The World du lieu suivant : Piedmont, Kansas • 1

1T D) WW J) 1 I iru VOL. I. PIEDMONT, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1903. No. 7.

G. W. BARROWS, Editor and Publisher. Allen Moore went to Kansas City with a load of cattle, Monday. Minus Feasel is the blacksmith who will do your iron or wood work promptly and do it right.

Some important business changes will take place in Piedmont, we understand, about January first. W. R. Johnson, brother to Henry Johnson of Eildare, has been visiting here. He returned home Tuesday.

Billy Ezell has completed his slaughter house and now Piedmont will probably have a regular supply of fresh meat. Subscription Price 50 cents per year. (Locals 5 cents per line. TIME TABLE FRISCO R. R.

TRAINS GOING BAST, No. 302 Passenger 10:28 p. m. No. 306 Passenger 3:42 p.

m. TRAINS GOING WEST. No. 309 Passenger 6:02 a.n. No.

306 Passenger 12:50 p. m. Corrected by Clarence Bookout, Local Agent EDITORIAL. eys brought at the same time 15 cents per pound, butter 25 cents, and eggs wholesaled at 24 cents, beef steers were sold as high as eight dollars per hundred. Today coal oil sells to the dealer from the Standard Oil tank, which runs out of Howard, at 14 cents per gallon, cash on delivery, without rebate, discoudtor other qualification, Three years ago the same oil, from the same tank, run by the same man, sold to dealers at 11 cents per gallon and since 1890 there has been some of the greatest oil strikes the world has ever known.

The naked facts are that trusts are formed to increase the profits of the fellows in control, and when they deem it safe to enhance the price of products they do so and they lower them to kill off competition today just as Rockefeller did when he choked out his rivals in the refining business. Be fair brethren and tell the whole truth if you try to tell anything. Labor saving devices in all the producing lines have cheapened products and the trusts might further cheapen them by economy in their distribution if they were so minded, but so far the question of whether they will or not, unless compelled by law to do so, remains unanswered, but it rather looks as if they are all built on the hog plan. WORLDLINGS. 1 What terrible things trusts and combinations have done! The editor of Bethany, Missouri, Republican publishes from an old day book in which were kept the accounts of a leading store in that town in 1873, the following" prices Coal oil 51 cents a gallon, molasses SI.

10, matches 10 cents a box, pounds of sugar $1, cottonade 45 cents per yard, tea $1.75 per pound. Butter brought 9 cents a pound to the farmer and eggs 6 cents a dozen. A farmer brought in 21 chickens for which he received $1.62, and for fifteen dozen eggs received 67 cents all in trade. Today that many chickens and eggs would bring over $10. The above clipping, while true, and The Barrows Mercantile Co.

will sell you a good grade of mixed candy in quantities of 10 pounds or more at 6 cents per pound. Sugar is going skyward Th beet sugar people and the sugar trus hove compromised and now are making an advance every ten days. The Barrows Mercantile Company has been compelled to raise the price of sugar or sell it below cost. They give 19 pounds for a dollar now. Mrs.

Lou Hill of Paw Paw, is visiting Mrs. Harve Scott this week. is talkfng some of coming to Piedmont to open a dressmaking establishment Piedmont is to have a Christmas celebration on Christmas eve. A Christmas tree with old Santa Claus and lots of candy will be one of the many attractions. The Barrows Mercantile Company pays 17 cents for lutter, 21 cents for eggs, 11 cents for turkeys and 7 cents for hens, 10 cents for broilers.

Take your produce to them. The first snow of the season came Monday night ane was preceded by rain and sleet which fell all of Saturday night and Sunday. The fields are so soft that corn gathering is out of the question, ane hauling anything on the roads is next to impossible. Minus Feasel worked over time building a sled last Monday, and when the shades of night fell, he and Ed. Steward hitched a team to it and set sail.

Nobody seems to have molested them or robbed them of the sheep bell they had tied to the end of the tongue. 4 if I interesting as a statement of historical facts is placed in a false light when made to do duty as a partisan argument to justify trusts. Why not be fair and candid when dealing with political quotations? The writer of the above knows good and well that the trusts haven't cheapened one of the above articles a cent. The trusts have all been formed in the last ten years and all the above mentioned articles were sold as cheap or cheaper before they were organized than they are today. For instance, coal oil was delivered to people in Omaha, in 1890, where the writer iiyed at that time, for eight cents per gallon, in five gallon lots good molasses could be bought for 30 cents per gallon, 20 pounds of granulated sugar were sold for $1, calico was sold for 4 cents per yard.

Turk Lem Wright is coming home next Saturday for the holiday seasou. If all the talk of improvements materialize, Piedmont will enjoy quite a boom. "Pint" Brown will go to Oklahoma next week to start a harness shop for himself. There was a small freight wreck Monday evening in the rock cut west of town. Cattle and hogs are dropping so fast that shipping them is worse than fighting a shell game.

Some of our young men celebrated the coming of the first snow by sleigh- riding in the slush..