Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-06-11
AS WE SEE 1T
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IT'S ALL SETTLED about the re-
.ort drv weather spell which was
hroken over the weekend. It seems
+ho+ the locust holes in the ground,
estimated to go down as far as seven
foot absorbed the surface water to
Tho extent that crops were being
seriously threatened.
THE CASE AGAINST the present
Roosevelt administration oftimes
assumes amusing proportions. For
instance, read this:
Dividend declarations for the first
quarter of 1886 reported by 80 Of the
nrncipal American industrial and
commercial corporations as published
nv the Ctandard Statistics Co. OF
New York, amounted to $74 ,535, 900,
as compared with $685., 900 for the
first quarter Of 1896 and $27, $4,000
for the first quarter of 1888. For
the 1888 quarter Is of the companies
maid dividends even though nearly all
of them were operating at loss. For
that quarter General Motors divi-
dends amounted to $13,219,0 du
Points to $7,072,000; international
Harvester, $2,O66,000 and U. S. Steel,
S1,8O2,OOO. Steel's deficit for the pc
Rod totaled several millions.
so MUCH FOR THOSE who deal
in circles where capitalists reign
supreme. Now lets take the little fell
low-the man and woman who tran
sact lot of business with mail order
houses. However much we small-town
guys dislike the mail-order business,
the percentage rolled up by Sears
ROebuck, Montgomery Ward, etc.,
shows certain prosperity among the
poorer classes. Cast glimpse at this:
According to an Associated Press
dispatch from Chicago, Sears, Roe
buck & Co. reported sales volume of
$41,45O,978 for the fourth period of
1885, from April "a to May Fl was
period in the company's history. The
larger than for any corresponding
volume was 28.8 per cent greater than
for the same period last year, 81 per
cent greater than the same period in
1894. Total volume of sales from
January 80 to May 81 was $136,992,-
OlS, an increase of 1873 per cent COM
pared with the corresponding period
last year and 81 per cent over the
same period in 1884.
HOW is THIS for a snappy come
back?
Congressman Robert F. Rich is one
OF the most militant Republican
sharpshooters in the House. He is a
Dig lndustrialist, general manager of
the Woolrich Wooden Mills of Wool
rich, Pa. The House was considering
tae War Department appropriation
Dill when Rich growled: "Who made
up this budget?" Tilman Parks of
Arkansas explained: "The people who
brought back prosperity"
Rich: "Humph, if there's any pros
perlty I'd like to know just where it
is"
Farks: "That easy. Right in the
gentleman's own manufacturing con-
Germ. On the letterhead of the gentle
MaaS own company appears this
statement, we have had the best
year IN many, many years.
TALK ABOUT SELF-DISINTER-
hSI. Here is an outstanding ex.
ample.
In working in one of my colorec
SYMBOLS it was most interesting tc
4satn that a mother of the colored doc
wi was serving hot lunches all win
w 70 about 80 children in that com
AuOlty. This struck me SO forcibly
sarnOt help but mention it as she hat
~ children attending school but wa:
~VSt interested in her community.
u'em taken from the monthly re
pOrs Of Mrs. Katherine johnson, Pub
County,
NIX WILLIAM vEIRS has a ros,
s sss0en which is a rose garden. HI
.su mas red rose called "The Sen
~.. s' With 357 different varieties
s sUS can take your pick for beaut,
n" u scent. Next week will tell yov
-ANLc dO0nf he