The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, October 31, 1906, Image 4
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TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
IW. W. EIIOAK. JR-. WJltmr m»4 P»rri.l'
I^mbUalMd «Ttrj Wtdawdij.
Mi<tttpUo» price $1.00 per %nnu>
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i of adTettlMinent oot la
loaertlon the
■ to neceMary
H order to lyateoaHM oor work.
Oer oorraepondeeta wlll'pleaM make
m atort to fret all commanicatioaa lo
i by Saturday nirfat. It la aonie-
lmpoa«iblft to ret them lo the next
Hix t tv a xoc< iso wiu pi
m§f for chance of adyefttoa
fear than Saturday to insure
(aftawtaf WMk. This rale
when they arrive later. ■.
ilcatloi
Issue whc
Ofoomunlc-Hilona mutt be accompanied
feTyhe real name and address of tha$rrit*
•r in order to receive attention. Mo com*
Muuieatlon of a personal oat a re will be
faUfobed except a* an advertisement.
Hereafter oM»nsrie« of not more than
101 words will he poblfshed without cost
an over 100 wor Is will be charged for
at the rate of five cents per lies print.!
WEDNESDAY OCT. 31 i«o*
SEND tS ELECTION KETUKNS.
We would ask the managers at every
precinct where the stock law question
is voted on to please ssud us the vote at
once. We go to pre • Wednesday and
dM entire county will be anxiously
awaiting news of the election, so please
iry Co get ns the returns at once.
LIEN LAW.
We have been asked to invite a die-
anssion of the Lien law through the
columns of The Press and Standard, in
aider that cur legislators may know
the seutiment of the people on this im
portant question. At every session of
the legislptore an effort is mads to
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“kil!” the lien law and the majority
tu its favor has been getting less, till at
the last session the majority in its favor
only three votes. It seems that the
aentiinent against it is increasing. What
•av yon, citizens of Colleton County?
T>o we or do we not desire the perpetua
tion of the Lisn law?
EXEMPTION OR STOCK LAW.
WHICH?
Coodsidersble diisrnlsion of the stock
taw question has been had through the
oolnmns r t The Press and Standard
This is the last issue of the paper before
the election is held next Tuesday to
decide whether or not certain portions
of Ibe county are to be exempted from
rit#operations of the general law. We
have urged, aud we again insist, that
•Yery voter exercise his best judgment
In determining how he shall vote in this
important question.
W • cannot see why this mattsr was
hcoogfat up Just at the this tims, when
It seemed that all parties were enjoying
conditions as they were, aud the author
of the joint resolution calling for this
oleetiou has kept well in the baok-
Ofuand, Anyway the issue is raised
*td must be met. See to it that ye
■met it as men. We await your verdict.
SCHOOL TIME.
We presume that nearly every child
In Colleton County of proper school uge
is now attending school somewhere.
We hope so at any rate. If they are not
• great pity. * Our people should be
making every taorifloe necessary to keep
•heir boy* and girls in the school room.
The parent owes this doty to his off-
•priog—to fit them to oops with
modern conditions. These conditions
dsmsnd an educated cilixenship. A
man in this day and time to be suooeea-
ful mast be a well rounded, well In
formed nun. Even the common laborer
most he skilled if he dm to advantage
•he complicated implements with which
he labors. 80 these should be oompe-
tent teachers, and proper methods need
in impart lag knowledge. The branches
taught should loqk to making a OMful
eitfeenship. The scope of the com
mon (?) school should be broad, for the
grant majority of its matriculatM never
co -
go higher. Such subjects as Oirios, in
its fnll significance, and agriculture
inctudiaf botany and horticulture,
dkonld be taught. Kindred subjects for
•Moguls aes esssniifti. la other words
* boy or a gfet graduating from the
eammon uehoulaef the country should
i as 13 ti. (u
'•rtwerr VrC-nV r'mrrn*««~'4 IntH't’nH**
ku ••Tuft * ir • * !*•»»••»
of ikmr MjrJo, octtii-tr (Md muvUttf.
tern r rrc*
A0n» m XVaatrS. U«ry wn. prrmi^rnta*
■1 .1 ». ! rum. ■*» - —r
•A* have pr«viii*d u means, now t<
1 ucsb* yonr child :von must let us have
> v«*ur child to sducste.”
Till the wisdom of our legislators cat.
g ve u« a compulsory education law we
must beg that every child possible be
placed and kept iu the school room.
WEALTH OF COLLETON COUNTY.
The following abstract of the taxable
preperty of the county, and the amount
of taxes to be paid will be of interest to
the people Of the county.
Real estate, number of acres
7011,751, value $2,081 845
Persoual property, total valae.. 1,531,770
Railroad property, totol value 879,315
Total taxable property !...t4,492,930
Intbecoucty there are 5 9bl build
ings valued at $308,210. In towns and
villages there are 489 lots valued at $51,-
8b0. On those lots are. 573 buildings
valued at $150,605. •
Bo much for the real feeaate of th®
county.
