The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-02-09
The Town "Knoctsr" Has LosaHis Job.

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article was but repetition OF the first,
only In much milder form. we have
become wise and are willing TO be
honest In the matter and acknowledge
we have lost our job. Too many cold,
hard facts staring us In the face to try
to knock further. In our first article
we were honest in setting forth facts
that interested every person in the
community alike, and we have not
heard OF any citizen who has the COM
munity's good at heart, fault the article
for having represented anything but
facts that should be considered by
every loyal citizen for our community 3
prosperity. zone of Many" in his first
article wanted to represent US as old
timers lacking business courtesy, and
when he made such mess OF it
that no one believed his article, he
then went out Of town, like he does
to buy his goods, to get help to
smooth up his lily written first article,
but he and his help failed to give us
any facts substantiated by proof where
the candid reader could accept the
statements he made as reliable. Our
people are too we'll acquainted with
facts contradictory to his article 10
accept such statements. Even pessi-
mistic Zone of the Guilty" has been
led by the reading Of his article to
becoming real town boomer and what
we shall say is the result OF investi-
cation and are the real facts.
We have classes OF people, same as
are found In all other towns and cities,
those who go to other towns and cities
to purchase certain articles; they are
people who have plenty Of money and
can well afford to bear expenses neces-
sary to secure the articles they wish.
The same Is true In the large cities
OF this country. and the people from
the larger cities even go to Europe to
do shopping but none OF these do 30 ex-
pectiug to get more courteous treat
ment or cheaper goods than can be
secured from the home merchant. We
have another class that do not have
as much money and yet try to keep
apace with their neighbor by going
to surrounding towns to do their
shopping.
Then we have the staple class, who
labors with one purpose In view, max
ing their community prosper and at
the same time ready to add to the
happiness of every person with whom
they come In touch. There motto is,
olive and let live." They are the de-
light Of any community.
And lastly, we have the class who
are dissatisfied with everything they
see, fault find everything and criticize
their fellow beings, making themselves
obnoxious to the community. Some of
them even trying to rob the community
of what they subsist on, the class that
every wide awake individual does not
want to see around. We have all the
above classes and we are glad we have,
the community would be without bal
ance without them.
Then we have as intelligent, cour-
teous and up-date-class OF business men
as can be found in any town of our
population in Pennsylvania, and with
the courteous corps of clerks that they
are surrounded with in their business,
gives US a business situation second to
none In this part Of the state, and then
we have the goods. Flve-sixths of the
stores in our town has twice the stock
necessary to supply the demand of a
community the size of Reynoldsville.
We are glad OF this as our merchants
are prepared to meet the demand of
any reasonable customer. We are
glad our merchants buy goods in
quantities as large as surrounding
towns and buy from same factories
and at same price at he retail
stores OF the cities. We have
handsome store rooms that costs
very much less expense than does the
same floor space in surrounding towns.
We have good advertising mediums in
our newspapers, which are used
judiciously, so as not to increase the
expense Of goods, as the customer pays
for advertising as we'll as other ex-
expenses. Keeping expenses to the
minimum has been the purpose while
at the same time keeping up the stan
dard of merchandising has been our
motto. We ask the candid reasoner,
need we fear outside competition on
price quality considered. Is it any
wonder we feel like shouting word
Of praise for the town? Should we not
be ashamed to offer words OF culicism
with such facts staring us in the face?
We expect to continue to promote what
we believe will be for the best interest
of all. We have passed through hard
manic that has made hucinaeo dull No