The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
4 Warming.

The good citizens of Paw Paw seem
fated to become the dupes of some adj
venturer or Swindler, and the last cry
for justice rises from those individuals
who recently invested in ticket of
membership issued by the Interstate
Publishing Co, of Chicago whereby
they were promised 40 per cent off the
list price of all textbooks, including
the Chautauqua works.
Quite goodly number purchas
ed tickets, with the explicit un-
Outstanding that they desired them
for the latter books alone, and great
was the dismay of the agent, Mr..W. III.
Taylor, when two of our ladies received
with their books notification to for
ward $l.50 additional, as the discount
could not be allowed on Chautauqua
works. Mr.. Taylor, being straight
forward man, Immediately wrote the
house, reminding them that he had
acted according 10 their instructions in
including the G. l.. ). &. publications,
and requesting them either to live up
to the agreement or refund the price of
tickets. Thereupon this very reliable(D
firm denied having given him any such
directions, though, when Mr.. Taylor
iourneyed to the city and thrust beneath
the official nose their own written in
structions to that effect, they were com
PEELED To write letters generating him,
saying they trusted the discount on the
text books alone would be ample com
pensation for the membership fee
When the indignant Chautauquans de-
manded the return of their money they
were unable To elicit aught beside abu
sive epistles, except in one instance,
when II threat of legal proceedings re-
suited in regaining the money that had
been obtained under false pretenses.
Another class of our citizens was led
into the investment because of the
many school books that must be purchas
eel by the heads of families and the
treatment vouchsafed to them shows
still more plainly the unreliable charac-
ter of the famous Interstate agency.
a recital of the experience of two or
three of our business men will suffice
To prove our statement:
Joel ID. Monroe, register of deeds, in
fOrmes us that he sent an order for a
complete set of books for both the 9Th
and 18th grades of our school and, after
a very annoying delay, received barely
two readers and one geography, with
an intimation that they would probably
be able TO complete the list should he
see fit TO wait. Mr.. Monroe at once
countermanded the order and inn
mediately procured the books at G.. +.
Chappells book counter.
. Mr.. Monroe then sent request to
the Interstate publishing house for list
! price of several books not down in their
catalogue and. upon its receipt, found
the prices given in every instance to be
more than the retail price here. The
disguised gentleman then made one
final effort to derive some good from
his membership ticket, and opened ne
gotiations for Webster's Unabridged,
when he was told that they would posi-
lively give no figures nj all upon it.
l.. w. Osborne, firm of Conner &
Osborne, attempted to procure a COM
plete Eclectic Geography and Metcalf's
Language Lessons, but was informed
that they could not find the former in
the city, and did not believe there was
such book as the latter, for they had
never heard of il.