Th»- $1 631.770 of per onal property is
mads up as follows:
3,040 boises, valued at $195,545
11.270 cattle, valued at 96 887
2.880 mulee and asses, valued at. 259.915
2 081 sheep and goats, valued st 2,619
8.534 hogs, valued at 18.842
284 pieoea gold and silverware,
valued at ‘ 6,739
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391 mnaicnl instruments, valued
at 17,878
4,958 carriages, valued at 105,284
2,981 dogs, valued at ."T. 14 905
Merchandise, valued at ... 158,795
Maunfactnres, valued at 22,800
Mannfactorad articles, valued at 129,025
Bnndry other articles, valued at 308,721
Fertilizer, oil mill, etc., by
Compt. Gen’l 191,555
The total taxes paid on this property
both personal and real will amount to
$72,264.57. This amonnt is apportioned
as follows:
Stats $22,464 65
Oonnty 28,465 65
Special county, for past indebt-
“ edness
Dog tax
School Oonstitntion&l 3 mill
Special aud Local School
Poll
4,492 93
1,494
13,478 79
2,366 55
5,503
Total $72,264 57
Hence it will be seen that we are rich
in what make* real wealth. Colleton
County has a rich and eplendid inrare
ahead of her. We want to Me her peo
ple express more faith in their home
county. We want to see them show
their pride aud strive all the time and in
every way they can to develop the
unused wealth of our fields and forests*
We hava a climate that m&kee it a gar
den spot and a refuge to thoM of hardier
clime* end we should have end express
faith in old Colleton end her future.
HOfIB MERCHANTS.
Their Duty to the Nome Paper as De
scribed by Ode of Them—Should
Subscribe end Advertise.
A. H FMtor. Storm Lak., U.
[Paper read at the meeting of the Corn
Belt Editorial association at Storm
Lake, la^ Aug. 80 81.]
When this subject, “The Duty of the
Home Merchant to the Local Paper,”
wee given me 1 averred I would not take
it—I never sdt<reescd a ccarsatioa like
this i* my Mfe-bul, owing fee obUguttoos
his local paper, I conmated.
, Mow, then are always two
aauratiea. nod I presume if
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and look.in the glass—you will see the effect—
You can't help puckering—it make* you pucker
to think of tasting it
By the use of so called cheap Baking
Powderayotrctake tkis puekering, injurious Alum
right into your system—you injure digestion,
sod ruin your stomach.
AVOID ALUM
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ROYAL ^
Royal is made from pure, refined Grape Cream of Tartar—Costs more
.than Alum but you have the profit of quality, the profit of good health.
merchant owes to the local paper than
I can. In fact, to be houe-t with you,
1 believe if the question were reversed,
the datv of the loon! paper to the
home merchant, I could, find a great
deal more to talk 'about. However,
there are some duties that the mer
chant sarely owes^to his local paper
or pajiers, and I think first of all I
would pat good will. It goes without
question that we would all ratber have
the good will u! auv person than bis
ill will, aud the more iuflaential a
person is the greater the value of his
goodwill. Why is it that successful
murebats wishing to retire from busi
ness not only get a hundred cents ou
the dollar for their goods, but a bonus
for their good will? It Is because that
iuflueuoe or good will is actually worth
something to theis successors.
Now, there are four things that cer
tainly enter into the buildiag aud mak
ing of a successful city or town. Those
four, in my opinion, are the churches
schools, newsp«pers and merchants. I
would not care to live in a town where
either was a minus quantiy. Look
ing at it from the secular points of
view, there are no two things that can
build up the town as the newspaper
and the merchant. In fact, the com
mercial life of the town depends almost
entirely on them. Therefor the
relations between them thonld be very
cordial.
If yon will pardon me for a pesoua 1
illustration, thie is what I mean, par
tially at least, by good will. Lest fail
for the first time we devoted oar store
baMment exclusively to Christmas toys
and novelties. We advertised the fact
generally in the local papers, bat one day
I mw one of onr regular customers
coming in with a lot of toys. I asked
her if she could not find what she
wanted inour toy department.—“Why,”
shs said, “have you a toy department?
Where is it?” I asked her if she did
not see onr ad. in the papers, and she
said the did not take any papers. I said
to her: “My good lady, if I were yon
the first thing I would do would be to
go over and snbeoribe for one and then
read the ads. Too will save your sub
scription many timM.
Another duty the merphant owes the
local paper is his patoonage, It has been
said by thoM who have watched the
order of events that no merchant can
succeed without advertising in one way
or another, and op to this day and age
of the world no medium has been found
•o satisfactory as the newspaper to
convey information to the public.
