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|9RSSS3555SESXSSSiS5SSS35SS5SS55S3ass=5S8S=ass3iiBSHMiM*MMMi^???? -^i 0 Build Camden and Kershaw County || 1 Thoughtless Buying May Prove Disastrous! 1 / II I II The profits of these Home Merchants are kept in Camden. They help you to run your H | || Schools, Churches; they help to build your Roads and Streets; they help If 1 || " to build Kershaw County and South Carolina. Ill " I > The Foreign-Owned Chain Store 1. Offer* you tome special bargains, and then takes your money, which you earned in this community, and sends it to New York or elsej where, by the first possible mail. 2. They pay only a small store tax. | 3. They have not a single interest in the community EXCEPT to make money off of you. 4. They do not, as a rule, contribute to any organization or uplift movement, locally. 5. They are cold-blooded, money-making institutions, which are not interested in you or the progress of your Town, County, or State?j except to come in and establish their business, AFTER, you have spent ' . years and money in building it up. 6 Opportunities to obtain employment from a chain store are limited, if not forbidden, because of the "special training" necessary to operate a chain store. It has been said that this special training has resulted in short weights and questionable practices. It is not for the writer to vouch for this, but? 7. There is no market for the farmer's beef, hogs, cream, chickens, and sometimes, eggs, at a chain store. 8. The day's receipts, or at most, a week's receipts are not allowed ? to stay in the town longer?it must be sent to headquarters. Even the i banks do not handla the money long at a time. If all the stores in town were chain stores, why have a bank 7 9. The term of credit to a man out of work or with a sick family is not known ?n chain store language. The chain store takes no chances. I 10. They always look for a live town and already developed trade territory to operate in. After the locai home owned store managers have contributed of their time and money to make the town what it is ?with the consuming public's cooperation?the chain store must step I in and with many methods designed to attract attention, offers nationj ally advertised goods at a loss in order to sell you their own cheaper grades, which are not nationally advertised, or make it up on long ! profit items?and takes the money entirely out of the community. 12. Cl^ain stores in some localities have been known not to have j a telephone in their establishment, but would go next door and use one. 13. The chain store, in so many words, is the modern form of par| asitical growth of merchandizing specialists who are operated by and maintained by the moneyed interests?who directly and indirectly take profits out of a community with nothing returned for the continued support of the community on which it thrives. * .1 THE HOME-OWNED STORE || 1. Operated by people who pay huge ta*es to keep the wheel* ! j of the community going. U | t 2, Operated by people who you may go to church with, their chil? j| dren as well as yours are in schools made possible by your taxes. I j 3. Gives you as good merchandise and many times better quality ^ j j | than can be obtained elsewhere. I | 4. Very seldom use questionable merchandise methods to get you |j j into their stores. , r . ^ - ( H \ 5. if you are sick, your family needs help, or if you are out of a, j j [ job and have a reasonable standing in the community?they see you j | through your difficulties. i|| 6. Operated by people you have known all of your life or most ;j of it and who are here in this town because they like it and usually i have property and are interested financially and morally in the wel- ij fare of you and your community. it 7. Your farm produce has a ready market in these stores. H 8. Credit to all who are deserving. (j 9. The local merchant stands back of his merchandise. There are .11 no questions asked if you wish an exchange. jf 10. Deposits his money in the local banks, and leaves it there. j This makes prosperous banks and enables you to borrow' money to fi- ff nance your crops, tide you over a crisis, help you build a home, and a thousand other things that go to make up an ideal community life. js 11. Use the local trucking ,and transfer >men to haul ihis merchan- ? H dise which came in on the railroad and not a privately1 owned truck. v |j 12. Provides a local tobacco or cotton market and other marketing and shipping facilities for the efficient and profitable marketing of j your crops. H 13. The locally HOME-OWNED STORE, in so many words, is a Ij local institution, that wants to do a reasonable amount of business so -II that he may live, rear a family in the home town, send his children to school and churches here. Possibly may educate them in college to return here as professional or business men or to obtain employment I I ^ here. ?' I TRADE WITH CAMDEN-OWNED STORES | iRedfearn Motor Company FORD PRODUCTS j TELEPHONE 140 L. Lomansky SHOES AND REPAIRING TELEPHONE 313 Hirsch Bros. & Company CAMDEN'S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE TELEPHONE 6 McLeod-Rush Co. FANCY GROCERIES AND MARKET Good Thinga To Rat. Services and Price# Right 44 TELEPHONES 26 Carolina Motor Company WE MAKE, SPEND AND KEEP OUR MONEY IN CAMDEN W. Sheorn & Son DRY GOODS?SHOES CLOTHING frj A- ^ I "ff Williams Insurance Agency GENERAL IN SURA NO? TELEPHONE 52 Wolfe-Eichel Co. DRY GOODS?CLOTHING?SHOES LADIES' READY-TO-WEAR ,Burn? & Barrett HARDWARE & SPORTING GOODS . TELEPHONE 94 The Leader DRY GOODS?CLOTHING SHOES W. G. Wilson PRICE?QUALITY?SERVICE WE LIVE, BUY AND SELL IN CAMDEN McCaskill & Lollis YOUR GROCER FOR YEARS SERVICE AND QUALITY ALWAYS Fischel's 5-10-25e Store R. S. Williams STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES PHONE 47 WE DELIVER Camden Furniture Company THE HOME OF HONEST VALUES TELEPHONE 156 John M. Villepigue & Co. TELEPHONE 14 Electrik Maid Bake Shop SPECIALIZING IN KREAM KRUST BREAD CAKES AND PIES Rhame Brothers PURINA FEEDS HAY AND GRAIN TELEPHONE 92 Miss M. E. Gerald EXCLUSIVE MILINERY SHOP Lang's Grocery FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES OUR MOTTO: 4'QUALITY FIRST" Iodine Products Stores SOUTH CAROUNA'S OWN ^ k . . _ *".r City Filling Station 1 SHELL PRODUCTS - j WHOLESALE?RETAIL H TELEPHONE 70 g B. W. Marshall | DRY GOODS?GROCERIES?MEATS 11 PHONE 354-W l| A. Sheheen^'I GROCERIES -Wholesale and Retail II TELEPHONE 323-W || DesChamps, Inc. I Dry Cleaning for Particular People H OUR SERVICE WILL PLEASE YOU I 403^DeKALl^^TREET^^^^^HON^^j?^ 1 Schlosburg's Stores. I Schlosburg's 5-10-25c Stores | OFFICE^TE^EPHONE^SS^^^^^ I Camden Dry Cleanery I PHONE 17 ^ I