The Jasper news., 1907-02-28
HorO Mr. BroWn GOT the
Worst Of TsOo BAR
TRIED MAII-ORDER METHODS
Thought He Was Saving Money, But
Il Win Not Try the Same Thing. I
Second Time Buying at q
Homo Pays.

Mr.. Brown, farmer living in
Boone county. Mo-, decided to buy q
spring wagon. The next time he was
In town he went to the local dealer
to see what he. had in stock. One
wagon that suited him was offered to
him at SIS. He thought he would
take 1t, but before ordering he looked
over mall order vehicle catalogue.
Here he saw described wagon which,
as far as description went. was the
same as the one he saw In the deal
er's store room. In fact, the descrip-
ton was written in such convinc-
ing manner and all of the good points
of the mail order vehicle were brought
out so thoroughly that 1t appeared to
be superior to the other one And the
price was only $6745. Mr.. Brown
thought OF the saving OF $755 which
represented several days OF hard work.
The more he thought about 1t the
more-he wanted to save that amount
and In the end the Chicago mail or
der concern got his check.
When the wagon finally arrived,
with freight bill Of $3.50. he rode to
tOWA Will LILO bOA duu cpcuIi udil d
day putting 1t together He had to
buy screw driver and some oil and
sand paper and few bolts to replace
some that had been lost In shipment.
All Of these cost him rs cents. He
was not experienced at putting spring
wagons together and he didn't do a
very good Job of 1t, for one of the
seats refused to sit in the right place
and he had to get local blacksmith
to help him fix it. This cost him
another half dollar and delayed him
so much that he and the boy had to
60 to the hotel for their dinners; an
additional expense of 10 cents. So
before he got his team hitched to the
wagon 1t cost him 1890, allowing him
saving Of $1.10. which was very
stingy pay for the time he had lost.
or the amount he spent for the wagon,
only $1.95 remained In Boone county.
The railroads and the mail order
house got the rest Of 1t.
In the meantime his neighbor. Mr..
Jones, bought the SIS wagon from the
local dealer, who made q profit of
SIC on the sale. AS. the vehicle was
6 already assembled and there werc no
extra parts or tools to buy. the amount
paid for the wagon represented all Of
the cost to Mr.. Jones. The dealer
spent the SIS profit for new sign on
his building; the sign painter hired a
carpenter to. repair the roof on his
house; the carpenter paid his bill at
the butchers and the butcher bought
hog from Mr.. Jones. And 30 the
SIC kept going in the county until a
farmer with the mail order habit got
hold Of 1t. He sent 1t to Chicago and
1t never came back.
But this wasn't the last of the two
purchases. A few weeks after the
two wagons were bought. Mr.. Browns
boy and Mr.. Jones' boy, driving the
new vehicles. met on the country road,
I They drove too close to each other
and q smash-up resulted. The weak
est part OF each wagon gave way; an
axle on the mail order product was
broken and doubletree on the other
was smashed. Both breaks were plain
ly because of detective construction.
Mr.. Jones took his broken doubletree
70 town the next day and the dealer
gave him a new one. Mr.. Brown at
tempted to explain to the Chicago firm
that the axle would not have broken
II II had not been defective and
I, coupled this explanation with re-
quest for a new part. but after several
weeks Of correspondence with the
piece as far away as at the begin.
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