MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
Mayor, R. R. Ratton
Recorder, E. YV. Madness,
Treasurer, R. K. McHenry
Marshal, Walter Pascoe,
Aldermen, Jb\ C. Hoyt, J. W. Sisk,
C. M. Edwards, A. II. Saylors and
J. II. Ilolderby.
Council meets first Monday night iii
each month.
CHURCHES
Methodist church, services at 11, a
m., and 7:30 p. m. Rev. Jas F. Jerni
#an, pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Baptist church, services at 3 p. m.
Saturday before first Sunday, and 1]
a. m. first Sunday in each month
Rev. J. L. Brown, pastor.
Christian church, services first anc
third Sundays in each month at 11 a
in. and 7:30 p. m. Itev. J. H. Me Don
iel, Pastor.
fratkrniti es
Ran nelly Chapter R. A. Nf. meet.
third Saturday night. I. C. Nuckolls
E. II. P.; T. H. Bearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 24>
meets second Saturday night. T. II.
Rearing, W. M.: It. K. McHenry, Sec
Newark Camp W.O.W. No. 288 meet*
second and fourth Tuesday nights it i
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 j
Speed, Clerk.
Newark Lodge I. O. O. F. No. 26.'
meets the first and third Wednesdaj
nights. E. M. Wilson, N. G ; H. E.
Hawthorne, Secretary.
Independents; Dodge No. 2379 K. <S
L. of II. meets first and tnird Monda’
nights in each month. O. F. Craig,
Protector; E. H. Williamson, Sec.
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arc attracted — where they
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how much it is sold for. If
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FUG OF THE COST
THE FACTORS IN PRICES OF
COMMODITIES. 9
P RODUCTIONAND DISTRIBUTION
Equity in Division of Profits to All
Engaged in Producing, Manufac
turing and Selling.
Were the masses of people better
informed as to principle^ underlying
business transactions and commerce
in general there would be less cause
for complaint as to matters pertain
ing to buying and selling of com
modities.
One of the faults, if it may be so
termed, is the inclination of the
people to complain about prices they
must pay for goods required for do
mestic and other uses. There can be
no doubt but that in many districts
retail merchants exact- exorbitant
prices, this to an extent is the fault of
the people who are little acquainted
with real values. There are three im
portant things to be considered in the
fixing of the selling price of all com
modities. These factors are the cost
of the raw materials, the expense of
manufacturing and the expense of dis
tribution. From commercial transac
tions neither of these basic elements
can be eliminated. The farmer who is
The grower of corn, wheat and other
Cereals that comprises food stuffs, re
ceives compensation for his product
in accordance with the laws of sup
ply and demand, and the values that
may regulate the monetary markets of
the world. The nrodnrer of cotton in
the southern states, must receive for
his product compensation that is
based upon the cost of labor, manu
facture and what finished articles in
the cotton line may bring in the mar
kets of the world. The producer of
the raw materials must pay for his
labor, and for his investment in farm
lands and farm equipment. The man
ufacturer who buys the raw' products
must take into consideration the ex
pense of labor, the maintenance of his
manufacturing plant, the interest
upon the amount invested, and also
various other items, and the sum of
these with what he can secure for his
finished product, regulates the price
that he pays for the rawr material. In
the distribution of goods the middle
man plays an important part. He is
the go-between the producer of the
raw material the manufacturer, and
the manufacturer and the consumer.
He cannot well be eliminated from
commercial transactions. He per
forms a service that neither the pro
ducer of the raw material or the man
ufacturer can more economically per
form. The middle men are the job
bers. the commission agents and the
retailers; each performing his special
service in the matter of distribution.
The consumer is the end of the chain,
the final buyer of commodities who
utilizes them for his own use and the
uses of his family. There should be
a margin of profit in each of the
different transactions that will allow
equitable compensation to each and
every one interested in the production
of a finished article. A.11 goods have
a real value and this value is deter
mined solely by the elements referred
to herein. The consumer must expect
to contribute his mite towards the
support of all engaged In commerce.
