Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 March 1894 — Page 2
THE BANNER TIMES. GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. MARCH 1804.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN SAID
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The Lord certainly thought well of the common people. He made so many of them. Our only hope is w ith the masses. Your common sense and reason will come to your assistance and tell you to trade with tried and proven concerns w here you will get your money’s worth
SHOES.
In no undertaking ever made by us have we been so successful in pleasing the trade and selling the quantity’ necessary to carrying full assortments.
DRESS GOODS.
Our Spring Lines Complete.
Are quite plain and staple in colorings this season. Some very handsome novelties new this week with fresh trimmings. For a splendid ordinary dress look at our 45-inch all wool serges at 50c. Blacks and colors.
CABPETS AND MATTINGS
SPRING WRAPS.
If it be a walking shoe at #1, or finer up to $3, or the most elegant high shoe at $1.25 orup to $4,or a shoe for the children, cometo us for it.
Black Silks.
Are full 20 per cent, lower in price than a year ago. Early selection is desirable that we may have them made and ready for your room when your housecleaning is done, If you want to make a rag carpet you can get the fine chain from us at 14c for white and 16c for all colors.
Seem to be a necessity and we have a nice line of them in all the newest shapes both Capes and Jackets, Tans, Browns. Navies, Blacks, ranging in price from J4 to Sro, For those economically inclined we have just opened a fine line of cloths for making wraps, all colors, 75c to $1.25 a yard for yard and a half wide goods.
Very Strong Line Men's Shoes. Low or high cut, tan or black, Kangaroo, Vice Kid, Cordovan or calf, if $1.50 or $2 be all you want to pay, then come to us, but if you can go £3 then surely come for no such values are given as to style, fit and wear, or if it be a good, strong plow shoe we have them at fair prices.
Never were were more desirable new this week. Satins Duchess, Bean De Soie, Armures and Crystal, ranging in price from $ 1 to £1.50, all excellent values. With all widths of all the best silktrimmings, laces and insertings, from 2
Curtain Department.
Black Cashmere Shawls.
Worthy the support of a much patronage than we hope to get.
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Never stop selling. We carry them in nice square shawls and three-cornered Fichus, quite the thing for middle-aged ladies; price from $1.50 to #8.
to 9 mches wide. Complete line of braids cheap 50c Lace to finest silk and Madras and plain silk Crimps, Our Dress Goods worth up to £20. Swiss figures and Department has excellent values through- spots. Made shades, handsome colors, out. Special attention asked to our line with extra wide curtains for wide
Where do you buy Corsets?
of Henriettas at 21c.
windows to match.
We carry a line worthy your patronage from the very best makers, including Dr. Warner’s Dr. Ball’s, R. & G., C. P., Jackson’s,Ferris’ and Summer. Complete assortments.
YOU DOIMT HAVE TO ASK A POLICEMAN WHERE OUR STORE CAN BE FOUND.
Nineteen years on one corner in which we have done more to encourage fair dealing than any other store in this community, makes it unnecessary. You know the place. Long since we abondoned the idea of trying to supply Greencastle with Low-Priced stuffs, since such policy inevitably leads the dealer to handling the most deceptU ive, unreliable, worthless goods. Rather do we prefer on just as small a per cent, of profit, yes, sometimes, on a smaller margin, to supply you with reliable serviceable goods, which win your good will and hold your patronage. A full, honest equivalent for your money, is our policy.
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KKI'I KI.ICAN CITY TICKK.T.
For Mayor. .ION ATHAX BIR< H.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, WEST : SIDE : SQUARE.
KXCIIANO/■: OPINION. Onk of Colonel W. C. P. Breck inridge's relatives is the proprietor of a large lime factory. It is hoped the relative knows what to do with a few loads of it.—Intcr-Ocean. Seven-tenths of the InriH on sugar wiis collected from ttie poor; hence the republican party abol ished it and hence the Wilson hill reimposes it.—Tupel-a Cajn'tal. When the people begin to pay more for tbeir sugar they will quit listening to the tariff reformers who tell them that the republican party, which made sugar free, is an enemy to their interests. * * * The democratic party is going to have a good deal of difficulty this year in persuading men to accept its nominations for the mere purpose of experiencing the sensation of fore gone and miserable defeat.—(Hole I)c inocrof.
For Treasurer. .1011N (ilLMORE. For Clerk, JAMES M HURLEY. For Marshal, WILLIAM E. STARR. For Coiincilmen. First Ward—THOMAS ABRAMS. Second Ward—XDMUXD PERKINS, Third Ward—JOHN R. MILLER.
mark as set by democracy louder and with more emphasis than columns of theories about the beauties of free trade. If Putnam farmers are content witli $1.20 per day for their team and driver and OO cents for a day laborer, they are easily satisfied. Of course, necessity knocks down the price, hut democracy makes the necessity.
Mk. Henky Watterson, clearly the ablest of all the so-called “tariff reformers," is evidently thoroughly disgusted with the progress of the Wilson bill, else he would probably not be saying ironical and mean things like this; “The news agencies continue to report the tinkerings of the senate finance committee on the tariff bill. The news agencies might more profitably devote their energies to interviewing tlie ground hog on the collapse of his weather forecasts. The committee's solemn pieayunish patching of the misfit measure is now scarcely of more public impoilance than the proceedings of a past session of the defunct Patch-
work club.’
