Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1909 — BARGAINS RIGHT AT HOME. [ARTICLE]

BARGAINS RIGHT AT HOME.

It may be that sometimes one picks up a bargain, in buying goods in Chicago, but is it very rarely. Chicago dealers will even tell the farmer that he can do better buying groceries there than at home. This may apply to some towns, but not to Rensselaer. As an example, we noticed in the advertisement of the Fair Store, in Sunday’s papers, "Groceries at Cut Prices,” and yet Gold Medal flour was priced at (1.65 per *4 barrel sack, 15 cents more than it is sold for right in Rensselaer. Tills is 60 cents more on a barrel than the same flour is sold for here, and this purported to be a cut price, too.

We have noticed for some time , that this popular brand of flour was being sold at 15 to 20 cents per sack more in Chicago than the Chicago Bargain Store here was selling it at. No doubt a comparision of other articles listed would show a like difference in the local dealer’s favor.