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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-09-08

1t takes light eight years to travel
from one end to the other of the
Andromeda nebula,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-09-08
New England Mills Take Vacation.

Manchester,N H., Aug. 31.--About
5000 mill operatives will begin a
two-Weeks' vacation tonight when
mostSof the textile mills and factories
here Will close down. Local MIL
owners declare there has always been
brief vacation" during August or
September, but never have so many
OF the mills here shut down at the
same time.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20
Suffered For
Twenty Years
Andrade Quickly Restored Ito Health
By Tanlac and Now
Feels Fine

II certainly can recommend Tan
lac and am glad TO do 40. for after
what Tanlac has done for me II
refused TO say good word for II
would be one OF the most ungrateful
men In the world" recently said
ouno Andrade, 1915 Pacific avenue,
Alameda, Cal, an employee Of tho
Union Iron Works.
For the past twenty years" hc
continued. 81 had suffered with
about as bad case Of stomach
trouble as | immagine any one could
have and i've and although ! tried
many treatments and medicines
nothing seemed TO do me particle
OF good until started taking Tanlao.
II had no appetite. and when | did
manage To force down little some
thing would be In misery for hours
afterward. Gas would form on my
stomach | had intense pains In my
sides and chest and In the region OF
my heart. and nj times Just had TO
fight to get my breath. My nerves
were In such bad shape ! could get
but little sleep and lots OF nights !
would sit up In bed all night long
unable TO get wink OF sleep My
tongue was always coated, felt
tired and drowsy all the time, and
often just had 20 give up and take
to my bed.
Someone suggested that / try
Tanac. 80 got a bottle and began
taking Il. N was not long before !
had splendid appetite, and now |
can eat anything | want without be-
Ing troubled with gas or those paths
In my side and chest. J never have
difficulty about getting my breath
and my nerves are In such good con-
dition that can sleep all night long
without ever waking up I'LL morning.
In fact. feel as good as ever did IN
my life. aud hope that what | have
said about Tanlac will be the means
Of helping some one else who may
he In the same condition was
Tanlac rs sold In Burns by Reed
Brothers. and In Crane by Vale
Trading Co. ADV.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20
CHURCHES PLAN TO
AID RURAL LIFE
Inierchurch World Movement
Surveyors Find lethargy
In Oregon.

The church used To have 20 compete
with the saloon as the center Of recrea.
ton. Now Il has To compete with the
movie. the dance-hall and the motor
car.
This In the view OF tho problem fac.
ing rural churches Oregon. OF sur.
veyors for the Intcrchurch World
Movement who have spent months
making investigations OF conditions In
the state.
I'VE cannot complain because these
other attractions are drawing the peo.
pie away from the church." said one,
$50 long as we do not provide any
alternative social attractions. The
church has 10 meet the demands OF the
community In which II exists. physical
and recreationsl as well as spiritual.
and so long as II does not meet them
II cannot protest against the fact that
the dance hall and movies occupy the
leisure time OF the younger people,
while tho whole family is lured by the
prospect Of a motor trip rather than
by what the church at present has 10
offer.
THE church has 10 offer something
better. II will not accomplish much
by denouncing the dance.hal and other
amusements OF which II disapproves
NO long as Its criticism is merely mega.
tive. II has 10 take a positive course
and provide entertainment and recrea.
tion or genuine. attraction and so oust
the bad with the good. ! know OF
one Sunday school that faced this prob
lem In vigorous way. II found that
the local pool hall was attracting large
numbers Of young men. so Il bought
the pool tables, thus closing the pool
hall. But 1t did not stop there. Ii
offered entertainment which effective
ly reached these young men who had
previously spent their time al the pool
hall. We can have movies In tho
church too. especially those education.
nj films which can easily be got from
the Government departments"
Some surveyors found that there was
a general lack OF interest In the church
and religious things In the rural dis.
tricts which they visited. Pastors are
becoming discouraged" one said. "and
spend part OF their time working on
farms instead OF putting all their Of.
fort into church work"
The results OF those surveys will
form an important part OF the program
at the conference 20 be- held In this
county early In April.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20
iNTERchuRcH MOVEMENT
PLANS MEDICAL AID FOR CHINA

