Sistersville oil review. [volume], January 26, 1898, Page 4, Image 4

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Weekly Oil Review!
formerly&tyler democrat,
j.H, McCOY, Editor and prop'r.SistersYille.f. Va
SUBSCRIPTION, a months, in Advance, $1.00
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Kntered at the P. O. at Sistersville as Second
class mail matter.
WEDNESDAY JAN. 26 , 1898.
There are no new developments
in the county seat, and every one is
anxiously awaiting the final conflict
which can not be long averted.
There is an epidemic of suicides
at the national capital just now,
but unfortunately none of the con
gressmen seem to have caught the
contagion. f
No wonder Dr. Talmage can say
such nice things about sailing over
the sea of matrimony when he is so
infatuated with it that he takes tbe
third cruise.
Mrs. Lease has gone into the life
insurance business. The man whom
she tackles is a goner from the start.
She will certainly do a land office
business, if she goes at it like she
does things political.
One of these days the congress of
the United States will run away
from the bosses, and we will have
some action that will do Cuba more
good than all the charity that is now
going that way.
One hundred and twenty-five
torn neck-ties and the prospect of a
duel seems to have been the extent
of the damage done in the recent
riot in the French chamber ot dep
uties. They are getting in good
shape in the vineyard country to
have modern political conventions.
Uncle Sam's men of war are grad
ually nearing the Cuban shores, but
are yet too far away to exert any
moral influence for the protection
of American residents on that
island. After a lot of them have
lost their lives at the hancs of a
Spanish mob, the war vessels will
reach Havana, and the regular
course of diplomacy will be resorted
to for damages for the sacrificed
lives. Such is the protection Amer
icans in other lands receive from
their home government.
There seems to be a ray of light
coming to the miners of this coun
try from the recent meetings in
Chicago. We trust that the reports
may be fully realized, for if there
is a class of hard working people
in this nation whose condition
should be improved, it is the min
ers. They work harder and under
more unpleasant circumstances tor
less money than any other group
of American toilers. The people
should pay more for their coal, and
the addition should go straight to
the tables of the miners, which are
never over supplied, even in pros
perous times.
Something over three months
have elapsed since the "markets of
the world" have "justified" Joseph
Seep, the Standard Oil company's
purchasing agent, to pay but 65 cts.
per barrel for producers' credit bal
ances of Pennsylvania oil.
The arrogance with which the
price is dictated, and the excuses
rendered for its remaining at such
a low level is a mockery to the in
dividual rights and manhood of oil
producers, regardless of locality.
In the upper oil fields the con
tinued low prices is driving many
producers to bankruptcy, and in
the lower oil fields they are fast be
ing reduced to slaves of the monop
oly, and their properties are being
reduced in value to such an ex- 1
OP THB
MERITS
-OF
AVER'S
Cherry Pectoral
would include the cure of
every form of disease
which affects the throat;
and lungs. Asthma, Croup*.
Bronchitis, Whooping
Cough and other similar
complaints have (when
other medicines failed)
yielded to
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
tent that many are obliged to sell
them to the agents of the Standard
at a sacrifice, and much below their
real value.
Field conditions do not warrant
the low price, and the markets for
refined oil certainly do not "justify
them, notwithstanding Joseph
Seep's self-explanatory letters and
published statements to the con
trary. It is a commendable and
noteworthy fact that just such per
iods of depression as now exists in
the produciug business, has been
the means of arousing the producers
to action which will afford them
protection in their property inter
ests.
The project of organizing the
different independent companies
originated during times of very
great depressions, and at times
when the oil producers were very
poor and driven to dire extremities.
From these independent compa
nies have grown the great pipe line
system which they now control.
This system of pipe lines has been
steadily pushed forward in spite of
oppositions and obstructions from
the Standard Oil company, until
now it is a perfect system extend
ing far into the interior of the Penn
sylvania oil fields and within a fe\%
miles of the seaboard. It is the only
rival of the Standard Oil company
that has been able to withstand its
merciless attacks. It is the beliet
of the managers of these pipe lines
that a more thoroughly perfect sys
tem can be made and a more per
manent rival of the great monopoly
be established by pushing the sys
tem on to the newer and more pro
lific fields of West Virginia.
