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RICHMOND CONSERVATOR
GEO. W. TRIGG, Publisher "IN GOD WE TRUST -- ALL ELSE CASH!" $1.50 PER ANNUM
Vol. XXXIX RICHMOND MO., THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1892
After the Merchants
Captain Shutts, of the Lawson Courier, has the following to say with reference to the encouragement he is receiving
in the way of advertising at the hands of the merchants of that town.
"When the people of Lawson will support a newspaper as the people of other towns their home paper, some one
will publish a paper in Lawson. There are 4 dry good stores in Lawson, and not one of them has an advertisement
in the Courier, 5 grocery stores in Lawson, and not one of them mentioned in the Courier; 3 millinery stores in
Lawson, and neither of them asks for trade through the Courier; 2 furniture stores in Lawson, and neither of them
advertise in the Courier. Geo. Young, J.M. Morrow, and R.M. Miller have always kept an advertisement in the Courier,
and we bespeak for them a continuance of the liberal patronage they deserve and are receiving. More than half the
trade belonging to Lawson goes to other towns. J.C. Brown & Co., and the Brown Clothing Co., of Richmond, have
been liberal advertisers in the Courier, and they are proud of the trade they get from Lawson."
Captain, you should make your paper so hot that they cannot do without it. There are a few merchants in Richmond,
and very few, who do not advertise in the CONSERVATOR, and those who do not are gradually losing their trade. They
are either sleepy heads or haven't business sense enough to know that advertising pays. We don't know that Lawson
has any such people but we have a few in Richmond. The man who advertises always has trade, while men, who do not
generally come to grief in the long run. Some men in Richmond do not advertise in the CONSERVATOR because they
do not like its editor, and we frankly confess that we do not like some of them.
The Missourian
A crowd estimated at between 1000 and 1500 attended the Fort Peck Rodeo Company's exhibition in the Fred Lee pasture south of Richmond, Sunday.
The rodeo was reported by those in attendance to be a very creditable performance. The Missourian, month and day unknown, 1927
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