The Somerset reporter., 1905-07-20
Patronizing Home Dealers

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The following article from the Mower
County transcript, published at Austin.
Minnesota, applies with equal force to
this section of the country:
Now, before you nail another post
office order CT expess order 70 help
build up firm IN Chicago or some other
large city at the expense Of home dealers.
think Of these things and give Your
local merchant and friend chance any
way.
We could quote numerous instan-
ces where persons actually lose IN
money as well as in quality in trading
with these outside department stores
a lady IN Waseca county recently sent
To one OF the large department stores
for a pair Of shoes, sending Sl.G9 with
her order When the shoes came there
we're freight charges of 35 cents. which
she paid. After she had taken the shoes
home she found they did not fit, SO she
repacked them back By express. the
charges being 35 cents, which she paid
After a few days different pair of shoes
came to her by express the charges bling
50 cents, which she paid She took
the shoes home and found TO her
dlsmay that did not fit either. She
had now paid out for the shoes 81 81,
and did not feel like giong to the ex
pense OF sending them back second
time. She finally concluded to try
and exchange them with one of the
home dealers. The next time she came
TO town she took the shoes to a aseca
/ local shoe store and requested the priv
lege of exchanging them for pair that
would fit her. This request WAS, of
course, refused, and to sid 10 ne1
dlsmay of the whole transaction the
/ local dealer showed her shoes that were
equal, If not superior 10 the pair she
had paid the mail order house 81 80
for, which he had been selling right
along for 81 so. Unless the unfortunate
woman can find lady friend who will
take them off her hands, she will be
out 81 "a, and all she will have to show
for the expenditure will be a pair of
shoes she cannot wear. 1t is safe L.
say that hereafter this lady will do her
trading at home. This is only one
instance of multitudes We hear little
OF them because in dealing with out
side concerns there is generally not
much chance to get justice when
swindled In what you buy.
The catalogue houses certainly are
not in business for their health, and
they must cut quality when they make
prices that every one knows are too low
for profits. A travelling man, the other
day, told us of an experince be had
/ with large catalogue house He is
travelling for an implement firm. He
says that in taking an order for barrel
carts for farmers, a low price was
demanded, with the remark Put in
any old stock you please. We sell to
farmers and they'll never kick on what
they buy of us. They're too far off 3"
/ The result, no doubt, was in turning out
lot of carts with possible pine axles
and sappy wood, bur all nicely painted
! to catch the trade of unwise buyers
An article which certain catalogue
house sells back to the farmers for
eighty cents, is made right in Austin
and sold for thirty cents at a good
profit TO the manufacturer. One
hundred per cent, would make the
price only sixty
livery dollar spent away is dollar
loss to Mower county Don't forget
/ il.
Mower county dollars means Mower
county prosperity Don't forget it.
Mower county prosperity is our
business. 1t is up TO US. Don't for.
get it
The catalogue houses never return
dollar to Mower county. Don't for
get it.
A catalogue honse never fixed road
or built a bridge in Mower county,
Don't forget it.
The pennywis5 policy never made
man rich. Don't forget it. Ii will
make him the secret laughing stock
of his neighbor though. Don't for
get IT,
Every body knows who is building
up Mower county with good old Mower
county dollars, and who is building VI
some other county with Mower county
dollars; it cannot be kept secret
Don't forget it.
We wish to reason together with oul
readers a bit about business We
wonder, sometimes, if you are care
full reader of the Transcript, not only
the local and general news and articles
which we are always SO glad to publish
relating to the various stock and crop
problem of the farm, but also our
advertising columns as well.
We are moved to speak of this be
cause the express agents, the railroad
freight agents and the postoftice de-
partment assert that many thousands
of dollars are sent out Of Mower county
every month to pay for all kinds q
merchandise, bought from Chicago and
other large cities, which are gradually
but surely sucking the financial life
blood out of the smaller towns ard
cities of the state After q careful
study Of the value of goods and prices
quoted each week in the Transcript
by Auttin merchants and those If other
towns of Mower county, We wonder
if our readers who send their money
away to build up large ceuters, are
not making a greviOus mistake.
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