The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-10-14
Spend Your Money at Home.

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An exchange gives the follow.
ing ten reasons why people should
spend their money at4home. J They
ale so forcible and we'll put that
we cannot refrain from presenting
them to our readers, hoping that
they will give them the considera-
ton which they deserve:
LIST. It Is your home; you connot
improve it much. by taking money
away to spend or invest.
%. There issno way of Improving
a place 80 much as by encouraging
good merchants, good schools, and
good people to settle among you
and this cannot be done unless you
spend your money at home.
Sd. Spend your money at home,
because there is where you generally
get it. It is your duty.
4th. Spend yoarsinoney at home,
because when it is necessary for
you to get credit, it is of your town
merchants you have generally to
|get it and they must wait for the
money. Therefore when you have
the cash in hand spend it at home.
9th. Spend your money at home.
1t will make better merchants of
your merchants: they can and will
keep better assortmenis and sell at
lower rates than If the only business
they can do is what is credited out,
while the money goes to other pla-
ces.
9th. Spend your money at home.
You may have sous growing up who
will some day be the best merchants
in town. Help lay the foundation
of them now. 1t is a duty. 1t may be
your pride in after years to say: "By
my trading at the store l got my son
position as clerk, and now he is a
proprietor" Then you will think it
hard if your neighbors spend their
money out of town. Sc. the exam
Eple now.
7th. Spend your money at home.
FSet the example now. Buy your
dry goods, groceries, meats and
everything at home, and you will
see wonderful change in a short
time in the business outlook of the
place; therefore deal with your home
merchants.
/ Sth. Spend your money at home.
What do you gain by going Off
Count the cost; see what you could
have done at home by letting your
merchant have the cash. Strike a
balance and see if you would not
have been just as well off, besides
helping your merchant.
/ 9th. Spend your money at home.
Your merchants are your neighbors,
your friends; they stand by you
in sickness-are your associates !;
without your trade they cannot
keep your business. No stores, then
no banks, no one wanting to buy
property TO settle on and build up
your place. ae
10th. Merchants should do their
advertising at home. They should
get their bill-heads, circulars, cards
letter-heads, envelopes, and all their
printing at home, of their own news
paper, who aid them in many ways
aud advertise them hundreds OF
times without any pay whatever
Merchants should set an example to
their customers by patronizing lib
! orally their home newspapers. Men
and woman are initiative animals
and are prone to follow examples
set them. How can merchants ex
pect their neighbors to trade with
them if they set the example of go
ing away from home for their prin
ting and advertisingY Let mer
chants and people all patronize
home enterprise, and home industry
and home trade. So shall they al
be prosperous and happy.
/ The first Masonic lodge of Jerus
allen is beautiful illustration o