow
melts enough to permit the mines
to reopen.
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SAVE YOUR HORSE.

Deacon's Collie Specific is abso-
lutely the best colo remedy known
to medical science. Guaranteed
under the pure food and drug law.
For sale by H. O. Ellis, La Jara, or
NJ, II. Deacon, Monte Vista, Colo.
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last nlgnt
McCunnitf's day in the morning
next Wednesday.
OFT. Ripple, while still very sick
is gaining little each day
Try King Cole Cigars. they are
top notchers, at the Dewdrop Inn
Mrs. w. A. Braiden. quite sick
the first of the week is improving.
Potato special will be here Tues
day. March 30, at $40 and remain
one hour.
Will sell lot /. block II, La Jara,
for $3.50 cash to first tqker.
Address H., this office.
DR.. Davis, dentist of AIamosa.
will be in La Jara every Thursday
at Hamilton's drug store.
The Flintham and Schecter sales
this week were well attended and
good prices were realized.
Spring is now here. You will
want garden seed. | have the west
ern seed in bulk. Leroy Wilson.
The Royal Neighbors will give
a St. Patrick's day ball and supper,
next Wednesday, March II, in
NJ. W. A. hall.
When looking for friend you
can almost always find him at the
Club saloon because it is nice,
quiet place to spend an hour or two.
Mansell Garrett is ill with erysi-
pelas but shows remarkable resist
ance to the disease at the advanced
age of %. DIR. Blissard. however.
says his condition is precarious.
H. O. Ellis has received his first
shipment of Wall Paper for this
season. He has some very attrac-
tive designs. He will tell you all
about it in his next weeks ad.
B. p. Hanna of the Dewdrop
Inn was a passenger back to Okla
homa Monday night to look after
some business interests there. He
will be absent IA month or more.
The Murphy y-Newcomb Hard
ware Co. now have one of the most
attractive stores in the west as
well as the best stocked
The regular teachers examina-
tion will be held in the court
house at Conejos on March 18th to
18th. Each days session will be-
gin at 9 o'clock IA m. E. A.
Nelson, county sup't of schools.
j. w. Finney has received IA
letter from one of the runaway
boys from Washington, Iowa. He
says they are all back at home,
happy and going to school. Their
only crime was borrowing IA little
money from their parents.
Jose Alfario was a visitor here
Tuesday, spending the night at
Alamosa. He has not printed his
paper at Antonito since the first of
the year but has devoted his time
to building "A photograph gallery
which he says pays better. Now
that the gallery ISL running order
and under the care of his brother,
he is figuring on resuming publ
cation of the paper again.
The weather man is respectfully
reminded that he is in danger of
overriding good thing. Lots of
snow in the mountains means
plenty of water for crops but too
much means terrible floods. The
snow fall this year has been very
great and settlers along the rivers
had better look out for high water
when the sun gets in its work on
the mountains of snow.
The Home Lumber, Coal and
Grain Co, received this week two
car loads of fancy doors, windows,
etc, to add to their already com
plete line, making one of the hand
soonest stocks in Southern Colo
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tist, will visit La Jara every Satur-
day. Office at Ellis drug store.
| Mr.. and Mrs. o. Bever gave a
very enjoyable dance in their new
bakery Wednesday evening.
Jose A. Garcia has resigned his
position with Murphy -Newcomb
an will ranch at Capulin this sum-
mer.
a neat white hearse was brought
over from Monte Vista yesterday
1t will be kept at Schecter's stable
in the future.
Five inches of snow fell We'd
nesday which will moisten the
ground and make it just right for
/ plowing
Electo Martinez, handy man at
Wilson's. was taken with "A severe
collie in the store Tuesday night
and created no little excitement.
He is not at work yet but is get
ting along nicely.
S. ID. Phelan. wife and four sons
and Ed. Jones. wife and four
daughters. who arrived last Friday
from Okemah. Okla, have leased
"A couple of c. +. Cristy's ranches.
east of town and will remain with
us.
The building of new Hartman
line of railroad from Deming. n d.
NJ, to Pennington and up the La
Plata river to the Southern Pacific
coal lands near Hesperus seems
assured the coming summer In
time. it is said the road will be ex-
tended to Pueblo, crossing the
range at Wiunemachuch pass and
the Creede branch Of the -. & X.
q. near Del Norte.
Frank Onstut, prominent sheep
grower from Garden City. Kan,
was here the first Of the week and
made arrangements to bring out il
| flock of the finest thoroughbred
Persian sheep and try them in the
valley. The Persians are not only
twice as large as our native sheep
but their wool is the finest in the
world and mills pay fancy prices
| for it, and use it on the surface Of
their best weaves. 1t will be
glad day for our sheep men when
they find strain that will mingle
well with the natives and bring
about improvement in both size
quality of fleece.
a vigorous protest, signed by
the merchants Of Capulin, has been
sent to the Legislature against the
bill restricting the sale of patent
medicines. The bill, if it becomes
IA law, will work hardship, it is
said, upon the people, especially
in places where, like Capulin,
there is no resident physician or
drug store. In such places the
patent medicines have to be de
pended upon entirely, as the near
est physician and drug store are
nine or ten miles away. Hence, in
an emergency, the general store
must furnish whatever relief is
possible. The bill, as framed,
would prove injurious to more
than one community and should
never become a law.
A letter from Dennis McCunnifr,
dated West Point, March 3, ex-
plains that the young man is hav-
ing some trouble eating, sleeping,
dressing, talking, walking, etc.
according to military regulations.
In the academy there is place for
everything in the students ward
robe and everything must be in
its place from tooth brush up.
The word, Sir" must be used in
every sentence when addressing
companion or superior All of
which greatly amuses Dennis
father, the Judge, who has for
