Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-01

G. have seen in long while, and Il
l. best could do was to slip in wol
h edgewise now and then, and | didn
U even get chance to ask him who pl
the Bee in BeeviIle.
IS But when get curious about a thin
J. | can't stop until my curiosity is sati
i fled. meandered along looking int
: the candy store, which looked lighte
g and brighter inside than it was out o
+ the street in the sunshine (almost)
! past a shoe store that had two windo,
n displays that looked as if they ha
!. climbed right out of the pages of
trade journalj past lunch room tha
= made me hungry, though it was just af
0 ter dinner.
Everywhere / saw all the eonven
} fences and fixtures, the advertisement.
OF which in the trade journals wer,
every day diet with me. The towr
was certainly up to the minute in meth
ods and equipment. 1t was up to the
minute in stock, too. | saw in a hard.
ware window display goods with the
manufacturer Is cut-outs and show cards
Just as | had seen them first announced
IN trade paper two weeks before. |
went in and asked the man how he came
to know about that display and the
goods so soon. Sure enough, he had
seen the same advertisement | saw
and had wired (mind you, wiredl) for it
at once. why, F." said ne, "you 'ye
got to use the quickest method II you
get anything in this town ahead of
your competitors. Every man Jack is
oJhnny on the-spot. +"
2" Beeville didn I use to be like this, -
] said. "What happened2"
= Bit by the Ginger-Bug, said he, as
a farmer drove up in front and beck.
oned him to come out.
Ginger hypodermicsl Ginger.buel
couldn't wait for the hardware man to
roll out the barbed wire the farmer
wanted. must hurry to some other
store and find out about this ginger
thing.
Right next door was Burns Drv
Goods Store. Four beautiful windows
in front, with two entrances. A special
sale Of rugs from samples was going
on inside. | wanted to see what Mr.. |
Burns would say about ginger, but there
seemed little likelihood of my getting to
him. Across the street was the only
place | could see that did not appear
to be busy. 1t was a little one.story
with an office in it, "Real
Estate" sign in the window. A man
'at in the doorway quietly smoking.
Perhaps he could tell me who had made
he Beevillains into live wires.
How's business3" asked MIN.
Bullish, ;" said he, "but / can't get
to SELL -
Everybody holding on to property
or rise "
MOI everybody holding on to it be.
ause they need it in their business.
'he town ism growing so much, but
verybody is making money. It used
be that everyone wanted to sell and
o one wanted to buy. Now, every few
ays somebody comes along and wants
buy or rent to get into business
ere, but there's nothing to be had but
acant lots out of the business sec.
ON" +"
Wei" " said /, "I've got you here
here you can't get away. Now I {
ant to know what has hit this town. I
used to be as dead as a motor with I
10 gas all gone" 9
"Do you see that sign down the :
rect there, Excelsior Press y" !
"Yes."
That's where you II find the man !,
no invented the Live Wire Pledge. - "
us this Live Wire Pledge anything
SO the Ginger Bugs I've already been 9
Id the town was bit by the Ginger. 4
lg and that it has aad hypodermic q
ginger. n
1T does sound little mixed" said fl
Q real estate man, as he shipped the II
d from cigar and offered me its v
lte, But it 10 simple enough after A
!. Why, this young Salisbury came =
town and bought the Excelsior Press q q
d the newspaper it publishes. Every. y
dy thought he must be crazy to pay u
u money for that business in such. fC
lead town. I'm not yet sure he WASH I p
q ism Z monOmaniac. He began IL
call on the merchants and ask taem
lat was the matter with them. Fin. II
y he told them so often there was h,
nethlng the matter they began to be. III
We 1t. He preached at them in his !,
per and wherever he saw them. and :,
ally he got them all together, every :.
ther S son of them, and III be darn. e'
II he sn Z the king of spellbindersl y
told them they were hundred pl
hrs behind the times and they be. er
we'd it. He told them their stores HI
re filled with junk and they had to nj
mt 1t. He told them their methods
re those of their grandfathers, and
Y knew he told them the truth He
're they would all turn into mum. bl
.s II they didn 7 get rid of the hook. II
rm and the sleeping sickness and a In
other trifling complaints, and they m
'an to get pale around the gills. or,
IN, when he had them eating out N
his hand, ne told them only one W.
ag would save them. Every man in po
{ room, he said, must sign a Live bo
re Pledge before he would be allow. tut
to go home. Then he unrolled a to
ct Of paper as big as barn door IN,
hung it on the wall, and il read; IN,
hereDy agree to spend ten dollars M,
mn the next six months for trade -.
rnals about my business. Failing to p'e
this, acknowledge that | am dead bol
the world and might as well quit !
they sign itf Not man in the ch,
m flinchedl And that Is all. mol
Do you mean to say,' / asked rcd
lat the signing of that pledge by the pul
y business men has made Beeville or,
It.it now isf" sr'
Perhaps not signing the pledge, but lne m
ng up to it. AT least there we were, pei
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