The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-12
McCASLIN REPLIES.

CNASLia IL HAAS'
Grenada, Miss, August s, 1921
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OF T in a % 1 of the utmost fairness to those who deal in such commodities
gasoline costs the retailer in the towns you mention and Viat their profits
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pee %sedT the ' Ford de- Dealer silT to ou supply ply and install ms all The he v ss' best bss duality Of seat
cover Our at s . sGnsS d ~oud I5 be- BANKRUPT n @ ny if its it sold ole M merchandise in this manner,
sad none it wGfls xo sy%p 9TH dc Sita es w III a ,a s did but for en sq te a ssas hand T bss
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Gnatsnd diepaynS OF ts semls si i % the tn %ro assl fgst Of ' fssl' eG furthsr%or "a s sSst you U,
Ter that would not have been employed had 20 considered the question more
community o earth. and say this with full consideration for every other
community. Very respectfully,
We gladly give space to the communication above. While
our editorial of last week above referred to made no mention of
letter. it would therefore seem, warrants the assumption that he
Mr.. McCaslin's apparent inability to quote US correctly in
regard to the selling price of gasoline in Greenwood; would
from, when it comes to figures. We stated that Greenwood was
selling gasoline at 2114 cents per gallon and not at 221@ cents
no idea what profit these two towns make" He is not the astute
business man that the public credits him with being unless ne
that our wide-awake and unusually successful fellow citizen,
has not lain awake of nights, while the balance of the town were
slumbering, and thought over and over whether or not there was
than in Grenada. Our friend has been victor in the field of
finance wherever he has embarked, and we would not be sur
prlsed to hear that, like Alexander, he has wept because there
were not other convenient fields for his activities:
what profit the dealers in Greenwood and Ciarksdale make nor
do | care but the fifth paragraph shows that he must have
we tell him what gasoline cost the retailer" in those towns
and what their profits are"
the yelled endeavor to make himself: with whom he was com
Had our friend read our editorial with that care and
matters, he would have saved himself the time that required him
to ask that We ascertain and advise us just what the gasoline
costs the retailer in those towns you mention and what their
profits are" We cannot let him play the trick that our Yankee
asks practically the same question IL that atN we p %S And
lest his mind stray away from what we did say, we had perhaps
I'm the name of the general public, The Sentinel most re-
spectfully inquiries why it is tthat gasoline is not, or cannot be,
sold in Grenada by the retailer as cheap as in Greenwood or
numerous other nearby places. Is there any difference in the
quality of gasoline sold in Greenwood, for example, and that
sold in Grenada? Grenada is today retailing gasoline at "a cents
per gallon, while, as we understand, Greenwood is selling the
same at 2112 cents per gallon. In other words, the Grenada
dealer is getting a profit of slightly more than III over and
above what the C Greenwood dealer is getting on gasoline, assum-,
ing, of course, that the Grenada dealer can buy and does buy as
cheap at the Greenwood dealer. Even Clarksdale is selling gas
Olne at 22 cents per gallon or was doing so just a few days ago.
Now these two towns are in the delta and it is generally under
stood that all merchandise sells higher in the delta than in the
hills
Another matter: Only recently we know a gentleman who
bought a set of seat covers from the Ford Agency in Grenada {
for which he paid $3.50. We also know another gentleman