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fund ti(lail hi bed by
Emerton. We sudden taking
r e; t rltnrk to his family and
iI 1 the c eopeet sympathy is
Mre. Cameron and three
he body was brought to
interment in the Bayfield
•to funeral being under the
the Canadian Order of
�, of which the deceased was
'r. The pall bearers were
.nd John Cameron, John and
`allot, Donald and Archie
and Gordon Greenslade.
the many beautiful floral of_
were a wreath from the C.
rid an anchor from his old
friends in the village. Mr.
was forty-two years of age.
Meeting. = A public meeting
atepayers of the village was
to town hall on Monday even..
v en o'clock for the purpose
ating a councillor to fill the
in the council. The only
was Wm. Higgins, who was
acclamation. After the
n a meeting of the ratepay
eld to take into consideration
bitty of moving and repair-
own hall. E. Merner, Reeve,
inted chairman, afteroutlin-
object of the meeting and.
ung his opinion of what he
was necessary and that • the
Iwas prepared to go ahead and
It the wishes of the ratepay-
hen called upon those present.
an opinion on the matter, when
r expressed their views, after
�e following motion was pass -
Eat the Reeve be empowered
n opinion if the councilcan
all where it stands and also
r~mpetent man come and look
hall and get his opinion of
way to fix the hall and
would cost and if the council
ix the hall whexe it, stands
ead and have it moved on tor
re and repaired!'
Good
Advice
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Materials .
for 'spring
Sewing
this
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Itis meeting 'every expectation of the people in the
merchandise presented -the assortment of-
fered --the quality --the style. --the values --
the genuine reductions --the courte-
ous painstaking service we
know it by the crowds
that are comings
FORCED TO SELL
520,000 High Grade Merchandise at the Mercy of the Public.
Stock turned over to A. C. Clark, Stock Broker, Toronto, Ont.
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. TO SELL ----QUICK--- AND FAST
This store takes pleasure in the maintenance of a standard that gains prestige by comparison
-and it applies to such a selling event as this big sale -just as much so as to the height of the
regular season -the merchandise included in the Sale is all regular stock, Clothing, Hats, Furs
and Furnishings for Men and Women -personally and carefully selected for the -present season's
demands for the highest quality -latest styles and the most exclusive -we have sold some of
the highest grade merchandise this season - that ever graced our store -not an article has been
marked a dollar higher than the value would warrant and it will net be the exception by any
means to find many of these better lines of merchandise selling during this sale at half price
and teas.
Savings That You Cannot Afford to Pass by: -
Men's Suits
In a big variety of styles and materials,
fashionable dose -fitting sacgwe coats, fancy
waist lines and yoke backs, in substantial cloths,
serges, tweeds and wool mixtures. Sizes 34-46.
Men's Fine Blue Serge Suits, Worth $45,
Sale Price $17.48
Men's Fine Blue Serge Suits, Worth $60,
Sale Price .32.48
Men's Fancy Tweed Suits, Worth $40.00,
Sale Price 26.48
Men's Grey Tweed Suits, Worth $35.00,
Sale Price ' 24.48
Men's Trousers
Men's trousers of cotton and wool worsted
and tweeds. Finished materials, well
tailored throughout in sizes 32 to 42.
Regular values up to .$9; Sale Price....$4.85
Men's and Youth's Trousers, in greys,
browns and striped designs. All sizes.
Regular $5 lines. Sale Price 2.95
Boys' Clothing
Boys' Suits in trench and belted styles, waist
seams and double breasted sacques. All the new
designs and materials. Sizes .24 to 36.
Boys' Suits in values up to $18, Sale Price.. $11.98
Boys' Suits in values up to $14, Sale Price.. 7.88
Boys' Bloomer Pants' in Blue and Tweeds,
Worth $4.00, Sale Price 2.28
Boys' Corduroy: Bloomer Pants, Values up 2 g5
to $5.2`10, Sale Price- 2.95
Boys' Overcoats in -Ulster and Belted Styles,
Values up to $20.00. Sale Price .. 12.25
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Children's and small Boys' Coats in. values 6 26
up to $12.50. Sale Price 9
Men's and Youths Over-
coats
In belted or waist line style. Ulsters, Ulster-
ettes and Chesterfields, in all the new and popu-
lar shades of materials. Well lined and finely
tailored. All sizes.
