The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-03-28

appears only because IL mas
been suggested that possibly we, who
gain our livelihood in REDWOOD
FALLS and this immediate community have not
given sufficient serious consideration to the ques-
ton of Loyalty and Patronage to Our Home In
dustries and Institutions
THIS CITY OF OURS-Redwood Falls-is
one of the very best in the State 1t has been
hit hard in the past three years, as have other
towns and cities of the Northwest, but Redwood
Falls is coming BACK. It's Business Institu-
tions are FIRM and Standardized; it's Bank,
from the standpoint of stability and safety is
among the very best; its Stores are conducted
on honest principles, offering to the buying pub
lie the best merchandise obtainable at RIGHT
PRICES. It's Creamery gives employment to
many people and puts into the pockets of
Farmer friends many extra dollars. In the pros
perity of these several institutions, WE ALL
as citizens of Redwood Falls and Redwood Coun-
ty participate.
But unless we Citizens patronize and
Loyal to city and its enterprises, how can
we expect to grow and be prosperous?
What do you imagine would become of Red
wood Falls if everybody were to spend their Red
wood Falls-earned money with the outside
chant-with the catalogue house, with the big
city stores, with the house-to- house peddler,
with the tinerant merchant who brings his
bankrupt stock of goods in here to sell?
What would happen?
Everything!
And pretty soon there wouldn't be any Red
wood Falls left for anything to happen in.
But fortunately, everybody does not spend
their money that way-some of them, most of
them loyal and patriotic citizens who know
that the prosperity of Redwood Falls depends
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vided support of the home institutions. And
they practice what they preach.
But some of us are not so loyal.
We send some of our money away from
home.
And 1t Never Comes Back!
Every dollar that is sent out of town means
just that much of a burden for all of
to carry-it deprves the community of just
that much working capital. 1t means that there
must be greater exertion by the loyal people in
maintaining the public institutions, a penalty
upon the citizen who is loyal to his home COM
munity.
Did you ever look at it that way?
1t is clear enough for those who will see.
Redwood Falls, like every other town city,
has its taxes to pay, has its charities and its
churches to maintain, and the other things
verging toward the happiness of the community
to keep gong-and they must be continued with
out break or Redwood Falls will fall.
Who is it that contributes to these things?
Cheerfuy and willingly
Is it the catalogue house. the big city stores
the house to- house peddler the initerant mer-
chant. 1t is not and you know it. 1t is to the
home town merchant and to the home town peo-
pie we must turn for these contributions, and
they have failed US! If we depended up
the outsider for means to carry us along with
these very important affairs of community good
they would be minus, and you know that, too.
Then why work against your own interest?
The home dealer works for you.
You buy from the home town merchant
knowing what you are buying. You do not pay
the down payment and then wait several days or
perhaps weeks, in many cases, to secure your
purchase, after which there is perhaps a dis
appointment, because of the quality of the mer-
chandise purchased. You are at a disadvantage,
very much so, in ordering through the large cat
alogue houses. A carefully prepared sales talk
is laid before you with exceptional exaggerated
views of the merchandise you have in mind of
purchasing.
In trading with the Redwood Falls merchant
every advantage is in your favor. You always
KNOW exactly what you are buying, because you
have it before your eyes, and it is no part of the
Redwood Falls merchants business to try to de-
ceive you. He wants you perfectly satisfied,
and even after you get your purchase home and
find it does not suit, your home merchant will
cheerfully make an exchange or return your
money-and the whole transaction is accom-
plished while you wait.
Besides this great advantage, your home
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