The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-03-22
The Growth OF The Fair
Department Store
And an Interesting Talk on the "Cash
Buyers Union" and Their Methods
of Operating in the West.

1t has been only a little more than
two years and a half ago that The
Fair Department Store made it's mi
tial bow to the Kalispell public. The
proprietors, Messrs. Harbert & Nor
quist, determined to make the Fair
store what 1t is today.
During the first two years of their
existence they occupied the little
frame building next door to the Ma
tional hotel, or the Kalispell hotel,
as it was then called. Their growth
from the start was little short of phe-
nomenal, as they had scarcely been
in business year before their large
look for larger and more commodious
quarters. They were, however, com
PEELED to remain in their old store
on account of their inability to Sc
cure a more suitable one until last
fall, when they moved into their own
establishment, which they erected for
themselves during the summer.
They now have one of the most
modern and up to date store build
ings in the state, and one which for
many years to come will be a credit
to Kalispell The building occupies
frontage of twenty-five feet and
runs back almost to the alley in the
rear. The basement is fitted up in a
most superb manner and one would
think upon entering that he was in
the basement of Siegel, Cooper &
| Co., or the Fair store in Chicago. This
gives them ample room for their
hardware, tinware, crockery and
trunk departments and of these lines
they carry most liberal assortment
The first floor is devoted exclu-
sively to their dry goods, shoes,
clothing and furnishing goods depart
ments. In the near future these gen.
tlemen intend to build a second story
to their building, to be occupied by
the other departments which they
contemplate adding upon completion
of same.
Messrs. Harbert & Norquist, al
though very young men, have proved
themselves to be hustlers and made
out of the right kinu of timber for g
young, growing city like Kalispell. II
is this class of business men thai
the city is largely responsible for its
immense strides of growth and pros
perity that it has enjoyed for the
past few years. Their methods o.
doing business are strictly in keepinS
with the systems employed by the
largest and most successful depart
ment stores in the country. They ar,
thoroughly abreast of the times ant
are never found lacking in enterpris,
or other qualities which go to make
up successful business men. The!
are a one price concern and from
this rule there is positively no devia
ton, The humblest man in all thu
land can buy just as cheaply as tn,
! lady in her satins or the man dressed
in his Sunday broadcloth-they ar
no respecters of person-one man
money just as good as anothers-
all goods are marked in plain, Leg
pie figures. This makes selling cas-
and buying easy.
Honorable and legitimate method
of transacting business will alway
, win in the end, and certainly Messrs
! Harbert & Norquist have been until
ing and unfaltering in their effort
to serve the public, and their stead
growth has been ample evidence tina
, their efforts have been met with al
; probation by the people of this va
ley.