Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-31
By HOWARD ? ROCKEY

81 guess maybe thatE hold that
low-life Katzen for while yeti" said
Moe Bloom lgiumphantIy, as re
the flaring advertisement Of the Man
haitian Elite Bazaar in the morning
newspapers.
The printed words that told the
bazaar's customers of the wonderful
money-savin8 purchases awaiting
Galley-Twenty-Eight
them SCENE to fascinate the stores
proprietor He gazed smilingly across
the street at the windows Of the "A
la Mode Store-Iz Katzen, Proprie-
tor"
81 tell you that is foxy business
already what thought Of" continued
Mr. Bloom with satisfaction, as he liz
a cigar II bought them women's
shirtwaists last week of Mark Schef
ferlin. what went and failed, for IF
teen cents each by the gross lot. If
they are worth a cent, them shirt
waists would sell for half dollar
already IL Katzen he wanted them,
but l bought them in before he came
by the sale"
Good business" commented Ike
Levinson Blooms chief saleman. 1T
seems, though somehow, that no mat
ter what we offer, the crowd always
goes by Katzen's store, and don't buy
nOthin' here at all"
If you knew how to sell goods like
that Teller GoldmaTk what works by
Katzen, we would sell it so much as
he does" snapped Bloom.
LeVinson colored.
Anyway, we got 'em goin' this
morning." he said. 1T is only nine
o'clock, and already the store is full
Of women fighting to get at them
shirtwaists. If it keeps up like this,
we won't have none left by another
hour"
But we don't make no profit on
them shirtwaists," said Bloom. eve
pay for them fifteen cents, and we
sell them for thirteen, so we lose two
cents on each garment we sell. do
it as a foxy business to get the
place Now you got to sell smoothing
with a good profit in it to every wom-
an what buys one Of them thirteen
cent shirtwaists, you understand"
Levinson nodded, though he knew
that fully half the shirtwalsts had
chasers, without an exception, had
hurried off without even so much as
looking over the other merchandise
displayed in the store.
AS he was about to withdraw from
the office, Bloom uttered a violent
exclamation, and the cigar dropped
from between his teeth.
well what dye think Of that?" he
shouted striding toward the window
win you look toward harts etaO
will you look what that IL Katzen
is up to nOW?"
AS he spoke, there was pasted
across the big show window of the
A la Mode Store a gigantic sign an
nouncing a special sale Of shirt
waists-twelve cents, marked down
from fifty cents-the same garments
sold by our competitors at higher
prices" Even as the sign was put
iii place the grinning countenance
OF Nj katzen appeared in the door
way OF his establishment.
And he has the nerve to make
faces TO mel" shouted Bloom wrath
fatty Honest, Levinson, if had me
a face like that. Katzen | would ali
time stay in the louise, from consid
Grafton OF other people,"
i saleswoman was arranging sew
eral sairtWaists in the window op
posite Even at that distance, BlooL
could see that they were idenica.
win those he had advertised,
That loafcr seen my advertise
men. and fixed up this sale to DO
mel" shrieked Bloom. What | dOn's
see is where he got the goods. In
going to make that Mark Schetferin
arrested already! He sold me those
gaods with tie understanding | was
to get them all, and he must have
held out some on Inc to sell katzen.
Levinson was looking out through
the swinging door into the store. He
started, and looked intently at
young woman just paying for one OF
the bargain shirtWaists.
Seems to me | seen her before
some time" he said What is it?'
he asked, as a young salesgirl en-
tered.
'AH them thirteen-cent shir waists
is gone already, Mr.. Levinson," she
said. I'VE just sold the last one
Why, some customers took three or
four, and there was a regular prize
Lzht to get them"
All gomez" shrieked Bloom.
We'll" said LevinsOn, 'Katzen
can't hurt US, then. We sold our
stock, and got a cent more on each
garment than what he gets"
Meshuggah!" cried Bloom What
difference does that make it? We
lose money, anyway, and Katzen gets
the credit of selling cheaper than
we do" ----
The young woman Leyineson had