Men's Overcoats in values up to
Sale Price
;Men's Overcoats in value up to $40.00, 23.48
Sale Price
Young Men's Overcoats, worth $40.00,
Sale Price
Youths' Overcoats in values up to $27.00,
Sale Price
Men's Spring
Sale Price
Men's Raincoats in values
Sale Price
Men's.'Biack Fur Coats,
Sale Price
Men's Alaska Beaver Fur Coats, worth $60, 38.48
Sale Price
$50.00,,-
$32.48
Overcoats, Worth
24.48
17.48
$35.00,
22.48
up to $25.00,
14.48
worth $50.00,
28.68
Men's Furnishings
Men's Heavy Ribbed dose, Worth • $L00,
Sale Price $ .48
Men's Cashmere Hose in Black and Colors,
Worth $1.25, Sale Price .65
Men's Overalls, Blue with White
- - Worth $3.00, Sale Price
Men's Fleece Lined
$1.50, Sale Price
Men's Heavy Ribbed
$2.50, Sale • Price
Stripe,
1.95
Underwear, Regular
.98
Underwear, Regular -
1.65
Men's Sweater Coats. A big stock. Values
up to $7.50. Sale Price 4.25
Boys' Sweater Coats in values up to $5.00
Sale Price " 2.65
Men's Fine Hose, to clear $- .28
Children's Hose, to clear .38
Men's Neckwear, Regular $1.00 - .68 '
Men's Fine Shirts, Regular $3,00 1.98
Men's Work Shirts 1.48
Blue Stripe Overalls 1135
Boys' Sweater Coats - 2.65
Men's Pine Pants - 2.48
Boys' Pants, ReguIar,. 1.98
Boys' - Flee -lined Underwear , .... .68
Men's Fleece Lined Underwear .98
Men's Heavy Rib Underwear 1.65
Men's Flannelette Nightgowns 1.78
Men's Fedora Hats, Regular $6.00.... 3.48
Women's Coats Remark-
ably Reduced
Here are coats you can wear well into our
northern Spring months, then lay them aside for
next Fall and Winter. Each group worthy of
an early inspection Friday if you have an eye
for savings.
LOT NO. 1 -Women's Black Cloth Coats in
all the prevailing styles, regular values up to
$35.00. Sale Price $14.48
-LOT NO. 2 -Women's fancy coatings in trig,
loose -back and belted styles, and favored shades.
All sizes. Regular $35.00 lines. Sale Price $22.48
LOT NO. 3 -Women's silvertone and fancy
coats in all this winter's styles, the coats that
will be in big demand next winter. Regular
$50.00 lines, Sale Price $32.48
LOT NO. 4 ---Girls' Coats, showing all the
new and up-to-date ideas, some with, pleated and
yoked backs, values up to $25. Sale Price...$18.48
THE ABOVE. IS JUST AN INKLING OF WHAT THIS SALE MEANS TO YOU PEOPLE
-COME TO THE STORE AND SEE HUNDREDS OF OTHER BARGAINS IN CLOTHING,
HATS, FURS AND FURNISHINGS FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CIHILDREN.
The GrLIpTHING CO;
Main and Market Streets Town Hall Seaforth, Ont.
A. C. CLARK, STOCK BROKER IN CHARGE OF THIS SALE. WATCH
FOR BIG SALE SIGN OVER STORE FRONT.
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Dear Expositor: -There .has been =
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Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 19, 1920. = -- _ t _ _- t � � Horticultural
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about the high cost of living in the PREMIUM LIST FOR 1920
last two or three years, and still the
cost keeps soaring upward. 1 sup-
pose we an have our opinions as to
the cause of the present high' cost „e
of living and, no doubt, we all have :=1,
the right remedy in our own minds, E
but none of us seem to be doing ee.
much to better conditions, there has E.:
been lots of talk; what we need is F.
