Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1918 — MANY GET READY FOR RIG BUSINESS HERE NEXT WEEK [ARTICLE]

MANY GET READY FOR RIG BUSINESS HERE NEXT WEEK

FARE-REFUNDING PROJECT WILL-DRAW THRONGS FROM COUNTRY SURROUNDING RENSSELAER. \ We want to repeat the suggestion made the other day that Rensselaer s Big Co-Operative Sale and Trade Week be made a home coming affair as well as a trading event. About thirty of Rensselaer’s leading merchants will participate in The Republican’s Big Co-Operative FareRefunding Sale from Saturday, March 9, to Saturday, March 16, inclusive. They are thoroughly enthused with the plan to refund railroad fares on the co-operative plan to all their customers during the sale and when this, in addition to the remarkable values to be offered in up to the minute merchandise is taken into consideration, the event will surpass any effort of its kind ever made in this. city. So let your invitation and slogan be, “Come to Rensselaer to shop and make us a visit.” Shout it so loud it can be heard for twenty miles in every direction. Write it in every letter you send to a relative or friend residing anywhere in this section of the state. The suggestion is a good one and The Republican wishes to encourage the movement among all its readers. There will be special bargains at nearly every store in the city and the wise, economical buyers can certainly save money by taking advantage of this unusual opportunity to do their shopping in Rensselaer. Shoppers may distribute their patronage among as many different stores as they may desire and then by going to The Republican office, where the fares are to be refunded, will be presented with the cash total of the railroad fare from their home to Rensselaer and return. A pleasing feature of this part of the arrangement as previously stated is the fact that a person is not compelled to make his purchases all at one store, but he can, on the contrary, trade at as many different stores as he may like, the only provision being that the aggregate of his purchases equal the sum designated in the published schedule, Say, for instance, a person coming from a town where the amount to be purchased is $lO, Can, if desired trade at 10 different stores spending $1 at each place and still be entitled to his fare back, just the same as though he spent the whole $lO at one store. The purchases, however, must all be made at the stores participating in the sale. Full instruction as to how these refunding slips are to be used will be printed in the special Trade Week edition to be issued on Friday of this week. That edition will also carry the special announcements of the merchants participating in the sale. Watch for this edition and get posted on this and all other features of the big trading event. The G. E. Murray Co., Dept. Store. Rowles & Parker, Dept. Store. Hilliard A Hamill, Clothing. The Clothing House of Wm. Traub C. Earl Duvall, Clothing. Central Garage Co., Ford Dealers. B. N. Fendig, Shoes. Fendig’s Fair, Women’s Wear. W. J. Wright, Furniture. Columbia Shoe Store, Shoes and Millinery. Jones A Briney, Millinery. P. W. Clarke, Jewelry. G. Jessen, Jewelry. Warner Bros., Hardware. E. D. Rhoades A Son, Hardware. Kellner A Callahan, Implements