The Florence daily tribune., 1901-07-16
He Does the Handsome Thing by the
Welded Ones
They Come Florence Fit Themselves for House
keeping-Josh Gives Them the Benefit of His
Experience and Foots the Bills-An
Have Gay Time

In answer to the drivers ques-
ton as to where they wanted to go,
Uncle Josh replied: Just drive
around town; we want to see a bit
of Mother Earth It's the basis
of home, Charlie. What do you
think, after looking at the numer-
Gus lots; that that on the corner
here would be the most desirable
place to build? If you want to
find out about prices and terms
you must go down and see j Vic
/ tor McCandless, who runs the lead
ing real estate office in the city.
His father Eve known for twenty
five years, and Victor is just as
square as he always was. Besides
he is wide awake and up to date
business man. | bought farm
of him several years ago that
proved to be one of the best invest
ments | ever made, You know
there are some real estate men who
are looking for the best end of it,
but my friend Victor has been
renting my house and placing
loans for me for some time and |
have always found him honest and
upright in all his dealings and fair
to both the borrower and lender"
Now said Uncle Josh, well
90 and see p Il Clingan, the con
tractor and builder. Even with
money we have to have a man VINO
understands the art of draughting,
building, etc He has lately been
working on the addition to the
Methodist church, which he also
built some years ago. Besides
that, he is also building the smelt-
er at Canon City, which is pretty
big job AS we drive around |
will show you some of the fine res
licences he has built in the last
few years. He has plans for num-
Der of new cottages, all of differ
erent design, He built the house
for Dr. Brooks and had the con
tract to erect the Ell Paso chlorin-
alton mill I'll tell you, Poll, he's
all right Well, here we are"
After meeting Mr.. Clingan and
looking over the numerous plans,
they decided on cottage of colo
nial style polly adding the usual
request for plenty of closet room)
and gave Mr. Clingan the contract
for the work.
by the way" exclaimed Uncle
Josh, with a paternal air, I'm
thinkin' the next thing to look
after is the lumbe to put into the
house, SO | think we'll drive over
to j S Thickins the leading lum-
ber dealer of Florence. | have
known him for good many years
and I'm sure he will give us
square deal. When | know | get
treated right / don't do any run
ming around. He carries the most
complete stock in this part of the
country, everything from sills to
shingles They have just finished
unloading a car of new lum Der
and, by gumi it's all right" After
being introduced to Mr. Thickins
they were shown through his vari-
GUS departments and were agreea-
bly, surprised at the fine lines of
building materials he carried.
I've known j s. for nigh onto
twenty years, ever since he's
been in Fremont county, and when
he opened his lumber yard here
five years ago, I've watched his
steady growth with interest. You
can see be carries everything in his
line, even down to posts. just look
at that line of lime, roofing paint,
putty, cement and hair he carries.
Yes sir. he's got the biggest yard
west of Pueblo.
Now, Charlie" said Uncle Josh.
seem we've got the house built
and furnished, | don't believe in
takiu any chances, so We'll go over
aud get my old friends Williams &
Swan to insure US in the Phoenix,
of Brooklyn That's good com
panv and ] know it. In the fall
of '9s had the dog blasted luck
10 have barn burn down, but |
had policy with Williams q Swan
and say, they paid it like men.
Your old uncle may be slow in
omethings but he knows when he
gets treated right and you bet your
bottom dollar Williams & Swan
will treat you square, so come on
and III introduce you You'll
find them awfully clever fellows
Now uncle, said Charley, '.our
house is built and ready for the
plum ber, where shall we go?"
The leading plum ber of this city
is j. |. Sullivan replied Josh
He put in all the fixtures for Harry
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