Southern Illinois Record

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The Southern Ilunois Record
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VOLUME V.
FLORA. ILLINOIS, THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. 1917
NUMBER 49
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Next Important Event
Clay County Fair, Flora, Sept. 3 to 8
EQUALIZATION
BOARD ADJOURNS
Board of County Supervisors  to
n«et in Regular Session at
Louisville Sept. 10
The Clay County Board of Review of Assessments flnlshed its worlc on Monday of this week and adjourned.
James McGregor, of this city, who was tlie chairman of the board, re¬ ports that tlie total assessments of personal property for the county this year exceeds In value any previous as¬ sessment.
The assessment as made In this township (Harter) was not changed, but was selected as the basis for lowering and raising the rates of the other townships of the county. In other words, the Barter Tp. assess¬ ment was made the basis for the equalization of the tax rate of the county.
Increases were made In the town¬ ships of Osicaloosa, Larkinsburg, Blair, Louisville and Pixley. In the townships of Songer, Xenla, Hoosier, Bible Grove, Clay City and Stanford the rates were lowered.
The County Board of Supervisors will convene at the Court House in Louisville, Monday, Sept. 10th, for '^ the transaction of regular business.
ncCawley-Jones Shower
Therlria ot Beta Gtma Club eiiterUtn«d Tueaday night la honor ot one o( their num¬ lier. Mrs. Koscoe Jones, a recent bride. The raff air 'mmA fflven at the homeof Mrs. W. W. "McMahan. and was In the nature of a miscel¬ laneous shower. The rooms were tastefully I decorated and a dellciousty tempting luncheon [ was served. The brides "shower" consisted of [ various arttcles of cut glass, linens .nd k Itch- i     en-ware.
Mr. and Mrs. .Tones will leave for Tamaroa next Saturday, where Mr. .lones isemployed as • teacher In the uubllc schools of that city.
Those present were Mesdames Rex Cunn¬ ingham, (iuy Hawthorne. L. E. PIxley, and HiMes Gulden, Hartman, Ingles, Brown and Warner.
Mrs. Solon P. Hill has received a etter from her son, Robert, wlio ts now In the U. S. aviation training camp at Detroit, giving an Interest-; ing account ot their work. Robert writes he had just made two ascen- '^slons, rising to a height above one mile, and that he had perfect control of his machine all the time. Both Bobert and Ayers Hill are now in Uncle Sam's service. Ayers has been at Fort Benjamin Harrison for the past two months, but Is now assig^ned to Fort Taylor, and wtll be there when our Clay County boys arrive at that cantonment.
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Business College Opens Twenty-Eighth Year
GREAT DEMAND FOR BnSWESS GRADDATES
Last June Graduates Are Now Employed in All
Kinds of Business at Salaries Ranging From
$50.00 to $112.00 per Month
On Monday, September 10th. THE ORCHARD CITY COLLEGE begins its Twenty-Eighth Year of training young people for practical and paying po¬ sitions. To cite one instance: Miss Vernice Kitley who graduated last June is now in the government employ at a salary of $900.00 a year, simply and solely because of the Business Training she received at the Orchard City College, Flora, Illinois, during the last school-year of thirty-six weeks. The College sold her a Business Education for about one hundred dollars. Un¬ cle Sam now employs her at a salary for her services which equals a cash investment of $25,700.00 in his Liberty Bonds rate of income.
The call for Stenographers, Bookkeepers, and Typists—young people with special Business Training—is far beyond all former years. We have a let¬ ter today from Mr. John A. Mcllhenny, President of THE UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, at Washington, D. C. asking for thousands of young men and women to enter the service of the Government as Sten¬ ographers, Typists, and Bookkeepers and offering to BEGINNERS from nine hundred to one thousand two hundred dollars a year. He urges that it is a PATRIOTIC DUTY to enter this branch of the service as much as to en¬ list in the army.
YOUNG MEN, YOUNG WOMEN, enlist as students in the Orchard City College at once and in a few short weeks banks, railroads, industrial cor¬ porations, law offices, commercial houses, the postoffice and all other de¬ partments of the government will gladly pay you handsomely for your trained and valuable services.
Write at once for full information.
THOMAS B. GREENLAW,   President
THE WAR AND
SHOE PRICES
By P. A. NEVER
^ Business As ^ Usual
The policy of this store is to give our customers the very best HARDWARE for the least money possible accompan¬ ied with good service.
This we are doing every day regardless of the breaks which may go against us.
When it's "Hardware" Look us up Phone 211
Bowman^s Hardware Store
Good Service.    Flora, Illinois
BOTH PHONES
FREE DELIVERY
IN HONOR OF THE SOLDIER BOYS
Basket Dinnar and Patriotic Float'
int at Old Louisville
Naxt Saturday
The citizens of Louisville are plan¬ ning a basket dinner and patriotic meeting for next Saturday, Septem¬ ber 1, in honor of the one hundred and eighteen selected soldiers of Clay County, the members of Company "L" and the veterans of both the Civil and Spanish-American wars.
At noon a basket dinner wilt be held on the picnic grounds adjoining town, to which every one is Invited to bring their dinner and participate. Tables will be furnished, and aspeclal table will beset for the soldier boys.
Following tlie dinner a patriotic program will be given, which will in¬ clude addresses, and vocal and in¬ strumental music. An Invitation has been extended to all the bands In the county to Ite present. Lieutenant- Governor Oglesby has been Invited to attend and make an address.
