Evening journal., 1907-06-20
JOURNAL DOLLAR
GIVESEXPERIENCE
In AN INTERVIEW
Tells Hlw One Citizen Was
About TO Spend 1t Out
Of Town
DID GOOD WORK FOR A WEEK

Circulate Mr.. Dollar, Circulate" This
admonition given to The Evening Jour
nal trade-at-home dollar week ago when
it left The Evening Journal Office has
been faithfully followed out by this in
terestng specimen Of Uncle Sans coins.
During It's weeks travels twenty-five mer-
chants have received it in trade. Yester-
day it was received by Charles L. Thomp-
son. druggist at Pennsylvania avenue and
DUPONT street. who later spent it with
his grocer. Charles 7. wolhar. northeast
corner Pennsylvania avenue and Scott
streets. Mir. wolhar believes in trading at
home and when he purchased his supply
OF green groceries and merchandise from
the well-known commission house Of C.
w. Diggans. at 1l2 East Fourth street.
this morning, he spent The Journal dollar
with Mr.. Disgans The Diggans Commis-
sion House is always a busy place and
the numerous customers coming 10 make
their purchases this morning showed con-
Siderable interest in this home trade coin.
one of the customers who called at the
commission house to see the dollar found
considerable pleasure later dn repeating the
conversation held with The Evening Jour
nal coin. The little messenger Of home
trade stared this morning: Il am a dol
lar. 1 was somewhat bright in color when
1 left the office of The Evening Journal
on Wednesday of last week and am now
becoming little worn but 1 am still in
circulation 1 am proud Of myself for be-
dng In circulation. 1 am no tomato can
dollar-not l. wilmington is only my
adopted home but / like 1t and hope
to remain here permanently. When 1
came out Of the mint / was adopted into
this city, but after a time 1 was sent off
to a big city several miles away. / turned
up in a large department store there and
for several years 1 stayed in that city.
AIfhonaires bought cigars with me.
didn't like that for I believe in the plain
people. Finally a travelling man brought
me TO this town and left me here. 1 was
so glad to get back to wilmington that
I determined to make a desperate effort
TO stay One day during the past week
while I was on my errand about Will
mington 1 fell into the hands Of a citizen
who was about to send me back to tha't
big city not many miles away. 1 caught
him looking over mail order catalogue.
sud- .nly 1 found my voice and said ia
him;
sam, look here. If you only let me
stay in this town I'll circulate around and
do you lots Of good. You buy big beef
steak with me and the butcher viii buy
groceries and the grocer will buy hard
ware. and the hardware man will pay his
doctors bill with me. and the doctor W II
spend me with a farmer for oats with
which to feed his horse, and the farmer
will buy some fresh meat from the butch
er and the butcher will come around 10
you and spend that dollar with you fol
advertising. In the long run, as you see
III be more useful TO you here at home
than II you'd send me away forever
sam said 1t was a mighty stin argu'
ment. He hadn't looked at Vt in that light
before so he went and bought the bg
beefsteak. 1 began to circulate around
home agan. Now, just suppose all The
other dollars that are sent to Philadel
phia or some other big city, were kept
at home. How you could see this towI
grow. Honest, now, amt I right"
The Evening Journal dollar has clearly
demonstrated in this interview just wha
results may be expscted Yhepsshe citizens
eperd atss,sdne the money earned in WI
saaton
80 Digeans, the commission merchan
95,ted that he was going to spend tn
~ k,de-at-ho dollar this afternoon 81
-k-Wt merchants on Market street may %
~ *he lookout for It,. Watch for the dol
~ And push 1t along.
ssas~A oeked Down BY Trolley Car.