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these demands exist TO the extent that they did
previously"
Starting with a loss from bad debts Of one
quarter Of per cent. the United States Rubber
Company reduced this 20 total of only $1,000
on aggregate business Of $30OooOO0 The indie
pendent paper companies formerly were forced
to grant their customers excessive allow ances
on waste wrapping and count, often to an
amount experimenting 1 per cent OF sale BY
introducing more systematic and exact meth
DDS the International Paper Company was able
to do away with most Of these possibilities for
loss.
To meet orders promptly, each house Is
obliged to carry stocks Of a certain size By
combining the houses engaged in one lire IL IS
possible TO carry stock sufficiently large to
MI all orders and Yet not nearly so extensive as
the aggregated stocks Of all the firms included
in the combination. When an industry is
obliged. as il often IS. keep half OF its capt.
tai invested IN stock, the saving accomplished
by consolidation is a big item Because q its
firm hold the trade and comprehensive
knowledge OF future demands. the managers CT
corporation are thus able 20 form more ac-
curate notion Of the amount Of stock which 10
must keep on hand 70 supply It's custouers
The concerns which are constituent parts of
the American Thread Company formerly had 70
carry hundreds Of different varieties and sizes
in stock The trust has SO organized that each
Of It's factories now manufactures ard deals in
one speciality Ey reducing the number II It's
brands the American Tobacco Company Girnin-
ished its stocks and saved hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in warehouse expenses
Freight charges also have been lessened ~
the saving Of cross freights on shipments. II
used TO BE- that PIttsbUr; steel was shirred to
customers in Chicago. while Chicago steel went
20 Pittsburg. IL is the policy OF the Steel Cor
pOratiOn 70 MI its orders from the mills mar
est TO the point Of receipt
ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION.
The American Smelling and Refining COM
pany has estimated that il saves $5Ot1OOO a
year in the transportation OF both the rav ma
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consumer. Reduction in cost has been accom-
plished by drawing in The lines of organization
so as 10 concentrate them In the hands of fewer
heads, by economy in The purchase az raw ma
'erial and control Of the sources Of supply; by
lesseninG ov"rproduction and in various other
details that suggested themselves 10 the shrewd
business men who manage the corporations
affairs
Many examples Of the manner in which ex-
penses have been cut down. TO the profit Of
shareholders and consumers alike. are available
When a certain steel company was formed so
per cent OF the executive heads Of the various
plants we're dispensed with. thus saving hun
dreds OF thousands Of dollars a year. Similar
conspicuous examples and parallel cases are
provided by the National Silver Company the
American Tin Plate Company and the Steel Cor
poration, the treasures of which we're relieved
Of the burden Of the salaries of officers who be-
came superfuous under the consolidation. and
also OF the expense Of keeping up many small
branch Offices, with their rent supply and cleri-
cal labor accounts
In the marketing end similar economies have
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saving. or the $50 shareholders Of the Ma
uonal Biscuit Company 200 are employees. who
own SSlC00p0 IN stock
in regard TO the noticeable increase IN the
number Of shareholders in corporations, George
". Perkins recently said:
When the campaign against corporations
vas most intense. when country was in 4
turmoil Of business perplexty and doubt. the
Ieope who, We were told. had suffered SO be
cause Of the trusts and were 50 bitterly opposed
10 their existence were investing in these Sc
curties 10 an unprecedented extent.
The stockholders Of the PENNSYLVANIA Rail-
road increased from 10000 to - 900. Those az
the Great Northern Railroad increased from
800 10 more than 1900, and those OF the New
York Central from 1O.c00 to more than II 600
IN The same period the stockholders in the
United states Steel Corporation increased by
more than 10000.
SEMI-PUBLIC FUNCTIONS.
can there then, be any question that these
great institutions have become semi-public?
And when we contemplate the alternative OF
discriminating or regulating them must We not
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resulted In the same fashion a general CEN
trail administration is more saving than the
divided management of individual plants: il
costs less to run centralized selling organiza-
ton than it does to provide for many sales de-
partments with their separate and individual
expenses.
SAVING OF THREE FOURTHS.
When the American Thread Company was
organized it took in twelve concerns. Each Of
these had maintained stores and Offices in all
Of the big cities, and each had its large and
expensive force OF employees and travelling men
With the consolidation the stores in every CITY
were united The central office OF the companv
demanded great many employees and a CORE
spondingy heavy payroll. but the total dsburse-
ments for the main office were not more
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realize that they are owned. not by few IN
dividuals, hut by vast number Of persons rep
resenting our thriftiest classes? That these
corporations have thus become not only vast
business enterprises, but great and growing in
situations for savings, surely impresses a new
and more sacred responsibility not only upon
corporation managers. but upon legislators as
well
that are semi public servants serving the pub
lie, with ownership widespread among the pub
lie, and with labor so fairly and eauitably
treated that It will look upon its corporation as
its friend and protector. rather than an ever
present enemy-above all believing in it so thor
oughly that il will invest It's savings In the cor
porations securities and become working part
ncr IN the business.
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BETTER IN EXPORT TRADE.

