mt FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations—Falls City Tribune
Humboldt Enterprise, Rulo Record
Crocker's Educational Journal anc
Dawson Outlook.
Entered as second-class matter a
Falls City. Nebraska, post office, Janu
ary 12, 1904, under the Act of Congress
on March 3, 1*79.
Published every Friday at Falls Cit)
Nebraska, by
The Tribune Publishing Company
VV. H. WYLER,
Editor and Manager.
One year... .. -Sl.ftO
six months.„ ...
Three month.-, -h1
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APPRECIATION.
There lias been sue4 kindness and
generosity shown us in our efforts
to brinng out the Christmas edition
that we feel wo must express publicly
our sincere appreciation. So many
have contributed articles which we
feel sure ViU interest nil our readers,
so many have supplied Information
on subjects where we lacked facts,
so many have given freely of their
encouragement and good will to all
we say heartily, Thank You.
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Cities like individuals, find the
things they persistently go after.
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in this issue of The Tribune defer
ent angles express their views of
the present and future of our little
city. Head what they say carefully,
It will do you good, and help you
to bo a mofe patriotic citizen dur
ing 1911
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We notion the appointment of Geo.
7 ■ i
W. Marsh as deputy secretary of
state, under Secretary Wait, in the
State Journal. Mr. Marsh was a form
er citizen of Vails City and his many
friends and acquaintances here will
bo glad id /i*ur of his appointment.
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In this issue we could give only a
partial list of Falls City's interesting
features. We have no apology to of
fer for what does not appear. In the
makeup wo use tho material nearest
at hand and most availhle. Wo have
done the we could and Irust to
tho forbear era of those seemingly
slighted.
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Mr. Towle's plea for u rush basis
a.-, good business practice—is timely.
We ar, most heartily in sympathy
with everything ho says. Wo aro
In position to speak from experience.
Our accounts are all small, but the
number of them is sufficient to men
ace our business. If our friends real
ized what it means to us to be com
pelled to wait indefinitely for a set
tlemon* of these little bills they
would not bo so negligent in paying
up. It is a careless habit, and it
needs to be broken up. Not only
legitimate business is the sufferer,
but many other worthy activities are
hampered and often rend -red inef
fec'ive by this thoughtless withold
ing of needed money. Let us wipe
the old ledger clean, and determine
to pay-ns-we-go in 1911.
Red Cross Seals.
The attention of our people is call
ed to the fact that Red Cross Seals
are on sale with local merchants.
These seals are designed for the pur
pose of beiftg attached to letters and
packages. They coat tine cent each;
th© money derived from their salt',
which the organization expects will b
several million dollars, will be entire
ly devoted fighting tuberculosis, not
only in individual cast's, but national ]
with the hope of ultimately eradicat
ing the deseaso.
The seals bear appropriate holiday
greetings and add to the Christmas
atmosphere of your presents and cor
respondence.
In the old legend the one who lov
ed his fellowman had liis name writ
ten on the scroll even above those
who loved the Lord. In the later day
civilization man becomes more and
more his brother’s keeper, and dur
ing this Christmas season (he pur
chase of a few' of these seals at the
expense of a few pennies makes you
a part of the world movement that is
looking to the amelioration of human
suffering and the strengthening of the
race. C. F. Reavis
Ex. Com. Red Cross
FALLS CITY IN 1911
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rails City's chief need today is a
larger realization of the fact that
everybody lias some responsibility in
the community In which they live.
There is too much dead or decaying
materia! lit our city. Too many who
can find fault hut do nothing. The
large number of retired people who
live here should have it more vital
and active interest in what lie town'
ir. mid what it ought to ire. The men
of large wealth who live here should
get away from their money seeking
long enough to learn t hat they have
the personal resources, ns well as
wealth to make this an ideal living
place. We pass along tills way but
once-, our lives and the lives of those
about us are largely what we make
them. Our descendants will take care
of themselves far more successfully
if we leave something for them to do.
—V. G. Lyford.