The Review is of the opinion
that nothing can exceed the im
portance of the full success of this
project to the oil pioducing inter
ests of West Virginia. In the five
years of warfare which the Stand
ard Oil company has waged against
the independent pipe line interests
and the independent oil producers,
the managers of these interests
have strictly adhered to the one
proposition ? advance. It is more
with this purpose that they com
mit their enterprises to the sub
scription of the producers and roy
alty owners of this prolific territory.
It should not be lost sight of that
every barrel of producers' oil run
into the pipe line system of the
Standard Oil company increases
their wealth by a pipeage revenue
of 75 cents per barrel (including
local and seaboard) and every barrel
of oil directed from the Standard
Oil company to the lines of the in
dependent iuterests increases the
strength and capital of those enter
prises.
Measured with the hopes andde
sires of the sanguine and ardent,
the achievements of the independ
ents may not have reached the high
pitch of their expectations, but
when the magnitude of the move
ment entered into,the obstacles and
difficulties which they have had to
encounter, the power and unscrupu
lous character of the Standard op
position with which they have
had to contend is considered, the
work during their short existence
has certainly brought about results
that should satisfy and encourage
every reasonable mind.
Producers everywhere have rec
ognized that without these interests
they must have been plunged into
the depths of apathy and despair,
but now they feel they have some
thing to fight for and something,
which if they can successfully sup
port will free them from their con
dition of servitude to the onipotei t
monopoly.
The gage of battle has now been
thrown down and the whole world,
which at first looked on with curi
osity, is now interested in extend
ing sympathy and support to the
weaker but determined indepen
dents. If then ever there was an
enterprise that needed encourage
ment and support for their un
daunted pluck, unslackened zeal,
and undiminished effort, it is the
independent pipe line interests, and
it is gratifying that so many of our
producers are responding to their
call lor financial aid that they may
extend their lines of battle to the
fields where they are most needed.
Croker has complete control of
Greater New York, but still longs
for some recognition from the titled
aristocracy of the other country,
and will go back with his bank ac
count and his horses to cringe for
notice from some of the blue blood
ed sports of the English Isles. We
thought that Croker had a little
sense of the proprieties, but it seems
that he is utterly destitute of such a
commodity.
There seemed to be a little timi
dity among the would-be municipal
officers about launching their
booms. It is hard to tell just what
the people are going to do this
spring and perhaps this causes the
hesitation among the aspirants.
Jos. Dome & Co, I
I The quality of whatever you may
cIioosh from this store of nearly
sixty departments is so w?-ll
knowD that quality comment
is unnecesr-ai y. We will there
fore direct >ou to some inter
esting prices and values made
possible b> our
JANUARY
CLEARANCE
SALES.
which are now goinj: on and
will continue throughout the
month.
Fancy Colored Suitings
Thnt were $1.00 and $1.25 at
this store of lowest price- at
68c a yard
Another lot of Fancy Suit
ing tl. at were 65c to 85c a
yard, will be cleared at a
special price of
38c a yarn.
Black Dress Goods
Fanco weaves that were selling here
I tofore at 75c, S5C Bnd |i.oo the yard all
? go into this January sale at
6oe a yard.
Also other remarkable values in fine
Black Dress Goods at
25C. 35c- and 5?c a yard.
I Silks.
The values iti Silks during this Jan
uary Clear. net Sale are the greatest
known, Si'ks that under or
dinary circumstances sell at 75c, 85c
and $1 a yard for
55C a yard.
I At times when impossible to come, write
to our Mail Order Department and
we will make the selections for you,
giving you the same advantages as
the customer at our counter.
Pennn Queue,
PiUsburg.
COUNTY SEAT BUDGET
Middlebourne, Jan. 25, 1897.
The old town has settled down to
its normal temperature and mud,
and ail is quiet along the Potomac.
The "Bastile" has twelves in
mates now. Deputy Ireland brought
two in yesterday, C. C. -Hays and
his brother on a capias.
The storm, Sunday, wrecked sev
eral boarding houses and two or
three speakeasies in the Elk Fork
field, blowing them off their founda
tions.
