WHO BUILDS A TOWN?
Who is if or what is it builds a
town? Do railroads and rivers
build towns' 1 )oes a combina
tion of merchants, professional
men, mechanics and laborers build
a town i No. they assist and are
an essential quantity. So are all
other branches of trade, profess
ion and labor.
But the press and the adver
tiser are the builders. The press
is the fulcrum and the lever upon
which the foundation rests, while
the advertiser is the weight upon
the lever that forces the city sky
ward.
Try building a city without a
newspaper within ten miles of its
limits: it won’t go. A town might
acquire a population of a few hun
dred, but there its growth and
business would cease forever, or
the coming of the press.
All trades, professions, enter
prises and labor are necessary for
the building of a town or city, yet
w ithout the press and the liberal
advertiser the city would prove a
gigantic failure. But if founded
by the right kind of men with a
good printing plant, with a live,
wide-awake editor, the success of
the town is assured.
The kind of men who can hold
a town down the longest or kill it
the quickest, is the selfish man:
who tries to impress the people |
with his importance and sagacity, j
He is so thoroughly versed along i
business lines, so gifted with the
principles of business and so far
above all competitors that adver
tising or seeking of trade through ;
other channels than his dignified
appearance before his customers
is ridiculous.
Did you ever notice that in near- j
ly every town there are one or
two well*to do business houses
whose proprietors have never
paid the printer, since the founda-1
tion of his business, one cent for
advertising
What it difference in his class,
and the big whole-souled business
class of men, who live that they
may enjoy the pleasure of seeing
others live, and who have the in
terest of their town at heart, and
who, when they invest a dollar,
don’t look for the return of ten
the same da.\ ; men who are satis
fied if by spending their money
they can increase the business of
their town and the value of their
property, men who go down in
their pockets for fifty or a hun
dred—but he who could well af
ford the same amount stands by
without contributing a cent.
[Should the scheme prove a failure
our Almighty Dollar Man would
be the first to cry “I told you so.
I had too much good sense to go
into that scheme.”
There is nothing that so pleas
es the non-advertiser as to have
some competitor come out in the
town and county papers with a
two page ad; then he is in his
glory, lie smirks and smiles and
says to himself, “I am glad to see
all this advertising, it will bring
great crowds to town, it will also
induce our town people to do a lot
of trading, of ail which I will be
sure to get a share. lean sell as
cheap as any of them and 1 haven’t
spent a cent for advertising.”
And so it goes, year after year;
taking the trade away from those
who have honestly bought it. This
class seems to havfe no honor,
pride nor self-respect.
Any town that is infested with
a dozen or so of this class of busi
ness men is well on its way to the
cemetery and the citizen who will
do nothing for his town is helping
to dig its grave.
F. E. & C. U. OF A, STATE MEETING
At Least 600 Delegates Expected
at Farmers Union Gather
ing in Little Rock
The state secretary. Hen L.
Griffin of Conway, says that not
less than ♦'*«»0 and possibly TOO del
egates will attend the state meet
ing of the Farmers Union, which
o; ens in Little Rock August 7 and
continues three days.
The headquarters of the state
secretary while attending the
meeting will be at the Hotel Grace,
'West Markham street, near the
state house. Secretary Griffin
will furnish information to dele
gates as to rates and accommoda
tions in the hotels and boarding
houses.
Mr. Griffin will be at the Hotel
Grace, Monday morning, August
Li, and can be reached by telephone
ai d will give any information de
sired concerning the delegates and
state officials.
A redcuced rate of one fare,
plus 50 cents, for the round trip
hits been secured for the delegates.
HUSBAND AND WIFE SHOT.
Near Cherry Valley, ten miles
north of Wynne Mrs. II. A. Leap
trot was -hot and instantly killed
and her husband, II. A. Leaptrot,
was seriously wounded by un
known assassins. Leaptrot and
the members of his family were
sitting on the front porch of their
home. > .me unknown men, sup
posed to be three in number, rode
to the front gate and tired into the
party on the porch with the result
as stated.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA
Camden, July 27.—Mrs. James
AV ard, a prominent woman of this
city, died last night from a well
. * eloped case of hydrophobia.
