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HOME buying; IDEAL Plan .,,....
FOR ECONOMICAL SHOPPING

Parcels Pos; and Home Buying was
the topic for discussion at very III.
teresting luncheon of the Honolulu
Ad Club held in the Rathskeller
Thursday noon. Manager George E.
Curtis OF JorJan'S read the paper of
the day. which was followed by q
proposal tina; the president of the
club appoint special committee Oil
The subject of Home Buying and q
special meeting be held TO enlist the
interest OF the buyer Gs we'll rs the
seller.
Mr.. Curtis in the course Of his talk
spoke as follows:
5 Mr.. President. and Gentlemen: /
have. been honored today with re-
quest to read a paper on parcels. post
and home buying. 1t affords me very
great pleasure to comply with your
wishes, particularly so as the Parcels
Post Bill has recently been made a
law to take effect January list, 1913.
+, l lead with interest an editorial in
ane- of our local daily Journals on
July Both in which il 4eulegized on
advantages of Parcels Post and stated
the people of these Islands viii be-
come steady and extensive, patrons Of
the service. This in my opinion, may
apply Ito the rural districts, but the
merchants of Honolulu have nothing
to, fear from parcel post. IT,.
The local stores today are So thor
soughiy up to date and so well equip
ped theysaare able to successfully
meet mainland competition. The gen.
eFal pnblic of this city who. are ,ac-
Guainted with the opportunities Of
getting their, commodities right at
home find they can do as well here
as they can by sending their money
out, of town. .,..-<,- &. : -. :. ~.
1t is not the people who shop in
Honolulu am who periodically make
trips to the mainland that the local
merchants are much concerned over,
because those people, have oIportuni-
ties of comparison. and invariably
local stores, but unfortunately there
are a great many people who never
yacquaint themselves with the stores
locally, and send away for nearly
everything they require. OF course,
it is within the. right of everybody to
spend their money how and where
they please, but if these good people
would only stop to q consider they
could DO equally asnweH if,snot better
at home. s.fy.~--..z III = g.
There are we'll known cases in this
city of people who combine their
orders and send away for wholesale
quantities of groceries and make the
comparison with the retail prices
here. whereas venture to say IL
they went to any of the reputable re-
tail grocery establishments of this
city and bought in the same quantity
they would do just as well and pos
sibly. save money.
know ,Very estimable gentleman
of this city who sent to an eastern
manufactured for a pair of shoes for
which local store had the agency,
the shoe was being retailed here for.
exactly the same price. as in New
York The manufacturer wrote to the
concern here returning the gentle.
mans letter and pointing out they
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could not understand why the party
in question sent 10 them as they
knew the order could be filled locally.
At the Ean,c time they wrote to the
gentleman telling him he could pur-
chase the shoes he wanted right at
home. He eventually ca ne .aions
and bought them. saying he did not
know ne could. get this shoe in Ho-
Ioluiu. Tie merchant promptly told
him he did not take the trouble 10
find out and reminded him he spent
hundreds of dollars advertising the
line. -.- u
Now had this order been filled in
the East, il would have cost the
buyer exactly the same price plus
the postage and the Eastern man
would have made more money be-
cause he would save the freight for
the local merchant T.
notwithstanding the fact that here
certain lines Of shoes are sold al pre-
ciseiy the same prices as the main.
lander charges, still lots of people
send away for these self.same shoes
and pay additional cost for postage.
Z | viii here relate an incident that
cane under my personal observation
while in NeYrda, A woman contin-
TALLY went to a certain store and
would fiaunt her purchases by mail
order; sometimes she got a bargain
and other times she paid enough. X
was highly amusing one day after
She had shown something she receiv-
ed by express and made comparisons,
she turned around Immediately and
asked for employment for her daugh
ter. Of course, the store keeper POI.
litely and firmly replied he could not
increase his expenses il the people
sent away for their requirements.
l am informed there is movement
on foot by some of our best people
to find means of employment for
many young persons in these Islands.
Honolulu can well be, proud of the
charitable work done by some of the
ladies of this city, and the effort. to
employ these young people is indeed
a noble work.
It has occurred to me that a par
tial solution of. the problem would be-
to employ some of the eligible ones
in our stores. This could be done il
Business warranted it.
Among some of our ladies who fail
to support home buying are many
highly intelligent women who do not
stop to think that money sent away
is so much less toward the advance
ment of Honolulu stores, which ad.
yancenent means prosperity to the
city and a possible chance for lots OF
young people to find employment
whose chances are Internationally
shut off because the business is not
here 20 support them.
A rough estimate of the earnings in
salaries and wages in ten of the lead
ing stores in Honolulu is $270, 900 an
nually. BY ,the ten. stores / refer to
three retail grocery stores, three shoe
stores and four retail dry goods
stores. Of course. this is only very
small portion of our retail trade, to
say nothing. Of our large wholesale
5ilouses
/ think Lam conservative in stat
Ing 80 per cent of the earnings of en-
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Sf0tkfKtHtNfE STRIKES, 49,.
. PERIOD OF DEPRESSION

