The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-01-26
The Real Town.Knocker Again.
"Says I to myself, says l." who signs

can dispute H. Inc artlcle III the Issue
OF January 18th hit him and hit him
hard, and now he is trying to kick and
wnat mess he is making of it. First
we find him posing as humorist. "Says
to myself, says l." Does any person
see any humor in his article? Certain.
ly not, but it is filed up with premed-
itated onslaught on two institutions in
the town that "Says l" don't like.
Next he comes as q mathematician and
gives us the ratio of our high prices as
being 6 to to what he can get goods
elsewhere. 1t does seem to the reason
able individual that this is prevari-
cation OF sufficient magnitude to be
spelled with three letters. Think oft!
What costs you six cents in Reynolds
vile you can get for one cent other
places. He admits the merchant here
sells soap for 8 cents bar. Now he
must get his for one sixth as much, or
five-sixths of one cent. Pretty cheap
soap, tell you, and it is great won
der, when soap is 30 cheap for him,
that he' does not use more of it to
cleanse his fault-finding disposition.
He afterward reduces this ratio very
much when he breaks upon us his pre-
MUM bubble of Buffalo or Pittsburgh.
! Wonderful mathematician. Next he
would want us to accept him as prog
nosticator of store etiquette In telling
us how the grocers' clerk and the
butcher should take care Of their Gus
TONER'S No doubt it would require a
great amount Of soldering 20 courtesy
to Says l."
He says the butcher will charge you
% cents pound for chicken when you
can get the same in Pittsburgh for 10
cents pound. We challenge him to
produce the market quotations to prove
| 1t. If he has, he must have gotten the
medical almanac and mistook the signs
of the zodiac for the markets and II he
visited Pittsburg he must have got his
eye on some campaign rooster and mis-
took his age for the price. January 1st
dressed chickens we're selling in Pitts
ourgh at 35 cents pound and was SELL
ing January 10th at 33 cents. This in
formation we had direct from the re-
tail market, Take the newspaper quo
tation for the same date and it shows
% cents a pound for dressed chicken
with but the feathers removed and COM
plete the dressing process and it ad-
vances them to 33 cents. challenge
him to contradict, by market facts, the
above figures. January goth fresh but
ter was selling in the Pittsburgh retail
market for 45 cents pound and fresh
eggs at As cents dozen. We simply
say Says L" does not know what he is
talking about and I challenge him to
produce facts to the contrary. / chal-
lenge him further or any Of the "Many"
to select twenty OF the staple articles
used in the household and get the stan
dard market price, using as basis the
unit of measure, in Pittsburgh, Buffalo
aud as many towns as you please and
make a fair average and if Reynolds
vile is not at par, or below, any Of
them, we, as business men, will see to
it that it is corrected at once. Be fair
and come around with your evidence.
You speak of your success in buying
ten dollars worth of goods and getting
q i've dollar premium. Well this is
the place where ignorance is bliss tits
folly to be wise.' We challenge you to
produce the evidence where you re-
ceive ten dollars worth of goods and a
premium Of five dollars, for ten dollars
paid, and If you are honest your. proof
will show weight OF package and quail
ity of the articles you get with your
premium proposition. You do not give
this in your article and we now give
you chance TO show it. We must have
facts, as wild assertions have long since
dropped out Of legitimate business
You ask for courtesy for your money al
well as goods. believe there is as fail
courteous treatment shown by the bus
iness men and clerks OF Reynoldsvillt
as any town in Western Pennsylvania
but If the business man was to tell wha
he receives from such customers al
Says l." it would not pass the rules O
hog etiquette, for he cannot enter 6
place of business to purchase but ht
criticises the goods and calls the pro
prietor's attention to his system OF rob
bing him. Poor fellow, he is to be pit
led for he cannot help it, as that is JUS
the size of his calibre. We feel sorry
for his ignorance.
Lastly he says he pays his bills ant
we will not doubt his word, but he IL
certainly Zone of the Many" in thi:
particular, for no person knows better
than the business man what class ol
people buys for cash. He finally quits
by signing the article Zone of the
Many" trying to make it appear he
has q uhOla aruv IN hio sunport VIZ.