In no part Of China is there med
ical force at all adequate TO the. needs
OF the situation. In one province there
is but one doctor TO five millions of
people, and missionaries living In lone
ly stations must travel many days to
procure medical help In case OF need
The program of the Interchurch
World Movement, based ON careful
survey viii include the Strengthening
Of present institutions and the opening
OF larfe number of hospitals In new
areas where they are most needed.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20
EXTENSIVE SLIDE EQUIPMENT
TO BE USED IN CONFERENCE

Interchurch World officers having In
charge the conference which will be
held In this county early In April de-
clare the local church workers excep-
fionally fortunate. as the stereopticon
slides and other apparatus used In the
State Pastors Conference in Oregon
have been left for use In the county
conference. The slides In particular
are said TO be exceptionally interest.
ing, covering very completely the re-
suits OF the worldwide survey made
by the Interchurch World Movement
az we'll as illustrating conditions
throughout the United States.
Slides TO illustrate hymns which
were used in the State Pastors Con.
ference by the New York team" also
have been left for use OF the county
conference. All in an. ii is said that
the equipment afforded for this county
will equal that used at any of the
state conferences. An experienced
operator with highgrade lantern equip.
ment will accompany the team.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20
PROTESTANT PASTORS
IN NEED OF RELIEF
Survey BY Interchurch World
Movement Reveals Pull
pits Poverty.
,,242 is HIGH AVERAGE SALARY
Local County Conference In April VIII
Show Necessity for Clinics and
Homes for Aged and inflrm.

A large portion OF the funds To be
raised In the United Simultaneous
Campaign OF the Protestant denomina.
lions associated with the Interchurch
World Movement will be used for
American Ministerial support and re.
lief. IL IN greatly needed. according
10 leaders OF the lntercburch Move.
ment, who early In April are TO hold
The conference In this county.
As result Of the campaign now
beirg made by the Interchurch World
Movement the combined Protestant
churches OF America will provide many
more hospitals. clinics and homes for
the aged and infirm. An Interesting
feature OF these Protestant hospitals
will be free treatment for ministers.
as recent surveys made by the Inter.
church organization have made the
need for special dispensations very
obvious.
The following startling facts were
divulged An TO the average salaries In
the various denominations. Starting
with the highest. the average for Epis-
copal ministers is si.242: the average
for Presbyterian (Norlh). SLIT; for
the United Presbyterlans, sl096. for
the Reformed Church (Dutch). s1,17O;
for the Methodist Episcopal NORTH,
Si,176, Congregational, sl.042. and for
the Baptists (Northern), $3.50.
With government experts annonnc.
Ing that $500 is the lowest salary
upon which u family can be decently
maintained and suggesting budgets for
none lower. ministers have a discour-
aging outlook. Such things as hospi.
tai bills are almost impossible to meet.
and yet every normal family has some
illness In it's midst every year Ac-
cordingly the Interchurch Movement,
while on its way to obtain higher aver.
ages In salaries. will assist by provid-
ing free cars In its institutions. =
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20
NO SCHOOLS FOR CHINESE.

There are at least 60.0O0,OO0 young
people OF school age In China for whom
there are at present no educational
facilities at all. Included in the pro
gram Of the lnterchurch World Move.
ment which will be explained at the
conference to be held In this county
early In April are five universities In
China each involving the cooperation
OF from four TO six denominations.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20

Brotherly love. both In letter
ana spirit. has been presented In
war romance which Is now i'm
teresting the nation. Miss Emily
KNOWLES. q young English girl.
was woOed by Lieutenant Perley
A. Sptker. II 8. aviation service.
while he was stationed there dur
ing tho war. Lieutenant Spiker
was married. his wife living here
at the home In Baltimore. Now
Emiiy Knowles comes 10 Amer
lea with her three nths-oId
baby. upon the invitation OF Cora
Spiker. wife Of the aviator. Then
enters Guy Spiker. unwed brother
OF the father OF the baby. who
ohered TO marry the English girl
and give the baby name aud home.
The pictures are OF Emily
knowies and her baby. Mrs. Cora
spiker. wife OF the baby's father.
aud Guy Spiker. the brother who
Is making the sacrifice for the girl
and babe. :
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20

suffer enough as II is.
During courtship they call II re.
partce. After marriage Il becomes u
plain family jar.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1920-03-20

