Show tat TOWN OR NO TOWN 4 abow AU fikso h oW jodi Q aali I 1 fo bior r J f t 1 l 1 I 1 I 1 DON a I 1 evident 4 t 0 1 low wi we too k f S ill placid against ite Q we 4 W A 4 I 1 did M it the N k at A ei cf of the tile cu cuntro nt 4 it t I 1 it ago afo av 1 I 1 saw tn ili its working work top the doom of a country tofu tj abe people at large largo boeer ho ter eer felt no and but little interest was taken Jug the adoption of tile law 11 capt by paid of thu the mail order houses who wito led the tu asses to believe that parcels poet post vaa was the great panacea for all their cost of high living troubles that ia is all that waa was necessary well ivell the tile lav haa tills been now for fifteen months and we ve eee see no reason for changing our views as to its merits in erite the pendulum of 0 frildo ie Is winging ef eio effly wily oly but with ath a painful certainty toward the elimination of the con countr astr town in our business sy system steni I 1 serious minded students ts of the tile are caking waking up to thie this fact and the problem has already caused many a though lif ill country merchant to swallow a lump aa as he lie recognizes the inevitable resul t i the th 0 local tile merchant re hant ia is not dot only a benefit ant a lecessi nece eity it y to the tile country town it would I 1 not lot be convenient conven Fent for the farmer to solid to dis distant tillit ci cities ties for eer everything thIng r needed and on the tile odar hardit hat dit would not be pose poe eble ble for bini hint to do long range marketing agor of all hie big prod produce u cc at least one I 1 middleman nidd leinani to gather and slid ship iship produce and distribute a largo percentage of thy the gooda hooded by farmere farmers seems necessary and who is in ili a better beiter po altton to do ibis thi than the tilt local toe merchant jt the tile elimination of tile connar merchant menne tile id of the country town then thon what we co neider the tile country town the tile 16 J V sluice and center of the tile beat best tn in american life ui the fixmer fix mer cannot be ex I 1 peeled to I 1 from motive motives of se n 1 oln Y W I 1 believe the country sin mi erchant ie is in a position to sell goode cheaper quality conid dered tian the he niall ahouee W know he can gi give veetter botter service pa including persona jj bonal inspection atgood ot of good goods before baying if the local merch merchant atit can 7 bow show the farmer that he can and will do theae these hinge be bel will go a long way toward destroying the fici nation of the tile catalogue for the farmer and thereby indre the 4 life lite of the the country town |