The Price Current from Wichita, Kansas • 5

I r- Paic Cusf iroiniu NUMBER 51 VOLUME XXIV iirmiiTmA 1TAMCAC 1TTI 1Q 1Q1 TWENTY YEARS ON CREDIT AND BUY AT HO DEJHUJ JWILU ur SIX fltlTHS STRICTLY CASH THE COBUHTY It! WHICH YOU LIVE some Ramblings from Merchants of Rose Hill, Kansas By Hough Brothers Sell for Strictly. Cash. It's tlie Only Try It and be By Emll. Gamba of Gamba Osage City. Kansas long to you and your family.

The happiness of the Cash System Is that you open tip in the morning wit a smile ready, for business. No bad accounts to worry about, no credit to refuse for. none ask for it, no books to keep. All you need is a good cash Editor's note: Our readers, will, remember reading several articles published in The Price Current from Osage City Merchants, regarding the change from the Credit to -the Cash basis, which they made on January 1, 1913. The result of this change has J' We like Brother Murphy's article which was published in the Price Current several weeks ago.

He brought out some good points that are well worth consideration of any merchant. One point, on which we certainly agree with him, was regarding the car fare refunding game that was played several weeks ago by Wichita jobbers, retailers, editors and We have taken a Wichita daily for twelve years and last week we stopped it on account of the activity of the paper for the car fare refunding game, that, had it proved successful, as they hoped for, and customers in a radius of seventy-five miles of Wichita had gone there' to buy goods, we poor country merchants would have had our goods left on the shelf. Between the fare refunding game, the 'usual bunch of mail order houses (who pay no county taxes) the hot winds and no rains and the natural dead beat the way sometimes looks dark -and gloomy to us. We have been selling goods for the last thirty years, most of the time in Iowa, and we have always thought that honesty, legitimate advertising, good goods, giving full measure, being" courteous, treating everybody alike and keeping a full stock of the different lines would win out we still think so. There is always a certain class of people who think they help themselves and hurt the merchant by trading away from home.

They are the ones that could help cut down our county expense, they don't realize that they are not doing others as they would that others do unto them. They send money out of the state for goods that they could buy just as cheap and many times cheaper at home. They pay for goods before seeing them, and buy of people they don't know. The Mail Order houses do not pay any of our taxes or help to keep up our schools, our roads and our churches. The home merchant is the one that is called upon to subscribe for the new church and he is paying road taxes, school taxes, and so many other taxes he has forgotten to keep count of them, and still, he is giving better goods at less prices than the mail order (houses who claim to sell at wholesale.

How much of the money which is sent away to catalogue houses ever returns to the community from which it is sent? How much of the money, spent with the home merchant goes to build up other places? Who helps pay the taxes, build roads and bridges, erect churches and schools, fosters and encourages public improvements, buys farm produce, carries names of the needy on the debit side of the books the year around and is willing and eager at all times to assist them by credit or money, if they may need it? Is it the catalogue house or the local merchant The local merchant. We believe it is up to the merchant to show the people that to buy at home is not only helping the merchant but helping themselves as well as the community in which they live. been watched with interest, by many of the merchants throughout the Southwest. The following article will leave no doubt in the minds of its readers as to the result.) Our market after six months cash business is in a most flourishing con-diton. We had, everything to contend with since we began to sett for cash only.

Meats of every discrip-tion went up in price and it was a very hard proposition to make prices attractive, but with all this inconvenience we are selling more meat for cash now than we sold for credit last year. Our cash book shows several hundred dollars increase, all in favor of the cash business. Just think of this, Brother Butcher, Never Sell Any Man Meat on Credit. We sold meat' for twenty years on the old credit system and we know all the hari.MPi;?w-r-standing, and hard feeling such a system causes to both merchant and onsumer, especially that one of his best custome leaves Mm with the empty sac and you never see him any more, no not any more will you see this good custom-. Tot yours.

He has the meat, you For years we took the scraps home for our dear wife and family, and our customers of the credit system took best cuts out of our Bhop and en-oyed a fine dinner, and we ate the. scraps and held the sack. My wife marked that one particular custom-Tr was liv too high and wouW soon leave the town and also bUl behind She was right. You, 1, have undoubtedly and you never realized Ume, you yourself and your y3t Cpeciany the honest th long run lor the meat the fleaa. eats and Does Not Pay.

For. our good health, fir. Butcher, wll JSorever so do not steal meat family and hottest patrons to "dead-beats" who thrive fatten on the Credit System and Se meat and money that Emile Gamba. register and plenty of oil to keep it form getting a "hot-box" when you work it so fast for 12 or 14 hours (Continued on page 21) KANSAS BUTCHERS HELD BOARD -MEETING. (0 i i i I State Convention will be Held October, 5 7-8 at Sal ina, Kans.

1 i .1 i I if. Jill ''nrwrt I The Kansas Retail Butchers' Association, held an executive board meeting at Herington, Kansas, July 8th. Those in attendance were S. C. Hill, Blue Rapids, Kansas, Fred Garland, Wellington, Kansas Emile Gamba, Osage City, Kansas, Herman Hess-ier, -Abilene, and By Thompson, Herington.

In a letter from Secretary of the Association, he said: date for our convention, will (Continued on Page Twenty.) I k. INTERIOR OF GAMBA MARKET.