Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — Stand By Year Own Town Says Gov. Folk. [ARTICLE]

Stand By Year Own Town Says Gov. Folk.

Jefferson City. Mo., July 18. — Governor Joseph W. Folk, in addressing t the retail merchants of .Missouri, at their convention here, spoke against the mail order business and favored advertising in the town papers. He said, in part: “We are proud of our splendid cities, and we want them to increase in wealth and population and we also want our country towns to grow. W e wish the city merchants to build up, but we also desire the country merchants to prosper. I do not believe in the mail order citizen. If a place is good enough for a mao to live in and to make his money in, it is good enough for him to spend his money.

“No merchant can succeed with out advertising in one way or another. Patronize your town papers, build them up, and they will build the town up and build you up increased trade and greater opportunities. Do not be afraid that business is going to be hurt by the recent exposures of wrongdoing in the commercial world. No man who is doing an honest business can be injured by the light. All business will be better for the cleansing process it is going through aud for the stamping out of evils.”

There will be no advances in our prices on fall clothing. We can give you all wool suits and overcoats from $3.00 to $5.00 cheaper than any other concerns. Duvall & Lundy. 15 to 60 per cent off every boot find shoe in the house of over SIO,OOO worth at the Chicago Bargain Store.