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And no country has ever called helptoUncle Sam that they did not get it. I need help to fight these catalogue houses. I don’t need help on the goods or the prices, but I
do need some one to help me show the peo pie of this county that they don’t have to send away for the goods. There are hundreds that don’t know the prices that I sell
goods for. All they know is what some other store keeper told them; which is never the truth. A lot of the “would-be cash” stores tell them they sell as cheap as John
Brennan. Why they have to pay more than I sell for. Besides if I only make one cent off each customer I make more money in one day than they do in a week, where
they make 50c and $1.00 off each one. The kind of help I need is, if you will hand the paper each week to some of your neighbors that cannot afford to subscribe for it.
While they would make the price of the subscription each week yet they don’t know it.
The United States has contracted to save the people of Europe from the Blockheaded Rulers that are running the war. You can’t tell me that the Kaiser is a friend
of the German people any more. Any commander that runs his soldiers up in masses to be mowed down by machine guns is not a commander, he is a lunatic. Before
Uncle Sam went in I was for Germany. Now I am for America and the men who are fighting for this country. It don’t make any difference what country you were born
in or what country your father was born in you are an American now or you are a traitor, and a coward besides. We are all United States now and if you can’t fight
you can at least buy bonds that will furnish clothes and guns for the fellows who can. Uncle Sam has a fight on his hands. He has to whip a country that the whole of
Europe couldn’t lick. And take my word for it he can do it. He is sending the little fellows first and if they can’t do it he can send us old ducks and we can. I tell you
if it comes to where us old timers have to lay aside our work and go over there, then some fur is going to fly. We have so much work to do that we don’t want to be both
ered with war, but if we have to go we will go for business. Any man who lays back now is a sneak and a coward and a traitor and he has no more back bone than a
worm, and Sears Roebuck can have your business. I need business, but I need the business of the good fellows, not the worms. I want the business (and I guess I am
getting most of it) from the fellows who are always ready with a helping hand for people in distress and who are not afraid to live, fight or die for their friends or their
country. All the rest I don’t need an dl don’t want. Women who doll up and try to shine around now and don’t do something for the fellows in the trenches, don’t
amount to much. When you see some of them trying to cut a big swath around your neighbors ask her how many liberty bonds she has in her pocket. Swell clothes
this year is Uncle Sam’s uniform or a Red Cross badge or the end of a Liberty Bond sticking out of your inside pocket. If you had started to trade with me two
t years ago you would have had money to bu Lot you can never save money by telephoning for goods and charging the n, or rutting through catalogues. One
l&rirl sent for a pair of shoes nine weeks ago and has not got the shoes or her money back yet.
ill- If Uncle Sam wants a list of slackers and alien enemies he can get a perfect one from the records of the Catalogue houses. The very ones who lay down on the home
F town day after day can not be depended upon to back the United States in time of need. Patriotism and charity go hand in hand and they both should begin at home. Just
slip down to the post office or depot and pick out a few of those names and look them up. You will find out who you can depend on. No they don’t save by sending away.
I will guarantee to beat any catalogue house or peddler from 5 to 25 per cent. The reason they send away is because they are afraid some one would get hold of a penny of
their money. They would lay down on the town—their friends and their Country and care for no one but themselves.
DRY GOODS.
CORSET COVERS 10
36c ones.1
LADIES’ COTTON HOSE flQ
15c ones.Uww
MEN’S COTTON WORK ftQr
Socks . uau
LADIES’ $1.25 PURE SILK 74
Hose .„.I HU
SPARK PLUGS, RED HEAD >|7
or Splitdorf’s .HI b
BLOW OUT PATCHES 97
each .,.w I U
POLERINE, 97
per gallon .w I b
MACHINE OIL 90
per gallon .wtu
STEAM CYLINDER OIL 97
SAL SODA nC
2 pounds for...UJm
EGG BEATERS. O7
FRUIT JAR RINGS 07
per dozen.„.UI b
One enough per jar.
PINT FRUIT JARS CC
with tops, per dozen.w Jb
QUART FRUIT JARS CO
per dozen. wOb
ONE-HALF GALLON FRUIT 1*7
Take my advice, they won’t be much
cheaper, or higher, while mine lasts.
6—5c. PORCELEAN NEST 10.
Eggs ..I 4C
10 CHINA NEST IO
Eggs .I4C
White Canvas slippers. Oxford
shoes at canvas prices. Can’t charge
as much for canvas as leather. Look
up S. R. & Co. prices on matches.
