Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-06-30
The "Minnie" the Best.

The "Minnie" the Best.
MAYsv1LLE, KY, June 25, 1908.
D. A. LYONS, Cresco, Iowa.
My Dear Sir:-The writer is lust in
receipt of copy of the PLAIN DEAL
Err under date of June 10th, in which
appears your most excellent adver-
tisement. / desire very much to COM
pliment you upon the plain and sue
cinct manner in which you have stat
ed apparent facts. This certainly
brings the matter home to the farmers
attention In way that he will be un-
able to crawl out. The writer SINGER
ely trusts that at some no distant
future date he may have the pleasure
OF q personal acquaintance with you.
Our reason for making this wish is
that you are our kind.
We are mailing you today bundle
of our daily papers for the last eight
or ten days and ask that you read
carefully our advertisement in each
issue thereof. You will see that we,
like you, have gone after the Trust,
and In each and every case have
brought home scalp with us. We
had the same fight that you had, only
possibly harder, and have won out, In
our home county Of Mason, which is a
splendid wheat county. the Interna-
national Harvester Co. had eight
high;prtced canvassers, two OF which
were black men. They continued the
canvass through last fall, through this
spring and through harvest. We fig
ure at the lowest calculation that
their expense in our home county is
at least 100000. They have sold and
delivered all told % bindera, is Nc
Cormick, 5 DeerinGs and 5 Pianos,
Champion none, Milwaukee none. We
have sold and delivered 81. Our har-
vest is over and we congratulate our,
selves upon having passed through the
easiest harvtst Of our entire expert
enGe which covers an experience of II
years in the harvester business. We
have had this present season a very
difficult crop to cut. The MINNIE
binder has handled wheat that we
never saw any other binder handle.
As youcan readi ~ gather from testimo.
nials in the papers that we have mail
ed to you, our farmers are simply wild
about the work OF the beautiful Min
nile. We have made our fight and won,
and we expect things to come easy
with US next year. There is bound to
be balance struck at the end OF the
season and the Trust will surely In
quire OF their block men why $4,000. OF
In expenses was put into Mason coun
tY and the gross receipts of the sale OF
goods less than 100000. When this
balance is struck and this question is
asked, we believe that things will
come easy for John I. Winter & Co.
We have lost considerable money the
present year, intact our loss will run
up into the thousands in the territory
that we work, but we are just as game
today as we were the day we first con.
tracted. We figure that the money
we have lost this year Ii the best mon.
ey that we everspent. We have thor.
oughly convinced the State Of Ken.
tucky and part of Ohio that a farmer
can cut crop OF wheat with Grass
Twine by spending one dollar every
time his neighbor spends three foI
Trust twine. We have absolutely
convinced the entire state upon this
point. Next season II we do not get
husiDes it will be our fault. We wist
to pat you on the back and say that
we are glad to see you In the family
and trust that you will be just as 10y,
al, In fact more 50 this time next year,
II ever the opportunity presents Itself
and we are anyways near you, we shall
certainly make tia point to run Ia
and see you.
Wishing you the best Of success, and
trusting that you will continue to LICK
the Trust upon every point, we remain,
Yours truly,
JOHN I. WINTER s. Co,