Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1918 — BIG TRADE WEEK OPENS SATURDAY [ARTICLE]

BIG TRADE WEEK OPENS SATURDAY

RENSSELAER MERCHANTS COOPERATE IN OFFERING BIG BARGAINS. The big co-operative fare-reftmd-ing sale will open in this city Saturday,- and it should mean a great trade week for Rensselaer if weather conditions are at all favorable. The sale will continue all next week, including Saturday, March 16. The merchants who have combined in this special effort to attract custom from outside the city, and whose announcements appear in another section of this issue, have spared no effort in stocking their counters and shelves with the latest goods, and the values will be found most attractive also. Big price reductions have made quite generally, for the merchant is willing to do with a small profit if he may secure new customers, men and women whom he is naturally desirous of pleasing. Every customer of these stores will derive a double benefit from a visit to Rensselaer’s shopping district at any time during the seven business days to come. The shopper will not only be able to purchase goods at a very’ low price, hut will receive in addition the cost of his fare to the city. Readers should bear in mind this double feature. They should remember that a trip to the city during Fare-Refunding Week costs them nothing The merchants pay your way, provided, of course, the amount of your purchases is sufficient. The total required to gain a refund is very low. Nor must all purchases be made' at any one store. The customer can buy at a dozen stores, laying in such supplies as may be need ed, and still take advantage of the fare-refunding plan. The method is this: at the first store you visit, ask for a fare-refunding slip and ask that the amount of your purchase, however small, be formally registered thereon. Take this slip with you and be sure to present it to the next merchant you visit. He in turn will record your next purchase and by the time you have completed your shopping you will have a total sufficient to entitle you to an amount equal to your fare, one way or both ways, as the case may be. All farerefunding will be done- at the Republican office. Please remember that. In order to get your cash the slip must be presented at this office. This i ’an was arranged for the convenience of merchants and so that they would not be put to the trouble of reckoning up purchases for the purpose of making, the refund of fares and also saves time by this plan. The office force of the Republican will have charge of the farerefunding. Readers of this paper in villages and on rural delivery routes should remember that they are entitled to fare refunds whether they come to Rensselaer in their conveyances or not. They can drive to town and still have their fares refunded.- If you prefer to bring your family in your own car you will still be entitled to the refund fare. The Rensselaer merchants who joined in this co-operative movement have not been niggardly in arranging for the event. They are determined to introduce their stores to all the people of Jasper county and they will refund fares with the greatest liberality.

Alco-Nut Butter is guarantee! to be as delicious and nutritious as any butter made. Sold on a money-back guarantee. Per lb. 33c. ROWLES & PARKER. Anyone wishing to see me will fini me in the Trust & Savings Bank oi Saturday afternoons. —H. O. Harris, phone 134.