those to- the nOncontiguous territory
were higher, averaging $1,000 each.
The export price OF American au-
tomobiles in 1912 averaged less than
in any earlier year in the history of
the export trade. The average for
1912, dividing the total. number of
machines exported into stated value,
was $500 each, against $110G in 1911,
$3.50 in 1910, $500 in 1909, and $3.50
in 1908. gs
On the import side, the automobiles
imported last year amounted to but
about million dollars in value,
against more than 4 million in 1907
The average import value of the au-
tomobiies brought into the country
last year was s2216 each, against 3d.
13S in 1911, 1895 in 1910, $17SS in
1909. and 1882 in 1905.
Notes. ~, ..s- IL f.,
= building operations so far this
month, as indicated by the permits
issued, have been rather tame With
a few exceptions, the houses going
up are of the cheap cottage order
stloOutR IAlSC W 9AOVO III OOHaL. SO
l., l.. McCandless is reported to
have, given an option on, his Koolau-
poke water rights to hui that will
form "a water company for the pur-
pose chiefly OF conveying water by
a. tunnel through the Koolau range TO
Oahu plantation, His interests in the
water resources of Waikane, Waia-
hole and Kahana are in the deal and
the price is said to be $250,000.
S Five separate corporations have
been formed among the directors OF
G. Brewer & Co., Ltd, for the. pur:
pose CT holding lands connected with
Onomea plantation.
The Board of>Supervisors has voted
$4,000 for the following purposes:
Queen street, between Mokauea and
Settlement roads, $1,000: Hebron ave-
nue., $1,000; Dole street. $500: road
to Waikane landing, $500: sbitulithic
pavement, River street, s2524;; fire
house, ,Kaimuki. $4,000. reconstruc-
ton Pail road fence. $500: bitulithic
pavement, Queen street bridge, $4,000;
purchase fire hose, $32S5: repairs to
incinerator, $500; purchase wagons
for road department. $2450; repairs
to Kaflala road. $500. . 1t is not ex--.
pected, however. that all these i'm
provements can be completed before
the. present board retires from office.
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The driver OF one OF the antomo-
biles competing In the races at Wood
land, Cal, was Killed when his car
crashed through q fence. His wife
and daughter Witnessed the catas-
trophe.
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China is greatly disturbed over
Great Britain's attitude in the Thibet
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All the great nations of Europe are
planning to exhibit at the Panama
Pacific Exposition in San Francisco
in 1915.
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A trooper In Arizona Gas struck By
Aightning. his cartridge belt explnd.
ed and he and his horse were killed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
Decides Against Prosressives.

Columbus. = The supreme court
refused the application of Pro.
gressives for permission to bring
mandamus suit against Secretary of
State Graves, ordering him to allow
the names of candidates to be printed
on the ballot under more than one
party designation. The supreme
court decided that 1t does not have
the authority to change the ruling of
the secretary of state on election, as
the secretary of state is made the
last court in such matters under the
statutes. The ruling of Secretary of
State Graves that the names of can
didate can appear on a ballot only
once will mean that in many counties
the Progressive county tickets will
be vacant The Progressives had
hoped to have the case settled in time
to place their candidates on the ballot
by petition, but last Saturday was the
last day for filing petitions. Judge
William I. Spear did not participate
in the decision of the court.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
o. 5. .. 70 Ask for Improvemenss.

