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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CASK OLLTON, CARROLL COUNTY, OJU
THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1S2S
DOLLARS COME HOME TO ROOST
Every farmer who makes our city his market place
has an interest in this community. The fact that he
is a member of the community makes much differ
ence to him when he considers that the prosperity of
Carrollton and Carroll county is his own prosperity.
But when he sends his money to the Big Town
houses he does not stop to think that he is not help
ing to pay the required taxes in his own community;
not that he does not pay his own legally assessed
taxes, but that he is not helping our local merchants
to pay the taxes necessary to support the community.
If we keep the dollars at home they will keep on
helping us all. Dollars, spent at home, come home
to roost. They come back in the upkeep of our city
and county institutions.
Our local merchants will use the dollars to good
advantage. Every dollar spent in Carrollton and
Carroll county means improvements at home.
Unless we are careful and watch our own inter
ests we will find out to our cost that the ultimate re
sult of Big Town scheme will be the centralization
of all of the country business in the large cities and
the absolute destruction of the financial interests in
the small cities and towns and the country. The
only way to prevent this is to stop sending our orders
to houses we know nothing about.
Let the dollars come home to roost. This is the
only way, and they will come home to roost if we do
not send them too far away. The dollars spent lo
cally will circle around and keep things lively, but if
sent away we must get more dollars from outside to
take their place. It is not always an easy matter
to do this. The safest thing to do is to take no
chances, but to spend them at home with the local
storekeepers.
If we had any expectation that the Big Town Guy
would ever do anything to help our community,
things might be different. But there is no chance.
He comes to us in the garb of an artful deceiver.
There isn’t a grain of kindness in his whole makeup.
He demands his cash in advance and gives you that
which he wishes to send. You have no redress.
You have no rights that he is bound to respect.
The mere fact that we are silly enough to send our
money away, out of our own community, to a stran
ger, thereby injuring our own business prospects and
jeopardizing our own prosperity, justifies him in be
lieving that he can take the most outrageous liberties
with us.
Bread cast on the waters will return, not so with
dollars sent to stores you have never seen. Turkeys
will come home to roost, if somebody does not catch
them.
But dollars will come home to roost, if we keep
them in circulation in our home town. TRY it.
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?
SHOP COAL
For best grade washed and sized Shop Coal at reas
onable price, come to
Maple Street Warehouse
Will You Buy a
Used Car?
You Too, Can Own
An Automobile!
If you are going to buy a used car, or truck this
summer, see us. And if your finances are limited,
you will be wise to take advantage of the
able values in used cars. You can also get a bar
gain hi a used truck from The First National Bank.
2 New 2-ton Denby Trucks.
1 New 2 1-2 ton International Truck.
3 used 2-ton Denby Trucks.
1 used 1-ton All American Truck.
2 New 5 passenger Elcars.
1 used 5 passenger Velie car.
The First National Bank
Carrollton, Ga.
WHAT THE MERCHANT
SPENT AT HOME
Sev-
the
the
was
A woman goes into a local
store and spends a dollar.
This is approximately how
the merchant spends it.
enty-five cents pays for
goods that was sold to
shopper. Twenty cents
paid for labor, upkeep, book
losses and other charges, all of
which were disbursed in this
community. Five cents was
left to the merchant. That was J
spent in this town, too. It paid j
for the food and clothing of his
family, his insurance, taxes
and other expenses of commu
nity living.
Another woman sent a dollar
to an out-of-town store for a
shirt waist, advertised in a cat
alogue. This is approximately
how the house spends it. The
waist cost sixty cents. The ex
ecutive and overhead expenses,
advertising and other charges
were thirty cents and the bal
ance was credited to the divi
dend account.
The woman who mailed her
money away lost in two ways,
inferiority of goods and her
money sent out of the commu
nity never to return.
There is no come-back in do
ing business with a merchant
in a Big Town. He has every
thing ONE WAY—His WAY.
You’re the small end of the
horn. The other end of the
horn drips prosperity, for his
kind of business is a horn of
plenty, with you as the mouth
piece doing all the work, and
he the big end, MAKING ALL
THE NOISE.
You literally pay the freight,
not only on the goods, but for
hundreds of thousands of
splashy catalogues. You pay
the salaries of scores of depart
mental heads, and a staff per
haps, of liveried servants in the
mansion on a western lake
front.
The characteristic of human
credulity is the factor that the
deceiver banks upon when he
mails that costly literature to
you. He knows that even a
small purchase will return to
him the expense of printing it.
He has his costs so figured.
When you look that book
over, you forget the honest
value waiting for you on the
shelves of the home merchant,
you forget that to him you owe
patronage because he is a com
munity up-builder and employs
home labor and contributes his
profits to town prosperity.
These things and other
things slip from your mind as
you contemplate the gaudy il
lustrations and the false values
that beckon from that alluring
page.