ENGLISH CRETONES, 25 1 7
and 30c goods, per yard .lib
Those girls bought the dress goods
here, and we have more. You can run
all over town but you have to come
here in the end. We have the only
complete line of Butterick patterns in
O’Neill.
The slippers S. R. & Co. has for
$2.75 you get here for $2.36. You can
see how contrary some women are.
When eve was in the garden she only
don one leaf when she could have
a thousand. Today, when leather
is so high they want shoes up to their
knees. Us men have a hard time to
please them.
GIRLS’ COLORED WASH DRESSES
Scars Roebuck price 72c, A Q -
my price.HD b
I ----
WREATHS OF FLOWERS THEY
charge 39c for OCn
my price .4vv
SPRAYS OF ROSES AND PANSIES
they get 39c for, OC.
my prices 10c to.4 Ju
THE SAME WAISTS THEY GET
$3.48 for O 7C
my price .4* I w
Bring in your bill and I can show
yen more.
6 CANS OF CORN 7Q*
for .I 3U
5 CANS TOMATOES
6 CANS KRAUT yg^
5 CANS PEACHES yg^
5 CANS PEARS JQg
5 cans plums yg^
5 cans apricots yg^
5 CANS PINEAPPLE yg^
6 CANS SWEET POTATOES yg^
6 CANS SWWEET PEAS yg^
6 CANS STRING BEANS yg^
5 CANS SALMON yg^
io^cans salmon yg^
lO^CANS VELVET TOBACCO yg^
20^PACKAGES DURHAM yg^
20^PACKAGES TIGER yg^
REPACKAGES TUXEDO yg^
10^POUNDS OF PEACHES yg^
7 POUNDS OF PRUNES yg^
4 POUNDS OF APRICOTS yg^
io^pounds of rice yg^
4 PACKAGES OATMEAL yg^
5 POUNDS OF LEADER 7Q
2 POUNDS OF TEA 7Q
for .I gC
REPLUGS OLD KENTUCKY yg^
10 PLUGS PIEPER HEID- 70
sick, for .I 3u
20 PLUGS GRANGER 70
Twist, for.I 31
20 BARS FLAKE WHITE 70
Soap, for .I 3u
25 BARS BEAT-EM-ALL 70
Soap, for .13b
22 BARS ELECTRIC SPARK 70
Soap, for .13b
26 BARS SWIFT’S PRIDE 70
Soap, for .I 3b
40fPACKAGES SEEDS yg^
2 POUND CANS UNION 70
Leader tobacco, for .I 3 b
2 POUNDS PATTERSON 7Q
Seal, for ..I 3C
7 PACKAGES GRAPE NUTS yg^
7—15c BOXES OF CRACKERS 70
for .I 3C
7— 15c CANS MILK yg^
8— 15c CANS SARDINES yg^
16^CANS OIL SARDINES yg^
20—5c CIGARS, LIKE I 70
smoke myself, for .I 3 b
30—5c CIGARS, LIKE SOME 70
fellows smoke, for .I 3 b
$1.00 razor hones gy^
$3f)0 RAZORS | ^g
$5^00 pipes 2 49
4—25c BOXES WRITING 70
Paper, for .I 3 b
Some times I feel like laying down
and giving up the fight. You people
who have been reading the adds for
two years and then turn around and
send away and pay more money for
the stuff than the highest priced
store in Swan Lake would charge
you. You have a right to do what
you please with your own money, it
is yours, you earned it, but what is
the use sending it to those rich
people who wouldn’t wipe their feet
on you; they wouldn’t let you sleep in
their barn. There are thousnads of
poor people in this world to give it
to. You could buy mitts and stock
ings for poor little freezing kids in
the winter and in nine cases out of
ten you have relations of your own
who need it.
I have a catalogue right here on
the desk from a big mail order house
in Omaha. They send them out once
a month. And once a month they get
hundreds of orders from people who
don’t know any better. I know pretty
near every man, woman and kid in this
county and I don’t know one who has
any more mdney than they know what
to do with. Some try to let on
that they have. You say ho do you
know that I sell cheaper. Well you
all have a good pair of legs and a
couple of eyes; you have a mouth to
taste with and a nose to smell with
and fingers to feel with. If you use
them you will soon find out. Just for
example here is a list. I hate to be
wasting space in the paper week after
week on you when you don’t seem to
care, but I will give you another shot.
