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THE CARROLL FEES PUBS,
BETTER VALUES FOR THE MONEY SECURED
By buying from Carrollton merchants
Ten reasons why people should buy in Carrollton:
First. The people in this territory should buy in
Carrollton because they get better value for their
money, and see apd know what they are buying,
with fitting and alterations quickly and well done.
Second. Because when buying from a distance,
you pay before you see the goods, often getting an
inferior article that will not retain its shape and
color, thereby losing postage and time.
Third. Because you have an opportunity to se
lect from many different styles, have personal choice
of color best suited to you, a fit guaranteed and al
terations free, which many houses will not do.
Fourth. Because you pay less money for same
quality of goods here, get what you want when you
want it, pay when you get same—not two or three
weeks before you get it as you would be obliged to
do were you to send away.
Fifth. Because money in circulation makes good
times in your own community instead of somewhere
else, and prosperity makes wages higher and prop
erty values more valuable.
Sixth. Buy at home because the more sales are
made the more - laborers and help will be required,
and fewer people out of work, consequently more
happy and contented citizenship.
Seventh. Because buying ip Carrollton will ne
cessitate more stately and modern buildings, more
civic pride, more industries, more happy homes, keep!*
alive patriotism and bring better opportunities.
Eighth. Buy in Carrollton and help the mer
chants to enlarge their stores and carry a greater as
sortment and variety of goods from which to choose.
Ninth. Because if your dealer does not have ex
actly what you want, his experience will enable him
to get it much quicker, and it will give better satis
faction than it would, should you order same from
off yonder somewhei’e.
Tenth. Buy in Carrollton rather than spend
money going east or to some other city, as there is
as up-to-date and as good stores here as will be found
in much larger cities, and the price of your trip will
pay for your garment and it will look and wear just
as well.
TALK YOUR HOME TOWN
“Talk your home town.”
Start doing it today; it can’t
hurt anything, and it may
help.
And whatever you do, don’t
get the idea it is necessary to
knock, your neighboring town
when you start out to boost
your own. Some people with
perfectly good intentions get
off on this crooked by-path.
There is a place for every town
in your district, the little ones
as well as the big ones, and the
truth is your town will prosper
most when these other towns
are prospering. Towns ought
to pull together, not against
each other. Every district is
like a big family in which there
may be big brothers and little
brothers, but one has just as
much right to life, liberty and
he pursuit of prosperity, which
means happiness, as well as the
others.
So talk your home town.
But be business-like enough to
want to talk it intelligently.
Don’t just say, “It’s the best
town in the world,” and think
you have done your duty. Tell
just what its advantages are.
If you don’t know, appeal to
some leading business man, or
to the president or secretary of
your commercial club and find
out.
WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT
THAT BOY OF YOURS?
Educational Campaign
To Buy In Carrollton
Every dollar you send out of Carrollton and Car-
roll county is robbing our city and county of a part
of its resources. Every dollar you exchange here
through business channels adds to our city and
county’s wealth. Which are you doing—building
here or building elsewhere?
SHUN OUT-OF-
TOWN BAIT
Last year in Fresno coun
ty, California, there were or
ders for over one hundred
wind-mills sent to one mail
order house alone. In each
case the man who bought at
“long distance” had to pay
the freight, haul the wind
mill out to his 1 place and
stand the expense of erect
ing it. When, if he had
been wise, he could 1 have
bought the same, identical
windmill at his local dealer s
for the same money, could
have had it taken to his place
and erected without cost or
trouble and without freight
from Chicago to Fresno
tacked on. “Fishing for
suckers” may be good sport
—for the other fellow—but
it’s hard on the suckers. Let
us shun this “out-of-town”
bait religiously.
GIVE HOME MERCHANTS
THE FIRST CHANCE
Do the merchants of this vi
cinity carry all articles that
they should in their line of mer
chandising? We have heard
much comment upon that ques
tion since the Buy-at-Home ar
ticles have been published.
Without going into the sub
ject, or considering styles and
fashions of today, and then the
styles and fashions of 25 years
ago, when a housewife had
only about three dress mate
rials to select from, Calico,
Gingham and Silk, which she
made up at home from patterns
borrowed from the neighbor, or
a design that grandmother de
scribed, we want to say that
now it is quite different.
Styles change over night,
your dressmaker or tailor will
tell you. Yet some out-of-town
houses have gowns and suits all
catalogued, though they sel
dom have just what you order
They will write you a letter
telling you that the dress you
want is out of style, or some
thing of that sort and you be
lieve them. This applies to
waists, underwear and all arti
cles used by the housewife to
day.
