Published once a month for
the benefit of
OUR CUSTOMERS
We distribute this publication without
cost, to tell our patrons facts about our
selves which will be of interest to them.
While its chief purpose Is to adver
tise our store, it is intended also to
entertain and to instruct—to tell you
about things in general and about our
store in particular.
Additional copies may be obtained at
the store for the asking.
LIVE AND LET LIVE!
If we could gain four or five new cus
tomers for our store every day, we
would very soon have the biggest
establishment in this part of the
country.
Of course, we are not quite so
fortunate, and while you may be sure
we welcome a new customer most
heartily, and do our best to induce
him to trade regularly with us, our
first duty is to take the right kind of
care of our old friends and patrons.
We believe we are selling the right
goods at the right prices, and we
know we are trying to treat every one
of you in the right way. While we
are living in pretty stirring times,
which have forced us, perhaps, to
make some changes in our methods of
doing business, find winch have in
some instances affected the prices at
which we are able to sell goods, we
are doing our best, and all we ask is a
reasonable amount of co-operation
from our customers.
We believe in the fair old policy of
live and let live and it is a mighty
sensible policy to follow, for we
know' our business success depends
entirely upon your good will. We
want your regular trade and we also
want your friendship.
COBWEB
Mr (’of*)» and Miss Webb have been
wed.
< obb mow i the lady's provider
"We were made for each other," lie
said;
"I knew it the minute 1 spider.”
A SPORTING CHANCE
"What's ffw matter with tlimule's
■ hoe-: asked tie villa)/':' hlaeksmifh
' f not them on day before yesterday
and they look all rij/hi to trie."
"Me er mind how dev loot :,.” re
plied Krasins I'inkley. "yotl jest take
dern dee s off an’ |<nl on yiifhlth tines.
\h and earnstiti Smiley will stand tlie
t «:(ieno "
"What lias Smiley to r|o with it?"
" f It' s |e Ipin’ me fitmute a s|io'tm'
profiosifion We’ve jrof a hi t tin how
many times yo' can ftail aroini’ tint
mole's ft-/a fe-fo’ yon jyif« laid ont
ABOUT INFANTILE
PARALYSIS
Last summer tliere were in the
United States 37,000 eases of infan
tile paralysis, says Jonathan A. Raw
sou in the New York Evening Post.
The great majority of these were in
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
Will these same districts be' visited
by the plague this summer? The
health officers say that they expect it
to appear somewhere, but confess
that they do not know when or
where.
Perhaps the most definite statement
is in the report of the State Medical
Institute of Sweden for 1913, accord
ing to which places that have been
severely affected by the disease have
every prospect of escaping it in epi
demic form for several years. “In all
probability,” says the report, “in the
part of the population chiefly affected
there is a general and widespread
immunity against a renewed in
fection.”
Last year’s experience seems to in
dicate that a general quarantine does
little good. The immediate isolation
of individual cases is, of course, im
perative, but those cities that at
tempted to examine all incoming and
outgoing travelers apparently suf
fered as much is cities that did not.
Another discouraging fact is that no
method has been discovered of identi
fying healthy carriers of the disease.
()n the other hand, encouragement
is found in the knowledge that the
contagiousness of the disease has
been greatly overestimated. In a
slmly of 7,000 of New York City's
cases it was found that more than one
case rarely developed in the same
family.
"The degree of susceptibility of
children and other members of the
community to infantile paralysis,"
says l)r, Simon Flextier. of the
Rockefeller Institute. "is relatively
small, and is definitely lower than in
siii h communicable diseases as
measles, scarlet lover, mm uipmncrw.
Tin- fact in itself constitutes a tuons
Hro of control; ami while it lines not
justify the alialctiicnt of any practi
ral means which mav he c-injilc>yt-«l In
limit ami suppress the epidemic. it
should tend to prevent over anxiety
and panic."
I o keep the i hildren tinder super
vision, to keep the nose aitil tuulttll
I lion aiglil v disinfected, and In keep
away from places of possible expo
sure as uuii'li as possible elitninatine
all unnecessary travel with small
ilnldien these are einninon cense
rules that last real's epidemic taui’bl
EAT BANANAS
And now we have a banana campaign
under way. Somebody has sent out
an attractive six-page paper called
“The Banana,” issued for the pur
pose of exploiting bananas as the log
ical food of the present, for these
good reasons:
They are wholesome.
They are nutritious.
They are cheap.
They are easily digested.
They are always in season.
They are always available.
They are available everywhere.
They are all meat.
They are easy to handle.
They are convenient for the dinner
pail.
They are good food when cooked.
They are good food when not
cooked.
They are the rich man’s luxury.
They are the poor man’s food.
They are put up and sealed by
Nature in a germ-proof package.
They are produced without draw
ing on the Nation’s resources.
JANE ON THE JOB
An old farmer couldn't really be
lieve that people who were miles
apart were able to converse over a
telephone wire. One day his wife
went to a distant triena wno nan a
telephone in her house. During the
afternoon the farmer sought shelter
from a thunderstoriu in the house of
a neighbor, who also possessed a tele
phone, and who persuaded the farmer
to call tip his wife as a little surprise.
Following instructions, the fanner
put the receiver to his ear, ami, after
the usual preliminaries, shouted
"Halloa, .fane!"
lust then a flash of lightning struck
the wire, and he fell to the floor un
tier the force of the shock.
Rising to his feet ami shaking his
head w iselv. lie said :
"it’s wonderful. That was fane
right enough "
ASK THE PIGS
An individual ealled 1 iie Williams
was haltsl to omit to answer a own
plaint arising out of a broken kar
yaiii. Antony the witnesses ealled
was one Steve Collins.
"Mr. lollin'.,'' saitl the esamtnety
lawyer, "von know tlefontlant in tins
ease, tlo out not
"< 'It, \ es," attsw en il t 'oilin'
"What t- his reputation tot to
aeit\ "" eonitiiUCtl the law yet "Is he
regarded as a man who never tells
the (tilth
"W aal. I ean't says that he don't
newt tell the truth,'' tvphed Stew,
"hut I do Know that il he wanted Ins
hoys to eotue It' dinner he’d hav> to
pit solttelto lv eke to call em 1