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-f' T-* 1 -■••r' - »■ -r nr-; ^orjii.-; :in, VAGBSOt THURSDAY, MARCH 2», IMS. THE FUMBLE FAMILY Pop Must Have His Little Joke By E. Courtney Dunkel VWV? WUAT'C VrACTfc IT? IT'S TU WRONG wnvi m/WORST PIECE- O MEnAT iVEr fcVl UAD UNDER MY, TUAT'9 F-UNNV, l GOT IT AT TW&\ BUTCUfcC / S > WUE-C& VE BUY ALL OF-OUR-iSTYHEAT~ WE SAID IT^, "T ^<2 JUST <" CUBED LAST N WEEK '—WELL, IN THAT CASE-, KATIE> TAKE IT BACK AND TELL HIM IT HAD A RELARffE/ fa ^ % IDun>ki 4 O Starving Miners and Children Get Loaves of Bread Pennsylvania miners and their children receiving loaves of bread at -Cecil, where the New lira Society of Pittsburgh brought in the first relief shipment. Deputy constable E. Phillips is in charge ©f the relief distribution hi the Cecil district. / “ v . •' ‘ 1 Small Town Merchant Shows What Advertising .Will Do So-Called Miracle Merchant Has $300,000 Annual Turn-Over In a Town of 1,300 Inhabitants. Written Specially for The People-Sen tinel by Robert Fuller* c Through Autooaster Service. Oozad, Neb. March 20.—They call Fred W. Anderson the “Miracle Mer chant” because in this town of Cozad, with 1,300 population he has built up a business doing an annual volume of $300,000. How does he do it? Mr. Anderson gets about a bushel of mail a day, and about half of it is from merchants who ask this question. Until he was 23 years old, Mr. An derson “worked out” as a hired man on Dawson County farms. Sleeping dn a cold room on the farm, he would snuggle down into his blankets to ketfp out the zero temperature of Ne braska. in the winter, and dream of being a great merchant some day. And he saved money, saved $800 out of the $20 and $25 f* month he got on the farm. When he had $800 he went to Cozad, and found he couldn’t start much of a store on $800. « So he got a job in another man’s store, rose at 5, swept the store,Clerk ed during the day, and rearranged things at night, often workyrg"'until 10 and 11 p. m. But he was learning the business. After two years h<j quit, borrowed $2,200 at a local hank ard in 1906 started a little store of his own. He gave his patrons service, the like of which had never been seen in that community. Nor had the local A Miracle Merchant Fred W. Andersen, who put the “ad” in “Cozad.” This merchant of Cozad, Nebraska, built up a busi ness doing a volume of $300 000 annually. Advertising is one of his rules for success. thc-»times.” Mr. Anderson uses full page ad vertisements in the local papers all the time. He has something to say. The public reads his advertising be cause they find the unusual there. They firyl much of the news of the town right in Mr. Anderson’s adver tising. Church socials, church sales, ball games, football games, community moving picture shows and everything civic is advertised in the full page space he takes. H^believes in letting the people know there is something going on in town. And, although he sells foods, he , . . gives free space to the women for . , . . ° q their church bazaars, rummage sales, he began to invest ir. His business grew, and kept on (growing. He built additions to the store, and then outgrew the additions. Today he has a department store with 37,000 square feet of floor space. Here is a message from Mr. An derson to other merchants: “If I were to start business again today I would speryd 5 ver cent of my gross sales in advertising,” says Mr. Anderson. “It pays.” “I have no sympathy with the mer chant who sleeps between advertised blankets, on a bed of springs that aire nationally advertised, who sleeps in advertised pajamas, who put on ad vertised underwear, shirts, garters and shoes, and when he gets up eats advertised cer'als and foods for -breakfast, who rides to work in an advertised car, a,Tfd who, when he gets to work, refuses to advertise. He ought to go broke. 4 I advertise some way every ctay. I carnot wait for the local weekly and aemi-weekly papers alone. I keep something going every day. “I use spadre in the papers every is sue. “Advertising is a kind of long dis tance telephone with the charges re versed. for the press, mer- fifty years behind food sales and the like. High school pupils from the country are urged through his ads to leave thoir lunches at his s^jre. He keeps their coffee hot and supplies them with tables on whicVtiH‘e#t their lunches. He makes his* store a community center, a rest ropm—a kind of haven for* everybody. And that’s how he does it. WILLS ALMOST ENTIRE FORTUNE TO PET DOG Denver. Colo.—Shep, a shaggy old dog, need not worry about the future. He has inherited part of a fortune of $110,000. Fred H. Forrester, an ec centic Denver resident, willed almost his entire fartune to his ptt dog Shep a rd to other canine inhabitants of the State of Colorado. * Shep had been Forrester’s pal for a ,decade. * Relatives of Forrester filed objec tions to the will but were ovetruled. It was decided that the money consti tuted a legitimate charity fund that will be handled by the Colorado Bu reau of Chifyd and Animal protection. . For rpriny days after the death of Forrester Shep refused to eat and in other ways manifested grief for his dead master. About your* Health Things You Should Know by John Joseph Gaines, M. D DEMENTIA PRAECOX Just how. much the average •read er may care to know about this un wholesome condition is not clear to me; but since it is now being util ized by lawyers as an excuse for the most terrible crimes of this or any other age, I may be pardoned for this necessarily shallow skim- ming over the-TUbjcct. Dementia of any variety means insanity—absolute absence 'of any of the so-called higher mental traits, the opposite poie of mentality or reason. The type indicated in my heading is supposed to refer to the dementia of youth I niay say here that my last case was an adult, aged fifty, who was incapable of normal, sane action or reasoning. He was silent, secretive, ^ furtive, preferred to be alone, and would ramble through the woods as stealthily