Take shoes for instance.
How can a home merchant car
ry all the different styles, col
ors, shapes and kinds in stock.
One of our home dealers reci
ted a little experience he had
with one of his women custo
mers recently. She saw a pair
of shoes that he had in stock
that were just right in size, but
she decided that she wanted a
different shade. The dealer
informed her that he would
send for the color she desired,
which he did. The shoes came
and were delivered to the wo
man’s home. A charge was
made on the books and the shoe
dealer thought that the deal
was closed with the exception
of collecting the bill.
About three weeks later the
woman sent the shoes back to
the store without even an ex
planation, stating that she did
not want them.
Now was this fair to the
home merchant? He went to
the trouble and expense of or
dering the shoes. He did not
ask the woman for her money
in advance, (a thing that he
should have done) paid 40
cents in express charges and
then did not sell the shoes.
We cannot explain this case in
any other way except through
the fact that the style may have
changed while the customer
had the shoes at home, or be
cause she possibly had received
a catalogue from some out-of-
town catalogue house that she
wanted to play Blind Man’s
Bluff with.
If she did, her money went
with the order, and she wasn’t
permitted to treat that out-of-
town house like she treated the
home merchant.
How many men and women
in this community do their
shopping blindfolded. You
don’t have to shop blind-folded
unless you want to. The out-
of-town houses started the big
game of Blind Man’s Bluff. But
it’s a dangerous game for us to
play in our town. It isn’t a
fair game. It isn’t fair to our
selves. It isn’t fair to our com
munity. It isn’t Ifair to our
home merchants. Let us give
the home merchant the first
chance. Let us help keep our
money at home and build up
home industry.
Of course tho comment for the week
is for those mainly who hnve boys in
their homos—and all the others who
wish thsy had a boy or a pair of them
or a larger collection of tho interotsing
species as a permanent fixturo of tho
place. The contrast is more markod
than, the comparison between tho homo
where there is "that boy” and tho
home he has not tracked and dog-
cared and thumbed and marked.
What would homo be without that
boy? It would bo a place where there
was no shrill whistling from tho time
he waked tho rost of tho family until
he reluctantly performed his religious
rites—such ns bnthing and saying his
prayers—just previous to “hitting the
hay” for his one silent period of eight
hours in tho night; it would be a placo
where the follows in the neighborhood
do not congregate to tease tho little
sisters and untontionally trample on
tho latest rows of spring flowers just
coming up after the third or fourth
effort to grow them; it would be a place
where there was no collie dog on the
’front walk from noon to for the re
mainder of the time till school “turned
out” watching wistfully for somebody;
and where the side yard hasn’t a rabbie
run eut off by wire fencing, and
small second-hand bridle (bought at a
bargain) hanging on a big nail in the
coal house—awaiting the further
cumulation of pennies and nickels and
dimes and quarters in the tin bank on
the low drosser in tho hall bedroom up
stairs, labeled “Savings for buying a
pony;” it would bo a placo where tho
back lot is not tunneled with caves
and turned into a, bicycle race course
or a ball ground—with accompaniment
of lean-to construction, in artistic but
original in design, unbelievable de
vices for vehicular transportation, built
of parts of scuddeTs and parts of ex
press wagons, parts of ice cream freez
ers discarded and scraps of baby bug
gies, bought for a broken scout knife
and a couple of marbles, with a few
fish-hooks thrown in; it would be a place
whero no baseball bats and mitts were
ever left on tho front stoop and no
roller skat'es wero lost in th most con
spicuous places in the back hall; it
would be a place where never a skull-
and-cross bones drawn in colored chalk
appeared upon the door of the side-
street garago and no amateur garden
patch struggling against fate in the
far-corner of the back lot. That 1
what home would be without that boy!
In short, homo would be without that
boy exactly like an immaculately kept,
clean and attractaivo family vault in
the cemetery with a beautifully trim
med and regular, well-attended, never
disheveled gravo lot about it.—Savan
nah Morning News.
Twenty years in the pluming and
sheet metal business puts us in position
to do your work correctly.—W. S. Camp
bell, Phone 113.
Frostproof Vegetable Plants.