The Louisville people are making extensive arrangements for the .atfair.
and promise a good, wholesome, patri¬ otic time to those who come.
Glimpats of Nany Lands
The Opera Program this week Is a pleasing variety of scenes and occu¬ pations; Appeallngllttle Mae Murray, a slave In South Africa; Handsome Klllott Dexter, In London society; Brave Dustin Farnum, a true son of the "Emerald Isle;" Fighting Eddie Polo, In Old Mexico; Versatile Mrs. Vaanon Castle, a daughter of the U. S.A.; Shortle Hamilton, a Wester.ier. In addition tiie World's News reels and Travel Pictures. Vou never can tell where the comedies will hail from but wliat's the difference just so they make us laugh and forget the "grouch."
Fur details of program see local page.
TIIF: one griMt (|uestlon Is Mow long will the war lasf? And the next Is for shoe men—What's going toliap- pen to shoe prices, now and later? And nolwdy knows the ansjver to either ((iiestlon.
We can only guess about the war; and anybody's guess Is as good asours. Yours Is as good as anyones.
As for shoe prices, you know already what they are. Since the war began, three years ago, tliere has been one advance after another and prices are now at the highest point. Sometimes it has seemed as tf prices couldn't go any higher; we have felt that way at times. Sometimes it seems as If tiiey must recede. Hut tliey didn't; the steady relentless advance has gone on and we lielleve that the upward ten¬ dency will continue.
WILL  IIISTOKV REPEAT?
We wish we could assure you that prices bave reached their highest point; we don't believe It. As long as the war continues, the pressure of these advances will continue. It is said that during the CI7il War the price of good shoes went as hlgii as $30 a pair; and the Civil War was a small matter compared with the pres¬ ent conflict.
It Is not likely tliat Civil War prices will t>e reached, but If the war goes on, it is our belief that we shall reach a point wliere present prices will seem low. This opinion Is based on the repetition of history.
The consumption and destruction of leather in war times is enormous; the replacement of cattle slaughtered for food ts Inadequate to keep up the sup¬ ply of hides; and the result Is a con¬ stantly increasing consumption and a constantly decreasing supply. These two forces pulling against each other must produce higher prices due to scarcity of leather.
OUR POUCY
Here are aome of the things we have set out to do. We cannot prevent prices from going up, but we can do
something in our buslne.ss that can be applied as a help to you.
We shall render to our customers the most ellicient service possible. We shall reduce our line tothe small¬ est po,sslble number of styles without Interfering with the growth of the bu¬ siness; this is good business and also a patriotic duty. The government has asked iiianiifacturers to do It; also we shall keep imr stock up.
So far as prices are concerned, we Intend to sell shoes at prices based on cost. We are always large buyers of SHOES. At any time our purchases are Important enough to give us all of the advantages, whatever tliey may be, of the lowest prices. We sell shoes on the basis of what the SHOES cost; and while many times the price of SHOES we have just bought advan* ces heavily just after we have pur¬ chased, we sell on the purchase price, not on the market price. We think you get the Idea clearly. OUALITY STANDARD MAINTAINED
One thing has been most gratifying to us, and that Is the way In which our customers have sUxxl by us tn our policy of maintaining the P. A. MEYER quality standard, tn spite of the high price period we are now passing through. We SELL shoes of leather: no shoddy or substitutes. Not one of our customers has ofTered an objection to this policy, in force for T W E N T Y-O N E years. Many MERCHANTS have yielded to this temptation ; hut we stand steady for P. A. MEYER Iiuality; and our cus¬ tomers have supported us.
IT HELPS YOU. TOO !
We are grateful to our custsmers for their loyal support during these unprecedented times; and especially for the sound business wisdom they show tn helping us to maintain the P. A. MEYER standard quality.
G. H. Broadwell,who used to collab¬ orate with "Q" Fllson at the print¬ ing trade, and for awhile foremantzed tn the Record olflce, returned to Flora, Tuesday, for a few weeks. He has been following the "profesh" In Chicago the past summer. Mr. Broadwell expects to remove to a farm he owns near SprlngHeld, Mo., and wtth his sister will make that section of country his future home.
Sam Stanfurd (not of the county seat, although he looks like a twin brother of the ex-county clerk,) was about town, Friday, transacting busi¬ ness. He said .be was making his preparations to go to Canada to cut wheat.
Hrs. Horace Moore and son George beverlyl of Benton, 111., are visiting Mrs. >foore's mother, Mrs. Edith Sapp. and sister. In this city. Tliey will remain here for tlie Fair.
HOGS SOLD THIS WEEK
at $19.75 cwt. on FOOT.    (They may be higher than this before this advertisement is printed.)
This makes the price of Fresh Pork Cuts almost pro¬ hibitive in a retail way. We are still handling some pork cuts for those who want to pay the price.
On the other hand we have been able to reduce our price on all BEEF CUTS during the past week. Our price on Beef Boils, Beef Roasts, Beef Steaks, Etc.,
are the cheapest that we have been able to offer the trade for several months.
We are using home killed beef exclusivel'^ and we are buying nothing but young fat steers and heifers
thus insuring us the best quality of meat obtainable.
Call us up for beel tongues, hearts, liver, etc. We don't have these items all the time but we do have them as often as we butcher.
FLORA CASH STORE