Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-25
SUBMITTED FOR THE
PUBLIC JUDGMENT
A SITUATION THE PEOPLE OF
THE COUNTRY viii MEET
WITH, r..
1T DEALS WITH A NEW LOCAL
FEATURE OF INTEREST 70
ALL,

Some few days ago several teams
were first noticed on the streets and
heading for the country drawing
heavy dray-like vehicles. These
vehicles were loaded with kitchen
ranges and bore the sign on the side
thereof "Home Comfort Ranges"
Today an advertisement was handed
in to run in the Tribune by
local hardware dealer and the text
OF the advertisement was Kitchen
ranges"
1nquisitive, the reporter, called on
the local merchant and asked con.
corning the above referred to Home
Comfort Range equipages and learned
the following:
The Home Comfort Range company
is a. firm doing business with head.
quarters in st. Louis who send out
these outfits and they circulate
through the country districts-mostly
selling their goods to the farmers.
They sell for cash or will let peo.
pie have their product on time the
same to be secured with notes. They
call at farm houses and, it is said,
frequently make sales where a new
| stove Is really not needed, The
statesmen are very affable men. as
statesmen Of this kind usually are,
and frequently go so far as to set up
a stove in house and try it for the
ed1fication of the lady thereof. The
stove works alright-most any one
"lll-the goods are already set up in
the house and with Mr.. Affable Sales
man to back it up, the sale is general.
~ clnch whether it is wanted in the
first place or not. In short, YOU have
bought it before you know it.
The point is not made so much on
the sale Of these stoves as on the
fact that your local merchant can sell
you as good a stove for a less price
than you have paid for the one YOU
get-and a note is a whole lot OF
trouble sometimes. The merchant in
tervlewed has been engaged in bust
ness in community where these peo
pie have conducted their peddline
business before and is we'll acquainted
with the methods.
lie said: 81 am not so much con
cerned about where they purchase
stoves. They do not need to buy of Us
as there are other dealers in the tow1
who can do the same as we do, The
fact is, that they pay these peddler:
TOO much for the goods received"
Another thing in connection witt
the tratf1c Is that the law requires thai
peodlers or vendors shall pay a yearl,
Incense and up to noon today no such
Incense had been issued to these peo
pie and they had not applied for anv
The law distinctly STIMULATES that g
peddler on foot shall pay license OF
nVe dollars, a peddler with one horse
twenty-five dollars and when a team Is
used, fifty dollars. For violation q
man can be fined fifty dollars and sent
up for thirty days or he can be given
DOTH such fine and Imprisonment.
This little item is written in the
interests of the people themselves, as
individuals, of the people as tax nav
ers and in the interests Of the local
merchants, and it is hoped that be-
lore they purchase any stoves they
Will give the local man the chance to
show them that they can do just as
well-and better-by dealing with
nm. They will thereby reap a per-
sonal benefit in dollars and keep the
money in Burleigh county instead of
sending it to Missouri