as a carnivorous beast; his very pres ence was uncanny—but he would reply civilly if spoken to. It was impossible to elicit from him any Only once did he excite fear on my -part—when I told hihi I Was goingj\ to take him to a sanitarium for treatment. He w T as. a giant physic ally, but yielded to my wholly as sumed blnff. I saw nothing to re mind me of the present Hickman, now under court trial in California for a most diabolical crime. His head, angular and ugly, was utterly devoid of hair; he said he had been poisoned, but could not say how'or when. He was of Croatian ances try, vrithoul history of insanity'Th ' the family. He did not desire treat- -ment, and obeyed reluctantly court orders on probation—was afraid of a policeman or sheriff, and showed no disposition to carrv weapons of any”kind whatever.' Tie is still. in an asylum. It is not every spoiled or neglect ed hoy that has dementia praecox. Give your son an automatic pistol and an automobile, with access- to f corn whiskv and low “societv,” let _him go scott free—and he will, not be long getting into jail! It’s your boy and mv boy I'rrr Talking about missory. Next week: Hot Weather Diet salesday in said month, between - the legal hours of sale, the following de scribed real property, to wit: All that tract of land situate, lying and being in Rod Oak Township, Barnwell County, South Carolina, and containing Seventy-tvWo (72) Acres, more or less, as per plat of E. G. Hay, dated March 15, 1916.__ Said Seventy-two (72) Acres being bound ed on thfe North by lands of Kate M. Patterson; East by lands of Kate M. Patterson; South by right-of-way of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com pany ami West by lahds of Jane R. Patterson. * Tennis of sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for papers and revenue stamps. And the purchaser shall immediately after the property is bid off deposit with the Master One Hundred anjd n‘o- 100 ($100,00) Dollars as a guarantee of good faith, and when the purchaser complies with his bid he shall have credit f° r the same, but upon his failure to so comply, v the said One Hundred and no-100 ($100.00) Dollars shall be forfeited as liquidated dam ages. G. M. GREENE, ^ Master,’Barnwell County. Master’s office, March 12, 1928. MASTER’S SALE. dersigned Executor, on or before Sat urday, the 31st day of March, A. D., 1928, anjd all persons indebted to the said estatoi will make prompt payment to the said Executor. Darling P. Wal^h,^^ , » Executor of the Will of Mrs. Lilias Walsh. Barnwell, S. C., March 13, 1928. 3-15-3t Tax NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that all taxes due. the town of Barnwell must be paid oh or before April 1st, 1928, or executions will be issued against the property anjd same advertised for sale on Saleday in May, 1928. By order of Council. k Forest S. Brown. Clerk, Town of Barnwell. (Xlu>ays use ^ ClauSSehS Bread o has more food value . Advertise in The Peopie-Sentinel. omxju State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. . Court of Common Pleas. John Eve, .Plaintiff, vs. Angus Priester, ' ^ r D»|gndant.— By virtue of a decretal order to mi directed in the above entitled cause, I will sell at public auction in front of the Court House in Barnwell, State and County aforesaid on Monday, April 2nd, 1928, the same being salesday in said month, between the legal hours of 4^, the following de scribed real property, to wit: All that lot of land in the town of Barnwell, in the State of South Caro lina, measuring 50 x 50 feet, more or less, and bounded on the North by word of personal pain or distress,‘‘ Hands of Bennie Brown, on the East SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Unless you see the, “Bayer-Cross” on tablets you are not gelling the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and. prescribed by physicians 24 years for Colds Pain Toothache Neuritis * Headache Neuralgia i ■ Lumbago Rheumatism S 4s of John Eve^South by Allen and West by estate lands of • f being the same lot purchased by me from John Eve, deed to which is recorded in Book 9-F, page 288. Terms, cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and revenue stamps. G. M. GREENE, Master, Barnwell County. Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proven directions* Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. ▲splrlD Is lL« trade mark of Bayer Maaafactnre of MoDoaceticacidester of aaticjllcaclA Noti c e of Discharge. ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel. Legal Advertisements MASTER’S SALE. State of South Carolina, ' County of Barnwell. Court of Common Pleas. H. L. O’Bannon, ' Plaintiff, vs. P. C. Baxley and N. B. Gamble, Re ceiver of Hdme Bank of Barnwell, Defendants. By virtue of u decretal order to me directed in the above entitjed^cause, I will sell at public auction in front of the Court House in Barnwell, State and County aforesaid on Monday, AprH • 2nd, 1928, the same being Notice is hereby giver* that I will file my final account with the Hon. John K. knelling, Judge of t the Pro bate Court Cor Barnwell County, State of South Carolina, «s Administratrix of the estate of Mrs. A. I. Creech, up on Saturday, the 21st day of April, 1928, and petition the said Court for an order of Discharge and Letters Dis- (Miss) Inez Creech, iL— Admrx. of the Estate of Mrs. A. I. Creech. 3-29-4fcc. Notice of-Meeting of Stockholders.' NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a meeting of the stockholde»rs of the Kline Veneer Company will be held at the office of Messrs. Brown and Bush in Barnwell, S. C., on the 9th day of April, 1928, at 11 o’clock a. m., for thfe purpose of considering a resolu tion to dissolve said corporation, sur render its charter and liquidate its affairs. J. J, Kincaid^ President. Bessie Kincaid, Sec-Treas. 3-8-4tc. J^o^ice to Debtors and Creditors. Notice is hereby given that all persons holding claims against the estate of Mrs. Lilias Walsh will file them properly attested with the un-