Some one writing in The Expositor E
not long ago said that anyone who E.,
could add a single iota to the solu- E
tion of this serious -problem of the ;-
high cost of living should make no e„,=
apology for -doing so. I have a few =
ideas both in regard to the cause and E
the cure. Some of these ideas may
seem to be side issues, but are either =
directly or indirectly connected with
the cause and the cure. Dissatisfae-
tion without action. will not remedy ,e=
evils, but when dissatisfaction- gets E
to the point where it will stir people E
to strenuous objection and determin-
ed action there may be some hope =
of bettering conditions.
I believe the' chief cause of the
present conditions is that we have not E
enough of producers and earners and =
too many parasites; too many drones E
and not enough bees; not enough- ;
workers and( too many ehirleers. re"
Everything we get must be earned =
and produced - by someone, and if E
some are neither earning nor produe- E
in then they are living off the earn- :a
Inge mid production of others and are =
therefore nothing more or less than El
parasites, suckers and horse -leaches.
Now, when I speak of the non -
producers as parasites, I do not mean
to include those who are growing old
and are no longer able to produce,
for most of them 'have done their
full share of the world's work and
are entitled to the very• best the
world can give them for the remain-
der of their days. Do-nothing-etis ig
a comparatively Modern disease and
has only been contagious dering the
laat twenty-five or fifty yea* so that
few of the older people ever were
afflicted with it. Nor do I mean the
very young, nor yet those who are
crippled or feeble, either mentally or
physically, Some people complain a-
bout the injustice of having to pay
taxes for the supp,ort of institutions
for the care of the feeble or unfortu-
nate, some of whom are in these insti-
tutions through eheir own careless-
ness, extravagance and failure to save'
in the days of their youth and vigor,
sufficient to 'care for them, should mis7-
fortune overtake them. Bet we should
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remember that misfortune may come
to any of us, and there are so few
of those who need to be cared for
and the cost so small to each of us
that we should be glad to contribute
toward making the lives of those
who have been less fortunate than
ourselves just as bright as possible,
for, at best life is far from pleasant
to inany of them. Also many who are
in these institutions if they had their
just share of what they have earned
and produced when they were well
and strong would have plenty to care
for themselves. I often think of the
song of yclars ago, the chorus of
which was something like this; "So
let us cheer them on for they won't
be with us long; Don't sneer at them
because they are getting gray, for
remember while you are young, the
day to you will come, when you will
be old and only in the way." We
ought to apply this to the feeble and
the unfortunate as well as to the old
and gray. Those that I do mean by
parasites are the strong, young and
middle aged, both men and women,
many of them well dressed, who do
not work and many of them never
did work and never will if they can
get out of it. This class of parasites
infest the cities more than the
rural districts. They are to be seen
by the thousand on the streets of the
large cities day after dhy and 'week
after week. These are the rats that
are devouring the product of the
honest toiler and producer, and for
which they render no service in re-
turn.
Then we have the profiteers. Many
of them are commission nsen or middle
men as we often call them. This
class produces nothing and earns
nothing, They render no real service
to the world to justify their cumber-
ing the earth with their presence.
They are generally spoken of as
business men but there is really no
business about many of them, but
just graft, pure and simple. Some
of them as commission men pass pro-
duce back and fourth from one to
another, taking heavy toll both com-
ing and going, both to the loss of
the producer and to the increased
expense to the consumer. Many of
these parasites that are boosting the
cost of living through their crooked
manipulations have little or no capi-
tal invested in their so-called business.
Some people say that their brains
are their investment and if that be
so their investment is very small, for
if a chemist was to analyze their
make-up, his report would be
something like this: "Equal parts
of greed, trickety, selfishness, in-
justice, unscrupulousness, oppression
and graft, with a slight trace of
brains." As one example of how
prices go up, I saw in a paper not
long ago that a car of sugar had
been shipped to a dealer, who sold
and shipped it to, a dealer in another
city, who in turn sold and shipped
it to another city, This was 'kept up
for over thirty days and the sugar
never unloaded during that time, just
going over the railroads from one
city to another, and. all the time
freight charges and commissions be-
ing added to the cost of it. Now is
it any wonder with such business
Closes March 15th
MEMBERS ARE ENTITLED TO THREE CHOICES
CHOICE 1 -One Apple. or One Pear Tree of any of the following
varieties:
Apples -Duchess Spy, Fameuse, Talman Sweet, Wealthy,
Baldwin, Sdirk.
