The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-03-16
FIRST CLASS COUNTRY STORE.
No Fault to Find with c. NJ Loynes'
Store but Kicking on Mail Service.

1t is generally conceded that for a
small country post Office and settle
ment, Chaplin, just over the Shiawassee
line in Saginaw county, is one of the
most wide awake and thrifty trading
centers which man would be likely to
find in more than one days travel.
Although it is five miles from the near
est railway station, it is within seven
miles of "A station on second railroad
and is located on the old Ridge road,
one of the best known and most
travelled roads in this part of the state,
running through country of fine
farms and helping to make the Chaplin
settlement or Bells Corners as it is
prosperity
Besides the Chaplin cheese factory, "a
description of which has heretofore APP
peared in the columns of The TINES,
a factory which brings in all the dairy
farmers to this point every day, there is
another feature which might not at first
glance seems to have so much to do
with giving the corners business like
tone but which is nevertheless an i'm.
portant factor in maintaining such a
state of affairs This is the general
store, in which the Chaplin post Office is
also located, belonging to and conducted
by Mr.. G NJ. Loynes.
The business. which was built up by
Mr.. Geo. w. Clark, now of Elsie was
taken in hand by the present owner ia
November of last year but in spite of
the fact that Mr.. Loynes had had no
previous experience in the conduct of
any business other than farming, having
gone directly from his Fairfield farm to
the Chaplin store, his attention to bust
ness has been so close, his common
sense and general desire to make him
self accommodating and agreeable so
persistently shown day after day, that
the business has continued to make a
steady growth requiring the constant
help of two clerks besides q harness
maker who runs shop in part of the
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carrying also small line of harnesses
and similar goods. This force is further
supplemented by the constant attention
of the proprietor himself, while Mrs.
Loynes, who is a very pleasant lady to
meet, also frequently assists in the work
in the post office and some of the lighter
work about the store when business is
rushing and household duties will
permit.
AS to the stock carried, while it
would obviously be foolish to attempt
to carry full line of all fancy articles
in any line, it may be said that the great
majority of the wants of those residing
in the vicinity, so far as they can be sup
piled at any store, can be supplied here,
while the ease which articles can be or
dered for customers and secured from
the larger places makes the work of
this store still more complete. The
stock carried covers dry goods and
notions, line of boots, shoes, and rub
Der foot wear, very complete line of
groceries and good stock of crockery
and hardware supplies. In addition to
the retail trade Mr.. Loynes supplies
some of the more remote country stores
with considerable part of their wares.
Besides furnishing place where the
farmers can SECURE the most of the
articles needed in their everyday work,
a market is also supplied for all their
surplus butter, eggs, poultry, etc.. which
Mr.. Loynes always stands ready to take
at good cash price. During the last
few months this trade alone has amount
ed to considerable sum and he has
shipped a good quantity of produce.
The postoffice in connection with the
store, offering facilities as it does for
the transmission of money either by
registered letter or money order is
great convenience,whi might however
be made much more valuable than at
present by change in the star route by
which mail is carried to ana from the
Office and by taking the mail from Oak
ley, as formerly, instead of from Elsie,
as at present. The mail now going
from Chaplin and Olney does not reach
Elsie in time to leave that night except
on the late north bound train, while if
the morning north bound train is few
minutes late, much of the mail for these
places is day later than it used to be.
AS much of the business transacted by
mail is done with Saginaw, the advant-
ages of having the star route run to Oak
ley on the Saginaw division of the NJ G.
are very apparent to Chaplin and Olney
patrons of the offices who now have to
put up with the delay of a round about
course which makes delay of one
or two days in the transaction of busi-
ness. With this matter corrected the
residents of the vicinity will feel that
they are once more as comfortably sup
piled with the provisions for carrying
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