Abilene Daily Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 262, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 11, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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porations promising proper and cotttteotfs
treatment to all .believing tnat yoor opening an
account with us will create a business relation
that will not only exist for a day hut become
permanent.
SEVENTEEN
Deposits
Directors:
J.-M. Radford
B. B Bynuui
J. K Porter
W. M. Iacy
WATCH US GROW!
ATTIRE
We "Dress" men with "Clothes" that cre-
ate a 'Habit' to wear none others. We make
him an "Ornamental" subject of admiration
in both business and social circles. We dress
every shape correctly and "fit the hard to fit"
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HARRIS The Druggist i!
HAS WHAT
We have just received a nice assortment of Cuttlery -
and if you want a good Pocket Knife or Razor let us ..
show you a nice one that is
Geo C. Harris Druggist::
NEWSPAPERS
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Chandler - Hall Grocery Co.
Sole Agents for Batavia Canned Goods
After All Is
Said and Done
Is not the ariiount you pay for.a
Refrigerator only a "drop In the
bucket?" Think of it-tie "foods
your family eat are kept in it. Can.
anything keap your foods too well?
Is. there an advantage in peeping
foods just right food odors not
mixing no dampness; no 'mould
but everything crisp and cold arid
dry and pure as when put in? Then
use an Automatic. :-. ;-; :-:
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MONTHS OLD
$192000.oo
A. O. Scarborough
Bruce E. Oliver
Morgan Weaeer
J. U. Russell
MERE'S It REASON!
YOU WANT
fully guaranteed.
& MAGAZINES
LEAVE YOUR ORDER WITH US
And it will be filled with
exactly the groceries you
specify. No substitute or
somethiug just as good.
Our line of food products
is complete consisting of
the best the market affords
FRESH VEGETABLES
AND FRUITS
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Boone-Mueller
Hardware Co.
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WILING TOGETHEt
fOMB MERCHANTS SHOULD PAt
TRONIZE EACH OTHER.
KEEP DOLLAR GOING 'ROUND
Do Not Let It Escape by Unnccetiar
lly 8ondlng It'to the City 8et an
Example to Others.
Thtt community that will pull .to-
BOthor that will work nB ono man
foe the Boncral Intorosts will And an
abundanco of prosperity.
nd working togothcr racana Uo
spending of th dollars of ttio com-
munity within tho community. Nor
doos It mean only that thofarmorthb
mechanic tho doctor tho preacher
too odltor must spend their monoy at
homo but It means also that tho
merchant must do tho same thing. It
moans that you Mr. Dry Goods Mor-
bhant muet patronlzo your neighbor
'Ml:.. Furniture Dealer when you want
furniture. It moans that you Mr.
Furnlturo Dealer must patronize your
neighbor Mr. Dry Goods Merchant
when you want dry goods. It means
that tho grocoryman must patronlzo
tab homo implement dealer when he
Wants a now wagon and tho Imple-
ment dealer must buy his groceries
In the homo town. It means that
whether Mr. Butcher Mr. Grocory-
man Mr. Dry Goods Merchant Mr.
Furniture Dealor Mr. Hardware Man
The keen blade of trade reciprocity will divide the dollars of the com-
munity among the home people. Keeping the dollars at home will build
saving accounts at the bank and make for general prosperity. Sending
them to the city mail-order house will bring bankruptcy and ruin to all
except the city:-
or whoever it may be that intends to
erect a new building they should buy
the material for that building at
homo or their neighbor Mr. Building
Material Man.
And lot us speak a word for Mr.
Printer Mau also. Ho Is a part of
this community; he contributes to Its
prosperity; he advertises it and he is
entitled to his place in the clrclo
through which the .community's dol
lars are to circuit':.?. When you Mr.
Merchant want printing of any kind
give tho job to the homo printer.
Tho dollar that you spend with him
Jio will again spend with you and
both will make a profit on it. It is
but fair that ho have this his legiti-
mate portion of tho homo trade. Ho
Is m much a part of tho community
as yourself and 'as much entitled to
your support as you aro entitled to
the support or tho farmer tho me-
chanic the preacher tho doctor.
Tho battle against the mail-order
octupus can never bo a successful
one unless all interests aro actively
engaged in it. It can novor bo suc-
cessful so long as tho merchant wants
It 1 reached but does not want "to prac-
tlco it himself. The merchant who
sends Ills saving account to tho city
bank for safo keeping is not entitled
to tho support of tho community
whose money ho takes from It. The
merchant who will not patronize his
brother merchants who makes his
visits to tho city an oxcuso for buy-
ing bis own lidusohold supplies sup-
plies that aro not .carriod on hi3 own
shelves 'of tho city merchants is not
entitled to tho support of tho com-
munity. Such a merchant wants to
preach but not practlco homo trade.
He wants to do with tho community's
dollars Just what ho condemns in
othors send thonv away from tho
community. He would bankrupt tho
community for aolflah interests.
There aro few If any such mer-
chants as this in tills or other com-
munities but If thoro aro any hero It
.Is not for their benefit that this pa.
por Is preaching home trade to Its
readers.