Pears -Anjou, Bartlett, Clapp's Favorite.
CHOICE 2 -One Plum or One Cherry or One Peach Tree of any of
the following varieties:
Plum -Bradshaw, Lombard, Monarch, Reine Claude,
Cherry.
Cherry -Early Richmond, Montmorency, Windsor, Black
Tartarian, Napoleon Biggareau.
Peaches -Fitzgerald, Crawford, Elberta.
CHOICE 3 -One. Rose selected from the following list:
Itybrid Perpetual -Emperor de Maroc Frau Karl
Drusehki, General Jack, Mrs. John L'aing, Prineesse
de Beam Tom Wood.
Climbing-Alberie Barbier, Crimson Rambler, Dorothy
Perkins, Gold Finch, Tausendschon.
Hybrid Tea -Columbia, General McArthur, George C.
Waud, His Majesty, Lady Hillingdon, Lieutenant
Chaures, Mme. de Luze, Mrs. Charles Russell, Mrs.
Aaron Ward, White Killarney.
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4 -Hydrangea Paniculata.
5 -Dutchman's Pipe.
6 -Boston Ivy.
7 -One Peony.
8 -Three Un -named Dahlias.
9-Spirea, Von Hutte (White flowering shrub).
10-Weigelia Roses (pink flowering shrub), or Weigelia
Eva Rathke, Red Fowering Shrub.
12 -Ten Gladiolus.
13 -Twenty-five Strawberry Plants.
14 -One Norway Spruce.
15 -The Canadian Horticulturist.
16 -One Package each of Asters,
Sweet Peas.
= CHOICE 17 -One Package each of Lettuce, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips.
Owing to the great shortage of all nursery stock the Premium
= ist will close on March 15th. The Society will supply Members
=_N with extra Trees, Plants, Shrubs, etc. at cost. Make out your order
ti for, extras on a separate sheet.
Fill in your three choices on the coupon below and /nail or
E hand it to the Secretary with your Dollar, membership fee for 1920.
Members will also recejve Bulbs in the Fall.
= President. ' Secretary -Treasurer.
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lieve it to be unreasonable, unjust
and unnecessary, but what are we go-
ing to do about it. One thing we
need, as I said at first, is more pro-
ducers and not so many drones. The
never -work class ought to quit yell-
ing- at the farmers to produce more
and get into the game of production
themselves.' Th.ere has been an aw-
ful roar about the L W. W.. Usualy
these three letters are said to stand
for "I won't work." Some of these
= fellows are sure bad etough, but not
= half' as bad as the class I call L N.
- N. W.'s are more numerous than the
oLf WineWn ssvrhoThheavIe* We'sbliedis lalgaiclasnsst
toiling and prothiging, and others
getting more than haLf the fruits of
- their labor. Of course the acts of
many of the members of the L W.
W. are far been right. I have no
great love for the L W. W. and
- kindred organizations, They are
- simply the effect of a eause. Remove
- the cause and the effect will quickly
- - disappear. A great deal is being said
- now about compulsory military train-
= ing. It would be a fine thing if we
= had a little compulsory training for
- the earning of bread, compulsory
= tion and less training for destruction.
There ought to be some system of
= cernpulsory training to fit all young
il" People, (the rich as -well as the poor)
t for some useful calling or occupation.
= If all were forced to work and develop
5 both body end mind, shOuld there
. Ei. 'ever be another war, which We hope
= there will not be, there would not be
- so i many useless good-for-nothing
sissies, many of them sons of the
rich, who cannot pass examination
for military duty. Not many sons of
the rich ever got intd the real battles
of the late war. The great majority --
of those who were in the battles and
were shot down, were of the earning
and producing class, while the rich
men- and their sons stayed at home
and; filled their pockets with blood
money, profiteering in war supplies.
