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Crittenden record-press., 1916-04-27
Ten Commandments For
Clean Up Campaign

Love your neighbor's lot as
you do your own, but be sure to
love your own.
Don't plant tomato cans and
rubbish on unused land. Their
fruits are withered civic pride.
Don't allow yourself or your
Crittenden record-press., 1916-04-27

such. Far be it from such! On
the contrary, we wish to help
them, in spite of the fact that
they don't, or won't help them
selves. to get out Of the mud and
enjoy life. Leader.
Crittenden record-press., 1916-04-27
The best line of mems
and boys shirts, collars
and neckwear we have
ever shown. c. 3. Lloyd,
Fredonia, Ky.

SfSt S'SNss. ~ Ss .Sy
Fredonia, Ky.
BE sure to come to the S. S.
Institute to be held at the First
Presbyterian church, April %
ard 80.
Miss Kitty Gray returned Sun
day from a lengthy visit to
friends and relatives in Madison
vile, Henderson and Paducah.
RECEPTION" a coffee Of
quality. with an aroma all its
own. Try il and yol will thank
US. ASHER q LAMB.
C.. A. Joplin. the State Sunday
school worker, will speak at
Chapel Hill Friday night. Every
body invited 10 come out and
hear him.
Cleaning. pressing and repair
ing. Agents for the White Swan
Laundry. Best in town. All
work called for and delivered.
Huffman & Cook. jenkins Bldg.
George Orme who is attending
the Ky. State University.
was home to spend Easter and
left Sunday afternoon 10 return
10 his studies.
All who are interested in the
Sunday School work are cordial.
ly invited to attend the Institute
10 be held at Marion Apr. - 80.
Mrs. r. F. Dorr returned from
Louisville Friday much benefited
aud refreshed from a few days
rest and a nice outing.
FOR SALE My 8 room house,
and lot, on Walker street, in fine
repair and good condition. For
particulars see me. Guy Giyens.
Miss Frances Gray who has
been taking a post graduate
course at the Western KY. State
Normal, at Bowling Green has
returned home.
FOR SALE For the balance of
this season | will sell eggs
from my best X. |. Reds and
S. {. White Leghorns at 80
cents per 10, $3.50 per hun.
dred. Baby chicks 10 cents
each. Mrs. J. b. Carter, Ma
rion. Ky.
Miss Sallie Franklin left last
week for Blodgett Mo, to visit
her parents. She has been at
tending the Marion Graded and
| High school,.
Let every Sunday School in
the county send some delegates
to the Institute at Marion Satur-
day aud Sunday.
Mrs. 7. +. Newcom aud son
Billie. who were here visiting
relatives while Prof. Newcom
was at Louisville attending the
X. f. A., returned home Mon
day.
Claud McCandless, a promi-
nent man of Smithland. was Civ
en- a sentence of from two to
twenty.one years in the peniten.
tiary at Smithland last Saturday
upon the charge of man slaugh.
ter. An appeal will be taken.
He shot aud NHled Barney Trim.
BILE several wears ago.
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ers and Sunday School workers.
Yours for service,
E. F. Dean.
County President. East Crit.
See Mrs. McGiii's line
of millinery and COM
pare the quality and
styles as well as prices,
at c. 3. Loyd's store.
fredonia, Ky.
Crittenden record-press., 1916-04-27
10 Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System

Take the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula 70
printed on every label, showing Y Is
Quinine and Iron In a tas,eless form.
Tie Quinine drives out malaria, the
IRON builds up Me system. 50 cents
Crittenden record-press., 1916-04-27

We had a few thous-
and dollars worth of
goods left after the sale,
and have a few thousand
dollars worth OF new
goods received since the
sale, all OF which we are
selling at old prices.
c. q. Lloyd,
Fredonia, Ky.
Crittenden record-press., 1916-04-27
Rev. Geo. A. Joplin. Of Louis

Rev. Geo. A. Joplin. Of Louis
vile will conduct a Sunday
School Institute, in Marion April
20 and 80. Everyl1dy in ed.
Miss Irma Perry, Of Mali3n.
enroute home from Caneyvihe,
spent Saturday in the city the
guest of the Misses Downing. =
Princeton Leader.
Crittenden record-press., 1916-04-27