The Matter With Falls City.
What hurts Falls City, from a bus
iness standpoint, more than anything
else? I believe that the credit sys
tem of doing businness is the worst
feature of business life in Falls City.
Why should a retail dealer sell goods
to a man and wait for months for
him to pay his account? A dealer
does this just because he thinks his
competitor will do this and get the
business from him when he could do
liis competitor more harm by letting
him have these long time accounts
and look after the cash business for
himself.
When a retail merchant buys a bill
of goods from a wholesale liouse, he
gets thirty days and in some cases,
sixty days time on the bill. If he
cares to pay this account within ten
days from its date, he is usually al
lowed two per cent discount on it,
which means two per cent rebate on
each dollar. Hut if lie does not pay
this account in the thijty or sixty
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days, the wholesale dealer then sends
a sight draft on him to the local
hank which iB an order for the local
hank to collect tills money, and send
it in to the wholesale dealer, •
No retail merchant likes to have a
sight draft sent to him through his
local hank, but with the system of
accounts in use in Falls City, very
few business houses in Falls City
have escaped this the past year, if
they were doing a large volume of
business.
Now if the local merchant must
pay his accounts In thirty ot* sixty
days, why should not the purchaser
pay what lie owes ttie local merchant,
(he first of every month? Why should
the merchant carry these aecounnts
several months, or even a year or
two? The bunks will not let their
notes go long past the time they are
due, sp why should the merchant dc.
so?
It' you buy goods of the mail order
houses, you must send the money In
advance, even before you see the
goods. If you would deal with our
local merchants In this manner they
could sell goods much cheaper.
When ti merchant sells a bill of
goods to a purchaser on time and
places this account in his ledger, then
this account is the same as so much
dead capital, buried in the ground,
drawing no interest, nor doing good
to any person. The goods had better
be in the hands of the merchant than
to have the account in the ledger.
The goods stand a chance of finding
a cash customer. No one will buy
the accounts. When goods are sold,
the merchant must replace them and
it takes cash to do this. Accounts
will not buy new goods for the mer
chant and his account serve as a
millstone around his neck, instead as
an asset to Ills business.
The majority of people buying
g: ods on time do so from habit. They
usually have money in the bank, but
like to keep it there, as a show to
their banker and as a help to their
credit. Some people keep their mon
ey *o loan out, even when they know
tin y owe some of it. A case of this
kind occurred in Kalis City a short
time ago. A man came into a store
where he traded and where he had
°wcd an account for several months.
He had some money to loan, and
asked the mere ham where he could
make a good loan. After a few
moments of delih* iation the mer
chant had ru rve enough to tell him
that be knew of one place that lie
touid place some of ids money and
walking back to his hooks, told him
that he could use some of it in pay
ing his account. The man was in
clined to he angry, but finally paid
his account.
The railroads will not do a credit
business, nor tn express companies,
and but few wholesale concerns will
give more than sixty days time. No
business tan give long time and sur- •
vive in the end. The casli business j
house will Weed J'OU OUt. YoU <:H!l!10t
sell goods to a man on long time,
without serving as his banker as
well as liia merchant. Y'ou cheat
the hanker out of his profit. The
customer should he made to go to
I he banker for the loan and pay your
accounts and if the banker will not
loan him money, then you should not
sell him goods. Your goods are as
valuable as the bankers money, and
why should you take a chance in sell
ing to a customer on time that the
banker would not loan money to.
Few persons realize tlie amount of
the accounts carired on the books of
the merchants of Falls City. A con
servative estimate would place the
amount of such accounts, past sixty
days old. at over $200,000. In most
cases these merchants are owing note
at their banks for this amount, which
they could pay off if their customers
would pay their accounts. It seems
virtually a case, where the merchants
are borrowing money and paying in
terest on the debts that are due them
Business will not be an entire suc
cess in Falls City, till the business of
the town is put on a cash basis.
This cannot be done till a few old
time, fogy business men in this city
arc either broken up through their
old-time notions of giving time to
their customers, or swamped fram an
over stock of dead capital in the
way of old accounts.
