Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-01-25

that it became necessary for me to
arrange with some one to carry nv
account over crop season. In fact,
it has not been more than year
since | found it necessary to run an
account for short time and / am
not one so forgetful of accommoda-
tions as to order from a catalogue
house and send them the money
with the order when our home mer-
chants have been good enough to ex-
tend credit to me when I needed it.
But cannot say this influence has
been the only one to cause me to
trade entirely at home. knew if
|, or any Of my neighbors, want to
buy something if they would only
go to to one Of our home merchants
and tell him what they wanted, he
will furnish it to us just as cheap as
we can get it from a catalogue
house. Now / don't mean he will
let us have frst-class goods at a
price We would pay a catalogue
house for second class goods, but /
mean that for the same class of
goods they will sell us just as cheap
as those other fellows. In figuring
the cost of goods from catalogue
house, we don't want to forget to
figure in the cost of sending the
money and paying the freight or
express. lit is anything liable to
need repairs, our home merchants
can get them for us but it is almost
| impossible to get them from cata-
logue house.
| can remember when one of our
neighbors met with loss Of nearly
everything he had on earth and
when we started out to take up a
collection for him every merchant
in our town, and in fact in three
towns round us, contributed some
thing. No one thought of asking a
r catalogue house to help out on this
: fund. Of course l can imagine
how much good it would have done
to have asked them to.
3 | am not philanthropist ane
: am frank to say if anything coulc
t be saved in the long run from buy.
ing from the catalogue houses,
might then think about it but I d,
not believe you save one cent.
g know it is mighty hard matter 70
S a home merchant to come out ever
e on sugar. When he sells me or an
of my neighbors a dollars worth
d must weigh up to dollars worth
Is but when any of us buy a hundre
or SO pounds from a catalogue hous
10 it can be just little short and W
2. think of course, it has sifted throug
the bag or something is the caus
of it and we let it go at that.
n l know Of one of my neighbol
~ buying a cook stove from a cats
y logue house. When the stove cam
= it looked just exactly like the pi,
.+ ture in the catalogue, in fact it we
= like it only it weighed about or
" half or two-thirds as much as I'll
= same size stove would if it had bee
bought from one of our hardwal
to men. My neighbor told me it ws
to the last thing he would ever bu
" away from home, because he kne
% he was stuck on the stove for it W,
n just like the picture and the fact
it being light weight stove d
an not give him any excuse for refu
~ ing to. take it. Since then wi
- telling one one of our hardwa
N dealers about it and he said
70 could have got the mar the san
% weight stove and delivered it to hi
nv at about $l.5O less than what
= cost my neighbor, counting Il
~ freight.
to I expect the editor can see I a
= 4 not much of an advocate of buyil
~ from mail order concerns and
,er don't believe any one else will be
they will thoroughly investigate b
on fore buying. 1t won't cost any
law us anything to see our home me
nd chants before sending our ord
away and then if we don't like t
ara price they offer us we can use o
his own judgment.
If this does not get into the was
basket you may hear from me agai