Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-01-18

that would credit to any city It shall be one strict
ly upon business principles Allow all goods to be
changed, and in case the purchaser is satisfied,
money refunded. Our wonderful success in the past
months has surpassed sanguine expectations.
You buy from your
Clothing Furnishings, Hats Shirts, Trunks.
We will give you 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 in contact with those unreliable
pulous dealers who will resort to any kind of caprap
devices order pull the wool your eyes For the
past months we have been selling clothng the
lot numbers, the Identical CLOTH patterns
coors and actually bought from the manufactures
for less money than neghbors have actually paid for
them Our long experience buyer. backed by
superior knowledge of values places beyond the
of competitors 1t actual fact that people
never be buyers. It is lack of confidence dull to
grasp, and slow to catch such people invariably make
complete failures buyers 1t is everyone that
tended for a particular business. You find who
make success at preaching, who make success
full lawyers Others successful farmers who
successful hotel men, others who make complete fzze
clothing buyers and who do first prlnci-
pie of how to conduct mercantile establishment. There
are those who care for nothing just they succeed
in making sale They think of the false repre-
sentation. Not long since certain clothing
city sold an old gentleman suit of Clothes which
three sizes small for him. When he returned it to be
exchanged for his SIZE he actually gave him the
same suit without the old gentlemans knowledge He
actually did it the and upon his return the
third time Ga distance of miles he tried the
old man to pay him difference of $500 for the
change for another suit of the kind of goods You
show me the men fir that honest their bust
ness we will show the successful man. The small winter
stock which have in our tore will be sold this
MONTH at actual cost those who have pui 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 offer for the same prices
Your child can buy from just cheap you your
SELF We wish to impress upon your that
no misrepresentation or inatenton at Amy
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 business We
have made more suits to order the past fall than
before Every suit made has been perfect fit every
body pleased The best part for the consumer that his
pocketbook contains more money today than if he had
bought elsewhere.
1t is intention sometime the near future to have
planted right here i'll Martnsburg the handsomest de-
IS to manufacture all of pants whereby
give employment to from 100 hands re-
IN the DIM, distant future-not far dstantwhen the lit
tie mountain town of Martinsburg 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 Ii we all will lend helping hand to the
Improvement, Loan and Building Association well
the Business Mems Association, accomplish what
have started out to do. We will do before
stated just in big pants factory Make up your mind
that you not going to stand by and few doing
the work that the entire city and county should help
Let the citizens call public meeting and all the
hills and gather all the that be had the
old fogy IDEAS the old mossbacks together and bury
them deep that they will have 90 sister city
bold cutting plain statements which cold facts
Now do you want to help establish here in Marnsburg
such business house. and pants factory have
been talking abouts If give lift by dealing with
and your part win be finished. Remember you will
be repaid tenfold
j. r. THOMPSON & BRO.
!" MODERN CLOTHlERs =
g QUEEN STREET mARTlNSBURG, N.
Glass; Thompson and Benz Thompson statesmen