Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1900 — Page 8

B it Our special stove sale will continue until next Saturday evening. ■ St K r . _ B ■ Wg»BjWMW^BBgIW»aBaawwma«WSaMaw^BWWWWgaBBMgKMaaMBm^M«BHMBBMBaHagSMBMMB™*B Be M* aßaaßKaßfeaß fe 1 II I | A Bold Announcement. | I Ig I ■ I I II gfi Read it and You will be Convinced of its Boldness. o | S i i 2 | fcE l Ih| H ~ 4* CO many people have got to thinking that they can buy cheaper of the B> B Is7 I O department stores and catalogue houses of Chicago, St. Louis, Cincin- a B C nati and elsewhere... They think their home merchants charge more than a || q reasonable profit, and in too many cases we are sorry to admit it is true. | g S (Y. i Now, as we state above, we propose to make a bold announcement:— IO 1 Ot_ i We Will Meet the Prices of Any Department Store or Catalogue House. iXJ S ft g All that we as k I s that y°u deal with us on the same basis that you deal with |22 H O the catalogue house, and give us the same amount of time to get the goods 13 S Q which it would require to get them from thrm. Plank your money down when J Q S O Z you order the goods and we will meet each and every price they make and S< B ft < | furnish you the same goods at the same prices they offer you. F B > i WE WILL GO FURTHER. We don't ask you to take any goods where 3 ■<J | mistakes are made in ordering. We ll shoulder the mistakes. If any of you ] g Q I ever had anything come wrong you know what a nice little job it is to get it Ql| O£ S corrected, no matter how willing the firm is to do so. It takes correspondence, i < § ft < stamps and freight on the goods to get them exchanged, to say nothing of loss IHI S of time. Some people prefer to buy away from home because it sounds big to 1 rzi § * be able to say they ordered from Chicago, etc. We know of one party who is > S H< g actually paying more for goods bought away from Decatur than he could buy | B O A B them of his dealer here. This kind of people we can do nothing for, but the W & H | kind who are making the dollar go just as far as they can, we can and will do i" ® ■■ L) ? something for. Give us a trial on the proposition we make, if you are one of B 8 those who have been buying away from home... Bring your catalogue with § I— i rs you. If we fail to furnish the goods without a reasonable excuse don’t give us S your confidence again. Try us once. We don’t fear the results. We are resi- f S ■W I dents of Decatur. We are your home merchants. We help pay taxes. We | Z R O -J have to live and must consume some of your products. m „ § fe Is th ? re anything wrong about our proposition? The whole trouble with i 3 § oni people about Decatur is the same with which so many communities are i io ® SW ® That old, slow coach credit. Some of it is so slow we never get it. B « O ' .j merchant can sell goods cheap on that plan. The dollar invested in goods b trj S ftO® today and sold for cash tomorrow can be invested in more goods the following i Sh I day and the same process of sale may be repeated, but the dollar invested in 'I £ 1 g | goods today and sold on credit tomorrow is tied up just so long as you don’t iY S S $ O 8 back, and its earning capacity is stopped for the merchant until he gets A S ®S t back again - Can you Y onder wh F the catalogue house has the advantage in IW I S " I price over most of your home merchants? The catalogue house won’t trust ISi Sg B Z.Y'i’h Ve ? demands the money m advance with no goods in sight. Your home R I h?™ fi 7 St M and ? ften t 0 hiS Borrow ’ even though 100 per cent some- iH S ° I o p ofi /’ Man ??“ es a se ® m mg profit o f 25 per cent on goods sold . ® B" Q S v° a GOO P “an turns out to be merely a small interest on the money invested s’ S Z 1 ecause of SLOW pay. Treat your HOME merchant like you are compelled I'■ 3 H J •'° treat your catalogue house and we think you will get better results. | llp We handle a full line of Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Paints, Oils, Varnishes J - . . Building Material. Buggies. Wagons, Binders, Mowers and a full line of Farm Implements. Call t t | when in tow “ aad make ®«r •*<>« r«mr headquarters. We have a few chairs if you want to rest I B gd and we keep the store warm and the latch string out. 8 S I I I I | BRITTSON BROTHERS. I | I 1 AttCnd ° Ur Special Stove sak arid get a free fondT | I