Consultations also placed the corporations in
an advantageous position In handling export
trade. 1t costs heavily to build up trade in a
foreign country, and once the organization is
established il must be maintained in order to
enable the company to hold its ground. even
though in some years that branch Of the bust
ness is conducted at a loss. Such losses can
better be borne by a big corporation with plenty
of capital than by smaller companies. each COM
petinG against the other and with no mutual
interests.
Foreigners. too. usually buy in large quanti-
ties. and a corporation. combining the resources
of several smaller companies. is enabled to fill
orders more speedily and satisfactorily than a
smaller concern could.
There is difference in credit policies. too.
between the big corporations and independent
companies. John w. Gates SAID on this sub
ject:
BAD DEBTS CUT DOWN
"Our percentage of loss from bad debts.
should say. is about One-twenty- NTH Of 1 per
cent Under the old method OF each company
doing business on its own hook IL was abOut
one-half of 1 per cent. II man does not nav
according TO terms the corporation Is a little
more strict with him. In claims for shortages.
the tendency is for the purchaser TO make un-
reasonable demands. and we do not find that
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together. the sugar and coffee interests We're
able to dispense with the services of a thousand
men and reduce the average salaries of those
who remained to $1,000 year The whiskey
combination effected saving of 100000 a
year BY letting go two hundred road men.
Competition had made the services of these
travelling men necessary. They went out to
fight with the men Of other companies for sales.
BY removing the competition between the COM
panies and eliminating the duplication OF lines
and of statesmen i'm the various districts. il no
longer was necessary to have so many men on
the road.
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than a quarter OF what the twelve main offices
Of the companies absorbed had cost.
Estimates made by the National Starch COM
pany show that by the unifying Of its organiza-
tion one-haIf of the expense OF placing its prod
ucts on the market has been saved The steel
Corporation saved money by uniting in each
city the selling offices Of those Of its constituent
companies manufacturing similar products
Advertising expenses have also been reduced
but the corporations found that it was not feas-
ible 10 reduce the volume Of advertising as ap-
preciably as had been expected. No matter how
completely corporation might control the pro-
duction in its own particular line. il was speed
lily demonstrated that in order TO maintain
sales up to the mark, the article had 70 be kept
before the public by constant and aggressive
advertising. one Of the largest corporations,
which manufactured goods that formerly were
in heavy demand, tried to cut out its advertis-
ing expenditures altogether. and within a few
months bankrupt and disintegrated.
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terial and the finished product. II is possible
iOi consolidated companies to arrange for the
Shipment and handling Of its materials and
goods on much more economical basis than a
separate company can. The constituent com
panies OF the Steel Corporation owned their
own steamship and railroad lines FreOuentIy
ue SHIPS OF company were forced 10 liza idla
WINE waiting Tor ore. The trains OF the Gar
ness steel Company ran from Lake Erie to
Ft1sDurE with ore and were hauled back eroptv
Now the corporations ships. IL one CoD,Da,-,,
mas no cargo ready are placed in the service az
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HOW COST is LOW Erred
EFFECT OF COMBINES.
Industrial Consultations Tend to
Lessen Expense of Selling
and Production.

One effect Of the incorporation and consolida-
ton Of various industrial interests in this coun-
try has been the tendency to lower the cost OF
production and, proportionately, the cost to the
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equality, far recognition, dividends and
rights in the company go, with the holder of a
thousand shares
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INTERESTING To EMPLOYEES.

