The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-08-23
STUNG AGAIN!

ND the best part of the joke-if it can be
II looked upon as such-is that among the
long list of "stingees" are the wives of
two grocers whose wives should know a heap
sight better!
It happened in this way Last week a "ped-
der'-not salesman, mind you, but just COM
mon ordinary pedder-struck Redwood Falls with
a large collection of soap. He claimed his soap
to be very special brand of naptha soap, re-
falling so he said, at eight cents in all grocery
stores.
He sold said soap at eighteen bars for dollar.
Awonderful bargain! No mere grocery store
could ever even hope to be able to reach it! In
cdentally he sold, delivered, and collected all at
the first meeting with his prospective victims.
A large number bought-among them the two
grocery ladies who should have been wiser.
This is what happened; two days after the
soap had been placed on the shelf at one of the
ladies' homes it shrunk, and shriveled up,
and shrank and grew smaller and decreased and
became much less, in fact so much less that by
actual measurement it decreased itself by about
one-third on each of it's three dimensions
it's shrinkage in weight was proportionate-and
that didn't leave much SOAP What there was
left was mighty poor quality-so soft it showed
every finger print and not smelling anymore like
a real good quality of naptha laundry soap than
sewer gas smells like breath from the hayfields.
Now had this soap been purchased at home, the
grocer would have been obliged to stand back of
it to the extent Of replacing it with real soap or
refunding the money. Further than that, there
isn't grocery store in this city-we believe there
isn't one in the county-that would handle such
inferior goods. Besides that this good money
given for bad article went out of town and is
forever lost to Redwood Falls as money spent in
your own community is never lost.
Last Bargain Day of these grocery-ladies'
husbands offered in his store, ten bars of naptha
soap of highly approved brand for forty five
cents. Here was superior article at much less
than half the price his wife paid for very in
ferior one-and the money to go right back in
husbands perfectly whole pocket! The mistake
Mr.. Grocer made was in not taking half page
advertising space in the Redwood Special so that
he could tell his wife and all the other wives
all about this fine buy. He didn't, and on looking
through the last issue of the Special we find that
grocery store ads are mighty few and "soap
specials" just aren't to be seen at all.
Incidentally neither of the local papers has
carried a real soap observation-disclosures of the
big showy-up kind-for month of blue moons.
Probably these soap peddlers thought none of
our merchants handled soap and that's why they
invaded the town-they certainly can't be blamed
for grasping a golden opportunity.
We don't think it quite fair that Mr.. Grocer
should laugh at his wife, and ask the Gazette to
comment on her foolishness. How was she to
know he had the goods if he didn't tell her so?
How are any of US to know? The Gazette editor
herself didn't know thing about this twenty
for-forty five bargain and now we admit we are
peeved at having missed good buy.
It all harks back to the same old war cry; 1t
Paws to Advertise.
If YOU don't advertise someone from outside
is going to PEBBLE!
Take your choice. satva
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