Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-04-24
|INLARGER QUARTERS.
The Courier's Increased Business
Necessitates More Space.
SECURES ADDITIONAL 5O.F0OT ROOM
Job Department. Now Occupies Large,
Quarters, While the Ad Depart.
ment Has Been Given More
Room and Material.

Having found it necessary TO get
more room to better care for it's in
creased patronage, The Courier has re-
Gently completed arrangements for the
1lfty foot room in the rear Of the Adj
ans Express office and adjoining the
Courier office on the north, and this
large and spacious building has been
converted into a job department and
stock room. By moving the JOB de-
partment from the rear of the present
composing room,and turning that space
over to the ad department, the Courier
is now better able to handle it's steadi-
ly increasing business in this line. The
new plan of changing ads every day,
makes many times more work in the
ad department., but we believe the re-
suits to advertisers more than compen-
safe for the extra expense incurred i.
Three ad men are regularly employed,
while from one to two more are fud-
ing work two or three days each week.
using the new plan have already dem
onstrated that it is profitable to them
to go to the extra work of writing new
ads, and the Courier is always anxious
to give its patrons the best to be had
for the money expended. The letters
OF endorsement THAI have appeared in
this paper from time to time from
leading business houses are proof
enough that the new plan is winner
and has come to stay, and hence the
necessity of getting room enough to
properly handle the business. With
the increased room secured, the Cou-
rier has also added, within the last six
weeks, over $500 worth of the latest
type faces and borders, this being
found necessary in order to set up
more attractive ads.
In this connection it might also be
stated that the Courier has begun in
small way What the big newspapers
in the large cities have found great
convenience to customers-a free adj
writing bureau. Many of the Courier
regular patrons frankly say that they
have not the faculty of writing good
ads, and to these merchants we lend j
helping hand thru this bureau. They
are asked for instructions and pointers
regarding their business, and from
these facts the ad men write their dali
" announcements. An ad man who
gives his time and thought to the art
of advertising becomes proficient in it
the same as dry goods merchant
comes to thoroly understand all the
ms and outs of his business. The Cou.
rier's ad men can be consulted at any
time and they will cheerfully under
take to write ads for any merchant
who does not feel that he can do it OF
cannot take :he tinle.
The Courierss job department, in it:
new quarters, is now better able thar
ever to handle first class commercial
| work of every description. This de.
| partment is in charge of Mr. Frank
Barr, one of the finest art printers il
the country, and he has an able lieu
tenant in the press room in the person
of Mr.. E. L. Graves, of Rockford, Ill.
who has had charge of some of the
| best press rooms in the west. With
such artists in charge of these two de.
partments, it can plainly be seen thai
the class of work turned out cannot
help but be of the best. Mr.. Barr is
an expert designer of artistic cover
pages, souvenirs, booklets, ETC., ant
will gladly assist any merchant or firm
contemplating getting out a catalog
booklet, or printed matter of any kind
There is nothing that so lends tone
and distinction to a business house al
fine printing, especially in the way o
announcements or folders. and for thu
sake of few cents there is no need o.
having something you want to get ou
to impress the trade, spoiled by incom
petent printers. The Courier's job de
nartment has turned out several fin,
jobs lately in the way of booklets, il
two and three colors, and has ample
facilities for doing the best class o:
work.