Charles Carpenter met with a very
painful accident. While driving a
team for D. Morey & Son, near:
Wick, he accidentally stepped on 1
on a nail and it ran into his foot
just back of the big toe, making an
ugly wound nearly through his;
fopt. Hqjis much better and is able ,
tq walk about some.
Dr. Rymer is not much bettter I
Mrs. Clemenza Swan, who has
been confined to her bed for two
weeks with pneumonia, is much
better, and is now able to sit up.
The well on Wesley Weekly on
Muddy creek being drilled by Clint (
'I ? ?
Moore and others, has in the six
and-a-quarter pasing and will be
drilled in the last of the week. This
territory has never been tested, but
was always looked upon by old op
erators as good territory. One of
the oldest maps made by a Phila
delphia company years ago laid it ,
down as one of the places in Tyler j
county where oil would be found, j
On the same map Sistersville was !
marked as another oil field which 1
j
turned out to be true* We hope it;
will also be true of Muddy creek.
Clemenger, the jolly oil man,
has come back to the Hotel Morey I
after some weeks absence on busi- j
ness.
The Tyler county Star has j
changed owners. K. S. Boremau j
has sold out to Otho Barnes of this
place and it will be edited and pub
lished by the new firm of Smith St
Barnes. Mr. Boreman lias always
been a very conscientious editor and
well liked by his patrons. The new
owners are young men with energy
to spare and will keep the Star up
to date.
The Middlebourne bank will or
ganize February 5 and elect officers.
The Sistersville and Salem Rail
road company organizes January
29 and will be ready to push the
building: of the same We need the
road and let everybody put their
shoulders to the wheel and the road
will be a sure thing.
Consumption Positively C'nrtd.
Mr. R. B. Greeve, merchant, of
Chilhowie, Va., certifies that he
had consumption, was given up to
die, sought all medical treatment >
that money could procure, tried all
cough remedies he could hear of,
but got no relief; spent many nights
sitting up in a chair; wps induced
to try Dr. King's New Discovery,
and was cured by use of two bottles;
For past two years has beeil attend
ing to business and says Dr. King's
New Discovery is the grandest rem
edy ever made, as it has done so
much lor him and also for others in
bis community. Dr. King's New
Discovery is guaranteed for coughs,
colds and consumption. It don't
fail. Trial bottles free at D. A;
Hendershot's drug store.
??? *
It is rumored that O. W. O.
Hardman and Jas. Strickling are
out of the county on a trip to con
sult Randolph Mason concerning
the present trouble among the
county officials.
These entertainments rank with
the most meritorious ever placed
before the people. ? Wheeling Reg
ister. At Public School Hall, Fri
' day night.
McCOY BROS.
Make flistakes
Hs well as Others and like 0th*
ers we want help in correcting
them ?
?UR MISTAKE
WAS OF THIS NATURE:
Knowing that by remodeling our upstairs room, which we have done, we could
make room for wall paper, we purchased an unusually large lot ? Twenty-one Thou
sand Rolls ? and after our room was remodeled we found that it would not hold it all
by several thousand rolls. To make matters worse the manufacturers shipped nearly
all of it at once.
WHAT ARB WE T? D0?
We can sell it all at regular prices during the spring season, which means Aprrl
and May, but this is January. Would it not be better to sell some of'it at a very low
price ? thus getting your money and good will, and have more room? We think so, and
will make our first effort to correct the mistake on
Friday, Jan. 28th
When we will offer 2,000 Rolls of Paper (4 patterns) for which (as the borders
are not all here) we have selected borders that go with it nicely, and at a reduced price,
for only
ONE CENT A BOLT.
This means one cent a single bolt and we have match ceilings for every pattern
at the same price of one cent a bolt if yon want it. Now every roll of this paper is new
?just received a few days ago, and there's lots of it.
We have ouf first choice lot of Curtain Ends at the old price. Our Lace Curtains
for Spring are in part here and we have extended our line of them so as to include some
fine ones worth $8.00 and $10.00 a pair.
We arc expecting all kinds of nice Spring Goods in, this week, and our Dress
*
Goods may be ready by Friday for your inspection. The first Friday in February we
will have a sale >of White*Goods.
' YOURS TRULY,
McGOY BROS.
The Big Store Where The People Go.
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