Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-09-30

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thoroughly cleanest, properly ironed
and delivered promptly on time. Th,
Riverside Steam laundry takes care O
rush work in fine shape, as I Car
testify. and also does family washings
They pay particular attention tt
woolens, guaranteeing not to shrinl
them in the process of laundering
Work called for and delivered"
Deacon Titefist continued to growl
and was heard to mutter that the
"home man has no mortgage on me. >
Hon. Thomas Jones concluded te
administer a Knockout blow.
"May be not," Mr.. Jones retorted
"But who pays taxes to keep ur com
munity expenses? Who's the first
man you strike with a subscription
list but the home merchant? Who
helps you keep up the schools, churches
and charities? The catalogue house
OF Catchem & Doem, or men like
the johnson s. Hill Company? And
yet you'll propose to send away for
shoes when you should know you can
get better quality for the money right
at home. That's blindness, deacon.
Here's johnson & Hill Company
carrying an elegant stock of the latest
styles of the best made shoes in
creation, and you ask me to ignore
it and take a dead sure chance of
getting soaked by a concern that
never spends cent here. Deacon,
you insult my intelligence"
lone Of the queerest things in the
question OF home trade" said Hon.
Thomas Jones, sis the tendency of
citizens to injure their own grain
market. Take the matter of flour.
Here's the Grand Rapids Milling
Company that manufactures all grades
OF the most superb flour-every good
houSekeeper in the community will
admit that she never had any -four
better than this company's Victoria
and Sunbeam brands-yet some
citizens order from their grocer -four
made in other states. Occasionally q
farmer, who expects the mill to buy
his wheat and other grain, and pay
the highest market price, uses foreign
made flour. A first class flour mill,
like the Grand Rapids Milling Com
pany's which pays to the farmers
$3.50, 1000 year for grain, brings them
to Grand Rapids from q wide terri
tory, who otherwise would trade
elsewhere. Business men especially
should encourage such an enterprise
by selling and using it's products.
II like to 90 to headquarters when
I buy pompously asserted Deacon
TitefiSt.
"Do you send to Washington for
postage stamps? asked Mr.. Jones. II
tell you that the retailer in Grand
Rapids can sell to you as cheaply as
the catalogue house in the big city,
and he is here to back up his goods
and correct mistakes. Take the dry
goods and notion department OF
johnson & Hill Company for example.
They buy in the best markets. They
know how to buy close. They are
alert to meet all competition. Their
dry goods, coats, furs, suits, skirts,
ETC., have the guarantee of an honor
able firm, If they are not head
quarters for low prices and square
dealing. l don't know what the term
means" The Johnson g. Hill Com
pany's basement bargains are a great
saving to the housekeeper. A thou
sand and one household necessities
are here to be found. A little money
buys lot Of goods in basement
bargains.
II have noticed a somewhat general
belief among my young lady friends
said Miss Makepeace Cheviot, the
fashionable dressmaker and member
Of the church choir, "that the fact OF
having photograph made In a large
city enhances its artistic value, and
adds to the social prestige of the
sitter. According to my ideas this is
a phase of human weakness that
should be promptly discouraged. With
an artist OF such perfect knowledge OF
photograph making as Oswald P.
Mcneil in this community, there is
no possible Justification for going
away from home for photographs,
Mcneil, OF the east side, Is right up.
to-date In all the latest effects to be
secured In perfect photography, and
then his prices are less for high class
work than is charged in larger cities y
''The most amazing proposition
have struck lately" volunteered the
Hon. Tom, sis an offer of the mail
order houses to supply monuments
and gravestones. / had the curiosity
to investigate at the Wood and
Waushara County Marble and Granite
Works. Weeks s. Weeks, proprietors
Front street. east side, and am salts
| fed that the home dealer can sell any
grade OF marble or granite at the
catalogue house price list, and save
the purchaser materially on freight
and cost Of placing In the cemetery
More than this: Here you get, as ".
all know by observation, artistic
work with names spelled correctly
whereas the work OF the Catchem 8
Doem mail order houses is always Oul
of proportion and aboundS In errors