Reports of the Internal Revenue Officer, D. B. HEINER, show that the stogie factory of B. M. MCCARTNEY has made and sold 1,337,400 stogies in the current year. He has used 15,364 pounds of tobacco and has paid a revenue for the same of $4,012.20. The cost for making is $3.50 per thousand for the medium grades and more for the higher priced, so that the wages paid easily reach $5,000 per year. Lately they are running at $126 per week. He has paid for leaf tobacco within the year $2,558.24. A factory that pays $5,000 per year in wages is worth while, and, with apologies to Mr. MCCARTNEY whose modesty is well known, it can be said that the success of this flourishing business id due to the enterprise and rustling proclivities of its proprietor, and the quality of the goods he manufactures. A MCCARTNEY Stogie is known throughout the surrounding towns to be made of the best stock that can be furnished for the price and the demand for them will shortly require a larger factory. A clean, lasting stogie made of pure first quality tobacco leaf is a luxury to those who have formed the execrable habit, and, that they are made here a little nearer to perfection than anywhere else in the Pittsburg district, is the opinion of an increasing number of smokers.

<The cost for making is $3.50 per thousand for the medium grades and more for the higher priced,> If 1,000 stogies cost $3.50 to make - I wonder what the cost to purchase just 1 was? Sounds like a good profit. (I miss the smell of stogies, as my dad used to smoke the little black ones he called Italian stogies. hmmm this has brought back some memories - dad smoked pipe, stogies, cigars, chewed tobacco; I am told his mother (a farm girl from WV, whose parents were Scottish immigrants) chewed tobacco and smoked a corn cob pipe - I have an old corn cob pipe, don't know if it was dads or grandmas.) Thanks for the trip down memory lane on this Thanksgiving holiday. Dad passed away on Thanksgiving Day in 1981. Ruth