The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-13
MosCoW,s OPPORTUNITY

MOSCOW'S OPPORTUNITY
Next week Moscow will be host t6
the people of large territory. They
will come here because Moscow has
invited them to come and has assured
them a good time. Moscow always
keeps her promises and she will keep
this one. She will probably entertain
many thousands of her neighbors dur
ing the week and she will do it royal
ly and Loyalty, for she is loyal to her
home community, and that includes
the territory from Grangeville to the
Canadial border and from Montana tc
central Washington.
The people are coming here to be
entertained and to have a good time.
They want to see the airplane and the
animal circus and the many, many
high class attractions at the harvest
festival and fall fair. But they will
want to do some business. They are
coming to do a lot of shopping as
well as to have a rest and recreation
from the summers toll.
Moscow has the reputation of being
the best trading center in the north
west She is entitled to that distinc-
ton because she has earned it. We
want to extend our trade and next
week will be a golden opportunity to
do this. Every merchant should CO.
operate in making this part of our
fall festival success.
We would suggest that every mer-
chant in Moscow make special prices
to non-residents during fair week.
Our prices are lower than in other
towns at all times, but let us make
them especially low during fair week
in order that the hundreds of visitors
who come here may go away with
their arms full and their automobiles
carriages filled with Moscow goods,
bought at bargain prices.
If they do this they will tell their
neighbors what good trading point
Moscow is and their neighbors will
come to ascertain if they are telling
the truth, and when they learn that
the statements of Moscows bargains
are true, they will continue to come
here to trade Moscow can and does
undersell any town of its size in the
northwest and we want the people for
many miles in every direction to be-
come convinced of this and make Mos
COW their trading point.
We hope to see next week made a
buyers carnival and that the hun
dreds of visitors who come here will
go away with packages bought here at
reduced prices and that they will be-
come regular traders here. Next year
Moscow will be connected with all of
these outside points by a system of |
good highways and we want the people |
of the entire surrounding country to
get the habit of trading here. Next
week will be an opportune time to
SOW the seed that will result in en-
larged trading area for Moscow. Let
us SOW good seed for the soil is fertile
and in excellent condition.
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WHAT ABOUT THE FARMER?
Next year there will be no govern +
ment guarantee to hold up the price
of wheat and there will be no alb
normal demand to hold up the price
OF hogs and other products of the
and probably always will be, that
farm products are the first to decline.
If we expect the farmers of the
United States to keep up production
we must protect them. Farmers can
not raise wheat to sell at pre-war |
prices of rs cents to 81 per bushel
and pay $50 per month for labor and
IS to 81 per day for help in harvest.
They cannot sell hogs for seven cents
/ pound, potatoes at so to rs cents a
Jack, and other farm products at pre-
var prices and pay war, or postwar
prices for everything they buy
Farmers cannot pay $3.50 for a wag
N that sold before the war for $135,
md proportionate prices for all kinds
4 farm machinery. They cannot pay
5 to 25 cents for grain bags for 70
ent to 81 wheat, nor can they pay
'rices that have been prevailing for
wine, food products and clathing, if
be prices of the products of their