General Mercantile Co.,Omaha,Neb:
SUGAR, $9.40, FREIGHT, 38c, O CC
no freight.OiOv
FLOUR $3.75, FREIGHT 19c, 9 AC
no freight.di*rd
CANNED PINEAPPLE, NO. 2 CANS
3 Cans 62c, freight 6c, /Iftf*
no freight ..<..*rUw
3 CARTOONS TABLE RAISINS 50c,
freight 3c; 3 Cartoons 97 —
no freight .d I I#
CRACKERJACK, 6 BOXES
25c, my price, 6 boxes.
10 POUND PAIL DIAMOND RAY
Coffee $2.40, freight 20c, 1 QC
no freight .I «dd
5 POUNDS UNCOLORED JAPAN
Tea, $2.60, freight 10c; 0 1E
no freight.I d
5 POUNDS COCOA $1.55, 1 9 ft
freight 10c; no freight.I idtl
I might just as well be writing the
queen of Jerabia; but I will give you
some more.
CHOCOLATE, PER POUND 9C
36c, freight lc; no freight.ddl#
3 PACKAGES JELLY POWDER 24c,
freight %c, 91 P
no freight .* «
3 POUNDS BAKING POWDER dC
51c, freight lc; no freight.“dw
3 PACKAGES YEAST FOAM 1ft
14c, freight 0; no freight.I Uw
3 PACKAGES SALERATUS OR
Soda 20c, freight l%c; 1 1 0«
no freight .I Ow
NO. 10 CANS APPLES, 3 CANS
$1.33, freight 15c; 1 ftft
no freight .I illU
3 CANS GOOSE BERRIES 39c,
freight 3c; 9Kp
no freight .fcwl#
NO. 10 CAN PIE PEACHES 72c
freight 5c; CEp
no freight .UJU
I am giving you the prices on the
same sizes and quality as you will see
by comparing the goods with their
book.
3 CANS PUMPKIN 33c,
freight 3c; 9f|.
no freight .wUli
3 CANS APRICOTS 87c,
freight 3c; CEp
no freight .Uvv
3 CANS PEARS 74c,
freight 3c; CEp
no freight .Owl»
GRAPES, 3 CANS 65c,
freight 3c; AC.
no freight .“u u
3 CANS PEAS 60c,
freight 3c; 9ftp
no freight .wUl»
I am not writing this for the benefit
of my customers, they know it al
ready; this is for the benefit of them
who are too lazy to visit the store and
find out.
3 POUND CANS LIMA 9fl«
B' -ins 44c, .OUU
3 C, NS CORN
3 Cj NS HOMINY 30C
5 P( UNDS PEACHES ggp
5 P< UNDS PRUNES Jgp
5 P(. UNDS APRICOTS 1 ftE
$1.36, .I.UU
Ti e very ones I am trying to reach
will never see this paper anyway, so I
am ii'oing to let the rest go. This
store would be a good help to them
but ten chances to one they don’t know
it is here. When you finish reading it
you could lend it to one of your
neighbors. They will thank you for it.
Like as not they have been fooled so
often by advertisements that they
won’t believe it when they see it.
Like a customer who lives up by
Stuart. He said he saw the ads for
the last year^and he just knew they
could not be so. But he wrote down
and found out. He saved a pile of
money on the first bill. He saved close
to $35.00 on forty bags of flour. And
he got Gold Medal Flour which he
couldn’t get up in that country at all.
LADIES’ 10c HANDKER- OCp
JELLYBEANS OCp
GUM 9Cp
8 packages for .
MIXED CANDY -Iftp
per pound.I Ul»
15 POUNDS SUGAR FREE
with $15.00 purchase Flour Q A C
(White Rose) .di*fr3
18c, EXTRA HEAVY GRAY lO
Outing Flannel for .I L U
10c GINGHAM 71
for .I 2 G
15^AND 18c SHAMBRAY Qg£
lO^AND 12c CALICO QJp
20 AND 25c DRESS i 1 -
Ginghams, for.I i u
4 SPOOLS THREAD (COATS) -j gc
8 PACKAGES PINS
for .ZDC
$L37 CORSETS jg^
98c CORSETS
for .03C
1 DOZEN CHILDREN’S 1 1 C
Hose for.I ■ I 0
1 DOZEN MEN’S HOSE -j Q0
MEN’S HEAVY BLUE 1 1 Q
Overalls with Bib, for.I ■ I 3
MEN’S WORK SHIRTS £7^
PALM BEASH SUITINGS «q
35 and 50c Goods, for.cOG
This week and next week all $4,
$4.25, $4.50, $4.75, $5, $5.25, $5.50, $6,
and $6.25 Shoes will be sold at $3.60
Better come and look them up. You
know I offered you inner tubes last
week for $1.98 and you can’t buy them
today, a pure Gum tube, for $2.75.