All Sunday School people are
cordially invited to attend the
Institute to be held in Marion
April 29th-3Oth, 1916, especially
pastors, superintendents, teach
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II. X. Woods, of Owensboro.
spent several days in the city
last week.
New York has a Waldorf
Astoria why not Marion a
Park Wilsonia?"
LOST. Account book somewhere
on streets of Maricn. Will pay
for its return. George Boston.
City Marshall.
A. M. Gilbert is now stationed
at Bailey's Mill, Christian Co..
where he is looking after Uncle
Sans business.
Any price typewriter you
want. See Walter Guess.
Hon. r. f. Cooper, of Hop
kiLsville made a fine good roads
talk here Saturday afternoon to
a good crowd at the court house.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06

so many generations from other nations
here in Europe
"What will you do to comply with the
request of the institution in question"
/ asked A. H. Martens, president of the
Russian American-Asiatic Corporation,
60 Broadway, New York.
eve will do our BEST" replied Mr.
Martens. "Our first requisite to sue
cess in Russian trade is knowledge
specialized expert knowledge of inter-
national trade; our second requisite is
the establishment of direct selling ia
cilities in Russia, right on the spot;
these our American manufacturers cam
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06

not afford to provide for themselves in
dividually. Once these two requisites
are complied with, all else will follow;
not spontaneously, perhaps, and not
without effort, but it will follow, just as
the flag must follow trade.
"The Russian end Of our organization
is in charge of natives acting under the
supervision of our New York Office AS
early as the seventeenth century Eng
lish economists advocated cooperative
selling methods by means of non-com-
peting groups. The trade of Great Brit
ain was founded on that principle. AS
the foreign trade of a nation becomes
fully developed, the cooperative meth
DDS are gradually supplanted by indi-
vidual organizations. The advantages
to the smaller manufacturer of organi-
cation would be an opportunity to estab-
lish his business in several provinces of
a country at the same time-a task too
expensive for most houses to undertake
alone. Our efforts to deal directly with
the real Russian merchants is to enable
the American manufacturer to get
firm hold of the Russian markets now
and to save a lot of bother and CORE
spondence for Russian buyers"
AS Russia differs from the rest Of the
world socially, artistically and politi-
cally, likewise she differs in her COM
mercial principles from anything known
on this side of the ocean. Numerous
stories and interviews have been writ
ten about Russian trade and industry,
but thus far little has been said of the
Russian KupecheStlCO, the backbone of
all the economic life of the empire. The
KupecheSt1CO - the merchant class of
Russia - is older perhaps than the
German HdnSa or the English Lloyd, as
it dates back to the fifteenth century,
when the rest of Europe was plunged in
barbarism. The Kalashnikoffs, Maka-
roffs and Popoffs were historic figures
in opening trade channels into the ORR
ent, China, Tibet, Persia and Turkey.
For many centuries the Russian mer-
chants were the only middlemen be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06

is not spoiled by sensational and tenn
porary fads, and thus an artistic atmos.
phere is maintained in the country. The
mixture of the designs and colors
shapes and lines of the past centuries
with the present produces that equiB.
brium which guides a nation perhaps
best Of all in its aesthetic evolution
Through this very fact Russia is the
most highly educated country in art
You will find products of the semi-bar.
barrie Tartar and the highly cultured
modern Slav in the Russian stores. I
know merchants in my home province
Pskoff, who still have goods in their
warehouses that were sold during the
seventeenth century.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
By IVAN NARODNY,
Secretary of the static Corporation

tween the Oriental and the Occidental
markets. The Nijni-Novgorod Fair IS,
and remains, one of the most picturesque
potential factors in European mercan-
tile history. For that reason it is alb
surd to speak of undeveloped Russian
trade or to belittle Russian business.
The wealth and power of Russia lie
not in the bureaucratic government nor
in the hands of the chinoUnikS, but in
the Kupechestwo and the ntoujiks, al
though a certain intellectual class, COM
posed of various professional branches,
the doctors, teachers, lawyers, clerks,
artists, engineers, ETC., has begun to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
1--WE HAVE CLOSED OUR DOORS
TO GERMANY AND INVITE
AMERICA TO TAKE
ITS PLACE"
ITS PLACE."

