The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-09-08
A WALK ak ABOU ABOUT TOWN TOWN.
Warmers Business Men Who they are
and What they are Doing
Men who have Come West and Grown
Up with the Country,

A Showing Creditahle to Warner and
also TO Dakota.
In previous issues we have Illustrated
the foundation, growth, prosperity and
natural advantages of the town Of Warner,
but we would fail to fulfil a most import
ant duty did we fail telling the public
something of the men who discovered
these great advantages and who, by their
tact and. enterprise, have so fostered
them as TO build up the commercial
center Warner now is. Generalizing a.
little we may say with propriety that in
no other town in the great northwest can
be found such desirable class Of citizens
people who take hold upon everything
calculated TO be of public benefit with a
determination to make it succeed if it
Hes in human power so to do, and who by
their iberality and unselfshness have
gained the confidence of the country for
miles around.
A person arriving in our city for the
first time is Immediately struck with the
hustle and activity visible upon every
hand, and in order to prevent the stranger
feeling neglected in the general hurry,
we propose conducting him around town
and introducing him to our leading busi-
ness. mea.
Arriving at the depot on one of the four
daily trains on the Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway, the first place of business which
attracts the visitors attention is the
hardware store of
LA. HUBBARD,
a gentleman of great business tact and
foresight, who came to Warner on the
second regular train on the Milwaukee
railroad, September 22d, 1881, to fill the
position of station agent. Soon the copn-
try began filing up with amazing rapid
ity and every new settler added one more
to Mr.. Hubbard's list of friends and adj
mirers. 1t is not surprising, therefore,
that newcomers to new country should
GO as they did to so popular apd obliging
person for advice as to where they
should order goods not then obtansble in
Dakota, and even request him to order
them himself. So great were the demands
thus made upon Mr., Hubbard's time that
he tried the more easy methsa of keeping
supply Of stoves and such like on hand
in the depot; but this device also proved
too trying, and he determined to embark
wholly in the hard ware business, Nor
has he nor the general public ever had
cause to regret that determination, as is
proven by the fact that his first building,
16x4 feet, had soon to be abandoned for
his present commodious quarters, 20x
80 feet, and even now outside storage has
to be provided for portion of his immense
stock, which comprises everything usu-
ally found in hardware store in any of
the large cities. Mr.. Hubbard has won
the reputation Of selling more goods for
the same money than any other dealer in
Brown county, and Judging by his eves
increasing business this reputation must
be well sustained
Just across the street, on the south
side, where you see crowds Of people con-
stantly going and coming, is the estab-
lishment of
STAFFORD & COLE,
at which you can supply your dcnicile
with every necessity known tothe house.
wife, not excepting your letters and
papers, for Mr.. Stafford is our postmaster
and an obiiging one he is. Mr.. Stafford,
the senior member Of the aaI'ni, is from
Edanore, Montcalm county, Michigan, in
which place he did business for NUM-
Der of years. Mr. Cole il from Calhoun
county in the same state, and besides
being thorough business man is one Of
the most genial conYersationalists to be
met with in q days walk. These two
gentlemen were acquainted with each
other in Warner, May 1st. 1883, and after
joining issues purchased small frame
building which stood on the site of their
present stand. This modest structure
proved to possess wonderful vitality, as it
has since grown to q length of 100 feet and
is packed with one Of the finest stocks IN
Dakota. To supply the country With
FIRST class furniture at rock-bottoDa prices
is one Of the firms principal issues. As
an example Of how they sell w state that
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there So cheaper than he himself paid for