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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

September 3, 1942 (4 pages)

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Page F our cr rece we en mee RETAIL MERCHANT'S CLOUDS HAVE SILVER LINING IF HE WILL USE RESOURCEFULNESS worn corsets and sadirons—all priced low. People still like bargains and the time to clear out your Come, kitty! ‘Sic ’em How retail merchants, faced with an inability to get goods any more. can turn vittory into defeat by a ” little resource “ulness, is described in an article in the current issue of The Rotarian: now's cats and dogs. Rover! new lines. Have you noticed how the windows of certain chain tire stores now look like drugstores—featuring everything from baseball bats to Gladstone bags? Maybe thére’s-something you could stock that will supplement what you’re now selling. I know of a big business built on the idea of grocery stores selling utensils in which to cook and serve food, just as’ shops handling films also sell cameras in which to use them. can’t author, “You asks the get goods anymore?” Walter B. Pitkin. “Well, before ycu draw down the Shades and turn in -the keys, how about that junk on those back shelves or down in the basement? You’ve charged it off. so anything you get for it is’ clear profit. , “One Rotarian correspondent writes about a village store that had a lot of. half-forgotten muslin unloaded on it years ago by-—a supersalesman. It wais sold, every yard of ; it, when advertised as usable for wall covering in home decoration. Maybe you've got something at which your customers once turned noses up, but which they’d gladly buy now— if you show them how to substitute it for something they no longer can get. “tAnother Rotarian tells of a dealer who dug into what he called his “chamber Of horrors’’ and uncovered a case of old-fashioned kerosene lanterns. The air raid precaution boys eerved then Ue. ; “Here’s a report from a Georgia “Here comes another idea: a. Rotarian: We were selling electric white-elephant bargain. table. Set it iyefrigerators, washers and electric right up there near the front door ranges. Now we've switched to vuland heap it.up with@gdd-lot items—. anizing’ for trucks and passenger sardines and button shoes, shop-. cars. We have also installed a balancing machine to help our customers get more mileage from tires. All BUS this work is cash—easy to get cash. DRIVERS WANTED “But a note of warning. Don't take on new goods just because you can get them. Be reasonably sure ir advance they will sell. If not you may end up with a miniature department store, unsatisfactory to your customers, annoying to established competitors, and a tbad headaehe. for yourself. Think twice before;you get off your'old beam, The trick is to find the opportunity the other fellow has missed. The war has changed the consumer com-plexion of many a community. I:don’t think we’ll ever switch back to longtime selling of anything.” Hardware stores can pick up overlooked business and. éarn the gratitude of harassed consumers by buyGood Pay, Pleasant Work ing and selling used tools, vacuum cleaners, motors and such. I’ve Valuable Training Given learned through ano {her Rotarian Opportunity for experienced ‘correspondent about one chap who and inexperienced men to get : is doing that and has developed s9 into work essential now and much business reconditioning and ater the war. Good future—servicing such items he has had, to training fits you to an dle. add men to his payroll. He, I’m wagheavy motorized equipment. jerinig, is going to remain in business Work now available in San . indefinitely. Francisco bay. area..Get. fur‘(Mister Retailer, that leads me to ther Borate hy contac‘ing o: a hot tip. Some morning when you come down to your store, imagine writing 3% you’re your customer. A. ¥. Allen looking at everything you see with the eye of the apprehensive consumGREYHOUND LINES er. Do this, and you'll discover that 1919 MARKET STREET OAKLAND, CALIF. supplying him is the way he ‘py, second only to ‘with what he asks for, PROUSE DRIVE-IN MARKET OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. DRIVE OUT AND SEE US GRASS VALLEY-NEVADA CITY HIGHWAY HONEY PRODUCED BY ONE OF THE BEST APIARISTS IN NEVADA COUNTY — SPECIAL— 5 POUND CAN 85 cents This honey can be used in canning peaches. Use 17 cup honey, 147 cup sugar; boil 5 minutes. Putin 10 to 12 peaches: peeled and and halved. Boil 5 minutes. Seal in your jars. PHONE 412 Blue Label KARO SYRUP, 114 bb. bot. 16c. 5 lb. can 40c Dinner Bell Shortening, Durkee product, 3. lb. can 68c GRAPE JUICE, Tea Garden, quart .......:........ . 34 Lynden’s Chicken Fricassee, 1 tb. 13 oz. can ......... 71¢ Del Monte Pineapple Juice 120z.10c. 16 0z. can 37c 25c Dunbar Southern Cove Oysters, 5 oz. can Silver Crest Dry Pack Shrimps, 5 oz. can , Mt. Lassen Brand, Yellow Freestone Peaches— No. 21% can . State Fair Brand, Cling Peaches, No. 21/, can ..... 