The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-07-08
BARGAINS GALORE
ARE NOW OFFERED
BY LOCAL STORES
MIDSUMMER SALES BEGIN AND
COLUMBIA is RENO OF VAL.
UE SEEKERS.
TRANSPORTATION Is NOW FREE
To All Who Come on Tuesdays and
Fridays and Who Purchase stipu-
lated Amounts--some Of the Firms
Advertising Sales.

The midsummer bargain sales arr
now on and for this and next weel
Columbia will become the Reno of al
bargain hunters. What the Nevada
town was to the prize fighting world
last week Columbia now is to the "get
your moneys worth" people. those
who expect the dollar to do its full
duty and to buy more than it ever has
before.
The annual bargain sales here are
always looked forward to by the trad
Ing public with pleasure. Not only in
this but in adjoining counties these
events are the signal for the begin
ming of the grand rush on the MEury
capital, for in this city of many splen-
did mercantile establishments ev-
erything that the bargain chaser wants
is to be found on well filled shelves.
The warm weather was late To ar
rive this year. Spring fingered in the
lap of winter with total disregard for
convention, and as result the rer-
chants paid the price. Midsummer
found them with big stocks on hand
stocks from which admirable selec-
lions for the wardrobe and house can
be made-and they chose the only
feasible route to unload-they whack-
ed prices. Down the prices went.
Down and down and down until the
very bottom was reached, and bar
gains galore were placed within the
reach Of the very smallest purse
This year the man after the bar
gain has an advantage in trading in
Columbia that he has never had be-
fore-he can get his transportation
free if he comes on Tuesday and Fri
days. TheMerchants and Manufact-
urers Association, recently organic
ed here as an auxiliary to the Board
of Trade, will foot the bills on every
purchase of stipulated amounts on
these two days. Persons residing
within radius Of eighty miles OF Co
lumbia come within the scope of this
generous offer, and those who reside
without the county can trade here
on exactly the same conditions az at
home, with the exception that they
ran huv goods cheaDef
Maury Dry Goods Company
Among the first of local firms to an
nounce their midsummer clearance
sale is the Maury Dry Goods Gonna
ny. Through the columns of The Her.
aid and by means of circulars this en-
terprising house has acquainted the
public with what they have to offer.
The result was big business on their
opening day and on the succeeding
days Bargain hunters are visiting
this establishment in droves, and the
familiar motto, You are always vel
come at our store" is being verified
many hundred times daily as tho cour-
teous clerks extend the glad hani to
the bargain hungry.
Mckennon, Anderson q Foster.
There is no better known or more !!
firm in Columbia than
Anderson & Foster. and
the announcement of their sale-the
columns of The Herald being freely
lsed-brought the usual onrush OF
customers. This firm has long float
ID the slogan, IF you see it in ou- ad
is So" and the words are correctly
,rized by the patrons Of the house.
since the inauguration of the event
hey have received a large and fat
ering patronage from those who know
'alues when they see them.
Dobtins & Ewing
The Green Tag Sale" of Dobbins G.
living is held every summer and
means a slaughtering of prices or ey-
rything carried in stock with the ex-
epIlOn Oh q lew IllCleS Ou WulSu tAS
manufacturers fix the price. This
ear the firm is offering the usual big
to customers and are en-
owing their customary large patron
Sc. The green tags tell the tale, and
is a tale that any can read. This
I'm has full and complete line from
hitch to make selections.
Bogatzky G. 6auman.
Bogatzky & Bauman are progress
I've people and know how to conduct
sale. The first thing they do is to
lark values down and then to adver-
Sc that prices hold good as long as )
lere is a piece of spring goods In the
ouse. Their yellow front on which
leir "no-profit sale is conspicuous
advertised, directs regular custo- 5
ers and strangers alike to their place &
business. I'VE don't care" they ad- Z
,rtise and then announce the results