II appears, incidentally. that the
allies are still indulging In their fav-
orite pastime OF trying the kaiser :
on paper.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-27
Big Country Merchants
The Golden Rule Is The Keynote of The Neosho PLAN

his competitor or his competitors
merchandise? Isn't it just as wrong
to tell lies in your store as to tell
lies in your home? Isn't it just as
bad and mean and despicable to be
a store liar as to be a home liar or
church liar? Nearly every store
keeper is a member of church, and
he would scorn to tell a lie at home
or in church or in the social circles
in which he moves. In those places
he is a man of honor and integrity,
but in too many cases he feels that
he is justified in telling falsehoods in
his business and in his advertising.
Hypocrisy Gets the Count.
"He practices the Golden Rule only
on Sundays; and when he hangs his
Sunday go-to-meeting clothes in the
closet Sunday night and closes the
door, he shuts the door on the Gold
en- Rule, too, and with his weekday
clothes he puts on a falseface atti-
tude toward his customers on Mon
day morning. A man will go to
church on Sunday morning and pass
the collection plate and look as sol
emn and sanctimonious as a treeful
of owls, and Monday morning he
VII Sit d,wn and wrl . an adver-
tisemen. tL8t is as full Of deceit and
humbag as an egg is of meat. If
honesty and truth are good things on
Sunday they ought to be good on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday.
"a merchant has no more right to
lie in an advertisement than to lie
to customer face to face or to
cheat in any other way. If mar
is cheat in his advertising his whole
business will be honeycombed witt
| fraud and lies-you can't get away
from that. That's one of the big
ideas behind the Neosho Plan, and VIZ
practice it. 1t isn't just theor!
with us. We've been doing it TO
ten years in this town."
"You don't mean to say you SCI
your competitors advertisements be
fore they are printed?" aske'
| Quarles.
eve certainly do-that is, his ad
vertisements for sales days, whicl
are held the first Monday in eac
month throughout the year
81 don't believe we could put tina
over in ClarksviT1e," said Quarles
shaking his head, and the other men
bers of the delegation laughed a
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they thought how certain rival mer-
chants had been throwing mud at one
another for years in their advertis-
ing.
Gone of our great troubles in
GAINESVILLE is that the business men
won't pull together said Bailey.
"We have five different clubs there
"a Commercial Club, a Boosters
Club, Community Club, and so on
and all pulling at cross purposes.
How many clubs have you here
"Only one," answered McGinty.
eve used to have here the same con-
ditions that I imagine you have IN
GAINESVILLE, al that II e majority OF
country towns have; merchants jeal-
Gus of one another, slurring and
fighting and accusing each other in
their daily talk and advertisements;
clearance and cut-rate and cut-throat
sales all the time, and their adver-
tisements filled with so much exag-
Grafton and downright lies that no
body believed them.
Birth of the Plan.
zone day, ten years ago, u. II.
Lowe, advertising manager Of the
nurseries company, came to US with
this new idea: That the business
men of the town give up mud sling
ing and exaggeration, get together
and be friendly with one another
and truthful and honest and far
with one another and with our Gus
tomers-that that meant, Of course,
absolute truthfulness in all our adj
vertising. Twelve of US agreed to II
and went in together in an organlza-
ton we called The Neosho Advertls,
ing Club. Eleven of those original
twelve charter members are still ac'
tive members of the club, the twelfth
having moved away, and our nearly
one hundred members include practi
cally every business and professiona
man in town"
In one of the stores of Neosho thai
day the men from GAINESVILLE heart
farmer ask for a certain article
and the storekeeper said:
"I am all out of that, but the,
have them over at Prices
''Do all the storekeepers Of Neo
sho do that way?" they asked.
"They do" answered McGinty "
remember a case here of new mel
chant who came to town and located
and it took him a long time to ge
into the spirit the Neosho Plan. Fl
had a rival in business here and h
hated him; but every once in Will
customer would come in and say
'So-and-So'-mentioning the nam
of the rival he hated-sent me owe
to buy from you Soon the othe
merchant began sending customer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-27

