The Tupelo journal., 1909-06-04

aglngly OF your town. IhlS yer.
, few do. Always boost it-thi
unfortunately, very few do also
i Never speak disparagingly o.
your citizens, collectively or in
dividually. If you have nothing
good to say. just pull on your ci
gar or chew gum. Of course
when approached on business ca
pacity, or under circumstances
where honesty and integrity de.
mand that you speak the truth,
/ then you may have to tell things
labout somebody else, which you
do not like to tell, but of course
they may have the same, sad
/ duty to perform in reference to
you. Another way to advertise
your City, is to never patronize
other places when you can buy
the same thing, or comparatively
the same thing at home. Buy
your lumber, fertilizer, dry goods,
groceries, shoes, dress goods.
millinery and everything else.
except vour liquor, at home. l
might I'd | by way of parenthesis,
that you would not lose anything
by cutting the last item out en-
tirely. Most everything can be
gotten just as good here, and
then Just as cheap as you can
anywhere else, when you add
freight, delay and worry to the
price you pay somewhere else,
besides this, if there is nothing
fine enough in the:place you live
to suit your taste, and you de-
sire to dress finer and be a big
ger like" than the people you
live among, then it's your SOL
emn duty to move. The fact is
you have no right to stay in a
community, transact business,
and make your living off of
the people, ask them to give you
employment, or to patronize you
in your business, and then to be
so selfish and stingy, that you
are not willing for the people.
VINO have helped you to make
a reasonable profit in their busi-
ness, and thus be able to earn a
living. You cannot be a good ad-
vertiser for your town, nor a
good booster, and make other peo.
pie believe it is a good place to
trade, and to live in, happily, if
you yourself buy somewhere else
such articles as you do not hap,
pen to, have inyour own business.
Another splendid advertise
ment is good goods. reasonable
profits, correct weights, truth
full and upright conduct with
your customers, whether you are
selling by sample or otherwise,
or whether on verbal or written
order. The practice of all these
will not only help your town, but
will help your own feelings,
build up your vain reputation
land cause much more favorable
talk around your grave when
you are laid away, and when
your wife or children, through
| force of habit and custom, after
you are laid away erect a momu
ment over your grave. with some
endearing epitaph written there
on, people will then have less
room to talk about tombstones
being such liars. Do not sell be-
low cost in order to keep some
one else from selling, your GUS
toner will expect you to keep it
lup. If you have not got what a
man wants, do nottry to make
| him think you have it. Leaving
off both of these practices will
make you customers and cause
people to trade in your town, il
strictly lived up to.
i We want to get people to come
here to trade, and my idea is,
i that If we would have more trade
days with prizes and big old.
fashioned barbecues once OF
twice a year, and when people
come to them take more interest
lin them; make them feel more
| at home, it Would help. Not on
lily the men-folks of the town
should do this but the ladies as
we'll, anu we should teach oul
children and bring them up to dc
likewise. There are lots OF
young people in the surrounding
country whose citizens formerly
traded in Tupelo, who are almost
grown, and who seldom if evel
come to Tupelo, and who do not
know about us. We have got tt
get them into the habit o.
coming here and loving to do SC
In order to get their trade WI
ought also encourage in every
way possible, the settlement o.
good families on every bit Of tn,
farm land within a radius o
!. twenty miles of the City, an,
encourage the channeling ant
Strengthening Of creeks, and put
ing into cultivation the bottom
lands, for every acre of this lam
put into cultivation means al
additional trading capacity 0
from $500 to $50. 90 in the pee