Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 25, 1908, Page 12

: RDS Se 6721—J. Thibault . 6852—Northern Security Co... 6863—Northern Security Co... 6998—Thos. Sims 6999—Loretta Doran 7000—Frank Voigt .... . 7045—Citizens’ Bank of St. Charles’ 7046—Rat Portage Lumber Co. 13.40 7168—C. E. Eastwood 7196—J. N. True. 7214—Frank Bowden 5.58 7228—John Hayes ... 12.12 7234—Joseph Schmid, Jr. 20.21 7235—Joseph Schmid, Jr... 5.89 SUSPENSE Debit. Account of shortage in depos- its January 7th, 1905....... $3,057.59 FINANCIAL 7705—E. L. Norton.. 7865—H. M. Peyton 7875—J. R. Allen.. 8041—Pine Tree Lumber Co. 8048—Mary Clark 8224—Shevlin-Mathew Lbr. Co. 20.00 8335—Harly McGuire .... * 2.58 8457—Pine Tree Lumber Co. «236.28 8567—Jacob Berger ......- Bee 19.25 8571—Minn. Farm Land Co... 12.33 8632—Pine Tree Lumber Co. 41.26 8803—Severt Gaard . 1.78 8839—Northern Security Co... 9.18 9062—Backus Brooks Co.....- 9.16 Total... ceeeeeeeeeeeeeree $789.94 ACCOUNT. Credit. Balance December 31st, 1907.$3,057.59 CONDITION. i Assets. Cash in treasury to credit of county Taxes levied for year 1907, county Uncollected county taxes for year 1906 Uncollectea county taxes for year 1905 Uncollected county taxes for year 1904 Uncollected county taxes for year 1903 Penalty, interest and costs on delinquent taxes County court house and grounds...... County jail and sheriff's residence. Furniture and fixtures, court house County poor farm..... County fair grounds Tools and machinery.. funds +$ 47,527.29 funds 128,421.36 19,850.70 13,541.76 9,406.95 10,000.00 11,000.00 35,000.00 15,000.00 6,000.00 7,000.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 oe be seeine oe cene $305,748.06 and prior years and jail . Liabilities. County jail bonds.... Court house bonds. Funding bonds Road and bridge bonds Outstanding warrants Total liabilities Excess of assets over liabilities. Total + -$ 24,938.80 8,000.00 112,000.00 31,000.00 1,584.86 + $177,523.66 « 128,224.40 ee tserevone $305,748.06 TAX LIST FOR 1907. Valuations. Real estate Personal propert Total assessed valuations.......-- For state purposes..... For county purposes. . For interest and principal on state For school purposes... . For township purposes For village purposes. . Total levy The foregoing statement, + $18,275,937 .00 1,035,545 .00 . -$19,311,482.00 .+$ 67,203.79 128,421.36 12,091.91 144,025.98 70,416.12 51,618.24 loans cilate aaiale $473,777.40 prepared by the County Auditor, is hereby approved by this board and respectfully submitted to the taxpayers of Itasca County, Minnesota. Dated at Grand Rapids this 7th day of January, 1908. County Commissioners of Itasca County, Minn. (Seal) Attest: NEIL MULLINS, Chairman, CYRUS M. KING, M. O’BRIEN, JAMES PASSARD, AAD A. TONE, @ County Auditor. ANALYZE YOUR BUSINESS. How much did you make last month? How many merchants can answer? Does it pay you to handle a cer- tain line of goods? How much profit is there in your various lines of merchandise you handle? We venture to say that one mer- chant in twenty can turn to his books and answer these questions to his own satisfaction. We know one large general store, not one hundred miles from Indi- anapolis, whose proprietor admits that it has not been inventoried for fifteen years. He thinks he is making money. probably he is. But he does not know just what he is making on— what he is losing on—what part of his business pays him best. If he did he could fix things so as to stop the losses on some lines and increase the profits on other. If a fire should wipe out his store, he would have a hard time try- ing to show to the insurance com- panies that he carried the amount of stock he really does. Insurance com- panies are sometimes stubborn about such things. We know of many stores where the proprietors knew exactly what their sales are in any given depart- ment. They know their average profit on each department. They know to a cent their items of ex- penses and at the end of any month or day, they can tell just where they stand—what branches of the busi- ness are growing , most—what branches need more attention—in fact anything they want to know about it. If you wanted to buy an interest ip a business what sort would you rather go into—where they know, or where they don’t know? If you wanted to sell, which way do you think would enable you to sell the quicker? Is there anything in all this that applies to your store? AS GOOD AS MONEY. Stories have been told of buttons, tacks and various extraneous sub- stances found in contribution boxes, but it is seldom that a church mem- ber strikes a blow so severe as was that delivered by Amos Budd of Potterville on one occasion. It was at the close of a missionary sermon that Mr. Budd, whose wont it was to contribute 10 cents to each of the charities to the support of which the church subscribed, was seen o take a blue slip from _ his pocket and look at it keenly and af- fectionately. When, after a slight but evident hesitation, he dropped the slip, care- fully folded, into the box, Deacon Lane, who was passing it, could hardly refrain from an exclamation of joy. “The Lord will bless you, Brother Budd,” he said, when the sermon was over, hurrying down the aisle to overtake the prosperous grocer. “I hope so,” returned Mr. Budd dryly, “but I’m afraid you cal’late on that being a check that I dropped in the box. It wasn’t. ‘Twas a re- ceipted bill for kerosene the church owed me last year, and it has been overlooked. Of course, it’s just the same as money, though, when you come to that.”