In McGinty's store the delegation
from GAINESVILLE heard a farmer ask
if the work shoes advertised by Sny-
der for $3.50 a pair were a bargain.
eyes, indeed" McGinty told him.
"Those shoes cost Snyder $2.75 a
pair. I know, because I helped him
fix up his advertising and I saw the
shoe. I don't carry the same brand
of shoe myself, but I have one just
as good that l sell for $685.
"Guess I'll go over and buy pair,
then"
"If you need work shoes you'll
never be able to beat that price. It's
bargain" said McGinty, and the
farmer and his wife went out
you're deliberately feeding bust
ness to your competitors store" said
one of the GAINESVILLE merchants.
"Why not? Snyder has advertised
those shoes at a bargain price. He
is entitled to that mans trade. Now
I am advertising for today mems
summer underwear, regular price
one dollar, for thirty-five cents. If
man asks Snyder today if he can
match my price, Snyder will tell him
Mo- He'll tell him that he gets one
dollar for that quality underwear,
and that mine at thirty-fve cents is
the greatest bargain he ever knew;
and he'll advise him to come over
here and buy. It's that way all round
the square All the merchants in
/ Neosho are truthful in their adver-
tisements and truthful in their state
ments about one another"
ain our town." said William
Quarles, a clothing man of Clarks-
vile. "the rival shoe dealer would
tell the farmer that the $3.50 shoe
of his competitor had paper soles
paper heels and counters, and split,
leather tops REINFORCED with paper
and he'd try to sell him the same
shoe for 1925 or whatever the reg
ular price was"
eyes," said McGinty, at used tt
be that way here, before we adopt
ed the Neosho Plan; but, let me ash
you, has a storekeeper right to liz
about his own merchandise or abou
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-27

over to his rival, the breach was
healed and they became fast friends,
and are yet"
The first Monday in each month is
"sales day" in Neosho. The week be-
fore it each merchant who wishes to
have a bargain sale that day selects
one or more articles and puts special
" low prices on them. Each article
offered must be real bargain; no
camoufage about it. He writes his
advertisement, or he may go to the
committee of the club appointed for
that purpose and it will prepare the
advertisement for him without cost.
It may be, and often is, that on this
committee is his competitor in bust
ness. The advertisement must state
plainly, without the slightest exag-
geration, what the article is, what its
former selling price was, and its sale
price.
The whole advertisement may not
occupy more than three by three and
half inches of space. A merchant
may take four, but no more, of those
spaces, and each must advertise a
different article. No pictures are
permitted and no fancy type, not
even a name cut; the idea being to
! have the advertisement uniform in
size and appearance, no advertise
ment any more conspicuous than an
other. Only two sizes of plain type
are used. Thus the little fellow gets
an equal show with the big one.
A woman is paid $3.50 a month
to collect these sales-day advertise.
ments from the merchants and take
them to the printer. When all are
there she notifies the sales-day com
mittee, of which McGinty is chair
man, and it goes to the printing Of
flee and looks over the advertise
ments. If an advertisement is founC
defective in any way the COMMITTEES
goes to that merchant and talks i
over with him in person.
At the head of the double page O.
bargains is this announcement, signe'
by the Advertising Club of NeoshO:
every item on this list by tn
merchants of Neosho is guarantee
: to be as represented in quality an
price. Every advertisement on tn
bargain pages has to pass the censor
: ship of the Neosho Advertising Club
committee. We want you to be gla
t you came to Neosho."
E The sales-day advertisements al
: printed on a double-page circular tt
g size of an average newspaper. Thel
: are forty-eight of these advertis
e ments on one side of the sheet ar
r from twelve to twenty on the 9th,
r side. The balance of the other sit
s is filed out with general advertis
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-27

