Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-05-01
Communicated.


carrying large. bungiesome eata-
logue from a Chicago catalogue
house. home with him. II happened
that | was drawn into a discussion
OF this question with him and ! was
actually surprised to hear him ex-
press himself as he did. In the first
place. feel proud OF the fact that
! have never patTonized one OF these
concerns in preference to dealing
with our home merchants, Probably
one reason why ! have not felt in-
eiined to send my trade away from
home is because. II has only been a
few years since found my financial
condition such that il became neees-
sary for me to arrange with some
enc to carry my account over a crop
season. In fact, II has not been more
than n year since ] found II nrees-
sary TO run an account for short
time and ! am not not one so forget
iui of accommodations as to order
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
I needed IL. But ! can not say this
influence has been the only one to
cause m- To trade entirely at home.
! know II ]. or any OF my ncighbors,
wan, TO buy something. II they would
only go to ono OF our home mcr-
chants and tell what they wanted. he
will furnish IL To us just as cheap as
we can get !; from catalogue house.
Now. ! don't mean he will let rs
have hrs,.elass goods At 4 price VIC
wouid pay them 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 cat
aioguc houses. We don't want to for
sc, to figure in the cost OF sending
the money and paying the freight or
express. II u IL anything liable to
need repairs. our homo merchants
can get them for Us. but IL Is almost
impossible to get them from ea,a-
logrc house OF course. the mcr-
chants in our town can not afford to
sell us goods just rs cheap as these
catalogue houses and wait six months
or year for their pay when these
other concerns require us to send the
cash with the order. or rs soon as
the goods arc received. They could
not afford to do that. remember
when ono OF our ncighbors met with
loss OF nearly everything he had
on Sarth and when VIC started out to
take up n collection for him every
merchants in our town. and. in fact.
in three towns around us. contrib.
utcd something. No one thought OF
asking catalogue house TO help out
on this fund. OF course. ] can imag-
inc how much good ii would have
done to have asked them TO.
am not e philan,hropis, and ]
am frank to say IL anything could
b, saved in the long run from buy
ing from the catalougc houses.
might then think abou; it, but ] do
no; believe you save one cent. ] know
IL il mighty hard matter for mcr-
chant to como out even on sugar.
When he sells inc or any of my
ncighbors dollars worth. IL must
weight up to dollars worth. bu,
when any of us buy hundred or so
pounds from catalogue house It can
be just little short and We think.
OF course. it has siftcd through the
bag or something is the cause OF u
and VIC let il go at that.
I know OF one of my ncighbors
buying n cook stove from n catalogue
house. When the stove came it look
er just exactly like the picture in
the catalogue. in fact, it was like it
only it weighed about onc-half or
two-thirds as much as the same size
stove would II it had been bought
from ono OF our hardware men. My
rcighbor told me il was the las,
thing he would ever buy away from