If you were the only person in town that traded with
mail order concerns—it would hurt some—but it wouldn't paralyze the
prosperity of the community.
The greatest Injury would be in the influence your out
of-town*trading exerted over others. Other people might follow in your
foot-steps ot foreign trading and that following would prove detrimental to
home business development and betterment of public welfare.
Set a good example. Be a home buyer. Take pride in
your community. Feel that money spent here at home is playing an
important part in building up the town. Know that it buys the goods
you want and goes towards some public good. That it helps increase the
efficiency of schools—puts down better street crossings—erects better
libraries—brightens the town’s lights—makes the parks more attractive—pays
for better police protection, etc.
Instead of fostering the mail order habit—fight it openly.
Teach the truth of home trading. Preach home patronage. Show mail
order buyers the error of their ways—and go out of your way to do it.
Local merchants handle the highest grade merchan
dise. They carry advertised brands. They sell at a proper
price—makes of goods that bear the stamp of honest manufacturers.
They deal open-handedly. They don’t cover up questionable quality
with private labels. They offer you the latest and most dependable
lines—in all lines of merchandise. Their stores are conveniently at hand. You
can reach them in a few short seconds—over the phone—or step right into their
places of business—give or leave your order—and have the goods delivered
straight to your home—all in a few minutes time.
They willingly accommodate you. They take particular
pains to give you just what you want right when you want it. You
don’t have to buy in big quantities to save freight or express charges. You can
spend less at a time—and save considerable sums in cash, to say nothing of the
great saving of time and trouble.
Advocate those advantages. Do mail order traders a
good turn by turning them away from away-from-home buying—liven
up local business, and by so doing speed the town along the road of progress.
Spend your money where it will in turn be spent for
local improvements instead of sending it away to fatten business and
better conditions of other communities. Support the community that supports you.
The Calumet Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.
Geneva Labor Conference
Urges Full Attendance
GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 16.—
Workmen’s compensation will be the
chief item on the agenda of the next
annual international labor conference
which .will open at Geneva May 19.
Three other items on the program
are really matters left over from last
years conference where, in the form
of conventions, they were given pre
liminary approval by the delegates.
Now, however, they require a final
vote. They include equality of treat
ment for national and foreign work
ers as regards workmen's compensa
tion for accidents, the weekly suspen
sion of work for 24 hours in glass
manufacturing processes where tank
furnaces are used, and night work in
bakeries.
Albert Thomas, director of the in
ternational labor bureau, has issued
an appeal to all governments to see
to it that complete delegations attend
the forthcoming conference. In addi
tion to treating the subjects on the
official agenda, tin*. May conference
will elect the governing body of the
labor bureau and engage in a general
discussion of the question of social
insurance.
Miss Phoebe Jane Fairgrave. 22.
of St. Paul, will shortly attempt to
break the woman’s parachute jump
ing record, which she now holds. In
1921, when she was only 18, she leap
f ed from an airplane at a height of 11,
500 feet. .
Lila Schmid, a 10-year-old farm girl
of Green County, Wisconsin, has been
offered $1,000 for two brown Swiss
calves, with which she has won $800
in prizes and also the national cham- ]
piouship in their class.
in the Chamber of Commerce.
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PLAYING AGAIN
Suzanne Lenglen, noted tennis star
of France, who is again playing, al
ter a long illness. She is at the
Riviera, where she is training for the
International and Wimbledon matches
this year.
Mrs. Mary Ann Moyer. 82, enter
tained 26 persons, all over SO years
of age, at dinner at Perkaise. Penna.
The oldest guest was Peter Hager,
97. After dinner the party made an
automobile tour of several miles.
Mrs. Rufus Ledbetter, U5, of Hal
lidayboro, 111., who was married at
14, is the mother of 16 children, in
cluding one set of triolets and three
sets of twins. '
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! Mexican Lands Available
for Bountiful Sugar Crop
I
ACAPPONETA, Mexico, Feb. 16 —
William Dunn, an American, says he
has demonstrated that sugar-cane may
be grown on extensive areas of this
district without the usual necessity of
artificial irrigation.