On June 17 Mrs. Ward was bit
ten b.y a small pet dog, which, it
afterward developed, had been bit
ten by a mad dog. Little was
thought of the matter until about
ten days ago, when Mrs. Ward
was taken ill with symptoms of
hydrophobia. In view of the fact
that she had been bitten by a dog
a month before, and it had become
known that the dog had been bit
ten by a mad dog, her illness cre
ated alarm, and a consultation of
doctors was held. After carefully
observing the symptons they pro
nounced it a genuine case of rab
les.
A flystery Solved
‘'How to keep off periodic at
tack* of biliousness and habitual
eonstination was a mystery that
Dr. King’* New Life Pills solved
forme,” writes . I. N Pleasant of
Magnolia, Ind. The only pills that
are guaranteed to give perfect sat
isfaction to everybody or money
refunded. Only 25c at Sturdi
vant's Drug Store.
Plank note and receipt books at
The .Journal office.
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SHEARS AND SAWBUCK
Shears and Sawbuck kept a
store such as never was before.
City folks they wouldn’t sell
wouldn’t let em have a smell:
fetched their money, but by jing
couldn’t buy a blessed tiling!
j Couldn't meet ’em face to face an
then sell em with good grace.
Country trade was what they
sought, Folks wh’d pay for wlmt
they bought ’fore they saw it hide
or tail. They sent catalogues out
by mail to every blessed one get
tin mail at Possum Hum We set
up at night and read when we'd
orter been in bed.
Book was about as big as sin,
had a lot of pictures in, and a list
of merchandise, every kind of ev
ery size, giving prices that they
swore knocked out every country
store, Looked so straight and
seemed so true, 1 bit at it, Jim
did, too.
Jim’s my neighbor ’cross the
way, best man ever worked in hay;
just let him top off a stack, sheds
rain like a turtle's back; pleasure
just to see him work, never knew
ol’ Jim to shirk-; swings a scythe
like ’twas play— love to watch him !
in th’ hay.
Well, we like a pair uv fools,
sent off, got some hayin' tools.
Jim got harness an’ a plow—I, a j
range; I see it now, drat the thing! j
It was so light, I used it for a
torch one night: throwed the darn
thing in the yard; use it now for
renderin’ lard.
Poor Jim used his plow )in hour
found the blamed tiling wouldn’t i
scour; tried his harness, broke a
tug, sought for solace in his jug;
in the cooler all that night .rim re
flected on his plight. In the
mornin' Richard Strout (Hard
ware merchant) bailed him out.
Jim said after that he'd stick
close as bark to good old Dick;
since he left the Possum jail, sa.vs
he won’t buy things by mail; sa.vs:
Dick’s cheaper anyhow—might
have saved some on the plow, on
the other goods some more, at his
ol’ friend’s hardware store.
Jim says, “We can’t sell no
truck to such folks as Shear Saw
buck; they’ll take all our cash
away, but won’t buy our corn and
hay.” That seemed purt.vstrange
to me, so I told old Jim I'd see.
So 1 wrote to them that night, just
to see if Jim was right.
Ast em what they’d pay for oats;
Could they use some likely shoatsf
How about four tons of hay 1
could ship them right away;
Could I furnish Mr. Shears with
his family roasting ears; Also,
would my friend Sawbuck buy
some of my garden truck;
Answer came one summer day.
Said they couldn’t use our hay;
couldn’t use our oats or shoats,
didn't like our billy goats; when
they need truck to eat, got it down
on Water street. Sorry but they
must refuse anything but cash to
use.—Ex.
WHY THE TREE MOANED
It was a delightful evening in j
.June that a certain pair of lovers
sat in the shade of an old apple
tree talking.
“Listen,'' said he, after a slight
pause in the conversation, “how
that tree sighs and moans.”
“Yes,” she answered, “I guess
you would sigh and moan, too, if
you were as full of green apples
as that tree is.”
NOTICE TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Notice is hereby given that
there will be a meeting of the di
rectors of the various school dis
tricts of the county at Batesville,
Ark., on Saturday, August 11,
11*00. Every school director in
the county is urged to attend.
Sidney Pickens,
County Examiner.
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