Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-01-11

we Will give the benefit of years experience
and an honest guarantee that will sell you goods for
just half the profit asked elsewhere. Of course ex
pect to come in contact with those unreliable unscru
pulous dealers who will resort any kind of captrap
devices III order pull the wool your eyes, For the
past months we have been selling clothing the same
lot numbers the Identical CLOTH patterns and
colors and actually bought the manufacturer
Tor less money than our neghbors have actually paid for
Them Our long experience buyer, backed by our
superior knowledge of values places beyond the reach
OF our competitors 1t actual that some people
can never be buyers 1t is lack of confidence dull to
grasp and slow to catch such people invariably make
complete failures buyers 1t not everyone that is
tended for particular business You find some who
make success at preaching, who make success
fu lawyers others farmers some who are
successful hotel men, others who make complete fzze
as clothing buyers and who do the prlnci
pie OF how to conduct mercantile establishment There
are those who care for nothing just they succeed
IN making sale They think the false repre-
sehtauon MOI long since certain clothing in our
city sold an old gentleman suit of clothes which was
three sizes too small for HIM When he returned it to be
exchanged FOR one his size, he actually gave him the
same SUIT without the old gentleman S knowledge He
actually did it the second time upon his return the
third time "a distance of - miles, he tried to force the
old man to pay him difference of So 90 for the ex-
change Tor another suit of the kind goods You
show me the fir that are honest IN their bus-
will show the successful man The small winter
STOCK winch we now have in will be sold this
month"; at actual cost those who have mn, off h,v;no
winter apparel thinking they could stand the cold win
yer oast now nave and opportunity clothe themselves
al a pree tar below their expectation. We will give
cotnng that no man offer for the same prices
our child buy from Just as chean As vo, vo,r
M wish 70 impress upon your minds that allow
one reporting the above to will receive a handsome
present, as well as our many thanks Our
derchant Tailoring Department
Is one of the principle branches of our business We
nave MADE more suits to order the past fall than ever
DeIore Every suit made has been perfect fit everv
Dody pleased The best part for the consumer is that his
Pocketoook contains more money today than If he had
bought elsewhere.
1t is our intention sometime in the future to have
planted right here Martinsburg the handsomes de-
partment store this side of New York city Our aim is
Is 70 manufacture all of pants whereby we can
give employment to from 100 200 hands We can see
"a Tue ul distant futllrenot far dstant-when the lit
We mountain town of Martinsburg will be known as the
queen CITY OF West Virginia the metropolis of
Like one of our leading business men, Mr. j. W Bishop
we THINK we will reach the thirty thousand mark ere
long encourage the Business Mems Association. Put
your shoulder to the wheel give her push matters
not how small IL we all will lend helping han. 70 the
improvement Loan and Building Association as well as
the BUSINESS Mems Association, accomplish what
we have started out to do We will do more as before
stated just IN big pants factory Make up your mind
the work that the entire city and county should help
Let the citizens call apublic meeting and all 60 to the
pine hills and gather all the can had the
Old fogy ideas, the old mossbacks together and bury
them SO deep that they will have 20 to our sister city
OF Hagerstown III order rise again We have made
some bold cutting, plain statements which are cold facts
Now Go you want to help establish here IN Marfinsburg
just such business house, and factory az we have
been talking about? If give lift bv dealing with
rs and your part viii be finished Remember Won win
be repaid ten-fold.
j. r. THOMPSON q BRO.
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9 QUEEN STREET MlRIlNSBuRG. Y.