The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-06

NJ. w. Savage, Minneapolis mail
order house clipped the story in the
Producers News regarding the Dool-
ey farmer who quit churning his
cream and trading the butter with a
Plentywood groceryman for grocer
les and shipped the cream to Ken
mare creamery, the returns for
which he sent to Savage for groc-
cries, earning $3.50 on a go, and
reproduced the clipping which it
sent to the farmers of the northwest
along with a circular letter in re-
gard to its grocery prices.
The local chain store house organ
has thrown a fit over this and de-
MES the truth Of the statement.
The farmer mentioned is no other
than Art Wankel of Dooley precinct,
former county commissioner in this
county.
Yesterday when in Plenthywood
he said to a representative of the
Producers. News: You may state
that I sent Savage an order for
$11.05 and paid $2.32 in freight, and
saved just $3.50 on the order. figur-
ing what 1 have been paying Ed
Peterson on each item for the past
several years; that is better vet.
is doing towards helping the poor
farmers Of Sheridan county feed
themselves this winter. Out in my
district all the farmers are sending
to Savage. We are clubbing our or
ders to save freight and we intend
to continue to do so as long as the
Plentywood businessmen boycott our
paper and hold up prices. Things
being equal 1 am for patronizing the
home merchant but not to the ex-
tent Of being robbed myself or the
taking the food out of my children's
mouths to feed them and theirs, es-
pecially when they fight everything
and anything that benefits me.
And the talk of the Plentywood
to patronize home industry them
selves when they can avoid it, is
not convincing to me. When they
sell Plentywood flour and Plenty
wood bread exclusively, and buy
their printing in Plentywood and
boost the Plentywood bottling works
and all other home enterprises their
arguments will have more logic with
me. Until then 1 will keep the diff
ference between what I pay in Plen-
tywood and what 1 pay Savage in
my own pocket instead of in the
pockets of the Plentywood business
men. Money in my pocket also
helps build Sheridan county and
helps me pay my taxes and the in
1t comes to paying taxes and maxi
ing donations, these things are all
paid for by us as overhead every
time we buy dimes worth in Plen-
tywood. The Savage story is every
word the truth"
SO that's that.
Now IN reference to the Penney
Company: A lady told the Producers
News that at Christmas time she
priced a certain bed spread there. 1t
was 1898. She bought the identi-
cal spread at the Penney store at
Devils Lake for $4.98. The other
day she called and priced the spread
again-it is now S5.98 having drop
ped SO even since Christmas, but is
yet 81 more than at Devils Lake.
She purchased the said spread at
Christmas time. That's the way Mr.
Roser does business at Plentywood
and that's why he got sore when
the Producers News tolked about hi
jackers and withdrew his advertis-
ing-his conscience pricked him.
Harry Folks paper says some
thing about prison made products
is there a prison made product that
Penney does not handle, or a scah
commodity that that store does not
handle? Or is there a union label
article in his store-and that paper
gives columns Of free space to that
store. Is there one argument in ia
vor of Penney hat is not just as
true of Savage. besides Savage sells