Another remedy for the high cost
of living is a better marketing' sys-
tem; by which the producer can t
his produce to the consumer in
shortest Ressible and least expensive
way, elimmating the middle rnan just
as far as possible. If we can cut
out the middle men and unnecessary
commission merchants, we will re-
lease a great army of men who ought .
to be made to get out and blister
their hands with honest toil and render
some real service to the 'world. Some
may be inclined to think that I am •
knocking all business, but not so by
any means. There is a great deals
of business that we must have, and •
a great `inanY of the 'best men and
women are engaged in honest legiti-
mate business and are putting a lot
of energy and toil into their business,
and are entitled to reasonable and -
just profits on their investment. The
trouble with legitimate business is
that a great many of those engaged
in it are hoging entirely too large
profits. Not, long ago at a chamber
of commerce meeting in Pittsburg,
Penn., one member of that body said
that no man is fit to be manager
of a business concern who has not
caught the idea that he must apply
the golden rule in all his dealings
with his employees, and he, might
well have said with all others. Are
the farmers, laborers,industrial work-
ers and all others ready to come up
to that same standard. The fact is
that the golden rule and the religion
taught and practiced by the author
of the golden rule is the. only real
solution of the many perplexing pro-
blems that are worrying us to -day.
But perhaps our 'great -need to -day
is men, real men as legislators, men
in office and in all places of responsi-
bility and authority, men of honesty
and integrity, men who can be shown
but who cannot be bought. With ,
such men in office many of the evils
of to -day can be 4ured; many pf
the wrongs can be righted. It is:
said that the farmers and the laborers
bane over sixty par centeof the vot-
ing power of the eountry„ If they
will stand for right and stick together
they can get anything they want
through legislation; then cut out
crooked politics and selfishness and
go to war to a finish, a war of bal-
lots and not a war with bullets. The
ballot is the proper weapon to use
to drive out crookedness and rotten-
ness in government But, if govern-.
mental power gets inte different
hands than it has been in for a long
time, those who come into power,
in order to make a success, must be
fair and just to all classes. To take
revenge and treat with injustice those
who have long, been in power, would
only be adding another wrong, and
two wrongs never did and never will
make one righf. Real success in gov-
ernment must be attained through
justice and fair play to all classes,
the theory has been equal right to
all and special privileges to none, but
-the 'fact has often seemed to be
special privileges to the few and equal
injustice to all the yest. When the
right kind of men are put in office and
in all places of power ands authority,
then when a committee is, appointed
to investigate crookednessi and pro-
fiteering, these rats that are getting
away with the people's goods will he
ferreted out, the earner and producer
get -what is his and the consumer
get full value for his money, most
of which will go to the earner and
producer. The fact that it may take
many years to right the Wrongs of.
to -day, many years to enact laves
that will be fair and just to all, and
also that it may take *Were' years
to get the right kind of num into.
office to administer the lavrs, should.
not prevent the present generation
from doing their utmost to bette,_
conditions. Some people say, what
is the use, the big interests have the
upper hand; _wet_ might_ just as well
as that, that sugar which cost ten . bunches to the thousand, then the seems to be to grab will e gra ing
take our medicine. They say that
dollars three months ago, now costs Seaforth price hi ten dollars per is good."
about eighteen dollars a hundred. I thousand which is worse than out But what is the use of saying more ?•„n•Ything we. ena.11 _do .wityell. arnevereer bettesr•
was told just to -day that although here. If anything is said to a lumber , about the cause of the high cost of tials ltenersivio -out e pon -
(Continued on page 4).
only a short time ago it was almost dealer about the exorbitant prices of living. We an know or at least be -
•
impossible to buy .cane sugar here in
Sacramento .(supposedlry because . it
was very scarce), now when prices
have been. boosted up on misrepresen-
tation it is said that the dealers have
any amount of cane sugar to sell at
the higher peices, which is nearly
double what it was a few months
ago. Now, who do you suppose is
getting that eight dollars a hundred,?
It sure does not go to the producer
have gone into the pockets of the
dealers and speculators, who have
leen passing it from one to another.
