Show THE LOSING SIDE OF MAIL ORDER TRADING HOW AX ANN IOWA PA LOST ovell saved money on one end hut but killed the mind town and mst lost ills ilia property value on the other oilier hans hana garbus Garbi iB a german farmer of iowa owa has discovered that the beneus benefits which appear on the surface as it taching to the mall mail order plan jornet imes spell disaster and has a stary of ills his views in a certain arm paper here Is the story WP we armors need awakening to ho he tact fact that wo we have unmistakably cached tile the period where wo we must hink and plan I 1 am one of 0 tho the ilow german far farmers ners that had to bo be hewn and I 1 am now giving my ox ex jer eri lence ence that others may profit tor for inow knowledge ledge Is more expensive now hen ban it was ten years ago twenty nine years ago I 1 began my carreer I 1 had an old team and our furniture was mostly jomo made chairs cupboards and junges made from dry goods boxes beatly covered with ten cent crolona cretone oy my girl wife we wa rented eighty eight acres being a hoy boy of good habits I 1 got all the machinery and groceries jt our home merchants on credit until tal fal crops wore were sold the first ear was waa a wet season and I 1 did not nake make enough to pay creditors I 1 ment to each on date of promise and explained my condition paying as much as possible and they all carried the he balance over another year they to me until I 1 vas able to buy a forty acre piece ol of my own As soon as I 1 owned these tow few acres the mall mail order houses began to bend me catalogues cataloguer catal and gradually I 1 aegan sending my loose chango change to 4 concluded on pago page 6 THE LOSING SIDE OF MAIL ORDER TRADING HOW AN I 1 IOWA FARMER LOST ovall ip 00 baa baal C 41 money monc on oil ono one end hut bilut killed tile tho lionia homo town anil and lost ills his property value on oil tho the biter concluded r from rom pago page 3 them doting my accounts stand in my hunio home town where I 1 had gotten my when I 1 needed it wo we thon had ono one of tho the thriftiest thrift iest little lit in tho the state god unc of business in all tho the branches merchants who were willing to holp help ai aai honest fellow over avor a bad year and a town full of df who came twice a week to trade and visit our lit tio alo country town town supported a library high school ball team and wo we had a big celebration every year A farm near a live town son doubles in value I 1 sold my forty at ai a lie bla advance and bought an eighty gradually adding to it until I 1 had bad acres of the best land in ili lowa iowa I 1 then felt no need af asing favors and found it easy to lo patr patronize 01 aize tile tho mail order agents that camo came almost weekly to our door dhori I 1 i regret egret to say sai that I 1 was the first in the county to make up a bill and send it to a mall mail arlor house tho wo we got boat every anco in a while wo we got in the habitor habit ot sending away tor for stuff I 1 gradually our merchants le lessened sen their stock of goods tor for lack of patronage finally began to realize that when wa wo needed a bolt quid ley tor for machinery or clothing for or sic nois or aritte wo we had to wait id send bond away tor for it t which t so pleasant one by me our merchants moved to places where they tore n witt aul arn airn of loes less energy moved in Qia dually oar town has gone down doan our business houses are tacky in u appearance appo aranco a number are empty our schools churches and walks are going down w wj havo have no br brit fl no library nor n aall ehni H 1 s i no business dove in ill tho town and aad therefore no taxes to keip thir shirts ts i bip the hotel Is 1 for lack of ii 11 LI 1 but go down 0 o tile tho depot when ri r height eight co CODS in mil and lou will soe aoe the aquil 1 l tn lit na agull packages acl cages nine years ago my farni farm was worth an all acre toda lodi id I 1 ll 11 have a hard matter to sol set it for or 1 87 an aero acre it Is wo too far irom bruni a live town so oo every farmer has mirl that wants to buy ile ho wanta nativi it 11 place near schools and where his cl children ildren can hare td id un ii I 1 aavo leavo awakened to he juet hat bat in liel helping Ping to pull a town down it has cost coat mo me in fit nine years |