The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-07-30

| with the w eStern racine before muCn
can be done Col Place will be at
Boise until about the first Of the year
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The children's home has shipped to
the associated charities of Caldwell rs
dozen quart jars to be filled with fruits
for the homeless children The farm
ers can do splendid work calling for
these jars and filling them. Call up
Mrs. Grace Andrews and find out how
to get your box of jars. This idea is
especially for the farmers who have
| fruit.
Your Hired Man stepped into one
of the Caldwell drug stores the other
day and asked to see a bible for
moment. He wanted to refresh his
mind on the commandments, for one
of the movies had advertised a GER
tain commandment for the afternoon
and evening entertainments. The drug
gist explained that his last three bibles
in stock had been picked up. That is,
they had been stolen. He would not
carry bibles any longer, for people
would steal them OF course. there
is but one use to which stolen bible
could be put, and that would be to
make present of it to some one who
reads bibles. 1t would not do the
bible thief any good to read it even if
he obeyed it, for he had stolen it. So
there are three people reading stolen
bibles in Caldwell, unless the thieves
sent the bibles away. So if the stolen
bibles were sent away some where
they may do the good for which they
were intended when written, but the
thieves here in town have queer idea.
Your Hired Man has been figuring
out what it costs to deliver groceries
to customers Of Caldwell and here are
his figures:
An alert man with a swift team will
travel thirty miles per day at an ex-
pense of $500, which is 1873 cents
per mile He will make this schedule,
loading and unloading his groceries
figured in. If he carries orders amount
ing to $1,000 the delivery expense is 81
for 7X-mile drive. If he carries or
ders amounting to $40 the percentage
expense is, of course, less, for he will
travel " miles, deliver his $1,000 or
ders and get back at a cost of Sl.OO to
his store.
Now, if woman a mile out orders
hurry-up purchase of SIPS and a
special trip must be made to deliver it
the merchant just breaks even on it,
provided he gets the money in thirty
days with no additional cost of collec-
ton The delivery wagon must travel
two miles to deliver the order. must
get off schedule time and must be util-
lied with the small purchase, while
he would otherwise be hauling the
larger aggregate orders.
If a purchaser walk into the store
and buy fifteen cent order, has but
little social or gossip talk to make,
turns around and gets right out of the
store. the store just breaks even on
the deal, for the clerks salary and in
cidental expenses eat up the profits on
the transaction, and that too, if she
pays cash, or attends to the payment
within thirty days. If woman orders
fifty cents worth and the wagon must
travel half mile especially for this
delivery, the merchant loses 2 cents
on the deal even if he gets the cash at
the time. OF course all the ten and
fifteen cent orders that must be deliv-
cred by special trips amounting to half
a mile travel. means a\dead loss to the
store of exactly the size of the pur-
chase.
| wrote a piece the other day for
the "Our Dumb Animals Magazine"
and urged everybody to be kind to all
animals. The editor wrote and asked
for my photograph. wish the good
| housewives in Caldwell would have
care for the poor horses who must be
driven down the streets lickity-split in
this hot sun just to deliver few cents
worth of groceries that could just as
we'll have been ordered an hour before
when the regular drive was being
made. Four times day, the mer-
chants tell me, they make their regu-
lar schedules with their deliveries
How would it do for the purchaser
to sit down early in the morning and
by eight o'clock have their morn
ing orders all in. Then in the after