The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-25

A few days ago our attention Was
call-s 10 a COPY of the Fennimore. Wis.
Times as an example Of the effective
use which the farmers OF the middle
vest ana the west are making Of adj
vertising In their local papers. In one
issue Of the Times there were eighteen
display advertisements relating TO as-
ricuiture. Seven of them were quarter
page advertisements of auction sales
In addition there were over a column
of want ads. of which more than one
half pertained to farming And the
Times Is a paper much like the Rec
ord and printed In a town Of only about
1000 population.
Farmers In the neighborhood Of Pi-
oche should awaken to the fact that
what has proven beneficial TO farmers
i'm other sections of the country VIII
also benefit them. There Is someone In
this community who wants the very
thing he adyertises for sale In city
or a farm paper. The only reason the
average farmer doesn't know this Is
because he has never tried advertising
In his home paper. He pays fancy
price to advertise stock. eggs. poultry
or fancy produce In class Journal.
never realizing that an ad costing
much less money can be inserted In
the county paper and that II will find q
buyer closer to home who may become
a customer for life. But all the argu-
ment In the world will not serve to
convince them. II takes more than ar
gument. 1t takes actual tests. So We
invite the farmer with something to
sell to come In or write In to this Of
fee and, like other business men. tell
us what he has to offer. Well do the
rest and the results will prove more
convincing than all the talking we
could do between now and doomsday.
The seasons toll of joyriders has be-
gun to be collected. The mixture of
alcohol and gasoline, midnight speed
ing when the blood IL hot, the careless
ness and disregard that comes to him
who violates the presidents set by his
eiders-these things have begun to hg-
ure in the columns of the newspapers
as the weather grows warmer and more
suited to such things.
Then, too, the railroad crossings are
claiming their own. In increasing num-
bers, Just In proportion to the increase
IN tne HuulOcT Va hhOSO W NV q s'N'"'o
So many people out Of every hundred
thousand who cross track fail to
heed the warnings and pay the PEN
atty. A certain number out OF every
hundred thousand try to beat the on
coming train, and a certain percent OF
those who drive along the countr,
roadways neglect the usual precau
lions and bring disaster to themselves
or others. So 1t is true that the season
Is collecting its toll of joyriders. for al
rule It Is the joyrider and not thu
person who Is engaged In Legitimate
business that meets disaster. Wher'
one is attending to business he ISM
nearly SO apt to be careless or reckless
as when the mission Is one OF JOY. A
least, he isn't 80 apt to mix gasoline
and alcohol.
We do not intend this as sermon
nor an argument to be used by tn
dry" exhorter. We merely point GU
the fact that the dangerous season TO
autoists Is at hand. In the hope tina
any Phoebe autoist who may be in
clined toward carelessness will TAX
heed before it is too late.
Citizens of Phoebe and vicinity VIII
watch the market reports know this
wheat Is selling at 50 bushel in mos
communities and In some markets .
even more. Corn Is bringing "
bushel and oats $1.25-unheard
prices and the highest since the da,
following the civil war.
We are about entering on anoth'
harvest with 150.000.o00 bushels I
wheat still on hand. and the harve
this year will be near the 700.000.0o
bushel mark. And yet no one seen
able to give definite reason for Il
high price. Some say 1t Is due to spe
ulators and others to poor transport
tion facilities. Still others blame 1t
the high wages paid farm labor. b
this one thing Is certain. Europei
buyers are In this country bidding 4
wheat. and II man from Europe
to pay the price the owner Of the whe
isn't going to take any less from
customer in this country.
But the high price of wheat a
other grainS now prevailing does n
; help local farmers to any great 9
tent, in that most OF them sold tn
crops last fall. The great bulk OF
crop, in fact. has passed out OF I
farmers hands. That makes 1t all
7. harder. II the farmers were getti
! So a bushel It would help them a
: the cost of -four would not then pro
: so burdensome. But as 1t is the pre-
goes elsewhere and the consun
bears the burden without receiving .
benefit.
= There IL q general impression o.
4 the country that this Is going to b.
! good year for roorbacks. or politi
fake stories: that the concoctor OF
/ bles intended to deceive will soon
: busy and stay busy until Novemt
Forming our opinion from reading o
side newspapers we do not hesitate
!: predict the hottest presidential ca
:. paign in the history Of the present 8
.. GRAFTON.
: The best season for the campaign
I. the real campaign lie and not one
Z the parlor variety--is In the clos
days Of q campaign when there is IN
= time left for exposure. investigation
,. denial. Campaign fakes put out &
quite often work havoc with tn
against whom they are intended
But forewarned IL forearmed.
that 10 why We are warning citiseni
Phoebe to weigh carefully before
lieying or repeating any Of the q