IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3998, 25 November 1918, Page 1

IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE.

This is a stor.y of an honest farmer —several honest farmers (says the St. Louis correspondent of the New York Herald). It proves that farmers wh > engage in business as peddlers are honest—after they are caught with the goods. There , appeared in a local newspaper the following advertisement: — If the farmer who cheated lady put of th,.ss. bushels of potatoes doesn't bring them in the next day or two he will be arrested. He is known. It is perfectly apparent from results obtained by this advertisement that more than one larmer had cheated St. Louis housewives. More than half a dozen housewives, when they * arose next morning, were agreeably surprised to find three bushels of potatoes on the porch at the rear of their houses. They knew nothing of the ad. But they did remember having purchased potatoes the day previous from farmer peddler's. Even fchc woman who threatened "her farmer" with arrest got the three bushels which were due her. ** Moral; It pays to advertise.