And what is advertising bat inform
ing the people what yoa have to sell?
Isay is the duty of the merolmnt, and
I would also include the professional
men and mechanics who have borineea
of their own to patroabe the local paper
not only by their sabsoriptUms, bat by
advertising as well. If we help to baiid
ap the papitfe theY will help to baild ap
the towa and brlag to oaiaoreaaed toads
I finiiSrbbSm ibkilU a pboe is good
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enough for s man to live in and to
make his money iu it is good ehough
for him to spend his money in, be he an
editor, merchant, farmer or anybody
alee. Some merchants have told me
they don’t see that they get any.,
benefit. Well, suppose for the sake of
o^iniwent people don’t read >ome ads.
Whose fault is it—the newspaper’s?
Not much. It is the man behind the nd
It is a rare exception for the public
not to read anything that is interesting
Perhaps we on^lit to dress up our ads.
a little. For example, fifty men can
go down onr streets ou a hot day in
thesr shirt sleeves and yon would hardly
notice them, bat let just one man go
down dressed iu the height of fashion,
and I’ll tell you everybody will sit* up
and take notice. Why? Becsnse there
is something about him that attracts
That is what we ought to do-dress up
onr ads. aud make them a tretive, It
doesn’t take so mach, fater all, to attract
Jnst let a man take a rope niid com
mence to holler, “Hang him!” and he
will soon have some one inteiested.
And I am quite «nre the editor<i >ii le?
the merchant boiler through the col
nmus of their papers If they get paid
for it. Ouce in awile we get it on then
*0 we get a little free ndvertUing. Foi
instance’ the Smith Manufacrcniq'
'ompany was going to open a fact on
11 a certain city. They >aite : p i :e
ly one day nntil i.early dusk 1 whei <<y
saw a couple of reporters ^jo by, Oi e
of the firm rushed ont and conn enccd
to look ap at the front of the building
He was soon followed by others, The
reporter came back and wanted to know
what was the trouble One of the meu
pat his hand np to his eyes as if to get
all the light he cenld and read in a loud
voice the Smith Manufacturing company
Taming to the orowd, he Mid, “I knew
the world was fall of Smiths, but I never
knew just where to many of them came
from before.” The reporters “tumbled,
” and the next day the Smith Mannfac-
uring company got quite a write up iu
the papers.
Along this line we might say another
doty of the merchant would be to fam
ish fresh oopy and not let onr ads. get
stale. Stale ads., like stale eggs, are no
good to anybody at any price. On the
contrary, they are absolutely harmful.
Another duty is to furnish good, plain,
readable copy, Another duty quite im
portant, 1 should think, would be to
have the oopy in on time. ^.The merch
ant knows from his own personal ex
perience that when every thig 00me* at
once he can’t give the service he won id
like. It to so with the newspaper, I be-
lieve. Let ns get onr ads. in promptly.
And then there to pay day, Ton. ought
to be paid in cash or its equivalent every
month. Still anothai duty the met*
chant has, and that is to try to Mnpnaa
npon the editor that he ought to create
through the eolnmns of his paper, a
public eentlmout la flavor of doriag
o who open
put of Ifet
at least, and they tell' me they would
mach rather stay at home aud get reit
or attend clnrch service, bat they are
coa p»Ued by the public to ojen up,
thereby not only breaking the divine
law, but the law of the state as well.
Probadly no class of peoplfe put in so
many regular hours of work us m t*
chants, and I believe they are entitled
to this day of rest — Kxcbanfce.
Old People
With old age comes feebleness and
loss of power; the blood is thin and,
digestion weak. - ^ * -
Vinol repairs worn tlssuek and.
checks the natural decline. It tones
up thu digestive organs, aids assimi
lation, makes rich, red blood, and
strengthens every organ In the body.
In this natural manner Vinol replaces
weakneM with strength.
Vinol contains all the medicinal
elements of cod liver oil in a concen
trated form, taken from fresh cods*
livers, the useless oil eliminated and
tonic Iron added.
Try It on our guarantee,
’ JOMN M. KLEIN, Druggist.
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DEATH d.
Died—Sunday morning, Oct. 21, Wal
ter, infant son of Mr and Mrs W. Ok
Jones, of MoLaunn. He was a bright
Utile fellow nearly one year of age. The
interment was at CroM Swamp Metbo*
dist chnroh.
Died.—Rufus Tnten, only son of Mr
and Mrs J<».eph Tnten, Oct. 22, 1906«
He was born August 30th, 1905.
Died—Oct. 12, Mrs Mary O. Ryan in
her 79th year. She was the widow of
John Ryan, who died 17 Tears ago.
Died—Oct 15, Cleo, infant son of Mr
and Henry Hiera Age 5 months and
28 days. Interment Evergreen cemetery*
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