The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-01-09

practically all clothing stores of this
day is feature that is worthy of
consideration when placing custom.
Spells Real Economy.
From ian economic standpoint, the
individual who has thought the mat
ter through will realize that by the
keeping of more money in the home
town, by trading largely in the home
area, there will, of necessity, be more
money circulating in that area. 1t
is a reciprocal thing. Spend your
money with those who in turn will
spend great deal of that money
with you and your neighbors. Here
is the factor that kept the early
pioneefr. and even the later residents
of th0middle west broke most of the
time. In the early days through
necessity, and later because of habit
and clever advertising, the West
bought largely from the East. There
was scarcity of money in the West
because of this. Now the same thing
is happening today on smaller scale
with the smaller community playing
the part of the West and the larger
industrial centers taking the roll of
the East. And thus it goes. The
citizen of these smaller communities
will undoubtedly learn sometime but
it is costly lesson.
1t is to be understood, however,
that the writer does not wish to be
interpreted as advocating the making
of tight little commonwealth out of
each little trading area. That would
be almost impossible under the pre-
sent day conditions and at the same
time highly undesirable. To make a
statement saying that a community
should subsist within itself would be
ridiculous. The bringing about of
such conditions would be to return to
the primitive life of medieval times,
and few would wish for such re-
turn. There will be thousands of
things that the smaller community
can not provide which will have to
come from the bigger centers. The
point of this article is, however, that
the going out of the home trade ter
ritory to buy articles which can just
as well be bought from the local deal
er or merchant is suicidal thing for
the community. For the small city
to thrive and grow, there must be a
group of prosperous businesses. And
really, why make your home in a
city where the shops and stores are
not adequately provided to satisfy
your desires?
Everything Here.
That Redwood Falls is able to salts
fly practically any desire that an in
diyidual might have is plainly seen
upon review of the retail and shop
ping possibilities in this city. The
following is list and enumeration
of the retail stores Offering to the
public nationally advertised goods:
there are eleven firms representing
nationally known automobiles; thir-
teen dealers offering to the public au-
tomobile tires; twelve auto repair
shops, each of which carries a COM
plete stock of automobile supplies
and accessofies; one retail bakery;
two print shops; three clothing mer-
chants, representing practically all
the best known brands of hats, coats,
suits, and other articles of wearing
apparel; three retail confectioners;
three drug stores, in whose stocks
there are carried the products Of
most of the well known drug concerns;
three up-to-date department stores;
three dealers in electrical supplies;
two furniture stores, IN each of which
is to be found varying grades of
furniture to fit the pocket book of
anyone in the county; twelve garages,
all completely equipped to take care
of both tourist and home trade; four