For immediate shipment, extra fine
stocky plants j Early Jersey, Charles
ton Wakefield, Succession, Flat Dutch
cabbage, Big Boston, Iceberg Lettuce
Bermuda Onion plants, Early Beets
White Plume Celery. All frostproof
Prepaid mail, 200. 60c; 400, $1.00;
1000, $2.00. By express, 2000, $2.50;
5000, $5.00; 11,000, $10.00.
PARKER FARMS,
15febtfnc Atlanta, Ga.
DR. L. J. BROCK
CARROLLTON, GA.
DENTIST
Rooms 32-34-36. Third Floor First Na
tional Bank Building.
Office Hour*—3 to 12; l to 5
TEAM WORK
Team-work is the foundation on which all great things are accom
plished; it is the main-spring of all organizations. The town or com
munity in which you live is an organization, the success of which
should be one of the foremost thoughts in your daily life. Its suc
cess depends on the support it receives from its citizens and its suc
cess means your success. By supporting your local club organiza
tions, who are striving hard to do big things for your community) you
will be doiri^yourlpart in assuring its progress.
MORAL—Team-work assures success.
Schools, churches, good roads, streets and all city and county im
provements are supported by these MERCHANTS and BANKERS.
HARRIS HARDWARE
COMPANY
THE
WINCHESTER
STORE
JACKSON’S 10c STORE
5c AND 10c G0QD8
Garden and Field Seeds and
Plants
56 PUBLIC SQUARE
WILEY CREEL
JEWELER
Repairing, Diamonds Engraving,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut
Glass, Silverware and China
STEINBACH’S
ECONOMY SHOP
Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing
And Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear
CARROLLTON DRUG
COMPANY
EVERYTHING THAT A GOOD
DRUG STORE SHOULD HAVE
First. Nat’l. Bank Bldg.
CARROLLTON
MERCANTILE CO.
Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing
19 ALA ST.
JONES DRUG CO.
May We Serve You?
ROBINSON & WALKER
GENERAL FARM SUPPLIES
High-Grade Fertilizers
Cotton Buyers
If your NEIGHBOR is not your
friend, make him so, by being his
friend. Trade at HOME.
CITIZENS BANK
MANDEVILLE MILLS
SMITH & CADLE
COAL and COKE
MEAL and HULLS
FERTILIZERS
Carrollton, Georgia
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Buy at home—see what you buy
and get the best for the price
no matter what the
price may be.
“GRIFFIN’S”
THE LEADER
ONE-PRICE
Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Ra
dies' Ready-to-Wear
CASH HOU8E
FOR CASH—FOR LESS
J. N. JOHNSON
WEEMS O. BASKIN
FURNITURE DEALER
ORY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES,
UNDERTAKEKR
HATS, CLOTHING
60 Public Square
« W. L. FOLDS
ROOP HARDWARE CO.
LINCOLN—FORD—FORDSON
HARDWARE—FURINTURE
Sales—Accessories—Supplies
Service
Paints, Tires, Gas, Oils
Telephone 395 Open All Night
A. J. BASKIN COMPANY
“Your Store”
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, NO
TIONS, SHOES, HATS AND
MILLINERY GOODS
CARROLLTON HARD
WARE COMPANY
GEENRAL HARDWARE, BUG
GIES, STOVES, PIOWS, ETC.
Agents for Chattanooga Plows
and Norman Buggies
PHONE 74 PUB. SQUARB
T. H. MERRELL CO.
One Price—Spot Cash
OUTFITTERS for THE WHOLE
FAMILY
East side Public Square—Next to
Peoples Bank.
WEBB-HARRIS AUTO
COMPANY
STUDEBAKER MOTOR CARS
Tires, Tubes, Auto Accessories,
Gasoline, Oils
32 NEWNAN ST. PHONE 307
“This is a Studebaker year.”
KYTLE & AYCOCK
T. J. Aycock, Prop.
THE FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
The Oldest. Strongest and Ouly
National Bank in Carroll
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Furniture, Carpets, Phonographs,
Pianos, Sewing Machines
SAFETY—SERVICE—SAT
IS FACTION
HORTON'S BOOKSTORE
JEWELRY, CUT GLASS,
BOOKS, STATIONERY
Kodaks and Sporting Goods
MOORE & CLEIN
THE BARGAIN MERCHANTS
OF CARROLLTON
You Will Always Find Us On
The Square
8 PUBLIC SQUARE
BOSTON DRY GOODS
COMPANY
ONE-PRICE OUTFITTERS
Satisfaction our motto, 6r your
money back
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