Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1915 — Rensselaer Merchants Invite You March 18th [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Merchants Invite You March 18th

They Are Putting On Their First Great Big Market Day and 29 Merchants Have Joined to Make It Worth Your While to Be I t Town

AUCTION SALE ENTIRELY FREE

Horses, Cattle, Farming Implements, Anything You Want to Sell-State Your Own Terms AUTOS STORED FREE; GASOLINE 11 CENTS * ' Three Garages Join in Plan to Make This First Big Market Day a Complete success —Most Extensive Advertising Campaign Ever Undertaken by Rensselaer Merchants— Many Neighboring Town Newspapers contain Big Page Ad in Which Merchants Offer Bargains That It Is Worth Coming Many Miles to Secure —Naturally the Center of a Great Trading District, Our Enterprising Merchants Wish to Draw Buisness From a Still Larger Field. Market Day. Thursday, March 18th. Rensselaer merchants offer rare trade advantages. They are extending an invitation as wide as the circulation of the many newspapers that will contain their page advertisement of bargains. Twenty-nine merchants belonging to the Retail Merchants Association have joined in the plan to make this an important eVent in the retail trade of Rensselaer. The advertisement is divided into sections, each of the 29 merchants having an equal part, and eah one offers either one or two special bargains for the day. They are real bargains and you will recognize them as such by reading the advertisement, which is as good as any news in the paper. Gasoline 11 Cents. In order to co-operate with the merchants, three garages, the Central, the Main and the Schroer, have decided to put gasoline for the day on a cost basis and will sell it in quantities of not less than 5 nor more than 10 gallons at 11 cents per gallon. They are going further than that and offering free storage for that day for visiting cars. Their liberality is expressage of the general welcome that other lines of business and all citizens of Rensselaer wish to extend to all who care to come to this city and spend the day even though they do not spend a cent. Our doors are open and you will find our stores and the earl/ spring offerings so, delightfully pleasing that it will inspire you to come back again and again. A Natural Center. Rensselaer is fortunately situated geographically. There is no competing trading point nearer than Chicago on the north or Lafayette on the south. East and west there are no towns as large as Rensselaer within a radius of fifty miles. Rensselaer merchants have determined by a united effort to try to secure trade from a wider zone than ever before and all are in line to boost for a larger and better Rensselaer.

This is an age of automobiles. They are coming into such practical use that almost every family that formerly kept a carriage and a driving team now has an automobile. This means of travel makes it possible to go long distances to trade and a trip that required a full day from early morning until late at night in the old days is now only a short afternoon drive with an automobile. This makes the p6ssibility of drawing business from a greater distance appeal to our progressive merchants who know they can buy as cheaply as the merchants of the much larger cities and often much cheaper than the merchants of the smaller towns. They are making prices correspond with their buying advantages and are going further and making some great concessions to get you to ome here on the first Big Market Day, March 18th. Auction Sale Free. - They have introduced ah innovation that may be developed into a regular feature in the plans of the future, a free auction sale of houses, cattle, sheep, hogs, chickens, farming mahinery or household goods. In fact, anything you wish to bring in on that day. Col. Fred Phillips will act as auctioneer and diaries G. Spitler will be the clerk. If the farmers of the

surrounding coutnry want this sale day made a regular thing they can demonstrate it by bringing in anything they wish to sell on that day. The auctioneer and clerk will not charge you a cent on that day if the stock or articles are offered during the hours established for the sale. Private selling will also be featured and it is probable that there will be some horse buyers here on that day.