Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-09-06
CAMPAIGN BOOSTS
HOME MERCHANTS
Support Of Local Business Institu-
tons viii Make for Greater
Community
FOOD FOR REFLECTION

This is your cityl
You are a partner in its prosperity.
If it grows and thrives, you profit
in hard dollars and cents; if its growth
is retarded and it goes backward, you
lose. We have taken the former 50
much for granted that we have lost
sight of the latter-particularly our
own obligation in the matter.
You ard your neighbors can say
which it sha1 be.
You are a partner with everybody
else in town, and the town-which Is
all the partners collectively-can be
only. as prosperous and progressive
as the sum of the prosperity and the
progress fthe individual partners.
Do your share and there will be no
question as to the outcome. 1t means
money for yen and your family; it
means the same things for your neigh
bors.
We as community, had fallen in
to rut and some of our leading cit
liens have worked out a way to pull
viroqua out and keep her on a solid
road in the future.
STORES AID COMMUNITY
These men are your neighbors-not
outsiders-so they know Viroqua and
can speak of its problems with author
ity. The editor of this newspaper has
been chosen their spokesman, and
during the coming weeks we will dis
cuss the cause and the cure of what
ails us.
In another column appear the names
of your partners" who are speaking
to you in these articles. They are the
business men of Viroqua, who have
confidence in the city's future; they
| must have, or they would not back
their faith in this place with the in
vestments that they have made, and
pay heavy taxes on these investments
besides spending large sums every
year to maintain the establishments
that stand before you and everybody
else, here and beyond our limits, as
monuments to their implicit confidence
that Viroqua can and will make good!
In every movement that has the
public benefit for its aim they are the
leaders. As has been pointed out
| their investment is here, so theirs is
not a divided allegiance. Everything
| they have staked on the future of their
city, and with its success they will rise
or fall
HAS SPLENDID FUTURE
No community that we know Of so
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chants are united Ior tne common
good; tney are working Tor the IN,
eerest Oh an VINO can tnIs city nome.
~, Casn Is tne motor that Will make
viroqua forge 10 the front. But not
m tne way you think. You are not
asked 70 part with your money. NOT
the cash tnat comes out Oh your pock-
what Will Dulid up TINS commumay.
how is mat!
Buying from nome mercnants-
A DUTY Is OWING
You earn your money IN TINS town
spend It here! Don't impoverish
your city Dy taking the money out OF
It and sending 1t to mall-order house
far away. Don't take train or troll
ley for a place a score OF miles dis
tant to buy there. In the former in
stance you are making some rich cor
poration richer--at your expense
and in the latter instance you are help
ing some big city store pay its heavy
overhead by the higher profit tack
ed onto every single article you buy.
It's time you stopped robbing your
self and your town and paying tri-
butte to stores and merchants who do