Conditions which compel four girls
to use locker built for one In the
gymnasium at Ohio State University
were called to the attention of the
board of trustees. Committees OF fac
ulty women and women students
have been organized to urge the
trustees to ask for women's build
ing from the general assembly at its
next session.
The trustees will meet again to
make up their final list of buildings
and improvements which they will
ask the general assembly to provide
by special appropriation.
The sum of the requests which may
be made probably will show that the
university has outgrown its present
equipment Besides women's build
ing for gymnasium, domestic science
and social center, the structures
which have been requested by deans
of the college and heads of depart
ments, are a. new shop building, addi.
ton to Brown Hall for architecture
and civil engineering, wings of the
physics building, which never have
been completed, hall for English
and journalism, and structures for
rural engineering, horticulture and
forestry. The college OF education
which now has its rooms In the ad
ministration building, has asked for
hall of it's own.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18

Dairy butter advanced S6 per cent
Eggs advanced 80 per cent.
The prices of articles which the far.
mer purchased have not advanced as
rapidly as the prices Of the product
which he sells, thus leaving him q
handsome margin of profit. Here arc
few examples:
Ten bushels of corn in 1911 paid for
1913 pounds Of sugar, and for only &c
pounds in 1896.
Ten bushels of corn paid for 81
yards of bleached sheeting in 1911,
and for only 13 yards In 1896.
Ten bushels of corn In 1911 paid for
two pairs of shoes, and for only one
pair in 1896.
No farmer can afford to vote the
Democratic ticket because Democratic
victory means lower prices for his
products, depreciation In the value OF
his farm lands, and the impossibility
of borrowing any money in times OF
emergency.
A vote for Woodrow Wilson is vote
for free trade, and vote for Roose
welt is half vote for Wilson and free
trade. The only security for the far
mer is In the reelection of President
Taft and the continuation Of the Re
publican party In power.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
SAW NO CAUSE FOR WORRY
Small Boy Pretty Wei Satisfied That
the Future Was Not Likely to
Be Hard One.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says;

The Cleveland Plain Dealer says:
A Lakewood woman was recently
reading to her little boy the story of
young lad whose father was taken
Ill and died, after which he set him
self diligently to work to support him
self and mother. When she had fin
ished the story she said:
Dear Billy, II your papa we're to
die would you work to support your
dear mammal"
''Naw!" said Billy. Unexpectedly.
But why not?"
Amt we got a good house to live
int"
yes, dearie-but we can't eat the
house. you know"
"Ain't there lot o. stuff In the pam
try?"
Yes, but that won't last forever"
''It1l last till you git another hus-
band, won't it? You're a pretty good
locker, mai"
Mamma gave up right there.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
SHOE men WANT
STATE INSURANCE
LIABILITY BOARD SEES NEW ERA;
25,0oo OPERATORS MAY BE
INCLUDED.
70 READVERTIsE NORMAL BuIluING
State Highway Commissioner Marker
Awards $95,ooo Contracts In the
Building of State Roads--Ask
for Prisoners Pardon.

Columbus.-By q plan now being
formulated by shoe manufacturers of
the state, $4,000 operatives soon will
be listed for insurance under the
workmen's compensation act. The
step will be the most far-reaching yet
taken In the direction of universal
application of state insurance and is
considered by the members of the
liability board of awards as the be-
ginning of new era.
Acting on their own initiative, a
committee of shoe manufacturers con-
ferred with the members of the board.
No definite action was taken but the
manufacturers have devised plan
which they are working out them
selves. This is, In effect, that ten Of
the largest factory owners subscribe
for the insurance simultaneously and
then canvas the others to learn the
sentiment for or against the compen-
sation act.
The conversion of the shoe manu-.
facturers to state insurance is as
cribed by the members of the liability
board to adjustments in the rates.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
NEGLECT OF THE FARMERS
gress Was Hurtful to the Agr-
cultural interests.