When the business interests of the
town wake up to the true possibilities
of transacting business on a cash
basis, then the town will take on an
up-to-date aspect, and soon mil-dis
tance tlie mail-order house in this vic
inity.
1 trust this day is soon at
hand.—E. II. Towle.
I came to Falls City in the early
autumn of INtiS, coming by waa.v of
Itulo, which at that time was a much
better trading point than this.
We came up on a little two seated
mail wagon and driven by Alex Kerr,
who I think died in Omaha not long
since. .My first view of the town
site was from near the Steele farm.
From there looking west it looked
fine. The country although sparing
ly settled, to me seemed very promis
ing and I concluded to cast my lot
with the people here and sent for
my wife who was then with her par
ents at Sparta, Wisconsis. I bought
a little stock of goods that belonged
to Wilson Maddox and leased a new
building that he had nearly complet
ed. opposite the court house. At
this time we had to get our goods
or did, mostly by boat to Rulo and
haul from there by wagon.
In 1871 I sold my interest in the
busini ss to ('apt. Brannin, father of
our worthy townsman, D. P. Brannin.
In the meantime we had all been
working hard to get a railroad from
tlie south or east. Bonds were voted
for a road to run up on this side of
the Missouri river and another
through the county west or northwest
Small as our town was at the time
they paid ten thousand dollars, not
by bonds, but in cash, given by the
residents to help get the road
through. The first ten miles from
Rulo to tliis point was rushed through
in order not to forfeit the bonds. Ev
ery one was interested, all were
boosters, no knockers.
Late in 1872 with my wife and chilli
I went to Fort Leavenworth, where i
received an appointment from the Se>
retary of War and remained there un-;
til the spring of 1886, although the s
greater part of the time while away!
I
was Interested in business in this
place.
I knew but little of he Missouri
Pacific, of the extension of that rood
from Atchison to Omaha while it
wao being built.
Having been Interested in the town
so many years can realize how much
we have desired greater railroad fac
ilities and improvements that would
benefit our city and I do not think
our opportunities ever looked as
bright as at the present time. We ■
should all work together, drop all
personal disagreements, join hands |
with all boosters and let the major-1
ity rule in the way of push.
MAJOR W. II. KEELING.
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Tile really “Greater Falls City" for;
1911,
Mrs. Everett Peckenpaugh of
Ottawa. Kan., will arrive Saturday
to visit during the Holidays with
her mother. Mrs. Katherine Wylie.
You can keep posted by having one
of our New Wall Charts in your office
or in your home.
Miss Alice Jaquet will reach home
Saturday from Galesburg, 111. to re
main until after the Holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Russel Hiatt of Sa
lem spent Sunday with .1. S. I xml
and wife.
You will find the "ads" of all the
up-to-date hustling merchants in this
weeks Tribune. Trade with them.
They have the goods and will treat
you right.
Miss Beulah Fry was shopping in
St. Joe last Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Judd returned
Monday from a visit with Dawson
relatives.
H. O. Maddox Of Shelby Iowa came
down from Shubert, Tuesday with El
mer Else to take the train for Leav
enworth, Kans.
Frank Bacon and I). Brannum were
over from Sabetha, Tuesday.
Tile first of the week W. S. Leyda
and wife returned from a trip to Ex
celsior Springs.
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FALLS CITY
Our Trade Increases Because
Our Flour Pleases
If you are using flour that is made away from
home, start the New Year right by using FALLS CITY
FLOUR and keep your money at home where it will do
the entire community some good. VVe guarantee our
flour to be as good as it is possible foP any mill on earth
to make out of the best wheat that grows out of the
earth. We offer a big reward to anyone who will pro
duce a better flour than SUNFLOUR. Bread made
from this flour took first premium at the Iowa State
Fair the last two years against a hundred of Kansas,
Nebraska and Minnesota flours. Be a booster and use
home-made flour.
P. s. HEACOCK & SON