"We hoar much of tho strength of
trusts and combinations.. In what
does their strength Mo? To a large
extent in 'tho. fact that thoy control
the trade In the commodltluBln which
thoy are dealing. They mako every
dollar tey spend an lnterost earn-
ing dollar. Let us form a little trust
of our own. Let all'of us morchant
farmer doctor mechanic preacher
editor spend our dollars at home
keep them at home and wo have or-
ganized a trust of qur own .that will
brlpg to each of us our share of earn-
ings on tho capital Invested
This Is not a hard problem to figure
out for ourselves. The farmer. lot
us say wants a dollar's worth of
sugar. He buys It of the home gro-
ceryman and the groceryman makes
prpM. Tho Krocoryman (buys a ol
tar1!) worth of dry goods and theory
.goods merchant makes a profit. The
dry goods tnorchant patronized tho
dentist nnd tho dentist makes a
profit and the dentist buys blittor and
produco from tho farmer and tho
farmer makes a profit. So an tho
dollar goes around and around a com
munlty each man Into whoso kcoplng
It ionics makes a pront on tho han-
dling of It and tho dollar grows Into
two. Hut what would have happonod
had tho farmer taken that dollar to
buy his groceries of tho rriall-ordor
house or tho groceryman sent It to
the city for his dry floods? Tho
trust organization of tho community
would havo been broken that dollar
would havo ceased to earn profits for
the people of tho community but
would havo began earning dollars for
tho city Into which It was sent.
It Is tho dollar that is spent at
homo that makes tho Bavlngs deposits
of tho homo bank grow; that in-
creases tho wealth of tho community
and decreases tho tax rato. Buying
at homo means Bavlng tho commun-
ity but Mr. Merchant do not preach
this trade at home doctrlrto unloss
you practlco It You must buy your
stock of .merchandise In tho city to
be Httro but asldo from what is spent
for your stock of merchandise see
to It that overy dollar It 1b posslblo
to keep at homo remains In tho com-
munity. Keep them circulatinB
among your neighbors and Uioy will
make money for you aB well as for
them; they will build tho homo com:
munlty and make of It a prosperous
community In which your business
will grow and your town holdings
will grow In value at tho same time
the fanner's acres grow lnvaluo. Tho
home trade problem is a many aided
orio and the homo merchant's aide of
tho problem is not the least of them.
WKIGH'T A. I'ATTIOHSO.V.
REASON FOR ALL THINGS.
Customs That Now Seem Peculiar Had
Origin in Wisdom.
If you aro patient enough to ferrot
it out you will find that there Is a rea-
son for overy llttlo Idiosyncrasy we
havo for overy quoer thing wo do.
Take for example the wearing of
Widows' caps. Why do widows cover
their heads with these curious llttlo
arrangements of malfne crepo and
lace? It Is a custom handed down to
us from tho Itomans who shaved tholr
heads when thoy mourned tho loss of
a dear one. This Idea was all right
for men who did not mind appearing
without a single spear of hair on tholr
heads but of course It was most un-
attractive for women. No one not
oven a Itoman matron llkod to bo
aeon bald-headed so tho women of
tho Tiber dovlsed a llttlo cap to hldo
their baldness and thus the custom
has come down to us even though
heads aro no longer shaved as a sign
of mourning.
Tho reason that bells aro tolled for
tho dead is that years ago whon toll-
ing was first established tho peoplo
thought that tho sound of tho bells
frightened away evil spirits who hov
ered near tho dead.
Why do mpn and women too wear
bows on tho left side of tholr hats?
Tho reason Is simple onough. Whon
tho head covering built upon the ordor
of hats of to-day was first introduced
it was ornamented with a ribbon which
went around tho crown nnd hung down
in two ends on the left side reaching
below tho shoulder. Those ends were
a sort of anchor or safoty line and
word put thoro expressly to be seized
when .sudden gnat of wind threaten-
ed toblow tho hat away. Tho ribbons
wore put on tho loft sldo becausd as a
general thing tho loft hand was raoro
apt to be freo than the right Eventu-
ally thpso ribbons wero knotted In a
fetching bow with flowing ends and
then thoy wero cut off quite close to
tho hat so that thoy form a vory
small and stiff bow knot.
1 is always the custom to throw old
shoes after a brldo and this qucor
custom cwne into voguq whon parents
wore In the habit of using tholr slpi
porjj to keep tholr girls obedient nnd
gopd. Now tho slipper Is not really
Intomlftd for the brfdo but for the
bridegroom who Is supposed to uso
It for tho same purpose the mother
and father of olden times did.
Failures are with heroic minds tho
stepping stones of success.
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The kind we can't keep.
The kind that sell.
TVip lnnrl von want tn wpav
The kind in
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and quality.
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DUTY PROMPTS
city. Piedmont Addition is becoming to bo the residence place of Southwest
Abilene several new houses having been recently erected and more to follow
shortly. The proposed street car line will run on the south street of this ntld
tiou. None of these lots will be sold to speculators and no rent houses will W '
allowed. Our plan of building houses on the installment plan is as popular as
ever come ami let us explain it to you. We have succeeded iu listing back'
some of the lots in Midway addition at a very slight advance in price so slight
in fact that lots there still offer a splendid chance for investment. Our list of A
residences for sale is very select no doubt we can furnish you just the place";1 1
you are looking for. List your property with us and it shall receive the very' J
best of attention. We will be glad to write your fire insurance. :- :-: -.; A
LOUIS C. WISE & SON
Real Estate Rental
1 151 Chestnut Street
If you want good Coffee and Coffee that one can
enjoy drinking buy
Blanke's Gold
Medal Brand
And Ydu Have The Very Best
Thorn-Parish & Company ;
Roberts Phone 293 1O3 PINE ST. S-W Phone 40a
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That 1ms a meaning with each purchase at
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If quality means anything to you you' il
like our way of doing business. " J
Wo aim to win your confidence wnh 100
cents worth of value for every dollar you
leave with us.
Glad to have you look through though
you don't want a thing. '
Mingus & Weaver
That you provide a suitable home
for your family. Call and let us tell
you what we have to ofTcr in Va-
cant lots iu the different parts of the
and Insurance Ancnts
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