Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-01-04
Clothing, furnishings, Hats, Shirts Trunks.


Clothing, Furnishings, Hats, Shirts, Trunks.
We will give you the benefit Of our 20 years experience
and an honest guarantee that will sell you goods for
just half the profit asked elsewhere OF course we ex
pect to come IN contact with those unreliable
pulous dealers who will any kind of caprap
devices in order pull the wool your For the
past months we have been selling clothing the
lot numbers the same identical cloth, patterns and
coor and actually bought from the manufacturer
TOR less money than neghbors have actually paid for
tneh Juf long experience as buyer. backed by our
superior knowledge of values places beyond the
OF our competitors 1t is an actual fact that people
can never be buyers. 1t lack of confidence dull to
grasp and slow to catch such people invariably make
complete failures buyers 1t everyone that is
tended for particular business You find some who
make success at preaching, some who make
tui lawyers others are successful farmers who
successul note men, others who make complete hzze
as clothing buyers and who do not know the first prnc
pie OF how to conduct mercantile establishment There
nose VINO care Tor nothing just 50 they succeed
IN making sale They think of the false repre-
sentatlon Not long since certain clothing
Guy SOFA an old gentleman suit of clothes, which
three sizes too small for him. When he returned it to be
esohangfd Tor one ms SIZE he actually gave him the
actually did it the second time and upon his return the
third Tune "a distance Of niles he tried to force the
ora man 70 pay hlm difference of $500 for the
change for another suit of the kind Of goods
snow me the men or fir that honest in their bust
ness we VIII show the successful man. The small winter
stock which we have in will be sold this
month at actual cost those who have put off buying
winter apparel thinking they could stand the cold win
ter blast now have and opportunity cothe themselves
at price far below their expectation We will give
you clothing that no man offer for the prices
our child can buy from just cheap as you your
SELF We wish to impress upon your minds that we allow
no misFepresentaons or inatention at store Any
one reporting the above to will receive handsome
present, as well as our many thanks Our
Merchant Tailoring Department
Is one of the principle branches of our business We
nave made more suits to order the past fall than
before Every suit made has been perfect fit everv
body pleased The best part for the consumer his
pocketpo0k contains more money today than if he had
bought elsewhere
Lit Is our intention sometime in future have
planted right here i'll Martnsburg the handsomest de-
paTtment store this side Of New York city Our aim is
Is 70 manufacture all OF pants, whereby
give employment 10 from 100 to 200 hands, We see
IN the dim, distant furenot far distan-when the lit
Tie mountain town Of Martnsburg will be known the
queen City Of West Virginia the metropolis of
the South.
Like Of our leading business men, Mr. j w Bishop,
we think we will reach the thirty thousand mark
long. Encourage the Business Mems Association Put
your shoulder to the Wheel give her push it matters
not how small It we all will lend helping hand to the
improvement Loan and Building Association well as
the Business Mems Association accomplish what
we have started out to do We win do more before
stated just in big pants factory Make up mind
that you not going stand by and few doing
the work that the entire city and county should help
Let the citizens call public meeting and all 90 TO the
pine hills and gather all hemoss that had Get the
old fegy ideas the old mossbacks together and bury
them deep that they will have 20 city
OF Hagerstown in order to rise again. We have made
bold cutting plain which cold facts
Now do you want to help establish here iii Marfinsburg
just such business house and factory we have
Us and your part will be finished. Remember you will
be repaid ten-fOl
j. f. THOMPSON & BRO.
" MODERN CLoTHIERs
Is QUEER STREET hIkRTInSBURG ".
Lss n Ihanpsen cAs Thompson and Bsnj 1hnpson sasms.