City Directory.
municipal officers
Mayor, R. R. Ratton
Recorder, E. VV. Magness,
Treasurer, R. K. McHenry
Marshal, Walter Pascoe,
Aldermen, F. C. Hoyt, J. W. Sisk,
C. M. Edwards, A. H. Saylors and
J. II. Holderby.
Council meets first Monday night in
•each month.
CHURCHES
Methodist churcl* services at 11, a.
m and 7:30 p. m. the second and fourth
Sunday in each month. Rev. Jas. F.
Jernigan, pastor.
Baptist church, services at 3 p. m.
Saturday before first Sunday, and 11
-a. m. first Sunday in each month.
Rev. W. P. Jackson, pastor.
Christian church, services first and
"third Sundays in each month at 11 a
an. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. J. II. McDon
ael, Pastor.
FRATERNITIES
Rannelly Chapter R. A. M. meets
third Saturday night. I. C. Nuckolls.
E. H. P.; T. H. Dearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 248
meets second Saturday night. F. C.
Hoyt, W. M.; J. T. Tharp, Sec.
Newark Camp W.O. W. No. 288 meets
second and fourth Tuesday nights in
month. E. W. Magness, C. C.; O. F.
Craig, Clerk.
Newark Grove W. C. No. 87 meets
first and third Tuesday nights. Mrs.
■C. M. Edwards, Guardian; N. A.
-Speed, Clerk.
Newark Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 263
meets the first and third Wednesdaj
nights. R. M. Galloway, N. G ; T. M.
Harrelson, Secretary.
Independence Lodge No. 2379 K. &
L. of II. meets first and tnird Mondaj
flights in each month. E. M. Edgar,
Protector; Zed Griffith Secretary.
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IUU Hfnlll ing That’s thc
kind we do, and at the right prices. Give thi
Jhorae printer the same chance you would ask for
the home merchant—trade at home.
Do not
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dead merchant
HE SOMETIMES DRIVES TRADE
AWAY FROM THE TOWN.
HINDRANCE TO LIVE MERCHANT
Are as Much to Be Feared as the
Competition of the Catalogue
Houses—Should Be Awak
ened or Buried.
Why ^should the home merchant he
patronized instead of the mail order
house? The subject has been ex
hausted almost and from all points of
view and all sides there is no valid
reason why the merchant at home
should not—excepting two, price and
articles wanted.
It is not the intention of the writer
to jot down a pleasant flow of lan
guage or to produce an interesting bit
of reading matter, but merely to state
in a few simple sentences what I have
seen and learned of the competiton be
tween the catalogue houses and the
home merchants. In the first place no
one community suffers greatly in this
competition. That makes the problem
all the more difficult in solution. I
mean by this that the majority of buy
ers in no one community purchase by
mail. The business of the mail order
house is scattered over a large terri
tory, the number of orders coming
from any one community compared
with the whole is comparatively small
to the number of orders in the town.
There is an exception to this in a com
munity where the home merchants are
dead ones and ask exhorbitant prices.
well be placards in the store announc
ing “Buy what I’ve got and keep still"
and “We are busy, don’t disturb us.”
No effort is made to show you an arti
cle; nothing is ever taken down from
the shelves unless directly asked for.
Neither hardware nor furniture man
acts willing to get what you want if he
does not have it in stock. And again—
neither one of these stores believe in
advertising. They use no space in
their home papers; a newcomer would
never know the city possessed such
places of business enterprise. Who
ever heard of a country hardware or
furniture store having a special sale,
or harvest sale or the like? Rut why
not? These two storekeepers are bit
| ter against the mail order houses. I
| wonder why? I talked with the raii
| road agents in that little city and he
i said lots of hardware and furniture
! was shipped in. He said, “One day I
made out an express order for $34 to
pay for a bill of hardware. I told the
j man to go up and see if the merchant
| couldn’t fill the order. He went but
soon came back, saying that ‘he didn’t
i have half of the stuff on hand and that
1 he wouldn't cut a bit on what he did
] have.’ ”
Column after column has been writ
ten deploring the fact that the buyer
spends her or his money away from
home, that she or he is helping to build
up the mail order house to the detri
ment of the home merchant. The sen
timent is good and the cause is worthy
of the efforts being made to stop this
undertow; but no amount of writing,
and no amount of home patriotism will
ever overcome the bad effects of the
dead merchant in the little town. The
truth can be plainly seen.
