The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-14
Fairmont Will be a Prosper.
Gus City if People Patron
ize Merchants.
why everybody should buy in Falr

Why everybody should buy in Fair.
mont:
My Dear Citizens Of Fairmont:
There has been given the subject
"Why Everybody Shoull Buy in Fair
mont" and | will try to answer this
question with ten reasons:
First. Most people who reside In
Fairmont make their money here, and
so 1t looks reasonable for them to
spend 1t here instead of ordering from
mail order houses, where goods are
very often unsatisfactory to tho pur.
chaser. Money that a citizen makes in
Fairmont is lost IL 1t is spent outside
of Fairmont and this is going to make
the town dead instead Of building it
up to an ideal city. Just think for a
moment, how would YOU like to go out
Of town and buy your water and gas.
and about sending that weeks wash to
Chicago 10 be laundered? You would
not think of ordering these, but still
you will order articles OF every de.
scription from mail order houses.
1t is the lack Of consideration. Yes,
I think so. You do not stop to con.
slider that Fairmont would be wealth:
Ter II money would be kept in the
town.
Second. Fairmont is sble to handle
all the trade that the mail order
houses are getting from 1t. The goods
In Fairmont are as cheap in price
and as high in value as can be bought
from the mail order houses. Fairmont
has a number OF good stores where
everything from spool OF thread to
an automobile can be bought and are
Just as good as from mail order houses,
minus the trouble Of ordering and
shipping back damaged goods.
Third. II all the money Is left In
Fairmont the town can have more i'm.
provements. When the money made
in Fairmont 10 used here the town vii.
become Weather, and there can be
made such improvements as are nee.
essary for the formation OF o good
town.
Fourth. Fairmont Is feeding about
all the citizens in town, SO 1t can sure
ly clothe all. You would not go out of
Fairmont to order your breakfast.
Everybody orders their groceries from
some grocery, but still there are peo-
rle that clothe themselves from out.
side markets. There was a time when
Fairmont clothed itself, but now It Is
not doing it; but nevertheless It
should.
Fifth. Factories built in Fairmont
would give employment to hundreds
of men who are out OF work. Factories
would make clothes. and other articles
that are ordered from other cities, and
people who are patronizing mail order
people woh are ipatronizlng mail order
houses cannot expect to get employ.
.ment IN. different kinds OF factories,
such as clothing factories, because the
factories are not here like where there
lis q great demand for! their products
( Sixth. This ordering ID! a hardship,
on the mail service, because itt throws
Ia great many letters in the mail that
need not be sent and especially during
the holidays. when mail Smatteriis slow.
Some do most of TIL cir Christmas; shop
ping through the mai, and it could he
done in Fairmont Just as well and
would relieve mail matter a great deal
too.
Seventh. Fairmont Is /, mai. or,
der house better than any other for its
citizens. The telephone service Isl the
secret OF al! this, as the housewife can
call any store or shop and order every:
thing by phone but a great many
things can be secured for the ShoaseYin
IthisEway!
Eighth. Fairmont is your home.
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