The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-06
AIN D ERSON'S COTTON
GOODS WEEK.

III VI tIC OpCdhGi VI llIC IIcuSC,
dream Of the ramifications Of the
"Cotton Goods" movement when
She started it. However, since 1t
has assumed its national scope,
instead of flinching from the re-
sponSibility of the movement she
has bravely accepted the chair
manShip of the committee, which,
besides Miss Clark, Miss Callie
Hoke Smith, daughter of Senator
Hokc Smith of our ncighboring
state of Georgia, and Miss Lucy
Burieson, daughter of the post
master general, and though this
committees mail has reached
such proportions that it has to be
hauled in two horse wagons, these
noble women of the South are
standing up to their work like
Trojans.
The original "Buy Bale of
Cotton" has swept over the en-
tire country, and every kind and
character of business has ere
sponded to its call, to buy one or
more bales of cotton and "carfy"
their purchases Mntil the cotton.
market gets back to normal CON
ditions. wY X !
This movement had 10 DO only.
sYlthSraw2 cotton; yet isintreased
SQnsnmption of(t, COTTON
6D0DS&will naturally help Tie
Cotton situation by increasing the.
market for the raw cotton.
After the ladies mentioned
above had started the Cotton
GocaS" movement by appearing
at social functions in evening
gowns made of cotton, the plan
of appealing to the consumers of
this entire country to make con-
certed and systematic efforts to
increase the consumption of cot
ton goods of every kind and char
iacter, was formulated and launch
ed. Immediately it was taken up
by the press of the entire United
States and the Retail Merchants of
the country saw the advantages OF
the movement and embraced it al
once; in fact the movement as.
+surned such gigantic rational pro-
portions that no Give retailer"
Espld afford 10 saGkeep offE tile
band wagon" If me$nt Nadded
prestige and profits stoab among
the first in his town or city,tosem-
brace cthes National SCdtton
Goods" movement, so everybody
.gos aboard the .band wagon. .;..,s, -,
Ever ythiHg that is made of cot
ton is included in this national
Ipoyementaaand in gtlite.a mum
Der Of citiessand towns the ladies
of certain charitable societies
dress up in cotton dresses and.
some act as "Eloor-Walkers" and
others as clerks. and in ether css
pacities, first having made an ar.
rangement with tine management
of the store to receive certain
per cent of the profits of the.
weeks or days sales for their So
ciety. In almost every town, and
especially throughout the South,
the society ladies have entered
into this movement with great
deal of interest and enthusiasm.
The merchants decorate their
stores and especially their show
windows with bales Of; cotton, and
the green plants bearing the
leaves and bolls, with the manu-
factured products prominently
displayed, too.
|; As this is sale feature tfcI dis.
play throughout the entire Store
should carry the prices Iof the cot
ton goods plainly and prominent
1y displayed. A cotton goods style
show could be featured here also
il sufficient interest was mani
fest by the ladies of Anderson.
The ladies could hold a style SELF
ing contest hy having certain ef
the most popular young ladies
STAND as sponsors for tain
dresses and then to- sell as many
|of each kind of dress as possible;
THE winner, Seing the. one whose
dress sold the best.
Anderson is particularly inter
lested iii this National Cdtton
Goods movement, not only for
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