"The Pskoff Board of Trade made the
resolution to grant an office and ware
house free of charge to the Russian
American-Asiatic Corporation in Pskof
for ten years in order to foster the di-
rect trade relations between Russia and
the United States and Canada" Thus
writes the chairman of the Pskoff Ku-
pechskaya Uprava to the above named
recently formed New York export
house. eve have closed our doors to
the German manufacturers and invite
those of America to take the latter's
place. But you must understand that
we cannot buy goods from your English
catalogues and send the money to you
without knowing some one Of your firm
personally. We purchase annually for
eign goods to an extent of ten million
rubles, and expect that your firm can
sell same to us under the same condi-
tions as we have been purchasing for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06

play conspicuous role during the past
two decades. The Russian aristocracy
exists only nominally. 1t never had any
deciding power, except, perhaps, before
the Tartar invasion. The clergy, as
much as it seemingly depends on the
bureaucracy, draws its life after all,
from the business class. The bulk of
Russian wealth lies in the hands of the
KupecheSt1oO. The power of the Couch
koffs and Morozoffs, the most conspicu-
Gus merchant families of to-day.
Russia is perhaps greater than the
outside knows. Not very long ago the
Car invited Gouchkoff to his palace and
consulted with him about the new Cabi-
net ministers. Two-thirds of the Rus
sian national revenues come from trade
While in other countries commercial
life has crystallized itself into a science,
in Russia it has remained a religious ira
dition. Ostrowsky, the great Russian
dramatist Of the past century, depicted
in his numerous plays masterfully the
psychology of the merchant class. But
no one has yet written the history of
Russian trade, in which have been in
volved great court intrigues, ronances,
tragedies and thrilling episodes of a
semi-Oriental life. The Russian Ku-
pecheSt1CO, to large extent, lives the
same life that it lived under Ivan the
Terrible, Peter the Great and the adj
venturous Anna Ivanovna. A glass of
tea plays nowadays the same role in the
Russian business affairs as it did CEN
turtles before. The ikon that stood in
the corner Of the store of Kalashnikoff so
many centuries ago stands to-day in the
same way in the corner of the elaborate
offices Of the Morozoffs, Riabushinskys.
Popoffs and Filipoffs. The same semi
romantic, semi-mystic atmosphere that
prevails in the Russian social life per-
meates that of business. The merchant
Of Yaroslav or Saratoff is just as diff
ferent from the American business man
as night from day.
The American business men or tour
lists who happen to make a trip to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
"HAVE SOME TEA, MY LITTLE DOVE?'
a, There Is Jelly, Biscuit or Vodka for the Russ
Caller-BusiueSS Is Business, Nevertheless.

God be thanked, we are doing we'll
But why don't you take the caviar?
Take glass of vodka. You see, my dear,
we don't care so much for the business
that you can give us as we care for your
pleasant presence. We like to entertain
our colleagues, customers and business
friends, but business is the last word
we speak. There is plenty of bread for
us in what we can do quietly and mod
estly," says the bookkeeper.
When the merchant returns we con-
tinue drinking tea and discussing every
thing but trade. | am invited to be the
guest of the merchant and his family in
the evening. Only on the third day
am asked by my host what l have to
offer, and so on. One feels naturally as
a friend to the merchant, and business
is done in a patriarchal way. During
this time the merchant knows more or
less my psychology, my weak and strong
sides, and acts accordingly. The same
method, only in a lesser degree, prevails
in the store. The customers are the
friends of the merchant. Credit is given
and debts are paid without any docu-
mentary evidence, and business has the
aspect of big family life.
1t is this very element that plays the
greatest role in Russian trade and yet is
least known to American business men.
Without knowing the kupetz little can
be achieved in Russia. The Kupechs-
kaya UprdUa-Board of Trade-is the
most vital institution of Russian town.
To reach this one has to know the indi-
vidual merchant and be well recon-
mended by him. This institution en-
joys great privileges and independence.
1t takes care of the interests Of its men,
bers and practically of the whole munic-
ipality. 1t supervises the local trade
and takes great care that obligations
and promises are kept by the business
men. 1t cultivateS a spirit Of honesty
and commercial integrity. 1t acts as a
legislative, juridical and executive body
not only for its members but for the
whole township.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
MERCHANTS WHO DRESS LIKE
PEASANTS, BUT WHOSE
HOMES ARE PALACES.

