Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1905 — Stand By Your Home Towns. [ARTICLE]

Stand By Your Home Towns.

To e ery one of our farmer readers who is inclined to patronize Montgomery Ward & Co , or Sears Roebuok &Co , or any other like establirhments in Chicago or other far away large oities we wou’d repeat the following as it appears in one of our exchanges :-*'My friend you live in this community, Vou have lived here for a number of years. You own a farm tuat cost j perhaps $25 or S3O per acre, and it | is now worth $75 to SIOO per acre and yet the land is not as good as when you bought it. What has made it worth more? It is near a good town —this town that you and your neighbors help, ed to build up by your*.patronage While you were helping the town with your patronage, you were ua. oonsoiously doubling and trebling the value of your farm. Tae rule works both ways. Tne growth of the town increases the value of yom farm, and the deterioration ofthetowu injures the value of your farm. If you buy your goods in your home town you help to make your home town larger and better and help to make yonr land worth more. If yon buy your gjeds in Chioago you help to make Chioago a larger city and yon leave toother people the burden of building up your home community, and increasing the value of ycur land. If yon help build up Cnioago, how muoh will it increase the value of yonr farm?’’ And to which might be added that if you have a good town right in your vicinity, you get much .bet ter prices for your produce, such as butter, eggs, small fruits, eto. And also potatoes, as is well illustrated right now when good home grown potatoes oan be sold in Rensselaer for say 40 or 50 cents a bushel while if they had to be shipped away they would not net 10 cents a bushel. It pays in the long run to build up your home town even if you pay a little more for some artioles than the mail order houses sell them foi.