He is the beginning link, as well as
the ending link of every transaction.
The farmer who grows wheat, when
he forces the grocer from whom he
buys his flour to sell the flour at a
low rate, indirectly has an influence
in lowering the market for the wheat
that he produces. When the consum
er demands that goods be sold at a
price below the cost of production, he
invites substitution of inferior goods,
adulteration of the articles and en
courages a system that is unwhole
some.
The people should understand that
they never receive something foi
nothing, or receive anything of value
for less than its value unless under
some abnormal circumstance. Of late
years there has a system grown up ol
offering great bargains in various
kinds of goods by catalogue sent
through the mails, and presenting at
tractive and illusive advertising that
goods are being sold at less than cost.
The intelligent man or woman will
carefully consider all the circum |
stances relative to such offers, and i
will be guided accordingly. It is evi- j
dent that when special bargains are
made there are conditions that justify i
such bargains, that goods are not of 1
standard grade, are stale, or deterior
ated in some manner. Also there has
a system of offering “free premiums”
grown up that is unwholesome, and to
an extent an imposition upon the peo
ple as the system compels them to
j pay for articles that are not essential
for them to have. The man who buys
sugar does not care to be forced un- *
der the guise of paying for sugar to
pay for a paper of pins or a package
| of needles, even though these may be
a “free premium." It is well to hear
these points in mind, and a little
study into business economics and
principles will be highly advantage
ous to the one who desires to know
about the proper value of goods he
must buy.
IMPROVED FATiM IMPLEMENTS.
The time has come when the South
ern farmer must use i: proved f irm i
machinery, and not depend on cheap
and unskilled labor.
There is more money to the farmer
to pay good wages for a hand who is
able to drive two or three mules at a
time than there is to hire a cheap
hand to only drive one mule.
It has never occurred to a great
many of the Southern farmers that a
man can plow two rows at a round 1
with improved machinery and do bet
ter work than he can to only plow
one row at a round with the imple
ments now being used.
We can not afford to travel any
longer in the ruts traveled by our
forefathers, but must change our
plans and so utilize our time as to
make bring the greatest result pos
sible.
^ ne great trusts and combines of
our country have ueen using improved
machinery for years, and they have
doubled and thriblcd their income by
so doing, and we, the farmers, must
adopt the same course of procedure. ;
We can not, we will not, waste our
time aiy longer by trying to use the j
unimproved and insufficient farm im- |
plements, but we, the farmers, will i
rise to the necessity of the hour and |
use such implements as will make
cheap negro labor undesirable and the
foreign immigration detestable.
The Western farmer is able to make
money and pay bis farm labor twice
what we are paying them in the
South, not because of the superior
advantages of his soil, or his mar
kets, but because he uses such imple
ments as will enable him to do twice
as much work as is now being done
by the Southern laborer.
Wake up, you horny-handed sons of
our unsurpassed South; look about
you, gather information and dream
no more of the cheap and unprofitable
negro, or of the foreign immigrant,
but of improved implements and meth
ods.—Union News.
There are thousands of men and
women in the fields of the Southwest
today who will work all the year and
sell only cotton at the end of the sea
son (if not “advanced” for to its fulf
value). These men should count the
costs and then they will quit the one
crop system. Many of these men and
women are mere drudges and know
it not. They have no time to stop and
wipe the sweat from their faces and
to see what their relations are to the
world. They are in a rut. To such
tne teachings of Farm and Ranch
come like water to men in a dry land.
How to grow other crops, the profits
of living at home, the pleas ires of the
independent man who is not without
hope—all these put life into the droop
ing heart, nerve the arm and point
the way to better things. The good
wife has no business working in the
field day after day, and the home will
not be what it would be if she were
not so occupied.—Farm and Ranch.
Care of Shade Trees.
While shade trees are very desirable
along sidewalks and roads, unless
they are kept well trimmed they be
come muchjof a nuisance, preventing
evaporation of rains and helping make
muddy streets. It is well for citizens
of every town to look after the trim
ming of Bhade trees, and the planting
of shade trees where they are needed.
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