To keep large amount of goods in
stock has been the prime reason that
Russian merchants require such long
term credit from the manufacturers.
The German manufacturers granted
credit from six months to year against
the bank acceptances of the Russians.
The Russian credit system is the safest
imaginable, irrespective of the legal
protection. Not for any amount of
money would reputable Russian
kupetz ruin his firms reputation by fail
ing to pay his bank acceptance. 1t is
considered very reprehensible if a
merchant does not keep his word. Most
of the Russian trade transactions are
based on verbal promises. This, of
course, does not apply to the business
men of the Polish provinces and to a
certain class of traders in towns like
Petrograd, Odessa, Warsaw, etc. l am
speaking of the real traditional Russian
merchants of central and Eastern Rus
STA. The best class Of Russian business
men are the Oldbelievers@ Starovery-.
who neither drink any alcoholic drinks,
nor smoke or spend money on their
clothes. Primitive simplicity in manners
and life is their foremost requirement.
/ have known Starovery merchants who
dressed like the peasants, yet lived in
palatial homes and spent large sums of
money on art and religious institutions.
The trouble with Russian business
men is that they are too conservative
and opposed to change. Instead of in
vesting superfuous capital in new in
dustrial ventures, stocks or municipal
securities, they keep it in their safes
If a merchant has fifty thousand
rubles he keeps it in his home and OBJ
jects to have anything to do with
bank. There are tens Of thousands Of
such old-fashioned Russian merchants,
whose money is kept dead in their
homes. According to the estimate Of
the late Count Witte, one-ffth of Rus
sia's cash is tied up in the safes of the
merchants. While the merchant could
safely pay cash for his orders, yet he
has been spoiled by manufacturers in
giving long term credit, and he sticks
to the custom. The banking system, as
practised here, is unknown in Russia,
though there are big banks with large
capital. You can more safely give
credit to Russian merchant than to a
government institution, because he
cares more for his good name than for
heaping up money. The average Rus
sian merchant has been but little
affected by the madness for getting rich.
quick.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
CALLING ON A RUSSIAN MER-
CHANT IS MUCH LIKE DROP
PING IN AT AN AFTER
NOON FUNCTION.

At the table sits the merchant, with
long beard, leaning back in his arm
chair. Next to his table are the desks
of the clerk, bookkeeper and the man.
ager, if it is big firm, but only one
correspondent bookkeeper if the firm is
small. An old man who keeps things in
order acts as messenger boy. His name
is usually Vassili or Ivan. When l come
to see Feodor Petrovitch, the merchant,
Vassili announces me and then | am
conducted to the table.
please take a seat" says the mer-
chant, with a hospitable smile. "Vas-
sill, give a glass of tea to the gentle
man. Do you smoke? Take glass of
vodka? Well, am sorry! Now, here
is the jelly, my little dove" he continues,
without giving me chance to answer.
"Feodor Petrovitch," l begin, Il for
got to give you the receipt for the five
hundred rubles."
Waving his hand, Feodor Petrovitch
eXclaims:
"What nonsense! You had better tell
me how is the health of your family and
how did you spend the last evening. Did
you hear that the Crooked Mirror CON-
pany is in our town? Magnificent! l tell
you! Simply grand. l laughed about it
even in my Dreams"
quite so, Feodor Petrovitch," stam-
mer. "But l think we had better finish
our business, as | intend to leave the
city tonight"
Eyes, my little dove-goEubchik-
you can leave the hotel and stay with
us. But we don't do business that way.
We will drive tO-morrOw-it is semi
holiday-to the monastery and have
lunch in the inn. You must see the
Crooked Mirror people before you leave,
and you must see our family. Why, it
would be a crime to come here, sell
goods and leave the town like cold
blooded German. Thank the Lord, we
are Russians and we have our good
name No business to-day, nothing to-
morrow after tomorrow we can take
up the business affairs. Put the receipt
in your pocket and tell me frankly how
do you like the Filipoff's pancakes? Ny
little boy, you don't know our people"
Thus would speak Feodor Petrovtch
and treat me to a glass of steaming tea
and all the delicacies. The telephone
would interrupt our conversation. Fec
dor Petrovitch would leave the Office,
asking the bookkeper to entertain me
in the meanwhile.
"How is business? | would ask the
bookkeeper
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even if they speak Russian, as all the
business men they meet form an excep-
ton to the average kupetz-merchant To
my knowledge the Russians that trade
with foreign countries leave the export
and import transactions in the hands of
their German, Jewish, Polish, Swedish,
Dutch, Esthonian and Finnish foreign
managers Until this war the Germans,
Jews and Belgians controlled all the
Russian foreign trade. An average Rus
sian merchant considers it belittling to
take personal charge of the foreign
trade. For that reason he rarely meets
a foreign business man, and remains in
seclusion from the outside world. There
are merchant familiesin Moscow, Mini
Novgorod, Saratoff, Yaroslav and Kiev
whose ancestors were engaged in the
same profession. Once / made the ac-
quaintance of a merchant in Moscow
who produced for me the historic proof
of the fact that one of his ancestors had
supplied the court of Genghis-Kahn in
the fourteenth century. II is common
case to meet Russian business men
whose mercantile genealogy dates back
six generations. The oldest son of the
family inherits, as a rule, the business
of his father and takes care Of the other
members of the family. The oldest son
of merchant is usually free from mill
tary service and is trained from his
youth to trade. He seldom is sent to
college, to the university or even to the
gymnasium. Often he gets a good edu-
cation at home and then is graduated in
a good private school. At the age of
twenty-three to twenty-five he marries
and becomes the heir of all his fathers
affairs. The other sons are made either
artists, lawyers, doctors, teachers or
officials in the various departments of
the government or the municipality.
IF A RUSSIAN MERCHANT SAYS
HE is WORTH A MILLION,
THE CHANCES ARE
HE IS.
Russian commerce has a stability
such as is to be found nowhere else. A
firm Of good standing rarely fails. AS
all the Russian trade is either an indi-
vidual or partnership venture, and there
are few stock companies of the nature
of those in this country, the foundation
is solid and stable. A firms wealth is
actually evident from the goods in the
stores or in the warehouses and from
the cash in the treasury. There is no
stock jobbery or high sounding air
about Russian mercantile house. If
merchant says he is worth million dol
lars, one may be sure that it does not
consist in uncertain securities or mag
mary schemes, but in actual cash and
goods in hand.
The tendency of accumulation of
goods has its good and bad sides. You
will find in Russian store things that
were used a century ago next to the
latest novelties. The benefit of this lies
in the fact that the taste of the people
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06