Many corporations have found it good busi-
ness policy 10 afford opportunities to their
Joyes L. invest in their securities on easy terms
Of payment 1t tends 10 increase the loyalty
and quality Of service Of the workmon, clerks
etc. The employees Of the Steel Corporation
took more than So, 90 GOO worth of stock. Each
Cf them has regularly received quarterly divi-
bends, and although at one time the preferred
sold down 10 $50, its price has since recovered
10 point whore 1t is possible for such Of the
employees Is may wish to TO dispose Of their
shares at a profit. The plan also encourages
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HAVE TO ADVERTISE.

Reduction in advertising space, the corpora
tons found. was possible only through the elimi-
nation Of duplicate and competitive advertising.
but not through any reduction in effort energy
and intelligence.
Possibilities also arose in saving I'm connec-
ton with the manufacture Of special brands
and trade-marked articles. Given control Of the
production Of eight or dozen brands of the
same article, b. concentrating its efforts on the
selling OF the most popular and paying no at
tention to the rest. the total amount Of sales
was maintained II not increased. with a saving
both In publicity and the expense OF putting
them on the market.
Probably the greatest percentage OF saving
has been brought about ~ the reduction in the
cost Of salaries Of travelling men and their ex-
penses Before the American Steel and Wire
Company organized. the companies that
came under the consolidation had total OF
three hundred men on the road This number
reduced 10 fifteen or twenty BY getting
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Continued on fourth page.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-03-25
WHAT OUR NEIGHD0RS SAY
The Loyalty Of the Boston vcrmonters
and Their splendid Work.
(From the Barre Timcs.)

Vermont PEOPLE at homo are glad to
sec the spirit of loyalty which Vermont
ers abroad maintain toward their ma
tive State, and there is no more con-
vicing evidence than the Vermont assn
citation Of Boston. which has kept up its
organization for % years and, it nigh.
be stated. retained n vital interest In
the home State by meeting frequently
and talking over old times and by maxi
ing annual pilgrimagcs to some point
in the State. This association is one of
the foremost Of its kind and seems to
,e growing stronger every year 1t main
tains comfortable club rooms in the
Hotel Westminster. whore 'Vermonters
are always welcome. The purposes of
Tho association are summed up in the
following paragraph from circular
Just issued
This association stands to-day as ono
of the strongest factors for promoting
the high regard for the states historic
past and it's present position of inhu enca
in the Nation. 1t also provides a large
social enjoyment for its several hundred
members. among whom are some of the
leading citizens of Boston and its yicn-
ity. The object Of the Vermont Associa-
tion of Boston ms specified In the by
laws Of the corporation is to promote
social intercourse among its members.
10 porpetuate common memories, Ceie-
hrate events in the history of the state
OF Vermont, and establish and maintain
meeting place for its members and a
yeadng room and library connected
Herewith"
No doubt the annual nilgrimage to
Vermont the coming summer will be in
connection with the celebration Of the
Champlnn tercentenarry at Burlington.
&c the Observance will bc in keeping
with one of the purposes of the organ,-
ration to celebrate events in the his
tory OF the state of Vermont"
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CHURCH CENTENNIAL.
tnitarians Preparing to Celebrate mn
Anniversary Next Ncnr.

The annual meeting Of the society OF
tho First Congregational Unitarian)
Church Was held Monday afternoon n
the church pailors. Reports of the
Noar's work were presented. all includ-
ing that Of the treasurer. being of a
satisfactory nature The centennial Of
tie church occurs next January and q
committee, consisting of the pastor, the
church clerk and treasurer and the pru-
dental committee, was appointed to
consider tho matter of a celebration and
to appoint other committees. Officers
we're elected as follows:
Moderator-Dr. j. NJ. Clarke.
Clerk. treasurer and collector-C. w.
Richardson.
Member Of the prudential committee
for three years--F. Z. Kimball
Auditor--F. T.. Burgess
Librarian Miss Ellie Moore.
Representatives of the society to the
Home for Destitute Ilildren-Mrs. A E.
oates and Ms. G. l.. Soue
DR.. J. NJ. Clarke and j. II. Macomber
continue as members of the prudential
committee.
The meeting adjourned to next Mon
Cay evening wien the selection Of pcws
lor the ensuing year will take place.
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OPTONETRY DATES.

The Vermont board Of examiners in
optometrY will meet May 70 at the
Brooks House, Brattlcboro, to take
action upon the applications for ex-
emption certificates. June lG and II
the board will meet in Montpelicr for
the purpose of examining all eligible
applicants desiring TO commence the
pract of optometry in the state Of
Vermont under restrictions Of the law
OF January 9, 1909. No person not n
holder of n certificate of registration
or exemption. duly issued and record =
ed. shall, after the LIST day of July
1909, practice optometry within this
State. II is especially requested by
the board that all applications for ex-
emption certificates be properly filled
out verified, and promptly returned to
the secretary before May ~ Applica =
ton blanks for exemption or exam
nation can be obtained from A. ).
faskins, secretary, 81. Johnsbury.