Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1900 — We Don’t Want Their Ad. [ARTICLE]

We Don’t Want Their Ad.

The Merchant’s Association of Lafayette is an organization which is making desperate efforts to draw trade from all neighboring towns and from their point of view the effort is laudable enough, But what they thus gain, the other towns lose, and in the case of Rensselaer, where our own stores have just as good goods, and as good assortments, at prices fully as cheap, trade drawn from here would simply hurt pur merchants and the prosperity of the town generally, and be no benefit to anyone, except the Lafayette merchants.

In furtherance of this plan to’ to draw trade from Rensselaer and surrounding country, the association above named has sent us an ad-vertising-proposition; but as such advertising would be manifestly against the interests of our own town, we have declined to accept it.