Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A'LIST OF GOODS —SOLD AT Purcupile’s bemhi i

A full line of Common and Fancy Candies! A fnll line of Bakers’ Goods! Bread. Pie-, Cake?. &c ! Pepper, Spice, Nutmegs Glove? and Cinnamon. Teas. Coffees. Sugars! California canned goods! - Baked Beans. Baking Powder! Canned Salmon, Mackerel and Lob« stere! Flavoring Extracts. Tomato Catsup, Table Sauces. Spanish Olives, Chow-Chow. Mustaid, canned coin-, •d Beef, canned Sausage. The.best of Crackers, Holland Harin, Spiced Fish. Soaps, etcin fact, everything kept in a first class Grocery and Restaurant. .. i emember! Buy your Teas of me, and draw that- elegant set of Silver Knives, Forks and Spoons. Remember! That each and every pound of our Coffee vou receive a nice present. Remember! In purchasing your Baking Powders of us. you secure a eha nee to draw that band-painted set of ware.

H. M. PURUUPILE.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

AH who are Indebted to R Fendig are requested te call aad settle, eith er by eash. er note, within the next 30 days, as I wish to closs my boohs for this year. 2t R. Fendi®. Sesvices of the Free Will Baptist congregation will be held in the Presbyter’aa ehursh, Rensselaer, on the second and fourth Sabbaths of eaoh month. Covohaat mooting •« Saturday before fourth Sabbath of each month at 2p. as. Sabbath services will begin at 10:30 a. m.

M O. MIMHB. Paster

One-half a Million Dollars for Postage.

George Stiusou & Uo., the ted Ait Pnbllshers, of Portland. Mo., undoubtedly •ay more money for postage stamps than any other firm ih the wurld; for the last five years lheir postage bill has -iveraged over two thousand dollars per week, making a grand aggregate of over five hundred and twenty thousand dollars* this is about the three-hundreth part of all ostage of every description collected by the United States gov» ernmetot during that time, and in this (•enncctiou it tnustjbe borne in mind that the country has over fifty million souls, and fifty thousand pu t offices, But the enormous sum paid for postage represents only the cost of sending the light packages, letters and circulars, f-*r large, heavy packages are sent by express and freight. Messrs. StioMu & Co. pubfish every description of pictures of the better class and their trade now extends over the entire world. As an illustration of the fart .hat thwir trado reaches the furthermost part or the eart , the-dollewltig may be Interest ing; A short time sinew an order tor ®u assortmuut ct over three thousand large and expensive pictures was received iron TaumaaU, away down under the South Pole. Not many years ago Tasmania was a penal colony of England, and its population was entirely of convicts and tbeu keeper*. Slnee the removal.o” the con’dnts, it has become a hrifty col onv; this place is so remote, that thiee months are required for an ans

wer to a letter. Tons of pictures ar« sent to South America by Messrs Stinson & Co. and West Africa sends re Portland jut works us ert: they have trade iu every quartrr of the _4obe where civilization has gained > footheld. Commencing at the burtem. they have worked their way up to the top. step by step, and thereby, added to the greatest push and enterprise, tuey have that amid, practical experience that i» always n eess iry tu these results, in ail thinar*They carry iu stock millions of pio-» ures, and are at a momoßts node* rsadv to fill a five cent order, or onfor of dolb'Oe; they employ some five hundred art ots, slerks, and workmen; their maehinery and appointments are on a magnificent scale,and u trade of ten thousand dollars a day, en an averag'% is required to keep them moving in full blast. I'heir assortment of s’®el plates i® especially fine, and rktdcs var» high in artistic merit; many thousands of dollars are often spent on a single plate. They appreciate the vain of printer’s.ink and know how to use it to the best advantage; there- ( fore they advertise larg?lv and liberally in the newspapers—newsbnper advertising was an important, factor in laying toe sound foundations of their great success, and without it, they state that it would hare been utterly impossible for them to have reached their present position. Stinson & Co. are a striking illus>tration of wbai can be accomplished by energy; Industry, and good j -dg ment. There is “loom at the top”— all honor to those who fight their way up. This firm believesfin standard goods and low prices, aad on ; that principle their business is con i ducted. American homes should be