A CLEAN-CUT SALE; for this store will die as it lived and grew. No schemes, no fooling—a straight, clean-cut disposal of all there is in these four walls. September 9th we begin and ends only when the last item is sold, but we will make short work of it: for out Williamson goes in a hurry.
THE STORE THAT HAS GROWN faster than we could take on space; that for years was acknowledged the country over to be not only the largest but most real and complete goes out of business simply because its owner says: "30 years is long enough at one job." The top he reached rapidly and stayed there; no more fields to win, other lines of work still but one-half developed; he is going to develop them.
ANYONE LOOKING OR THINKING THIS IS A BANK RUPT SALE, a must-sell sale, stay away, please, for it is not. Every creditor is paid or will be paid long before his bill is due. NO HURRY SALE, no bubbling excitement, but a straight, forward, "flat-footed," might say total selling out of everything in this, the State's Greatest Store, for less than wholesale production cost. That is all there is to it.
For one-third of a dozen reasons, Williamson says, quit.
REASON ONE. —To put every dollar that it is possible to put in the shortest space of time that this entire business will bring to the cause for which the Allies are now struggling for: in other words, "Whip the Kaiser!" and whip him quick. 