The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29
All the Preliminaries Have
Been Arranged for ThOlen
q Achter to Move
to lola
CAPITAL WILL Be $4,000
They Have Done a Fine Bust
ness at Humboldt for the
Past Seven Years
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The REGISTER, and good many
the business men of lola. have been
aware for a year or more that the
wholesale firm Of Tholen Il Achter, of
Humboldt, was planning to move to
lola, and the REGISTER is glad to
announce that within the past few
days definite arrangements for the
hange have been made.
One of the chief drawbacks has
been that no suitable room was avail
able and no arrangement could he
made for the erection of building.
A six months tense was signed up
Tuesday for the old LapyOn build
ing on the north side Of the square,
two rooms, and between January 8
and Is the stock now in Hum
boldt will be moved here by teams.
Several car loads of goods now on the
road have also been ordered changed
ranged to erect building for the
firm near the railroads at an early
date and then they will be able to ex-
tend as much as they please, and this
move is necessary as the building in
to which they will fret move will not
contain near all the stock which they
ordinarily carry.
The new firm will be Incorporated
under the name of the lola Wholesale
Grocery and will be capitalized for
$50, 600. Mr.. Henry Tholen and Mr.
Ben A chter, who have built up the
business, will be mem bers of the firm,
and Lutte Z. Slower will be "a third
member. Both of the former gentle
men have lived in A lien county for a
long time and have won an enviable
reputation ms business men. Seven
years ago they started their whole
sale grocery on small scale at Hum
boldt and have prospered and grown
ever since. They do not wander from
their own firesides 80 extensively as
do some firms, but within the terri
tory which they do work they have
a reputation for honest dealing md
bu7ihOoo ca uNlAN NUN nus btCultNl
AMI held a mighty fine business.
Humboldt merchants have stood by
them and patronized home industries
and the lola grocers have for years
bought largely from them. The
reason OF the change to lola il that
this city has grown and the trade
here has increased so much that il
was deemed desirable to get in closer
touch with the merchants. From
this point the Santa Fe and Missouri
Pacific railroads give excellent con.
nection with adjacent territory fol
I fifty miles each way, and the NJ. X
d +. il easily reached to the east and
to the west. Two travelling statesmen
Will he put on the read, one on the
, Pacific and one on the Santa Fe
/ work which the members of the old
I firm took turn about doing. Two mer
will be.emplOyed in the Office and tire,
or four ware room men and teamster'
will be employed All of which
, means the addition of ten or twenty
> good prosperous citizens to lola.
( The advantages of having a whole
sale grocery here in lola are toe
r obvious to need dwelling upon. Tn,
{ freight rates will he improved, the
. cost price Of groceries will be con
siderable reduced and the merchant
will be enabled to operate with avery
much more diversified stock thar
= formerly and with less capital invest
1 ed. He can buy by the sack and the
] box where before he had to buy by
= the 500 worth. He does not need t.
y keep so much of any one thing, anC
can get new supply at few minutes
notice.
; With all these advantages coming
to the merchant, it Is up to the grOcerl
. of lola to patronize the home whole
> saler. Whenever and wherever ht
can throw business to the lola Whole
= sale Grocery, It is the duty of tn,
loyal business man to do so, for thu
towns good and his own. The bene
: fits will be mutual and will help t
huild up n large concern which II
q time may employ many workers anC
add materially to the prosperity n
the town. 1t Is most sincerely to b
hoped that the new firm will hold al
n the old trade and that the local trad
q will flow into the "home industry
channel.
The wholesale stage is very graft
flying mark in any town's'progress an
the REGIsTER eongratulates lola tina
she has reached the stage.
'e It's like "dip in the fountain {
l. YOUTH Touches the cheek 30 gentl
is that youth fingers on the face of oil
2 aOeu That's what Rocky Mountai