Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06

Ii took the man of the family long time to outgrow the habit ot hiding his spare change in the bed or behind the clock, or of just leaving the surplus when he sold some beef steers with his local storekeeper till it was used up But the Bank of Ari- zona began the good work and the Yavapai County Savings Bank gave K q push forward, so that even he doesn't think a few dollars is too small to be worth saving.
 As I listened to the little old lady and looked at the original ginger jar bank, now full of odd buttons, 1t seemed to me that story covered the whole span of our growth from frontier region to a prosperous, for ward-1ooking state. When the banks come and teach us to save we have left the age of barter behind taken up our place in the business of the world
 Side Trails Toward Saving.
 Saving gets to be fine art present. fly, once we begin it; it means learn ing how and when to buy to the best advantage. I remember how the men folks in the home of the little old lady of the ginger jar used to boast: q never ask the price of anything; ii ] it's what l want an l got the money buy it an pay for it, but l don't waste no time fussin' over the price if it's more'n I got just do without.
 Now. we have the better way ot i finding out where prices and goods are right and buying accordingly That is not "fussing," it's just good business. It's good business for us country people to look over all the stores ii we are in town with an hour to spare. We will find the merchants all very Willing to nave us do this even if we say frankly that we are just getting acquainted with thelI stocks.
 Just now there are lot of mid summer. sales on that it is profitable Ito watch. Such sales are not mere .fcatch-penny advertisements but arc the merchants perfectly legitimate method of moving quickly the rem inants of a summer stock of goods be
 fore the fall trade opens. The good' are the regular stock of standard quality but in fines broken by th' spring and summer sales which 1t | not good business to carry over fo another spring. The reduction IS oi
 an even percentage over the whof stock offered and the saving to th' buyer is from a quarter to a third O
 the regular price.
 This is true of the beautiful ging
 ham and voile dresses at the B.-b Company. and of the big variety O shoes at Tribby's shoe store. It | particularly true of the great variet
 of clothing for working men at tn Bargain Store, and of the eXcellen
 and attractive summer hats at tn Ladies Style Shop. All these thing 7 are staple articles offered at a reduc [
 ton to make room for fall good which will soon be in season.
 There is hardly store in Prescott that is not offering special values Il certain broken lines of goods at pres ent and August is one of the bes months for the country buyer.
 The Music Store, in the Elks' build l ing. has ? particularly good offerini ;a the new Victor talking machine q with a special set of records, and the l nave as we'll all sorts of attraction Nor the musician. !,
 There are other kinds of side tralll toward saving that are worth hndin = and following, too. For instance T most of us wear out lot of automo bile tires on our cars over the roug roads of rainy season and we do nc always know that they could be mad . as good as new at the Prescott Vu n canizinp Works. The most interest
 ing thing I have seen for many da
 is the means by which this IS don and the proprietors are as courteou ,. and as willing to explain the proces
 as if they had nothing to do but sho' = us about. ,, n None of us would be unreasonabI C enough to expect Rex Dickinson, C , the Foot and Shoe Hospital, to max
 our tired feet over just as good C new hut he will go long way toWar doing it. Prescott has never Ina $ such a fully equipped place for toe $ treatment before and q few visll 2 would spare many of us daily pal t which we have come to accept as s matter of course. Uncle Sam sal d that a soldier was as good as his te' il -the same is true of us-its might n hard to be great or good when yor Il feet arc hurting. A visit to Dlckli l. son would help us all to be better tempered at least :, O These are only a few of fine sid
 trails; find them for yourselves whe ' vou are in town. It is part ot goo $ cftizenship to know the best that or It own home region has to offer; som' 't times we are made both proud an
 ashamed when a stranger tells