20c Del Monte Pineapple, TOO) 2s CON 26c Franco-American SPAGHETTI, No. 1 tall can...... 10c MONARCH COFFEE, 1 lb. can SCHILLING’S COFFEE, 1 Ib. can 32c. ) { YES, WE HAVE PLENTY OF TEA AND COFFEE. LOCAL FRESH EGGS, Large, Per Dozen Grade A, 47¢ MEDIUM—32c YES, WE ALWAYS CARRY ARMOUR’S GOOD BACON ANP BEEF ‘Then give a thought to putting in . is_ treated. Save his time: “Sorry; Sir; Why not a. big}. but We're Out of These Items” sign right inside that front door. It will avoid lots of explanations and reduce annoyances. its better still if you direct him to a competitor who can supply him with the desired article. Don’t worry, your customer will be like bread on the water. and the chances are you won’t have to wait many days. And the ‘bread won't be soggy when it comes back either. *“*I know a hardware man I won’t soon forget. That Rotarian saved me money. I went in to buy a lawn mower. He had the mower and he could have had the sale if he had let me do all the’ talking. Instead, he aded. His man did it, and the cost was a tenth of what I'd have paid for a things in his line, I now go to him first because I feel he is looking out for me as well as No. 1. i ““With new goods curtailed, the old stuff has got to do. That opens up a lot of little doors. Garages are featuring their repair services, and some of them are winning the hearts/1 of lady customers by leaving #rease spots on the seats or wheel. hardest luck, they write me, up in their letters. One chap has shifted altogether from. selling things, which he can no longer get,. i and concentrates on he can deliver especially well. He knows how to repair and to upholster. He also knows how to interiors of automobiles. He is busy ——and says that hel never go back to long-term-credit selling again. **Maybe you have noticed, as have I, a-tendency of some clerks in large department stores to be curt with a sort of “take it or leave it’ attitude. . on the war . . Spend the day j in the business of making him hap‘. into effect, hospitals were receiving (Bertram P. Brown, California health Say a word, and all will be blamed . Well, here’s an opportunity for the little retailer. The smaller the store the better the. chance for developing that all-important} Personal contact that makes customloyal, come what will. Often it immers down to old-fashioned neizhborliness, **Grocers ers in many com munities { . have learned to make friends tar mers by pushing seasonal.crows—tomatoes, for-éexample—by featuring them in windows and in advertising. Farmers appreciate it. So do thrifty i housewives. Merchants do well to develop little ‘stunts that tie them closer to their customers. I’m not thinking about premiums now, but out-of-the-ordinary sorts of thoughtfulness. Why mot, for example, conduct an unofficial employment exchange? The ‘farmer who has been selling you eggs has strawberries rotting on the vine. Widow Grass’ 14 year old boy is dJt~ome from camp and is hankering for something to do. Bring them toether and all concerned are happy. If a few attempts of this sort work out, you might install a blackboard, With one half for jobs and the other half for names and telephone numbers of folks who’d mow a lawn or mind a baby or run a tractor, Give this a fair trial. “The lining of the cloud hanging over small retailers these days may mot assay high in the sort of silver that jingles cash registers, but it has its bright spots none-the-less. The opportunity to sell cheerful service is one. The clearing up of the instalwith the Jonses;” couver, writes me, and he goes on to say that ‘Many families in the past have had so many items ‘fon the go’”’ on installments that the children have suffered through lack of proper food and clothing.”’ tailing will be the sounder after war because of it. in the cloud. Now when slack is the time to get bunch of deadbeat accounts tucked away in the safe. Some work on them may bring in unexpécted dollars from vised me to have my old one repair-. folks who are drawing good: wages in a war industry plant. new one. Naturally, when I’m buying] ing over that you retailers have a tough row until the war is over, and even then to hoe. But I do say, don’t give up too easily. You don’t want to be a public charge and the government doesn’t want you to be one, even in no. store intact, than it is to give up althe} together The furniture men have the. over again later on. There are exbut. ceptions to that, here and there a bright spot. shows. general it holds true.’ can result in bitter labor strife/ and service,whicn. ‘ban and rural areas and political advantage, if labor and management work at cross-purposes
re-do. and if the metropolitan areas fail to recognize evitably linked with that of the rural districts. NEW TEL EPHONE. NIRECTORIES ARE NICTRIRUTEN ment buying mess is another. “Tt’s about time we got down co earth and stopped tryng to keep up a Rotarian at VanBritish Columbia, Canada, And >-rethe “That’s all changed now. “And here’s another bright speck sales are out that “*Palliatives?’”’ Sure. I’m not glossfor a splt second the fact t won’t be a bed of roses you have ow gear, keeping your morale and and then have to start all of course, but in But it is also in a position which n disastrous wrangling between urfor economic that their future is inCHURCH Sk SERVICES The Christian Scie Science Society in ‘Nevada City holds service at 114 Boulder Street every Sunday 11 a. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. A testimonial meeting is held the first Wednesday of each month at 8 p. m. The reading room at 117 Broad Street is open every day except Sundays and holidays from 2 p. m. to 4! Pp. m. ‘*Man’’ will ‘be the subpect of the Lesson-Sermon Sunday, September 6, in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston. The Golden Text will be: “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord; and he delighteth in his way, ’’ (Psalms 37.23.) iSunday school at 10 a. m. Preaching service at 11. Organ prelude (Mrs. Moody. Sermon ‘Labor Day (Message,’’ pastor. Communion. service at close of the sermon Sunday morning. Hospital sérvice at 2 p. m./. [Epworth League at 6:30 p. m. The, preaching service at 7:30 p. m. in (Epworth League room. Ten minutes of song. Sermon, “The Man That Wiould Not