Don’t be caught sleeping. I don’t
care what the stuff costs I have to
sell. it.
12^ POUNDS SUGAR J QQ
48 POUNDS WHITE ROSE O AC
Flour, for.w>43
5 GALLONS OIL j|C
for .*K)C
3 POUNDS HEAD RICE OC
for .43C
1 PINT MASON JOR
Honey, for .ulIC
Ladies’ Pure Silk Hose, haif price.
Honest Weights—Honest Prices_
Square Dealing Wins. J. U. Yantzi
started the same time I did up on the
side street—to-day, just twenty-one
months—he has the Creamery and
Zimmerman beat. He does not have
to drive around to the people’s farms
to scratch up a little cream—people
told me they made money by bringing
in their own cream and selling it to
Yantzi. Tricks don’t win trade.
JOHN BRENNAN, O’NEILL.
AMERICA’S PART IN THE WAR
AU Its Immence Resources Will Be
Subject to Conscription in
Carrying Out Its Plans.
Now that war with America is at
last asurred Germany is plumbing her
bottomless wells of filth for abuse fit
to express her rage at the accumu
lation of her newest and eleventh
enemy. The "Yankees” are “gold
sated,” “dollar-mad,” “blood mercen
aries,” “hypocritical materialists,”
“blasphemous money-grabbers,” “shy
locks,” and all the rest of the things
that the Hun mud-slinging depart
ment is capable of inventing. For
t_
America’s decision is a smash in the
face for Hohenzollernism in two
special directions.
It not only is a concrete challenge
of Hohenzollernism’s pretensions to
divine right aver the universe. It
also represents the breakdown of Ho
henzollernism’s own and long cherish
ed machinations for an anti-British
union of German and American polit
ical, naval military, and economic
resources.
But whatever names they may now
call her, America was long ago chris
tened by Germans with a title which
at this moment must be giving them
food for serious thought. They nick
named the U. S. A “The Land of
Unlimited Possibilities.” “Das Land
der unregrengrenzten Moglichkeiten,”
as applied to the giant republic over
sea, has been for nearly fifteen years
now almost as much of a household
word in Germany as “Hoch der
Kaiser” or “Die Wacht am Rhein.”
Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia on
returning from his uninvited visit to
the Unted States in 1902 came back
with glowing accounts of the might
and power of the new world. He re
ported to the Kaiser. A few months
ater William H. deputed a prominent
Berlin economist-business man, Privy
Councillor Ludgig Max Goldberger, to
proceed to the United States and make
a thoroughgoing, expert investiga
tion of the marvelous El Dorado
which had so impressed the imagi
nation of Prince Henry.
Goldberg stopped in America eight
months. From Atlantic, to Pacific,
from the Canadian border to the gulf
of Mexico, he found a country satur
ated beyond his dreams with a wealth
of resources such as Mother Nature
in her most profligate moments never
before bestowed upon a nation or a
people.
I recall distinctly the interview I
had with Privy Councillor Goldberger
on his return from America. “I can
only describe it as the ‘Land of Unlim
ited Possibilities,” he exclaimed. So
he called it in his official report to the
v
kaiser, and in the book in which the
report was later embodied. Forthwith
a new phase was added to the German
language. Goldberger became Ger
many’s Christopher Columbus. He had
discovered America for her. Gold
berger revealed it as a country which,
in peace or war, would be of potency
and possibilities literally without limit.
Then it was that the Kaiser set his
heart upon harnessng to Germany’s
boundless purposes thruout the worl
this wonderland called America. He
launched his “American policy.” He
named a patrol-boat of his navy “Alice
Roosevelt.” He instituted the “ex
change professorship” scheme between
Berin and Harvard universities. He
gave a statute of Frederick the Great
to Washington. He scattered Ger
manic museums and literaturies thru
out the American university world
with the zeal of a Carnegie.
He invited American millionaires to
brush shoulders with the ermine at the
royal court in Berlin. He made then
palatial steam yachts the most wel
come of visitors at Kiel regatta. He
bestowed high Prussian orders on dis
tinguished Americans in every walk of
life. He dispatched emissary after >
emissary to study “American Meth
ods” and introduce them into the Ger
man bureaucratic system whenever
possible. He lavished obsequious hos
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