The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1917-08-03

Not Only HIS own put HeipS TIM
self-EVsry Man With a Heart Loves
Home and Town-soms Should Be
conSoienes Stricken.
copyrighted. 1914, by Thomas J. s%ullivan.l
Only the home can found a state. II
Is the seminary Of all other institu-
tons. There Is magic In that little
word home. 1t Is a mystic circle that
surrounds comforts and virtues never
known beyond It's hallowed limits.
We need not power or splendor.
Wide hall or lordly dome.
The good. the true. the tender
These form the wealth OF home.
Destroying Your Paradise.
The retail mail order houses are try
ing to destroy your home and your
paradise by inducing you TO buy your
n~ecessaries from Them instead Of your
local merchants. to the injury Of your
home industries. home market and
home town.
There is so much difference Ia buying
goods Of Il home place Of b%usinesH and
ordering them by mail from II cata
logue house from Il mere picture or de-
scriptiOn that | want to point uut II
few facts that many may never have
thought Of,
May Examine and Select.
At the home store you make yOu
wants known; the salesman shows you
the desired article. helps sriecI VI shy
gest the article best suited ~ your
needs.
Thus you have an opportunity to ex
anime the quality. to See the style, to
select the size and color. MS the case
may be; you can compare the different
grades, and then If everything Is salts
factory and In your judgment the price
Is right you will make the purchase.
Will Exchange or Refund.
When you get home and upon a rigid
examination you find a flaw OIL mar on
your purchase, or the article may be
too large or too small. or a black in
stead of a blue, then the next day or
the week after you go to your dealer
and explain, and he will gladly ex-
change the item or refund the money.
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And another matter worthy Of
serious thought is this: Supposing the
mail order houses could sell goods
cheaper and everybody would order his
goods from them.
The local stores would soon exist
only in memory. You would then be
at the mercy Of the mail order houses
entirely and be obliged to send away
for everything.
Buy Big Things at Home.
Remember a store cannot be kept W
with small purchases II the local mon
ey is sent away for the big things.
This method will result only in ruin
ing your home trade and In helping I
build up an enormous corporation /
some faraway city.
The failure to patroniEe home me
chants decreases the value OF farm
and town property becomes less Walt
| able, as you well know that II a tow
goes back both local and %surrOundin
values decrease.
Send your money away; you g
nothing but the goods. Spend you
money at home; 1t will come back
5 you in better towns, better stores al
better social advantages.
Help Build Up Your Own Town.
: Is 1t not more to your interest
help build up your own little city
Z town than TO contribute to the u
e building of some fara way large city
a Is It not a fact that II your ov
town had 10000 population instead
e 1000 1t would be much better for
e residents2
Would there not be much more O
ploymentI
h Would not the consumption Of PIX
ucts be greatly increased and con
Quently a farm within a radius OF I
i miles be worth from $40 10 $50 an a
q, more2
This being the case, Is It only a e
thing for the merchant or tradesm
- II you buy from him2
Or IL II equally as good q thing
your
True Citizenship.
To Adam paradise was home.
the enterprising among bis desce
ants home is paradise,
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4, True citizenship il not all In rally
y round the dag Of our country and 81
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