The billboard (Feb 1898)

6 THE BILLBOARD PROWLING PRUDES. i his time and attention to profitable: besides bill pos- ;e distributing ns much as' any more than a sieve. It will be knocked urally di out easily in the lower courts, where we the line understand it is already hong up. ' It is ters disc a. pity that the populace of Denver do not they can, in ordei Teel moved to institute a crusade against more bill pastin newspaper men. They have the choicest enough posting tc to engage their attention. All of the except to get the recent trouble over the bill boards " city was incited and sedulously su by the Denver press. Geo. P. Rpwell recently said that space ' are not tied hand and fool by association red tape rules, and accept business from on the dollar.' It is anybody who pays the price. They con- duct a special distributing department the honest distri- and have the highest DEATH OF J AS. H. STAATS. The Veteran BID Porter of Lockport, N. Ti Ha Pasted Away—Hf Did Not Long Survive Hii Friend CUylon. the past, as it w. Now it is the bill boards. The flashy lithographs stuck on some of the theatrical boards have inspired the local clergy, it is understood, to file com- plaint with the chief of police. He denies, however, that the ministers have done so. Anyhow whether this be true or not, it is a fact that the ministers, enthused by the resnlt of the effort they made during the last legislture to Bridgeport, Cokn.— A good (?) priest of the Roman Catholic Church incites his congregation to deeds of lawlessness and vandalism. The following clipping tells "Mile. Pettitoes, the renowned skirt dancer, with one foot pointed to XII of . the clock and the other at VI; 'Miss Celeste Monmorend, Queen of the Air,' a clerkship in the postotEcc In Uie year iSss Mr. Staats openen newsroom in the Arcade, and later move it to the building on Pine street, now i> cupied by Roar's market. On account. poor health be was cbliged to quit bus ness for two or three years, and sold 01 to William Scovel, spending those yea at Albion, where he had married his fir wife. He then returned to Lockport an re-established himself in the n THOS. F. KAIN, LC.LA.ofD. Trie Why of it. Among the theatrical profession he an ihe manager of the Hodge Opera Kous> Dion, who died si each, of Al- Catholic Church, at Fairfield, on The bill board is high and long and square in front of the church doors. Jerry Toomey put it np on his property, and the church people think he did so to spite them. Last Sunday rrjght the hill board was set on fire', but Jerry put out the fire. Just after one o'clock this morning several masked men attacked the board with axes, hit Mme. Maxiella on the jaw, cot off Miss Montmorend's finger, severed Mile. Pet ti toe's foot that pointed to XII. Now the theatrical manager who rented the board from Toomey looks to him for damages. Toomey is looking for the : children, a son, who died in infancy, a daughter, Mrs. Curt Black- ley, of Lockport, and a son, Lawrence D.. who at the time of his mother's death was adopted by his Uncle, Dr. Collins, of II posters. They 1 I hundreds of absolutely wasted, if ever an attempt all, and many cases where they found thousands of pieces from various firms stored away, and even some persons never took the matter from the freight office. Thus they are wary of all propositions made them from parties all over the coun- try, especially bill posters who, as a rule, posters has caused many If s depriving honest distributors of mil- is of pieces of matter annually. Hence : absolutely necessary for every distrib- that will that he : duty he ,d testimonials to all advertisers ince them beyond a doubt He. Furthermore, it is a He 111 brother, William H. Staata, of Newfane, and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah J. Richardson, of Newfane, and Mm, Harry C. He Collum, or Lockport. The funeral was held from the house. 1, MASS, is trying hard t where they think, they control the field and do as they please. The margin of profit in bill posting is much greater than in distributing (if pro- perly done), therefore the bill poster nat. ittached. but always give good, honest distributing, * • your bitterest enemy. Rev. W. E. Faber advertisements in the papers, but you can not get away from the billboards. Try to dodge one and you will run smack ur. against another. After this fa for the fortieth time, you, like else, will give in and gracefully acknowl-