The cold weather froze the marrow out of Coxey’s army.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat thinks that Col. Breckenridge should have imitated that other distinguished democrat who told the truth about a similar scrape.
Ci.evki.ani> has only been able thus far to appoint an average of sixty-six postmasters per day. No wondei there* is grumbling among democrats over Cleveland’s woeful lac k of energy.
The loc al democratic papers have been overburdened with silence since the cutting down of prices for teaming and labor in Putnam county. Those bids on gravel road repairs tell the story of the wage
A LITTLE SCRATCHING. It doesn't take hut a few minutes' scratching in the records of the court house to satisfy one’s self that the public is being robbed, and that by democratic commissioners. In the matter of printing there is need of great reform. Bills are allowed that contain no specific charges, and therk is no way of ascertaining how iftuch paper or goods are received. On local matters hills are paid in a very slipshod manner. A Banner Times reporter went through a few allow ances Monday and found that the county of Putnam, which boasts of its economic administration, pays the Star Prexn $9.30 per thousand for letter-heads for the county offices. The items for the amount are filed along with other items and state, ‘ Letter-heads for recorder (treasurer, sherifl'or clerk, as the case may be) $9.30." In but one instance in the last several bills filed by the paper can the number
of letter-heads he ascertained, and that is in the last allowance, which states, “Dec. 23, 1893, 1000 letterheads for recorder's office, $9.30.” and it is hut reasonable to suppose the other $9.30 allowances are for 1000. The Banner Times stands ready to furnish the count} - , any business house or private citizen 1000 letter heads of better paper and equally as good or better workmanship for less than one-half the above democratic price. This is not an advertisement lor our job business, but it is intended as an item of instruction on what the county should pay for those letterheads. No private citizen pays the Star- Prexs any such rates as the above, and the county should pay no more than $1.50, or for the very highest priced paper, (something the county doesn’t get) $5.00 per thousand. It seems the organ lias not forgotten how to charge, notwithstanding it has strong opposition in the democratic ranks. Will people in favor of economy in Putnam county stand any such bold squandering of public funds as this? Is this feeding of the organ done to keep it from kicking out of the traces?
we have to pay nine dollars; which do you prefer, the seven dollar coat and the eighty cent man or the nine dollar coat and the $1.50 man?” The point was cleverly put and a child could see that the advantage is with the workman in America, when not menaced with free trade Wilson tiills, and Cleveland administrations.
The Hon. W. I). Owen, ex-con gressman from the tenth district, and now candidate for secretary of state, made many friends in his short stay here Saturday, both by his splendid address and his excellent oratory. Mr. Owen, while in congress, and ns commissioner of immigration, had ample facilities for observing matters relative to to the wage question and the difference between the condition of workmen in America and those of treej trade countries. One point which ^ the distinguished gentleman madej in his short talk to the republican workers it would he well for some of our democratic friends to ponder] over. Said Mr. Owen: “Labor is! our capital; the average price of] labor abroad is eighty cents: here at home it is, or was until this ad ministration, $1.50 per day ; suppose the foreigner can buy the same coat abroad at seven dollars for which
Now that the question of coining the seigniorage is agitating the country, the following definition of the word, as given in the Century dictionary, is of interest: “Seigniorage: Something claimed by the sovereign or by a superior as a prerogative; specifically, an ancient royalty or prerogative of the crown, whereby it claimed a percentage upon bullion brought to the mint to be coined or to be exchanged for coin; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the face value of the pieces coined from it.” The dictionary follows the definition with the following quotation from John
Smart Mill:
“If government, however, throws the expense of coinage, as is reasonable, upon holders, by making a charge to cover the expense (which is done by giving back rather less in coin than is received in bullion, and is called ‘levying a seigniorage ) the coin will rise to the extent of the seigniorage above the value of the bullion.”
der spring harbingers were induced to come forth in all their virgin purity and—get blasted by a cruel blizzard. In 1892 the voters of the country were likewise seduced. By subtle fiattery, promises of still better times, free trade fallacies and tender entreaties the workingmen were cajoled, tickled under the chin and with lamblike simplicity ran into a snag. They were hoodooed, lied to, inveigled by months instead of days by fair promises, and now. too late, know where they are “at.” It's the same with ttie poor fruit. This Cleveland weather is as misleading as were the promises ofthe party in power.
The Chicago IferaLt says: "The reduction of wages is satisfactory to the workman.” This statement lias been echoed by the smaller frv democratic newspapers, some of them here at home. The elections being held over the country demon strate a different idea from the above, it seems.
This awful spell of weather is eminently democratic in its characteristics. For twenty-four days March was seductive and bland, mild as a lamb, and as a result the birds, shoots, twigs and early ten-
nealiieKB Gaiinul br Ciiretl by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by eonstitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an intlnmed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can lie taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will he destroyed forever; nine eases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing hut an inlhimed condition of the iniicousurfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any ease of deafness (caused by catarrh') that cannot he cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. K. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O ^J^T'Sold by druggists, 75c.
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