Perhaps a tenth of the popu
lation of this community pat
ronize the stores of strangers
in some Big City. Supposing
ten-tenths did, what would
happen to this, our home town.
The main streets would shut up
shop and go home and the
town would become worse than
Goldsmith’s “Deserted Vil
lage.” Keep your money here.
Let the legitimate profits on
your purchases stay where they
belong. Let your dollars be
come community dollars, work
ing for community betterment.
The compensation paid to the
clerks, the insurance paid to
the agents, the tax paid to the
town, coal bills, light bills, wa
ter bills, worry the merchant
who depends on an honest prof
it to meet them. Give him that
honest profit instead of sending
it away to folks that don’t care
a hang whether you’re poor or
prosperous, well or sick, but
who would regret your death
because of the loss of an easy
mark. Buy at home!
WHAT YOU MIGHT
CALL A COME-BACK
THE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE SUPPORTING LOCAL INTERESTS
An Ohio newspaperman sends thiB and
vouches for the truth of it: It took a
Tiffin, Ohio, tailor to win over one of
his local automobile repairmen to the
‘flat rate” servieo charge system. The
method was simple, too. The tailor had
been having automobile trouble and cer
tainly had been paying for it in min
utely itemized bills. Then the opportu*-
nity for reprisal came when the gar*
age man came in and wanted a button
sewed on. The tailor sewed on the but
ton all right, and then sent the garage
man a bill. It read:
To sewing on button, 15c; thread,
3c; button, 3c; labor, one-fourth hour,
30c; removing old thread, 7e; labor one-
eighth hour, 15c; needle, 2c; beeswax,
le; knotting thread, 2c; labor, 10 min
utes, 20c; total, $1.01.
LAMAR S. BROWN
CHIROPRACTOR
HOURS: 10 to 12—2:30 to 1:50
39-48 First Nat. Bank Building
THE PEOPLE IN MY TOWN
CO-OPERATE AND SUPPORT
WE HOME MERCHANTS.
YES! YOU ARE LOOKING *
PROSPEROUS. THERE IS NO
CO-OPERATION OR SUPPORT
IN OUR TOWN AND IT IS
GRADUALLY GOING BACKWARD.
BY M.C.MERKER
BE A BOOSTER
When the people stand back of the merchants you depend on it
that, 1 the merchants will stand back of the town. When a merchant
prospers he is sure to invest his money in enterprises at home that will
give more men and women work at good wages because he knows
plenty of work and good pay makes more business for him. Patroniz
ing home merchants is co-operation between buyer and seller and al
ways boosts a town.
MORAL:—If the home town is not prosperous, organize and co
operate and make it so.
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
6c AND 10c GOODS
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
COAL and COKE
MEAL and HULLS
FERTILIZERS
Carrollton, Georgia
"GRIFFIN’S”
ONE-PRICE
CASH HOUSE
J. N. JOHNSON
FURNITURE DEALER
UNDERTAKE KR
50 Public Square
ROOP HARDWARE CO.
HARDWARE—FURINTURE
Paints, Tires, Gas, Oils
A. J. BASKIN COMPANY
‘‘Your Store”
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, NO
TIONS, SHOES, HATS AND
MILLINERY GOODS
T. H. MERRELL CO.
One Price—Spot Cash
OUTFITTERS for THE WHOLE
FAMILY
East side Public Square—Next to
Peoples Bank.
KYTLE & AYCOCK
T. J. Aycock, Prop.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Furniture, Carpets, Phonographs,
Pianos, Sewing Machines
NORTON'S BOOK STORE
JEWELRY, CUT GLASS,
BOOKS, STATIONERY
Kodaks and Sporting Goods
8 PUBLIC SQUARE
BOSTON DRY GOODS
COMPANY
ONE-PRICE OUTFITTERS
SMITH & CADLE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Buy at home—see what you buy
and get the best for the price
no matter what the
price may be.
THE LEADER
Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, La
dies’ Ready-to-Wear
FOR CASH—FOR LESS
WEEMS O. BASKIN
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES,
HATS, CLOTHING
W. L. FOLDS
LINCOLN—FORD—FORDSON
Sales—Accessories—Supplies
Service
Telephone 395 Open All Night
CARROLLTON HARD
WARE COMPANY
GEENRAL HARDWARE, BUG
GIES, STOVES, PIOWS, ETC.
Agents for Chattanooga Plows
and Norman Buggies
PHONE 74 PUB, SQU*Jft«
WEBB-HARRIS AUTO
COMPANY
STUDEBAKER MOTOR CARS
Tires, Tubes, Auto Accessories,
Gasoline, Oils
32 NEWNAN ST. PHONE 307
‘‘This Is a Studebaker year.”
THE FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
The Oldest, Strongest and Ouly
National Bank in Carroll
County
SAFETY—SERVICE—SAT-
IS FACTION
MOORE & CLEIN
THE BARGAIN MERCHANTS
OF CARROLLTON
You Will Always Find Us On
The Square