—-Youth’s Companion. be of interest: is An odd mechanical contrivance was shown in the window of a shoe store. A big placard bearing their announcement had a new two-dollar bill and a fifty-cent piece—the price of their shoe—fastened at one side. Beside the placard stood a cardboard cut-out of a man’s figure, whose right hand mechanically raised and lowered a dollar bill to the level of the other bill, thus illustrating their trade motto, “One Dollar Off,” the idea being that the customer saves a dollar in buying their shoe. A dealer had small manila en- velopes printed advertising his lead- ing brand of shoes, each containing a pair of good shoe laces, which he sold for five cents. He offered to accept these envelopes, in lots of not less than ten or more than twenty, at 4 cents each, as part payment of a pair of the special shoes adver- tised. This all-round scheme not only advertised the shoe to every purchaser of the laces, but also pushed their sale, as customers could figure the thing out in two ways— either that they got good shoe laces for next to nothing, or that they got a rebate of anywhere from 40 cents to 80 cents on a pair of shoes. Two young men who had bought a general store in a conservative rural district adopted the following meth- ods to arouse their patrons to inter- est in fancy groceries. The last of June they gave away wooden plates for picnics on the Fourth of July. On the back of each plate was a price list of picnic accessories. Still cards bearing the same list were sent to all their patrons. In the store these articles were conspicu- ously and tastefully arranged. This proved so successful that their stock was sold out twice, while the former proprietor of the store predicted they could not dispose of it in a year. An appropriate price list was sent out at “threshing time,” Thanksgiving and Christmas. This odd sign, displayed in the window of one store on a certain Saturday morning, excited the curi- osity of every passerby, and as curi- osity is often a strong motive in human conduct, probably influenced many who were in need of a pair of shoes to patronize that proprietor: “Invest in a pair of our shoes today, and you will be made Better Look- ing as well as More Comfortable. The coupon we give does the trick.” Every man who bought a pair of shoes was given a coupon entitling him to a shave and hair-cut at a nearby barber’s shop, while feminine purchasers might exchange theirs for a bottle of toilet lotion at a neigh- boring drug store, One merchant arranged a lace dis- play in his window which excited widespread admiration. It was in the form of a spider’s web, the cen- ter being a lace collar fixed to the glass, and thence strands of lace radiating in all directions, stretch- ing back to a distance of about two feet from the glass, to the top, sides and floor of the window. People who had no idea of buying came into the shop just to say how well the window looked, and the sales of lace went up during the display some- thing like fifty per cent. Every week trusty messengers are sent out by one firm to leave at each house in their neighborhood a big manila envelope, bearing the catchy inscription: “This envelope contains a bunch of good things. It will pay you to examine each one carefully.” The envelope is filled with slips of many colors advertising particular bargains for that week in different lines. Plenty of good music, refresh- ments, souvenirs and the glad hand awaited the throngs that attended the opening of a handsome new gro- cery store. In the display windows the lights shone through gay strips of colored papers, and plants were set at intervals through the store. In the store was stationed an or- chestra, which gave one of its fine concerts, and the firm and employes were kept busy looking after the people who came in crowds, until there was a perfect jam. The sou- venirs the women received were handsome pictures, the representa- tion of a music scene, and these were treasured, while the men were re- membered with nice packages of choice cigars—enough for an even- ing’s good smoke nor was this all, for later hot coffee and choice goods in the biscuit line, of which the firm makes a_ specialty, were served. There was no attempt made to sell goods, for the firm had set apart the away thankful aa pounnanik the praises of the firm and the new store. A shoe firm made use of the fol- lowing catchy and appropriate jingle in their advertising: “Three things we need For joy complete: Cool head, clear conscience, And dry feet.”’ , Paxson & Rockefeller of Butte, Montana, use an envelope to put stamps in that they sell. It is a No. 2 white drug envelope and is im- printed as follows: POSTAGE STAMPS. The best of medicines are none too good for sick folks. It’s bad enough to be sick, without ruining chances with second-grade drugs. That’s the reason we buy only the very highest quality of everything. It’s a great satisfaction to know that every prescription sent out is just as good as good drugs will make it. No matter what you paid for it you couldn’t get it any better. Paxon & Rockefeller, Butte, Mont. Most druggists sell postage stamps and some of them do it grudgingly and make a fuss over it. They are foolish. If they are going to sefl them they might as well do it cheer- fully and get out of it all they can. A scheme like that of Paxson & Rockefeller is a good one. You can make the advertising to suit your- self, It will not cost much and you will gain some good will as well as profitable publicity. Above some open boxes of crack- ers in his store a grocer has hung this sign: “The Lord helps those who help themselves, but the Lord help the man who is found helping himself here.” Their special easy walking shoe for tender feet was aptly advertised by one firm by placing in the win- dow a pair of scales with one of the shoes in one pan labeled “‘An ounce of prevention,” and in the other a box labeled, “Corn Cure, 1 Pound.” Of course the inference, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” was patent to every beholder, while placards telling of the merits of the shoe clinched the argument. *’TWAS HARD LUCK. A sour-looking man zephyred into the Big Four uptown ticket office the other day to get a ticket for Cincinnati. He had tried to engage a berth’a few hours before that by telephone, but City Passenger Agent Collver had told him that every- thing was gone. It just happened that there was a chance rush for berths on that train. “]’l] have a berth for you after all ——a lower, too,” announced Collver after the sour-looking man had told who he was. “One man called up just a few minutes ago and said to cancel his order. That'll fix you nicely.” “Curse the luck!” muttered the eustomer savagely. ‘Well, I’ll take it.” “Why,” says Collver, wondering what was up. “I supposed you would be tickeled to death at being able to get a berth.” “Yes, I know,” says the other one sullenly, “but if you’d thought you were going to have to sit up all night, and had smoked black cigars all afternoon and licked up a drink or two, and bought some magazines just so’s to keep awake, you’d be sorry to find that you could have a berth, too, wouldn’t you?”—Con- tinental Times-Star. A OYNIC. Upton Sinclair, the brilliant novel- ist, was talking the other day at Battle Creek about vegetarianism, to which he has become a convert. “But do you think,” said a listen- er, “that every slaughterer of ani- mals has blunted sensibilities?” “There may be,” Mr. Sinclair an- swered, ‘“delicate-minded pig-killers and sheep slayers of poetic tempera- ment, but on this subject I am a cynic. In my cynical view I resemble a certain grand-vizier. His sultan bade this official to prepare a list of fools in the kingdom, and to bring it to him as soon as it was finished. “Well, in due course the vizier brought his list of fools to the palace, and lo, at the head of the list ap- peared the sultan himself. “Liking audacity and dash, sultan smiled and said: “Why, oh, vizier, is my name at the head of your list of fools?’ “Sun of the universe,’ the vizier the a SS rr oo themselves—to purchase six motor- ears for you, and did these two strangers not depart with 100,000 sequins from the royal treasury?” “ ‘Yes,’ said the sultan. ‘What of it?’ “‘They will never return,’ said the vizier, ‘and therefore on my list—’ «But suppose they do return?’ the ruler asked. “Then, sir,’ answered the grand vizier, ‘I will erase your mame, and place theirs in its place.’” RE ROUSED HER. Philetus M. Helfer has established a college among the prisoners at Au- burn, N. Y., the faculty being com- posed of convicts who are graduates of Oxford, Harvard, Yale and other great universities. Discussing his odd college scheme recently, Mr. Halfer said: “But anything is good for convicts that interests, cheers and encourages .them. Discourage them, scorn them, nag at them, and you rouse the lat- ent evil in them as it was roused the other day in a frail and beautiful New York typewriter girl. “This refined creature worked for a rather cranky old broker. The broker found a good deal of unjust fault with her, but she was gentle and patient and put up with him in silence, “One morning, however, he turned up in a quite insupportable humor. “Took at my desk!” he roared, ‘All in disorder! All in confusion! All “But, sir,’ the young girl inter- rupted mildly, ‘you have often told me never to touch your desk.’ “Well, I don’t want you to dis- turb my papers,’ he admitted. And tnen his eye caught a sheet of post- age stamps. ‘But, look at these stamps. I don’t want them here,’ he shouted. “Where shall I put them, sir?’ she said. “*Ah,’ he snarled, ‘put them any- where—anywhere out of sight.’ “She flushed. “Very well, sir, she said icily; and giving the stamps a quick lick with her pretty tongue, she stuck the big sheet on his bald head and departed to look for another job.” DELICATE APPETITE. “It’s awful trying, this catering to a sick girl,”” Mrs. Douglas confessed to the friendly visitor who had called to inquire for Amy. “TI believe this convalescent busi- ness comes harder on me than her real sickness,” ontinued Mrs. Dou- glas, with a deep sigh. ‘I’m that put to it to get something that she’ll eat with a relish, I get all riled up sometimes trying to tempt her.” The visitor murmured something sympathetic, and thus encouraged, Mrs. Douglas went on. “Only yesterday,” she said, “I got her a pork chop and five cents’ worth of marshmallows for her din- ner, and if you’ll believe me she turned up her nose an’ said she couldn’t eat a mite.”—Youth’s Com- panion. THE MONEY HUNGER. James R. Keene, the famous New York financier, said at a dinner of the recent panic: “The way men hungered after money reminded me of Tom Fargus, a friend of my Frisco days. “Tom, one morning, expected a man to call and pay a bill. While he was waiting for the man, a sum- mors came for him to go out. Be- fore going, he put this notice on his door: “Have gone out for half an hour. Will be back soon. Been gone twen- ty minutes already.’” BORN OLD. In a certain home where the stork recently visited there is a six-year-old son of inquiring mind. When he was first taken in to see the new arrival he exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, it hasn’t any teeth! And no hair!” Then, clasping his hands in despair, he cried: ‘Somebody has done us! It’s an old baby.” SELF-DEFENSE. Professor Ogden Chalmers Lori- mer, Toledo’s veteran educator, is one of the schoolmasters who still cling to corporal punishment. “I believe in corporal punish- ment,” he said stoutly in a recent address. “I take no stock in mc suasion. Good, healthy boys under moral suasion have too free a time of it. They get out of hand. “There is a friend of mine,” said Professor Lorimer with a grim DEFECTIV “‘and do you believe, said I, ‘that moral suasion is better than corporal punishment for big, lusty boys like yours?’ “*Yes,’ said my friend. ‘; “‘And do you mean to say that you have never whipped your boys?” I asked. i “*As true as I sit here,’ my friend declared earnestly. ‘I have never struck one of my children except im self-defense.’ "Washington Star. RATHER INJURIOUS. Surgeon General Rivey was talk- ing in Washington about his recent statement concerning the harm that cigarets do sailors. “Let them defend the cigaret as they please,” he said; “whenever I hear these defenses I think of the sick horse and the turpentine. “Tom met Bill on the road one day. “ ‘Bill, I want a word with you,’ he said. “Be quick, then,’ said Bill. ‘I’m in a hurry.’ “What did you give your sick horse the other day?’ “<& pint of turpentine.’ “Tom hurried home and poured a pint of turpentine down the throat of his own ailing nag, which at once grew worse, and in an hour was dead. “Then Tom, disgusted. with Bill’s veterinary ability, sought him out. “Why, Bill,’ he said, ‘I gave mv horse a pint of turpentine, and it killed him.’ “ ‘So it did mine,’ said Bill.” GIVE AND TAKE. An English statesman on one oc- casion, when engaged in canvassing, visited a workingman’s house, in the principal room of which a pic- torial representation of the Pope faced an illustration of King Wil- liam, of pious and immortal memory, in the act of crossing the Boyne. The worthy man stared in amaze- ment, and seeing his surprise the voter’s wife exclaimed: “Shure, my husband’s an Orange- man and I’m a Catholic.” “How do you get on together?” asked the astonished politician. “Very well, indade, baring the twelfth of July, when my husband goes out with Orange procession an’ comes home feelin’ extry pathriotic.” “What then?” “Well, he always takes the Pope down and jumps on him and then goes straight to bed. The next morning I get up early, before he is awake and take down King William and pawn him and buy a new Pope with the money. Then I give the old man the ticket to get King Wil- liam out.” EXCEPT—— From time immemorial there had been a law in Applegate, County Warwick, England, to the effect that the mayor had the best of every- thing in town, and, for instance, one should say he had the best coat in the place, he must add the words, “except the mayor.” One day a stranger came to Apple- gate and had dinner there at the inn, After paying his bill he said to the landlord, “I’ve had the best din- ner in the country.” The Landlord—Except the mayor. The Stranger—Except nothing! As a result the tourist was called before the magistrate and fined £10 for his breaking of the laws of the place. When the man had paid his fine he looked around him and said, slowly, “I’m the biggest fool in town, except the mayor.’’—Harper’s Weekley. A PAUPER BY LAW. A young man was telliug his trou- bles to some friends in a restaurant Tuesday evening. “Talk about bad luck,” said he. “The law certainly played a mean trick on me when I was 2 years old.” The friends showed interest and the young man continued: “When I was that age my father and mother were divorced; I was given to father and my sister was given to mother. Father and I have been hard workers since I was a mere child. “Mother married another man @ few years later, and, with my sister, they went to the Klondike, Mother’s new husband struck it rich. They are said to be worth over a million.” Then he sighed: “If the law had but given me to mother!”—Youngstown Telegram. | Se —