Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1918 — BIG TRADE WEEK PLANNED FOR JASPER COUNTY PEOPLE [ARTICLE]

BIG TRADE WEEK PLANNED FOR JASPER COUNTY PEOPLE

Merchants to Co-operate with the Republican in Promoting Fare Refunding Sale In This City. SALE STARTS SATURDAY, MARCH 9 Attractive Bargains Will Be Offered for the Week in Every Line of Merchandise.

Co-operation in everything means success always. Getting together brings results. What one individual can not accomplish alone a number of individuals working together can accomplish. This is the proper theory and the Republican is pleased to announce that it is to be carried out in Rensselaer on a large scale. A splendid movement is on foot now. It’s a “get-together” on the part of Rensselaer’s leading retail merchants to bring the people to this city from the neighboring towns and outlying territory to do an extra amount of trading for at least a week and prove to them that they can shop more adventageously in Rensselaer than any place in this section of the state. The Republican has practically completed arrangements to inaugurate a big co-operative fare refunding sale and Trade Week in Rensselaer, to begin Saturday, March 9. During these seven days the merchants of Rensselaer are going to marke it an object to the buying public; in the way of prices and assortment of goods, and in addition to this they are going to refund the railroad fares of all out-of-town customers who do their trading in Rensselaer during this sale. The occasion is to be known as “Shop-in-Rensselaer Week,” or “The Republican’s Big Co-operative Fare Refunding Sale.” It will be a great opportunity to demonstrate what can be done by co-operation, because practically every leading merchant in this city is going to make special preparations for this big trade week. Nearly every merchant in this city will make special inducements for this sale, and those in need of anything from a dish-pan to a complete outfit for the home, or from a pair of hose to a complete dress of clothing outfit, shoes and all, or from a pound of sugar to a big order of groceries, drugs, novelties, etc., should avail themselves of this opportunity to iCy in a supply of seasonable merchandise at special bargain prices. Some people may wonder why the merchants of Rensselaer are uniting

in a movement of this kind, but the reason is simple when explained. Rensselaer has the best stores of any city of its size in the state. , It is desired to thoroughly impress this fact on all the people within a trading radius of this city, and a united effort on the part of the Republican and the merchants of Rensselaer will be made to prove the assertion beyond all doubt. Every merchant in the city is requested to make some special inducement in the way of goods and prices for one week, and at the same time agree to pay their proportion of the fares refunded to all out-of-town customers during the week of the sale. The plan is meeting with the hearty approval of practically all our leading merchants, and as a result it will undoubtedly be the biggest trading event ever held in this city. Further announcements will be made of this big co-operative fare refunding sale from day to day in the Republican. Watch for these announcements.