Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1919 — LOCAL MAN HAS BIG LAW SUIT [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MAN HAS BIG LAW SUIT

CHICAGO MAIL ORDER HOUSE SUES PROMINENT MERCHANT. The fall court docket shows record of a law suit of such size as to interest all the lawyers in, this part of Indiana. Jasper county has had very few really big law suits and the Republican considers that it has made a newspaper “scoop” in being able at this time to give to its readers particulars concerning that which promises to develop into a national fight. You will recall reading in our columns some time past an advertisement which stated tfeat “the local merchants would meet the prices as quoted by any or all mail order firms on any and all kinds of merchandise.” Evidently that didn’t particularly disturb the mail order houses, if it did, they didn’t protest, but since that time Hilliard & Hamill have advertised that they would sell (and are-sellin) standard grades of merchandise CHEAPER than ANY mail order house. The mail order houses claim it impossible, but Mr. Hilliard is confident that he will be able to win the suit in as much as he IS and HAS BEEN selling work shirts for 85c, while M. W. & Co.’s catalogue No. 88, page 214, price them at SI.OO.