ments, which have been censored too.
Six thousand of the circulars are
printed. A woman has the wrapper /
already addressed, and they are mall |
ed to every taxpayer in Newton coun-
ty and to many in Mcdonald county, !
adjoining. The entire cost of print /
ing and mailing is about $144, and
the sales-day square of each mer-
chant costs him about two dollars.
For this two dollars he reaches o.
600 farmers, a trivial cost.
The club not only sends out 5000
of those circulars, but for this same
sales day it places in the leading
paper of Joplin a full-page advertise
ment of those same bargains repro
duced from the circular. Joplin has
$4,000 population and several big
stores, and is only twenty miles away.
To put more "pep" into the month
/ ly bargain sales the club devised a
farmers auction" which is held the
/ same day. This has been in opera
ton several years. They built pa
vilion with open sides that cost ST.
900, an amphitheater that seats 800
and pens for livestock. Any farm
er anywhere may bring in anything
he wants to livestock, farm I'M
Elements or machinery or household
goods. The sale of other things
than livestock begins at 1880 in the
| fo-ox,a,.. l. Of liunctnaly hp-
gins at 1 80 o'clock in the afternoon.
Two per cent of the selling price is
taken to pay the clerk and auction
eer and to provide sinking fund to
pay for the pavilion. The auction
sales average $4,000, and the two
per cent pays all expenses.
Farmers come as far as forty OF
fifty miles to buy and sell at these
auctions.
Takes Rural Luncheon.
Every second and fourth Monday
night in summer the club goes tc
some farmers home and takes lun'
cheon along to serve on the lawn
| Generally the farmer has ten or TWEEN
ty of his neighbors in. These visl
e of the town merchants to the farm
/ ers have become so popular that tn
/ club has more invitations than it ca
e accept.
: The delegation from Clarksvill
s went with the club to one of thes
d meetings at the home of H. G. c. Ba
dry, farmer.
e ''You ought to have seen the eye
e of those GAINESVILLE folks bulge OF
e when they saw what welcome thos
= fifteen or twenty farmers gave US,
d said McGinty, describing it afte
n ward.
lie On the way back to town Willia1
q Bailey, the GAINESVILLE banker, sal
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-27

to McGinty: Il noticed that you new
er mentioned business at this meet
ing. Sixty merchants in one bunch
and not talk shop; that's phenome-
nal"
I'VE never do" answered McGin-
ty. Zone of our rules is that at
these farmers meetings business
must not be mentioned. We come
out here to get acquainted with the
farmers, to show them that we are
combined in a club not to raise prices
nor to gouge them in any way, but
that one of our chief purposes is to
work to help them and that they and
we are members of the same COM
munity."
Early in October for the last i've
years the club has managed a Har-
vest Show. The streets on three
sides of the town are divided into
booths and rooted with canvas, and
in these the exhibits from the farms
are placed. The street on the other
side of the square is used for the
Judging of livestock by the state
board of agriculture. Farmers and
their wives from two counties exhibit
at this show, there is long list OF
awards, and members of the state
board of agriculture say it is the
most beneficial fair in the state
"The only trouble we have is that
our town, with only $500 popula-
ton, is not large enough to take care
of the crowds that come to this Har-
vest Show" said McGinty.
In the later part of August last
: summer McGinty received letter
from William Quarles, of Clarksville,
which read:
eve have organized the Clarks-
vile Advertising Club on the Neo-
. sho Plan, with one hundred members
to begin with. We have held two
meetings; the first one in Bill Bar
ley's back yard; the second at the
} farm home of our county judge.
: There is great enthusiasm and wa
are looking forward to great results"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-27

The following reprint by from
fostering
better and closer feeling tn merchants of Ame'cus:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-27
BY A. B. MCDONALD.

Staff Correspondent of the Country Gentleman.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-26

O. c. Robertson was in Boston Friday
Miss Annie White visited recently in
Greenfield, Mass.
NJ. S. Leach was in Springfield, Mass,
one day last week
Miss Kate Glines of Tilton, n. H., is
in town for few days
Mrs. i. G. Robertson was in Spring
field and Boston last week.
n. @. Maynard has bought the Sweeney
garage and a house near it in Greenfield,
Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Clough of Green
field, Mass, We're weekend guests of
relatives.
Mrs. J. W. .Jeffords and two children
visited il Springfield, Mass, Friday and
Saturday
Mrs. William Belleville of South
Chelmsford Mass, recently visited rela
tiyes and friends
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Smith of Green.
field, Mass, have been guests of relatives
and friends few days.