THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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WHEN Will RETAIL
DO
Tuesday, August 16, 1921
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TO PRE-WAR LEVE
The country is full of amateur economists who predict that the prices of cloth
ing, underwear, hosiery, shoes, overalls, ladies and gents furnishings, dry
goods, carpets furniture, paints, hardware, implements, builders supplies, har
ness, crockery, groceries, flour, bread, confectionery, cigars, and tobaccos,
electrical supplies, drugs and medicines, jewelry, paper goods and printed
matter, phonographs and records, millinery, toilet articles, automobile acces
sories and repairs, vulcanizing, all these and thousands of other articles and
services will soon return to pre-war prices.
Will They? They Will-But When?
LET US TELL YOU
When freight rates from Portland to Heppner, now $1.12 are back to 75c
When passenger rates are back to 3 cents a mile
When house rent is back to $10 per month
When farm labor is back to $25 ad month
When a square meal is back to a quarter
When gasoline is back to 10c a gallon
When interest is back to six per cent
When shaves are back to 15 cents
And you get a shine for a nickle
For the LoVe Of Mike! Why expect the retailer to travel the road of reduced
prices alone? Why expect us and no one else to go hack to pre-war prices?
Begyour pardon; there is someone else--the farmer and the stockman, they too, have been get
ting it hard. But why pick on the retailer?
Isn't it true that the retailers, as a class, have gone much farther and faster than the average in reducing prices and making re
adjustments? WE'LL SAY IT IS! b
The retailers, the farmers and the stockmen are away ahead of the procession in getting back towards pre-war prices and by the same
token they are away behind in making excessive profits out of the misery of war, so now let the railroads, the oil companies, the
telephone company, the landlords, skilled labor, the financiers, the milling interests and grain pit gamblers, the coal barons, the pack
ers and scores of other lines of business get into the game with us, cut their prices and catch up with us. It's time for us to "pick"
on somebody. The retailer has been the goat ever since the war began. We are doing our part to help bring conditions back to nor
mal and are selling goods at the lowest possible price if we are to re main in business.
ALL WE ASK IS A FAIR PROFIT AND a SQUARE DEAL FOR OURSELVES AND OUR CUSTOMERS
Boost Your Home County, Home Town and Your Home
Merchants And Thereby BOOST YOURSELF
THOMSON BROS.
General Mdse.
HUMPHREYS DRUG CO.
Purola Line
MINOR & CO.
General Mdse.
BATTERY ELECTRIC
SERVICE STATION
HEPPNER GARAGE
Auto Supplies
CURRAN & BARR
Pastime
CASE FURNITURE CO.
Home Furnishers
PHELPS GROCERY CO.
Good Things To Eat
TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO.
Building Materials
LLOYD HUTCHINSON
Cleaning, Pressing, Tailoring
BOWERS SHOE SHOP
"Make 'em Like New"
MRS. L. G. HERREN
Millinery and Suits
HEPPNER TAILORING
& CLEANING SHOP
C. V. HOPPER
Tire Shop
PEOPLES HDWE. CO.
Hardware, Implements
PATTERSON & SON
"Rexall Store"
SAM HUGHES CO.
General Merchandise
GILLIAM &BISBEE
Hardware. I. II. C. Line
MORROW CO. CREAMERY CO
W. C. Cox, xMgr.
WM. IIAYJ.OR
Jewelry, Diamonds
FOUNTAIN OF SWEETS
J. K. Maxwell, Prop. J
E. G. NOBLE
"Noble Saddles"
B.P.STONE r
I larness and Auto Top3
COHNAUTOCO. ' V
Gas, Oils, Accessories
UNIVERSAL GARAGE
Supplies and Repairs
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