Thomas County cat., 1890-05-22
HARVEST MACHINERY.
WILLIAM DEERING 4 co.'s. SPECIAL
TRAINS ARRIVE IN KAN
SIS CITY,
The Grondesf Display Of Farm Machinery
Ersr Made-D. ID. ii and C. Il DQ-
kin Agents for the Company at
COlbu.

Doubtless the largest single shipment Of
harvesting machinery ever made in this
country was the special train of fifty
coaches sent over the Santa Fe road by
William Deering & Co., of Chicago. ar
irving in this city this afternoon at 4:10 p
| m. The train was run in two sections and
the cars loaded 20 the utmost capacity
with the Deering light steel binders and
Deering binding twine for the sunny
| fields of Kansas, each coach handsomely
decorated and thoroughly equipped with
Obliging and efficient wOrkmen, attracted
marked attention in every hamlet, town,
village and city through which they pas
sed. A band of music accompanied the
train and, at each STOP the wonder struck
inhabitants were regaled with sweet and
harmonious sounds, a mark of enterprise
of one of Americas largest firms. From
the display car handsome souvenirs were
distributed along the route to the delight
of the ladies and the Joy of those favored
with the gifts. Leaving Chicago Wednes-
day morning at o'clock, on previous
ly published schedule. the first section
containing the company's elegant dis
play car ran ten minutes in advance of
the second, and not person left the de-
pot after the announcement that the sec
ond section was Immediately following
before the entire train had passed.
Wednesday night was spent in Gales
burg and no circus nor theater train has
ever stopped in that city where the crowd
was so great and continued in such un
diminished numbers as surrounded this
special train of harvesting machinery
Up until 10 o'clock in the evening the
men, women and children surrounded
the train and each bore away handsome
mOmentO OF the occasion, which amply
repaid them for any inconvenience they
may have incurred.
Mr. E. P Shields, general agent of
William Deering s. Co., in this city, &C
companied by many of his friends and
representatives of the firm. left last night
over the Santa Fe road for Merceline,
Mo-, where the party met the incoming
specials and accompanied them to this
city.
At Merceline, the second night en- route
was spent, and a Galesburg experience
in superlative degree was repeated.
Numerous and varied were the exclama-
tiOns of astonishment and wonder at
tracted by the two specials, and when
the band struck up the Star SpaDgled
Banner" the Marcelinians' enthusiasm
knew no bounds Even at the early hour
of O clock in the morning, there was
crowd assembled to witness the depar
ture of the great display and as the trains
steamed out of the depot, to the tune Of
The Girl Left Behind Me-" the cry of
Hard Times was supplemented by
wonder, that the urgent needs of the
latest improved harvesting machinery in
Kansas should be so great as to compel a
single firm to require two trains to fill the
orders of it's customers.
One section of twenty seven carloads
of machinery will be left in this city
under charge of the company's able and
efficient manager, Mr.. f. p Shields, hav-
ing his office at State Line and Ewing
streets. where the best line of harvesting
machinery will be kept on hand, and Mr..
Shields will be pleased to exhibit this
line of goods to interested parties.
Handsome cards containing cuts of the
train have been prepared and will be dis
tributed along the route. and the train of
coaches. including the dis
play car and carrying the band, start on
its trip further west tomorrow morning
at 6 o'clock, ARRIVING in EmpOria, its fin
al destination, at 4 o'clock on the same
DAY.
It has been said that actions speaks
louder than words" Exaggerated illus
hyperbolical statements and er-
roneous representations catch the eye.
but the result of enterprise. the push of
success and the truth of facts leave an
everlasting and never to be forgotten
on the mind. The firm of
William Deering & Co. is to be congratu
lated upon the most successful shipment
ever made by any one firm in the United
City Star, Mayo.
This company is represented in Colby by
the;wide awake firm of Spaid & Dakin who
will serve you in all kinds of farm mach
inery at lowest prices. The Deering
goods are the best manufactured, all
points considered. Look for the large
Illustrated "ad" in next weeks CAT.