Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1914 — Page 5

MEMM / • ■■■■■■l I A Business Sermon For Those Who Love 1 . 1- THE OLD TOWN | 1 By HENRY THOMAS ||| A I/ITTLE LECTURE OF GREATEST INTEREST TO ME AND WHICH OUGHT TO BE ALMOST AS NEAR TO YOUR HEART. SjfiS Telling you how you can keep $200,000 in circulation in Decatur and aid in employing a large number of extra men and women at gY>od wages, who will live here, pay taxes here and with the re t of us boost Decatur. 9gw| age I For a long time I have had something on my mind. It worries me and I can’t sleep at nights, I can hardly eat, though you would ggh n/bt think it to look at me and the great specialist to whom I went for advice said in one of those deep toned whispers for which spec- . felists are famous-“ The only way to cure yourself is to get it out of you.” So here it goes. I want you to think it over, study and pee if you don’t agree with me that this case is serious enough to caU'e worry and if you won’t agree with me that the cure ought to ik? /be made when it can be done so easily. All you have to do is to g i SMOKE DECATUR MADE CIGARS H /! 9 « /. , B {j Now Here's Where We Preach SOME HARD COLD FACTS g ! I -— B aHBE We take our text from the Proverb-“ Give and you shall Let me state this proposition in as plain away as I can ggH receive” or something like that-(we hav’nt got our text and see if we don’t agree. The only way I have been smks book handy, but we know thats what it means.) taught to solve a problem in this hard old arithmetic of jSn We don’t ask you for a red cent. What we want is your life is to dig in ana work it out. O boosting and y° u “ n Bive that whether you smoke or A t thi tj we j 15 ] and ta a W pot. AOU can say those boys are alright. You can say „ d mainta i nen ce expense of from »200. to S22S. Ml Q thoy m.«ke »• 8 0dd . clga k r ’ 7°“ can sa y a If I had the power to inject into you whatever was nee- fb) 3® ‘hattwil bring this about. You can ask the fellow who essarv to induce you to smoke Decatur Made Cigars-and « smokes‘‘Why nedont smoke a White Stag or some o.her you bet I’d do it if I could-it would mean that we would @ Decatur cigars and you can tell him why he ought to do it. during the next month just 180,000 more cigars K Heretofore we have secured the greatest part of our than we made the last month. business outside Decatur, where we had to compete T . A . u.--- oc Ua.h u nn S against the world, and where our cigars sold strictly upon IhM M?dnS n 0(1 IQ NCCu 25 MOPC InCR }L merit. Thats one reason why we know that vze make And that would only be the start for with that to go on ■ ' but lts not tbe principle reason. Ye have ww couid go out and build up a business that would mean i been making cigars for twenty six years, and ve have much to this community. Do you get me? It would mean M , spent the greatest part of that time in studying what the n f S6OO J k ° r Can O smoker likes best, how we could please him and get ns 1 L t business, we have equipped our shop with the proper iacilities so that we can prepare the tobacco and build a cig- The banker tells us that a few dollers per month plac- BSW ar as good as they can do it any where on earth. We ed on interest and that interest compounded for thirknow we can do it. we know that we have a clean, sun- ty years would make any person comfortable, even rich. & ' shop wc know that we have as good workmen as can We want to tell you right here and now> that a few ® be found anywhere, we know the tobacco we put in tbe s b OOS ( S eac h mO nth or week or day, compounded for thirty stue cigars is unexcelled in any shop on earth. Then why can t years, would make the best town in the whole universe, we sell it. Each year the city makes some special etfort If you don » t smoke any thing but home made cigars and to do something and thats right. We want to hdp do it r neighbor | 0 do likewise, in ten years from now an d w lu we dppt a .?; , S ar m P ec^| but don t p e atur w j ( | h ave no s on iy on e but several modern cigar you thing there ought to be a little reciprocity. Ihe man factories, employing many people and bringing joy and SI community. H a new factory, jiays a centon the new brick street or does Here is just another little pointer that we are not chargany of the other things that the Hume manufacturer ing you any thing for-that same spirit would prove con- CO does. Why should you patronize him? tagious and would help in a hundred thousand ways to jsS) We believe the answer is that it has never bevn ca.led in the same way, and we are trying to think of it in the £("i to your attention, that you have never worried abou. it broad u.iselfish light. If you help your neighbor, yon as we have and that now that we have bought this page h j vourself j j to preach you this sermon you will no: be found wanting. ‘ 1 3 " ’ g WON’T YOU START THIS WEEK B O WE ARE MAKING THE WHITE STAG CIGAR IN FIVE DIFFERENT SIZES AND SHAPES H WHITE STAG LONDRES EXTRA-SC, PURIIANA-sc, PAN4TELLA-sc, OPERA-sc, LONDRES g ® GRANDE-BROAD LEAF WRAPPER-5C g H These cigars are extra mild-clean, well made cigars guaranteed to suit the taste. As a special inducement we have arranged with our various Decatur dealers whereby they will give to each person who buys Twenty-live cents worth of any of these cigars at one purchase on Saturday, z ’ pri! 18th - — ■ a handsome leather covered match box. Its a little souvinir which we hope will remind you constantly of this sermon on smoking home made cigars. I THE WHITE STAG CIGAR CO. I «mg Decatur Indiana AllTheTime m Help the White Stag 50 9 uu J °' n our , | c "X’i;, 2S suBBBHBBBmnwaaatMBMHnBK