The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-10-30
1914-MEMBER-1915
MISSISSIPPI PRESS ASSOCIATION
YOU SHOULD BUY 1T AT HOME.

If anyone buys from this out-oftown concern, that person
NAY be using money received from red'i ir u ,be ee' same s'I line of
work, or the money to this out-ot-town firm may be paid by per
sons who get the money from houses rented to employees of re-
A miliner or a lady tailor in New Orleans, or Atlanta, or
Louisville, or Cincinnati cannot show a better brand of goods
for the money than one could secure from the retailers OF Mem
phis. The prices these out-o-town houses charge must be arg
er than the local stores charge for similar goods. 1t the prices
are cheaper the goods are are ct interior or q 1sa MsmO or ho"se ~n a
shown at the fall openings, were in style and finish right up to
the designs which are now being used in New York City
Patriotism, local pride and good business sense all go to snow
the folly of buying anything out of Memphis when you can buy
the same thing in Memphis at anything like the same price.
The curse on this entire South is buying from other parts of the
country those things which we can secure or produce at home.
This is true rs to clothing Just a $ we'll as to food. Every Mem,
away from home to shop, or shopping n.y.; with ri iani 81 ei Saif'
and ftom a business point of view it is expensive.
The above extracts from an editorial in the Commercial Appeal
of October -, are reproduced at the request of one of our leading
business men and meet our most cordial approval and endorse
nlent. They are exactly n line with our preachings and our practice
We are reliably informed that only recently some purchases
we're made in a near by town by some of the ladies of Grenada with
out seeing what Grenada merchanes carried If Grenada merchants
have not in stock Just what the ladies want, why they can order it,
and certainly our merchants have just as much intelligence and dis
erection in buying as those of any other town. The charge OF buying
away from home can be more frequently laid at the door OF TIKI
adde's than the men but the latter are not wholly free from it. Char
" should begin at home. Just as far as possible, we should spene
our money at home; we must depend upon the home people to fos
ter our business, to aid US in making a living and it is but right ane
proper, it is in line with the Golden Rule that we should do tina
which we demand of others. If we spend our money at home,
will quickly come back to US. So we help ourselves by buying a
home. distance lends enchantment" to many but it is time we o
the South we're waking up to a full realization OF what is at GU
doors. The same spirit that prompts one to buy away from HON
that which can be gotten at home, prompts others to send to Par
Or some other fat away place for other things. The practice of thu
same habits is why we owe other states and other sections NOR
than they owe us. We are confident that Grenada merchants hav
goods equal in quality to those Of any similar town and the PRICE
ALWAYS LESS on THE SAME GRADE OF GOODS IN GRENADA THAN ELSE
WHERE. hence every dictate of sound business as well as sentiment
saw buy from your neighbor. And while speaking a word for tn
merchant it will not be aniss to mention the printer. Only a fey
weeks ago, a prominent Grenada merchant had some job printing
done in a town not many miles away, and this, too, in lace OF tn
We we're not asked to make a price on the work and we hazard tn
o,,nion that the other Offices in Grenada were treated similarly
Hundreds of dollars are sent away from Grenada annually tor En-
eR.yrp WEDDING INVITATIONS and if we can not furnish something a
handsome as anything we have ever seen, then we will agree to ca
FIVE hundred; and we are sure that our prices will not exceed whs
is being paid. The Sentinel always tries to be kind to the "newl
WEEDS" and to throw them all the bouquets possible and in view of th
far we are entitled to the business end of this important function
This has no personal allusion but can be said of most wedding haI
penings in Grenada for many years.
OF course people have a right to spend their money where the
,,ease. but lust as it would be a reflection on our physicians to sen
70 n other town for a Doctor to minister to our sick, o a slap
,rr LAWYERS to send away for legal services, so it is n a way a RI
Section O our merchants and our printers to send elsewhere t
what o m obtain here. Buy at home because you live her
40 no, let supercillious ideas and fastidlousness cause you to d