Democratic government does not
benefit the farmer. The record of the
Democratic majority of the house dur.
ing the second session of the Sixty
second congress proves this in more
ways than one.
During the past summer the field
work in agricultural education all
over the country was completely de,
moralized. The Democratic house
failed to pass the appropriation bill In
time to meet the needs for the work
and many local institutions and com.
munities that had sought aid were Sc
riously embarrassed.
The activities In behalf of farmers
Institutes were interrupted because
the leader in charge Of the work had
to be recalled, owing to lack of funds.
Every state and territorial expert.
ment station in the country felt the
serious effects Of Democratic neglect.
There are sixty-flve of these stations,
where 1000 persons are regularly en-
ployed, in addition to numerous labor
ers and other help. Summer is the
busy season for the experiment sta
tions and failure to receive the neces-
sary funds not only seriously ham,
pered the work. but in not a few
cases necessitated postponement or
modification of Investigations Numer.
GUS plans at the stations awaited the
annual inspection, which could not be
made without funds and must be put
back until next year.
Owing to the Democratic delay, the
department of agriculture was com
| PEELED to discontinue field work In
connection with soil surveys. The
potash and fertilizer Investigations
were also suspended for lack OF
| funds
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
one Auto to Every IT Persons.

Columbus. = Statistics compiled by
Registrar Shearer of the state
automobile department, show that in
Ohio one person out of every n owns
an automobile. This places the aver
age ownership of automobiles in this
state far above the average maintain
ed in the country at large, as federal
statistics show that throughout the
United States one auto is owned to
every 110 persons. While compare
tive statistics are not available, it is
probable that the average in Ohio is
lower than in. any other stateSindi-
eating more general distribution of
wealth. In but two states, according
to the latest figures, are more autos
owned than in Ohio-New York and
Pennsylvania.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
Lumberins Industry Important.

The Importance of the numbering
industry in southern Ohio is one of
the interesting facts brought out by
the rural life survey made recently
in that section of the state. A large
part of the industry now consists in
getting out railroad ties. At one Ohio
river point one dealer recently billed
out in single day $500 ties, worth
$4,000 One railroad town in north
ern Adams county loaded 500 cars
with ties In single year. A carload
consists of from 800 to 400 ties. This
work furnishes employment for a
large number of persons. The usual
price paid is 12 cents per tie. At a
distance of eight to ten miles u cents
is paid for hauling them to the near
est shipping point. Several industries
other than getting out lumber and
ties, though depending upon the for
| est for their raw materials, are in
operation in that section. Among
these are the veneer mills, hoop pole
| factories and bent wood works.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
Salary and Loan Act Valid.

Columbus. = The constitutionality
of the salary and chattels loan
act as passed by the last legis-
lature was affirmed as valid exer-
else of the police power by the cir
cult court here in decision of the
cases of F. J. Lane against the Peo.
pies Salary Loan Co. and Homer H.
Sharp, against the state. The law was
attacked as discriminative because it
exempted building and loan COM
companies and banks from provisions
respecting loss, and also that it re-
strained contracting because it COM
PEELED husband or wife to join in
request for loans on salaries.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
sate to ReadvertIse Normal.

Benjamin r. Bolin, Columbus con-
tractor, submitted the lowest bid for
the construction of an administration
building for the Bowling Green State
Normal School. All bids were re-
jected because they were above the
architects estimate. The estimate
was $143,00O. Mr.. Bolin's bid for the
work, without the plumbing and heat
ing, was $147,3S6. His bid also was
lowest on the complete work. The
trustees directed the architects to
eliminate certain specifications and
bring the estimated cost down to $780,.
900. 1t is their intention to readyer'
tise for bids.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
BOYS FACE A MASS
Of SCABBY SORES
Awful to Look At, Resinol Cured In
Less Than Two Weeks.

