The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1869-01-12

The Cleahlns Trade.
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To find one Of The vssy bess illustrations
which Keokuk can offer 1T pluck, enter. .
and merit, successful y they deserve 70 be;
you have bot 70 ester this houss.
Our young hisnds. VIM. Vsncill and Ed.
Jones, bsgaa business 10 the clothing trade
with scarce Any capital ave their experience
and pluck. They made wise management
take the place Of capital, and bring that cap
ital in GOOD time. Their beginning Was 10
September 1860. They got ; good stock Q
Foods and advertised. This was splendid
beginning. II didn't insure success, but VA
rood WV TO il. Get good stock - Venciil
/ Jones did, then advertise ~ Vsncili Z Jones
did. and our word for il you will establish
vourself in trade. It requires other elements
to bring success, to be sure. Enterprise,
ECONOMY, wise management. These V.
+ exercised. Why, the elements which
made their house prosperous are better texts
for ! sermon than the article Of their trade,
Nh CD was the text Of one of the best sermons
we ever read. That text read: "Samuel
minisered before the Lord, being child.
Moreover bis mother made him little coat
and brought ii to him from year to year.
That's the text and the sermon you may read
for yourself. But il isn't clear whether it
was the same old coat Or . new one that Was
brought from year to ysar. And it is clear,
70 take it, that Vencill 4 Jones' Clothing
Honse wash established in the days Of Sam
uel, else would his mother have got the coat
there instead Of making il herself We said
the sermon from that text 10 one Of the bsst
10 ever read. It Is strange that the very best
sermon any Of M ever read, is suggested just
in this connection. We didn't know before-
hand how nearly 'aliks to religious topic
this matter Of clothing is Consider the
lilies Of the valley they toll not neither do
they spin, yet say unto thee Solomon in oil
his glory, wss not arrayed like one Of these"
Don't one think Of that in this connection,
and isn't that part Of the very best sermon
thu. anybody ever heard or reed. Thsn, too,
we 70 under again seriptureward, and come
TO the surface with the very identical coat Of
many colors that Joseph had, and which was
the beginning Of his checkered life, got him
into apt, got him into Egypt, got him into
scrape with Potiphar's wife, got him into
prison (whsre good many fellows that We
know wouldn' t have got for the same cause
that he did) and finally got him into Is good
. thing - anybody could want, if he were
satisfied with Egypt At all.
There, No have to stick our fingers in our
Memory's ears to prevent their coming with
host of other illustrations from scripture Of
the clothing trade. And do you say that you
wonder that We interpolate these unnecessary
Scripture illusions in business notice at all?
Why We are . ielf-constituted missionary.
We want to do chaps good. We know that
here is one article ct least of our writing,
that the gentlemen to whom it is specially
devoted will read. One business friend Of
ours let on to Us the other day that he didn't
read our soto. Of himself and his business.
Now We didn't believe that . bit. We didn't
tell him 90 1t the time, but when he reads
this we hope he will think that ve mean him
and that we don't believe word ~ to bis
not reading it. So We know our friends Ven
Gill and Jones will read this, and we want to
say something that will do EN- permanent
good. We hope they will appreciate this ef-
fort to promote the diffusion Of Biblical
knowledge in en-. Col. Thompson is mem
Der Of the firm, but We don't address this TO
him. We know that he has forgotten more
Scripture than We ever learned.
In 1860, when they began business, it was
near Third street, upon the north side Of
Main. In 1866 Colonel VIM. Thompson en-
tered the firm. and they moved to the splen-
did quarters they nov occupy, on the south
corner of Main and Third streets. Here
they have grown and fourished Their trade
is bigger than ever before, and growing inn
mensely. In every department they have an
immense stock. To this it il scarcely worth
while to invite the attention of country deal
ers, for these always 60 to v. J. / Cos be.
fore they leave Keoknk.
The merchant tailoring department is one
Of the most popular features Of this house.
It is in charge of Mr.. Frazier, who has been
with the FIRM since they started, and with
ever increasing popularity and public favor.
The several tailoring houses Of Ksokuk have
good cutters, but none Of these is ahead Of
Mr.. F. Il was good thing for vencill, Jones
h Co., that in building up trade they had
30 splendid IN auxiliary - Mr.. Frazier, in q
department wherein the public are constitu-
tionaly and chemically exacting.
II, D. wooDwpRD co.
/ tbs a mistaken ioea that the jobbing trade
of Keokuk will be overdone. There's 4
natural sensitiveness on this score, Jet the ex-
perience of this city has been and will be that
with every new house that is opened addition
al prosperity comes to oil. The Wholesale
| G-onA.1 trads NAV be taken q IN illustra.
ton and proof. In 1852, when Pollock 4
Co. entered the trade, that department Of
business seemed to b fulh There were
houses enough to do all the business tina,
could be done here, and more. But POLLOCK
l. Co. entered the list with . big house brim
full Of goods. They are doing now bust
ness of . half million . year, and all the 9th
er houses are doing double or more thar
double the business they were doing in 1862
With our multiplicity Of houses Of that kind
keokuk has become Grocery market. With
the competition Iowa and interior merchants