Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-07-09
B0LAR

The bridge across Bolar Mill Run
will soon be finished and autoists
will heave a sigh of relief.
The Holiness people are conducting
a revival in the grove at Bolar.
VIM. Watson and Mrs. Watson; of
Falling Springs, w. Va, are visiting
old acquaintance here and attend
ing the meeting.
The recent fine rains, have helped
out the meadows and other crops.
Wheat harvest is on, though the
crop is not up to the average.
A good deal Of buckwheat is be-
ing sowed.
Potatoes seem to be the live tick
just now but is not disturbing our
folks much,
Every voter should read and COM
pare the "key note" speech of tie
Temporary chairman of each party,
There is no doubt but the women
will receive the right of suffrage in
time to vote this fall and the result
will be problematical.
We have Sc members in our Farm
ers Union which meets every 3rd
Saturday at p. m, at the school
house on Dry Branch. We can have
an excellent Union if our members
will attend each meeting and stick
Itogather in buying and selling. Near
ly all our members have pooled their
wool. We hope to buy our salt and
wire fence and fertilizer through the
union at very great saving. Why
not sell our lambs together? We
hope to have union store at Monte
rey. These union stores are great
advantage to the members and we
trust each local will discuss this mat
ter, for if there is any way to get rid
of the detestable profiteer who prac.
tically robs us, let us do it.
The Lever act which has not been
repealed, and we hope will not be,
provides heavy fine or Jail SEN
tence, or both for any merchant who
sells at an unreasonable profit.
We hear of wholesale houses who
made as much as $4,000 on 4 car
loads of sugar. They were fined
$4,000 and this occurred at Hinton,
w. Va. Now, these wholesale peo-
pie are bad but are they worse, than
our merchants here at home?
For instance: bought small flat
file, Sxz inches to sharpen my x
cut saw and the merchant charged
me Csc for it. The same day I
bought two files Of my blacksmith
for zoe. The files were all alike and
1 presume were bought of the same
wholesale man in Staunton. The
blacksmith told me the files cost him
$1.25 per dozen, and I'm sure they
did not cost the merchant more. The
merchant ought to have sold the file
at 15c, his profit would then have
been about so per cent.
Another merchant sold boy a
pair of shoes for SIS that cost him
$3.50, and when the boy complained
of the price the merchant had the
audacity to tell him the government
did not allow him to sell them for
less!! Is it any wonder the farmers
are organizing. Why not the gov
eminent appoint fair price COM
mittee whose duty it is to visit these
Iprofteers and compare their selling
price with their cost price and report
to the grand jury every merchant
selling at such unreasonable profit.
This ROBBERY must stop and there
is no better way to stop it. Prof.
teerng is in one respect like a loath-
some contagious disease, it is very
contagious but in another respect it
is not, for every body is trying to
catch it.
I trust our authorities will wake
up and put an end to this unreasona-
BILE unbearable thing, profiteering.
Rusticus