Let us turn back to the general
stores and look up the proprietor of
any one. He probably will be found
When the local editor and the local merchant put their shoulders to the
wheel of local progress the town will move, its industries will thrive, it will
prosper. But remember the editor cannot do it all; he asks and must have
the merchant's assistance.
To illustrate. There is a little city In
the central part of Wisconsin, a beau
tiful little place, with its shady streets
and pleasant homes. It has several
general stores owned by live, wide
awake merchants, who are hustling for
business, yet are always pleasant and
ready to visit with a customer. They
are not put out at any time to show
goods, taking down bolt after bolt of
cloth and maybe then not making even
a five-cent sale. They take that as
part of their business; they are always
willing to send post-haste to the city
for any article they may not have in
stock that is wanted by a customer;
their stocks are up-to-date and free
from shelf-worn goods. These men
make the humblest customers feel wel
come in their stores, and particular at
tention is paid to waiting on children,
gi-ving them even better nreasure and
quality than their elders would re
ceive. And these men are advertisers.
Their ads in the local papers are
changed regularly and show time and
study. They meet the mail order man
more than half way in special sales
and clearing of odds and ends. Here
is an instance where there is no legi
timate excuse for a person sending
awar after goods. And the people do
not. Very few articles of general mer
chandise are shipped into that city.
The buyer and seller are working in
harmony to their own betterment and
advantage.
But look at the otner suie. iuc
which we have in mind has one hard
ware and one furniture store. Both
have fairly good stocks for the size ot
their circle of trude, but just step into
either one of these stores. The pro
prietor may be in the back room or the
back vard for all you know, but by and
by some stir is heard and leisurely he
makes his appearance-neither store
as need of a clerk-and probably with
some grumbles about being disturbed,
asks what is wanted. There might as
busy waiting on a customer, mu it not
lie will tell you that it is not the cata
logues alone that he fears, but also
that it is the lethargy of these two
dealers. They are helping to flrive
away trade from home.
I have wandered from the subject
and gotten over on the buyers side
of the fence; but isn’t it well at times
to look at the other side of this pitiable
story? I started to write a few lines on
“Why People Should Trade at Home,”
and have gotten into the field of “Why
the Home Merchant Should Induce
People to Trade at Home.” It may be
[fair to the little town to once in a
Where Are
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Cj Are ihey in this community ?
€jj Are they among the people
with whom you associate ?
<51 Are they with the neighbors
and friends with whom you do
business ?
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this community. You want to know the
goings and comings of the people with whom
you associate, the little news items of your
neighbors and friends—now don’t you?
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while throw a few shovels full of earth
on the dead merchant, lest he stlnketh
and polluteth the rest.
EDWARD T. HALE.
SOME REMARKABLE HORSES.
Wonderful Stories About the Steeds
of Famous Men.
In his letters to Lord Granville, pub
lished by the Royal Philosophical so
ciety, who was also greatly interested
in natural history, Smithson, the
founder of the Smithsonian institution
in America, relates how the horse of
j Alexander the Great, Bucephalus,
j would at night, on hearing a blast of
I the trumpet from the soldiers on guard
showing the approach of the enemy,
run at great speed to his master’s tent
and with his teeth grab the sleeping
monarch and shake him until he sprang
into the saddle and galloped toward
the enemy.
Also that the great Caliph Haroun-el
Raschid in the eight century in march
ing toward the forces of Queen Irene
I of Constantinople constantly had a
number of trained Arabian horses (di
rect descendants of the famous horse
owned by Ishmael 4,000 years ago)
thrown forward as scouts, who from
j time to time returned to camp and by
! a peculiar whinny and neigh reported
the proximity of the enemy.
But, to come down to the present
day, it is related by a retired New
England clergyman, whose sands of
life had nearly run out, that one day
on leading his horse down through a
lane to a brook for a drink the animal
suddenly halted and, turning its head
round, grabbed up with its teeth one of
its hind Bhoes which had just dropped
off, and, holding it In its mouth with
the nails dangling, it backed up against
a stone wall and clapped It onto Its
hoof and with a few violent kicks
a ailed it on again.
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