Double Cross,’’ pastor. Week events: Bible study and} ‘prayer hour Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. The WSCS will meet Wednesday at 11 a. m. for business session. cane eon will be served at 12:30 p. m. Two masses will be celebrated Sunday at the St. Canice Catholic Church. The first mass will be at 8 a.m. and the second-at 10:30 a. m. mal Dr. and Mrs. A. Bursell of Mount ain View have rented the duplex house of Dr. W. Hawkins-—on upper Broad Street. It is known as the old Thomas Botting property. NEVADA THEATRE Direction T. AND D. JR., ENTERPRISES, INC. TONIGHT BARBARA STANWYCK and JOEL McCREA In THE GREAT MAN’S LADY i t Friday and Saturday THIS GUN FOR HIRE With ' VERONICA LAKE and ROBERT PRESTON Plus WHISPERING GHOSTS Sunday, Monday and Tuesday ~ SHIP AHOY ELEANOR POWELL ‘ In With Father Patrick O'Reilly will conduct . the services. RED SKELTON Delivery cf a new telephone directory to all subscribers in Sacramento, Butte, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba Counties, was started Wednesday by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. According to the manager for the company, approximately 104,009 copies of this book have been printed. Delivery of the is bound in a gray cover, completed by tonight. Any one who has not received his copy by that time should call the business office of the company and one will be immediately provided. The manager also called attention to the valuable information contained in the preliminary pages of the new directory and requested that customers review these pages, as they contain information which will be material assistance to them in obtaining full use of their service. directory, which will be Fisherman Lost 36 _, Hours In Sierra County — Nicholas Kampo, 48, was ‘recovering. from shock and exposure today ater having been lost in the mountainous district near Downieville for 36 hours. Kampo became separated from his wife and George Williams while on a fishing trip. He remained a day and night in the rugged mountain country before a posse found ‘him ten miles away fromehis camp. _ a, ue p it PAI N ull keep it La Nevada City Phone 5 ig A well-painted home will withstand the ravages of time and weather almost indefinitely. But don’t forget that a well-paintec home is not one painted with low-quality paint. It is one painted with good paint. For exterior painting, insist on Fuller Pure Prepared Paint—the finest all-purpose “house” paint made. It lasts. For all your paint needs, see a Fuller Paint Dealer. ALPHA STORES, Ltd. Grass Valley Phone 88 LOCAL RATION BOARD AANNOUNCES HOSPITALS RECEIVE MORE SUGAR ‘Hospitals, other than rest homes, Sanitariums and such institutions thandling only chronic cases, will receive an increased allotment of sugar commencing September 1st, according to George Calanan, Chairman, Local War Price and. Rationing Board. Until the increased allotment goes SO per cent of their base period supply. Under the new regulations this allotment will ‘be increased to 65 per cent, according to Calanan. This increase, together with the 25 per cent additional allotment. which was declared as a September-October bonus to hospitals, will give the hospitals in this area 90 per cent of their 1941 requirements, he added. **With 90 per cent of last year’s Sugar available, our hospitals are TRY WALKING ADVISES DIRECTO SAICRAMENTO, Sept. 2.—(UP)— The State Highway Traffic Advisory ‘Committee to the War Department today relayed the suggestion of Dr. TH Girector, that persons worried about their tires should take up walking. ‘Reports received by the committee, which is sponsoring a public ed@ucational campaign in California mittee noted, to conserve tires, indicate that thousands of persons have stored their ‘cars in the last few months and have taken up walking to work. The committee suggested that walkng was one way for citizens to participate in the nation wide effort . . to conserve vital war transportation. But even more important, the comit is good for health. Brown said that if undertaken wisely, walking is one of the best forms of exercise. ‘Walking requires the use of muscles which should be kept in condition thealth’’ normal body functions, particularly digestion, circulation tion. It forces the individual out of doors into the fresh air. general godd “Tt stimulates maintain Brown said. to and eliminate ing to be th “People suffering from organic a ae Lees aweetest place 10! diteason “ox stall ae poe Own,’ was the parting comment of should take exercise only upon the Calanan. advice of a physician. Young children and persons past middle age should ‘be careful not to strenuous exercise. ceptions almost anyone can build up a tolerance for walking long distance without fatigue or other harmful effects if he goes’ about it gradually and exercises common sense.’’ take tdo ‘With these exTo get the most out of walking, Brown advised it be.done at a regular time each day, that the posture be good and that clothing and shoes be “sensible.”’ CLEANERS the flat work is returned to Try it. 111 BENNETT STREET PHONE 108 THERE’S A FIRST CLASS LAUNDRY AND DRY In Grass Valley and it calls and delivers in Nevada City. It washes or diy cleans the clothes expertly and carefully. In the family bundle which you pay for by the pound all clean and dry. For a small extra cost dresses and shirts in this bundle are returned to you ironed and ready to wear. The scientific ZORIC method is used for dry praning. GRASS VALLEY LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANERS you ironed, other pieces _. 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