We have heard and read a great
deal lately about profiteering,, and
there is committee after committee
appointed to :nvestigate profiteering
of one kind and another. • Soinetinies
evidence is found; sonie have been
brought to trial, and a few have been
punished, but seldom that inucli is
done about it. Why? Because while
there are many honest men in the
world it seems that the majority of
the members of these investiga.ing
committees are profiteers thmseives,
and one rascal will not try very hard
to catch -another. It is jUst like it
would be for a'farmer, whose grain-
ery is being looted by rats, going to
his neighbor's barn and getting an-
other rate to take home to catch the
rats in his own barn. He gets very
nnsatisfactory results, the additional
rat only gets away with a little more
grain. It is just the same with most
of the investigating committees. They
only add to the expense which must
be borne by the producer and con-
sumer. But the farmer, who is pes-
tered with rats, ("if he be wise") will
get an honest investigating com-
mittee in the form of a good cat and
put it on the job and usually get good
results. But even the cat sometimes,
meets difficulties, because the rats
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lumber, all he has to say is• wages,
wages. Now while wages have just
about doubled in the last ten years,
the other expenses of producing and
marketing lumber have not doubled.
But Should we grant that all ex-
penses connected with the lumber
business have &alibied, the dealer is
now getting his percentage of profit
which will be twice the gross profits
of ten years ago, and then to that
of the raw material. Then it must he adds an extra rake off of thirty-
three and one-thied per cent. I con-
sider many of the material men and
especially the lumber merchants ,are
worse than highway robbers, and
were it not for the trouble of cutting
them 'down and getting rid of them'
when they commence to sthell bad, I
wonld almost' be of the opinion that
the right thing to do with them would
be to use them for decorations, su-
.spended from the cross -arms of tele-
graph and electric light poles.
soon become aware that the cat is
on the job, consequently they lie low
with never a rustle in 'the grain or
straw, so that the cat. has a hard
time to get evidence as to where the
rat is located, therefore cannot pounce
onto it and bring it to trial and _just
punishment. Sometimes the cat, af-
ter long watching, gives up its vigil
and then the rats - go back to their
old eeicks again. Now that cet to a
certian extent is working under the 1 of this, "A shoe clerk told a customer
same difficulties as an honest coin- i not long ago that when he worked
mittee appoieted to investigate in another shoe store in the same city
profiteering. The minute an honest a shipment of shoes arrived which
committee is appointed the profiteers were supposed to sell at' five dollars
know all about it and lie low until a pair, (this was before the present
things have quieted down, and then very high prices of shoes). While
One. difficulty in bringing profiteers
to time is that the courts seem to be
favorable to the big interests. A few
years ago the lower courts gave judg-
ment against the Standard Oil Com-
pany in the United States for some-
thing like twenty-nine million dollars
(if I remember right). The case was
appealed and finally the supreme
court reversed the decision of the
lower court, and the common people
to whom no doubt it rightfully be-
longed were out that twenty-nine mil-
lion. I do not know positively but
have been told that the judges of_the
supreme court at that time were
either stockholders or in some way
connected with the Standard Oil Com-
pany, and if so, how could the com-
mon people expect to get justice?
For _those judges would never fine
themselves. It has been said that
the courts are places wherein justice
is done, but it seems very often that
the courts are places where injustice
is done, the in is placed on the
eirong word.
Another cause for the high cost
of living is that people keep right
on buying both necessary and unnec-
essary things without any protest
against the ridiculous and unreason.:
able prices. This simply encourages
the unscrupplous dealer to boost his
prices still higher. As an example
they are back to their old tricks a-
gain. The material men in all lines
seem to be profiteering, but especially
the lumber dealers, Here in Cali-
fornia lumber costs fully three times
as much as it did ten years ago.
these shoes were -being marked up
at five dollars a pair, the proprietor
came along and said he was going
to mark one. pair fifteen dollars and
mit them in the show window just
to see how the price would strike
Rough lumber ten years ago was people. In a very short time a lady
about nineteen to twenty-one dollare came in and bought the shoes at fif-
a thousand, to -day it is sixty dollars teen .dollars, so then the proprietor
and upwards. Ten e ears ago shingles said: "Mark the whole shipment
were about two dollars and a half fifteen dollars. What is the use of
per thousand, now hey cost seven selling them for five dollars if we
dollars and seventy-five cents per can just as easily get fifteen?" This
thousand here in Sacramento, and same policy is- being practised by
see them advertised in Seaforth at dealers in clothing and many other
two dollars and a half a bunch, If lines, but perhaps not often with such
the cedar pack back there is the extortion as in the shoe case. The
same as out here in the west, four policy with a great many people