St. Louis. Mo.-"At about IL years
Of age my face was covered with a
mass of scabby sores, awful to look at.
and my sleep was broken up by the in
tense itching, and then after scratch
ing, the sores would pain me Just
something awful. My mother got
salves and soaps to use, but all to NO
purpose. A friend Of mine who was
Physical Director at the Y. M. O. A.
at that time, told me 1t was bad
case, and would spread all over the
body II something were not done. He
gave me some Resinol Soap and Res
inol Ointment, and in less than two
weeks I was cured, without leaving
any marks or scars whatever"
(Signed) Ernest LIE Pique, Jr., 8021
Dickson.
Resinol Soap and Ointment stop itching instantly
and quickly heal eczema, rashes, ringworm and
facial eruptions, rs well as sores, bols, ulcers
burns. scalds, wounds, and itching, intamed ant
bleeding plea Your druggist recommends and SELL
them Soap 25o; Ointment Soc, also Shaving Stick
a6e), sent by MALL receipt of price, by Resino
Chemical Company, Baltimore, Nd. Adv.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
How He Makes the Marc Go,

The man who makes the mare go"
for the Bull Moose party. one Mr.
Perkins. Roosevelt's campaign finan-
cier, is one Of the Harvester trust mo
guls. That trust has subsidiary
plant at Auburn, N. Y. Women and
girls work there on eleven hour shifts.
day and night, on starvation wages.
and are not allowed to sit down. AS
result OF the grinding and exacting
policy of this plant and other plants
like It. Perkins Is able to furnish slush
money for the Bull Moose campaign
and to help along the personal cause
OF the Chief Bull Moose. Canton Reg
lister.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
Would Check Sale Of Veal.

Secretary A. P. Sandles of the state
board of agriculture has announced
that the legislature would be asked
to prohibit the sale of calves for veal.
Veal is not good food" he said,
"and If the killing of veal calves was
stopped there would be more good
beef sold at lower price"
He anticipated that farmers. who
are getting fancy prices for calves,
would oppose the bill.
He put the daily loss from hog chol'
era in Ohio at $4,000. He did not
think the disease on the increase now
An apparent increase Is ascribed OF
greater diligence in reporting cases
The state serum farm at Reynolds
burg will be equipped by December
when Mr.. Sandles said sufficient
quality of the antidote for hog chol
era would be obtainable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
He Would Battle Alone.

Just suppose that the Lord should
step down to Armageddon and weed
out those who are battling in his he
half to further their own private ends
lnen suppose that he should drive
out those found guilty of bearing false
witness against their leighbors And
let him end up by excluding tho?e
guilty of questionable political prac'
tees Wouldn't he have 10 do the
batting for hinself?-lqwa City Re
publican
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
Asks Prlsoner,s Pardon.

Application for the pardon of Rich
ard Hunter, sent up from Lucas Coun-
ty for burglary and larceny, Feb. 10,
1908, will be sought by DR.. Mary
Walker of Oswego, N. Y.
DR.. Walker was in the city and
visited the penitentiary, and became
interested in Hunter. She immediate
ly prepared to make formal demand
on Governor Harmon and the state
board OF administration for the par
don of the prisoner, who is serving a
fye-year sentence.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
Light on Great Questions.

The fact of the matter is that Will.
lam H. Taft is not only a high-class
statesman and president. but he is
dead right in nine cases out of ten,
and more nearly right on great ques,
tons than the average of his prede,
cessors. Give us Taft every time in,
stead OF the wind-jammer OF Oyster
Bay. or the Princeton professor with
his vague notions of governmental
reforms Colorado Springs Tele
graph.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-10-18
His Point of VANTAGE.

The mayor of small town was try
ing a negro for abusing his wife. She
claimed he got drunk and tried to
beat her and she hit him.
The mayor turned to-their little girl
and asked:
Girl, was your father under the
influence of whisky when your mother
hit him?"
No, sab! He was under the kitchen
table," she very quickly replied
Macks National Monthly.