Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-28
HIT GRAFTON HARD.
How some Fake Advertisers Worked
the Smart Men of Grafton.
Grafton SentineI.

Grafton Sentinel.
Fake advertising schemes are in
Vulnerable, and it matters not how
often they are exposed every man
who comes along with his new plan
easily finds victims. And business
experience aud business sagacitv
are no proof against the biandish.
ments OF the smooth talking pro.
moter of the newest and best thing
out for business getting. Yet it
may be the veriest humbug and of
no real value whatever Grafton
business men have inst contributed
their quota to an advertising fake.
apparently for no other purpose than
to help some fellow along who makes
it his business to travel on his wits.
Two weeks ago two strangers from
some other state. who are working
West Virginia towns, dropped in
and made a canvass of our business
people, protesting to give each one
who would subscribe tor 80, 100 OF
200 copies OF their advertising sheet
at 3 cents copy write up. And
what is surprising there was scarce
ly business house n the town who
did not subscribe. There was to be
but one issue, and when it came out
there was nothing in all it's four
pages but the stereotvped write
up of Grafton merchants, in the
same old chestnuty style that has
done duty all over the STAGE, the pub
fishers simply changing the name
Of the firms in the different towns in
the same old ads. For compensa-
ton for the weeks time spent in
canvassing the town for the scheme
the pushers carried off from the town
some three hundred dollars cash
that will be spent somewhere else
and is just that much money taken
away from the home trade. vet we
will hear these same merchants com
planning about the. people sending
their money away from home for
goods they could just as well get at
home. These sheets printed and
distributed among our business PEG
pie have no subscribers among the
people who buy goods and the mer-
chants have no practicable way for
circulating them. And suppose they
send the bill poster or some one else
out to distribute the sheets, the
chances are that a few householders
will each get one copy from each of
the ninety or more OF the merchants
who got the write-up, the same cir
cular being duplicated that often in
one house. 1t being spring clean
ing time they would come in handy
to the house wife for the new car
pet. But seriously, it is strange in
deed, that travelling promoters of
such fake advertising schemes can so
readily come into community and
levy on its business men contribu-
ton Of three or four hundred dollars
and the money be laid down to them
with apparent willingness, while a
legitimate home plan of merit would
hicco Will ~ idVoi VI eHcOuldSe-
ment whatever. Neither of the To-
cal newspapers, with their much
larger circulation and with more than
three times the readers this adver-
Using sheet could possibly have, it
is strange To say, could not have
gotten the patronage given this abor
tive effort to reach the public eve.
The Sentinel, for the good of the
community and everybody, business
men and all, believes that the best
policy is to patronize home enter
prises and home merchants and keep
as much money in home circulation
as possible.