The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1909-04-29
LOUISVILLE.


Louisville, o., April 25-When potatoes
are H.S5 at Chicago, what is. the price
at Louisville? Is this, another of the
necessaries of life, TO be put on the
hard-to reach priee-list in order to add
several millions of dollars to the spec
ulative fund of set Of gamblers who
wish to live luxuriously at the expense
of Americas struggling millions? Thus,
Is the laboring class of our land, with
its knowledge but not its consent. made
charitable institution that does not
create yet, thus far, has been compelled
to maintain illegltimate enterprises If
force-up prices would remove or suspend
the consumers appetite. this gambling
would be knocked in the head, but, the
fact of the matter is, the higher the
price goes the more palatable the arti-
Gle becomes Pictures of these specula-
tors should be hung in Rogue's galleries.
for who knows what their next move
will be. Some Of them will contribute
100000 or more to some charitable in
sttution and, thus, become Goth century
philanthropsts. Such philanthropists!
In 1884 flour was sold as low as sew
enty-hve cents per a bbl. Today, the
same grade is sold at s1.S5. A man who
has millions of spot cash and a con-
science that can be suspended, has a
legal right, il seems, to demand tribute
from whom he pleases.
We are inclined to be optimistic, but
when we hear of men going down to
Washington to urge the placing of a
prohibitive tariff on such an article
as hosiery because they have large
stocks on hand, we feel more like kick
ing than smiling. Such a tariff pro-
duces no revenue and adds to the price
of hosiery. There is no one here who
favors any such schemes.
After a carrier has been appointed to
take charge Of route 5, Harvey Roger
will serve the patrons on route 4.
Route is the only one from the Louis
vile office that does not cross railroad
tracks. This is certainly point in its
favor. The carrier on route crosses
railroad tracks eight times in making the
daily rounds. He receives six dollars
per month, less, for his services, for the
reason that this route is several miles
shorter than the others.
The exchange of post cards goes
merrily on. Uncle Sam should encourage
this exchange since it helps TO keep the
postal receipts somewhere near the ex-
penditures. About half of the pieces
of mail taken up by our carriers are
post cards. More than few have gone
into this post car dexchange business
with a matrimonial wind-up in view
Whose business is it if the finish is
thus? Manageable men and womer
are becoming numerous in Louisville
and in all the country roundabout yoI
can find them enjoying single blessed
ness. Personally, it doesn't make any
difference whether young men and wom
en- marry or remain single They may
do as they please about 1t. II is a cor.
respondents privilege-if not his duty
to make mention of the abundance ol
scarcity of the productions of his To-
cality, and If number of post cards, al
a result of said mention should be SEN
hitherward, we care not from whence
and good results be the outcome, W,
will not have written in vain.
If a stranger were to walk from tn,
eastern to the western end Of MAR
street and from the northern to tn,
southern end of Chapel street and theI
be asked to estimate the population OF
the village, he'd probably say, 1900. y
He would be overestimating a trifie, but
there is something about the town that
induces strangers TO put it in the 2,00t
class. 1t may be the smoke from the
mill and factory section, blown town
ward by breeze from the north; the
size of our churches and the numbers at
tending Sunday schools and church ser
vices-2,50O per Sunday; the size and
number of our business blocks, and the
business done therein; the number of by.
no-means homely women who may bt
seen, going and coming. in the streets
the Broadway, N. Y, appearance of the
uptown section, on Saturday evenings
or any one of several other near-citS
| conditions found here, might be respon
sible for overestimates. II is the com
mercially and numerically-gr growing towI
that can put on airs which make il seen
larger than it is In reality. But, afte
all, when we stop to compare the sur
face covered by our town with the sur
| face of the township beyond our limits
we find no occasion to be alarmed abou
| space for the future Louisville Gu
town can grow until it is thirty times it
present size ere the townships boundar
| lines will be reached; even then, sufh
cient space to produce the potatoes an
| cabbage for so large a city would re
main.
Sauerkraut is another of the necessal
! les of life that will be cornered one @
| these days. One millionaire will
able TO buy the visible supply Then tn
! price will be placed so high that, dun
/ ing the balance of the sauerkraut-ye
this article of diet will be a luxury
| which the wealthy alone may indulge
| The women of Louisville know how {
manufacture this delicacy as well a
their grandmothers ever did; and, in
dark corner of every vegetable cellar
about a gallon of this article may b
found. man who marries woma
of our town may rest assured that tn
ability to make sauerkraut is not
| lost art with her Owing to the scarcit
of the raw material sauerkraut is al
most failure To this was due the in
creased consumption OF other vegetable
and the consequent prices thereof.