The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-03-29

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should be put into effect at once.
Wall, border and ceiling pape
same price at Bell Furniture Co
Phone $50.
BILL Simpson" on Catalogue Houses
To the Editor The article on "Cit
les Against Home / read in your pa
per Short time ago set me to think
! ing.
l : was only lately ! saw one of til,
leading farmers in this community
carrping a large. bunglesome catalogue
from a Chicago catalogue house home
with him. 1t happened that | was
drawn into discussion of this ques.
tion with him and was actually sur.
prised to hear him express himself as
he did. In the first place, | feel proud
of the fact that have never patron
lied one Of these concerns in prefer
ence to dealing with our home mer-
chants. Probably one reason why /
have not felt inclined to send my trade
away from home is because 1t has
only been few years since 1 found
my financial condition such that 1T
became necessary for me to arrange
with some one to carry my account
over a crop season. La fact, it has
not been more than year since /
found 1t necessary to run an account
for short time, and am not one so
forgetful of accommodations as to or
der from catalogue house and send
them the money with the order when
our home merchants have been good
enough to extend credit to me when /
needed it. But l can not say this in.
fuence has been the only one t0cause
me to trade entirely at home. | know
Ii / or any of my neighbors want to
buy something, If they would only go
to one Of our home merchants and tell
him what they wanted he will fur
lilSn ~ w 10 JuSV oS NuCdp 90 VIC Onu
get it from catalogue house. Now
| don't mean he will let US have first
class goods at price we would pay
them for second-class goods, but l
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 houses we don't
want to forget to figure Ia the cost Of
sending the money and paying the
freight or express. II it is anything
liable to need repairs, our home mer
chants can get them for us, but it is
almost impossible to get them from |
catalogue house. OF course the mer-
,hants in our own town can not afford |
70 sell US goods just as cheap as these
catalogue houses and wait six months
II year for their pay when these
'ther concerns require us to send the
ash with the order, or as soon as the
FOODS are received. They could not
ford to do that. / remember when
me Of our neighbors met with loss
1 nearly everything he had on earth,
nd when we started out to take up
objection for him every merchant In
ur town, and in fact three towns
round us, cont ributed something. I
70 one thought of asking catalogue
ouse to help out on this fund or i
curse / can imagine how much good
+ would have done to have asked them.
i am not philantllropist, and | am
rank TO say If anything could be
ayed in the long run from buying
rom the catalogue houses | might
hen think about it, but / do not be-
eve you save one cent. / know it is
mighty hard matter for a home mer-
ant to come out even on sugar When
e sells me or any Of my neighbors a
0llars' worth it must weigh up to
0llars' worth, but when any of US
ny hundred or more pounds from
dialogue house 1t can be just a lit
3 short, and we think, of course, it
as sifted through the bag, or some
hing is the cause Of it, and we let 1t
} at that.
] know OF one of my neighbors buy ,
IL cook stove from a catalogue
ouse. When the stove came 1t looked
Ist exactly like the picture in the
dialogue; In fact, it was like IL, only
weighed about one-half or two
lirds as much as the same size stove
ould If it had been bought from one
our hardware men. My neighbor
I'D me it was the last thing he would
Ter buy away from home, because he
new he was stuck" on the stove,
II it was just like the picture, and
ie fact Of it being light weight
owe did not give him any excuse for
'fusing to takeit. Since then was
'lling one Of our hardware dealers
bout 1t and he said he could have got +
le man the same weight stove and I
a1fuorn1 ~ ~ him D 4 q 1,r,t1f QI IN loce