Mr. Dunn is manager of the Hacien
da de Quimichis, a California-owned
I holding of some S5.000 acres located
j on the Acaponeta river west of this
place. Growers say the discovery is
likely to prove of economic importance
to sugar growers, as production of su
gar on a large scale without irriga
tion will save much money now de
voted to pumping plants or gravity
canals.
According to Mr. Dunn there are
hundreds of thousands of acres of ex
tremely fertile river bottom lands ly
ing wasted in the delta of the Ny
arit which are capable of producing
sugar cane without irrigation. The
soil is a fine river silt and very deep.
This allows the direct penetration of
the heavy rainfall of the summer with
out the usual run-off. The ground
thus is thoroughly saturated to a con
siderable depth and' a condition of
sub-irrigation is found to exist. In
the experimental plantings he has ob
tained an average yield above thirty
tons an acre within a year. The re
gion is frostless with a pleasant cli
mate.
Mrs. H. W. Meharg of Plainview
is the new secretary of state of Tex
as. She is a former school teacher
and the mother of several children.
Mrs. C. T. Garrett, wife of the
jailer at Edmonton, Ky., discovered a
prisoner escaping and drove hirr ^ck
to his cell by throwing bricks a. aim
*with telling effect.
London Bolshie Bail All
Russians Except Dancers
LONDON, Feb. 1G.—Vodka grog
and Vodka eggnog were featured at
a Bolshevik ball given in Hammer
smith. London, recently, in aid of the
West London hospital. There were a
great many Russian costumes on the
floor and among the spectators, but
no Russians dancing.
A bomb was exploded on the dance
floor at midnight, but its contents did
no damage as they were nothing more
than numerous Russian novelties, to
be distributed among the women pres
ent.
Additional Regulations
By Fisheries Bureau
The regulations for the protection
of the fisheries of Alaska published
|in Department of Commerce Circular
| No. 251, lltli edition, under date of
December 2, 1924, are hereby amend
ed and supplemented by the follow
ing regulations:
Kodiak Area.
Herring fishery—Regulation No. 1
is amended to read as follows: In
the period from June 1 to October
1, both dates inclusive, commercial
fishing for herring is prohibited in all
waters closed throughout the year to
salmon fishing.
Cook Inlet Area
Herring fishery—Regulation No. 4
is amended to read as follows: In
the period from June 1 to October
1, both dates inclusive, commercial
fishing for herring is prohibited in
all waters closed throughout the
year to salmon fishing.
Prince William Sound Area
Herring fishery—Regulation No. 1
is amended to read as follows: Com
mercial fishing for herring is prohib
ited during the period from January
1 to June 24, both dates inclusive,
and from November 16 to December
31, both dates inclusive, of each cal
endar year.
Regulation No 3 is amended to
read as follows: In the period from
June 1 to October 1, both dates in
clusive, commercial fishing for heir
ing is prohibited in all waters clos
ed throughout the year to salmon
fishing.
soutneastern MiasKa «rca
Herring fishery—Regulation No. 1
is amended to l'ead as follows: In
the period from June 1 to October
1, both dates inclusive, commercial
fishing for herring is prohibited in
all waters closed throughout the
year to salmon fishing. The waters
of Kanalku Bay, Admiralty Island,
are closed throughout the year to
commercial fisihng for herring.
Regulation No. 2 is amended to
read as follows: Commercial fishing
for herring is prohibited during the
period from March 1 to April 30,
both dates inclusive, of each calen
dar year, except that such fishing
may be conducted from March 15
to April 15, both dates inclusive, in
waters in the vicinity of Sitka with
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Members of the
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—
The following comprise tlie Territo
rial legislature, which will meet in
Juneau, March 2:
Senators.
First Division—Hunt and Aldrich.
Second Division—Ayers and Brown.
Third Division—Dimond and How
ard.
Fourth Division—Pratt and Dunn.
Representatives;.
First Division—Grant, Hardy, Fer
jguson and Paul.
Second Division—Nyler. Sundquist,
Jensen and Elliott.
Third Division—Murray. Wilcox,
Grier and Sherman.
Fourth Division—Watson, Moody,
Sheldon and Ross.
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