~ sales and purchases before a
samovar-tea kettle-and an
ikon. Trade for him is not means of
gambling, but a religious profession.
He looks on it as a sacred inheritance
of his ancestors, a profession by which
to make an honest living and to save a
little for his children.
The office of the merchant consists
of wide room filled with all kinds of
samples on the shelves and tables. A
wide table is in the rear, on which a
samovar is boiling from morning till
evening. Behind this is white tile
stove, and next to it, in the corner, is
hanging an ikon with burning lamp.
On the table stand glasses, jars and
boxes filled with jelly, biscuits and deli
cacies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06

d RUSSIAN merchant makes his
n sales and purchases before a
N samovar-tea kettle-and an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-25
RECORD NUMBER
TEACHERS GOING
TO CONVENTION

Portland, Me-, Oct. 24.-Applications
Tor room assignments pouring in to the
Chamber Of Commerce convention bu-
reau indicate that the attendance at
the annual State Teachers convention.
which opens here Thursday morning.
will be considerably larger than the at
tendance at the convention two years
ago, which was the largest convention
ever held up to that time. A few more
than 1000 were registered at the 1914
convention, and officials receiving ap-
plications for accommodations say
that an attendance Of fully $500 is in
dicated for the 1916 convention.
The opening organ concert OF the
winter course under the auspices Of
the City Music Commission Wednesday
evening will draw an unusual number
of teachers to Portland on the day pre-
ceding the opening Of the convention.
This feature of the 1916 convention is
assured by room applications now be.
ing received, many who have reserved
rooms for Thursday and Friday now
writing in to ask for their rooms on
Wednesday night
The indications are that there will
also be an unusually large display OF
school books and school room appurte-
nances, these exhibits forming one OF
the features of the anual convention.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-25
Quinn Burns

St. Dennis Catholic church at NORTH,
Whitefield was the scene Monday
morning Of a quiet but pretty wedding
when John F. Quinn of HalloWell and
Miss Mary Amy Burns of North White
field were made man and wife under
the rites of the church. The ceremony
was conducted by Rev. FIR. Dennis Nc
Cabe. rector of the church. in the pres
ence only of the immediate relatives
of the bride and groom. They We're at
tended by William T. Quinn of Halo
we'll and Miss Margaret A. Dunn of
Augusta. .-...
Following the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served at the home of
the bride. and later the newlyweds left
on a wedding journey to somewhere
in New England" On their return they
will reside in Hallowell. Both young
people are we'll known and popular. the
groom being member Of the firm of
Paine & Quinn at Hallowell, and the
bride has been saleslady at the store
of the Russell & Weston Co., and their
many friends will unite in wishing
them much happiness.