Morris tribune., 1903-11-21
Here follows the "When Noah Built
TIE Ark" ad from the Sun

! u1sbh0S tuo GL1luh VI AFS0Al ludSuuCl
as the cigar in the old chaps month
is precisely like the one the artist
puts between nv teeth. At frs
! sight this might be taken for stock
ad, but it is not, Mr.. johnson buying
the cut and fitting the subject matter
to it,
| Here follows the GIVE been in every
country in the world and part OF
Missouri" ad from the Tribune.
AS near as I can guess there are
about $4,000 retail yards in the Unit
ed States, and at least 10000 of the
proprietors of these yards could take
hint from Mr.. johnson and the 9th
or yard men who aim to let the world
know they live, for l doubt if there
! are 10000 yard men who even think
seriously about advertising.
The third yard in Morris is run by
Mr.. Murphy, another -1rishman who
can sit down and talk with tender
foot like gentleman | have no
doubt that Mr.. Murphy is fairly
good lumberman and, having said
that, without knowing the condition
ii would surprise you to be told that
according to his own statement he
would not, know a piece of hemlock
if he should see it. There is no hem
lock sold through here. Beginning
east of Morris and stretching up
through the great Red River valley
it is a hemlockless region. Maybe
you don't know that not hemlock
tree grows in Minnesota, and as prac-
tically all the lumber sod here comes
from this state, the Pacific coast and
the south, hemlock has no place.
The dealers in this vicinity cannot get
to advantage into the Minneapolis
market, their white pine stock coming
from the mills north; therefore that
Tim Murphy, though growing old in
the retailing of lum Der, should not
know hemlock when he sees it is moth
ing against him. Mr.Murphy is said
to have great many friends i'll the
town and It's vicinity, and that is
better tn IN it is to know hemlock,
especially when the latter would cut
no figure. To know those things,
which will help us along-that is the
kind of education to have.
The fourth yard Ia town is that of
j. Rumsey Reeve, former townman
of mine in the burg from which
hail in Iowa, and was opened up the
first of the year. Mr.. Reeve, who
was of the firm of Reeve & Beebe,
thought that he might improve his
worldly affairs by following the star
of empire, and [ think he has hit it..
Saturday evening when it was so
dark that it was difficult to toll the
grade of a board I helped him to
load up a farmer. [ noticed that
much of the time, Notwithstanding
it was the day chat throrghou the
week is the dullest with all of us,
there was something doug around
his place-in fact it was the livliest
yard [ had seen in a mouth in a town
of The size of Morris. Mr. Reeve is
not an advocate of expensive build
ings and the present plant is sug
gestive of the one he left at his old
home. It has the Reeve ealmarks.
The shed is 22x12O feet, can be
tightly closed if necessary, and one
1870 feet long, half open, will soon go
up. The office is l6x2O, with an an
mex for hardware 2Ox22, which Mr..
Reeve says he has already outgrown.
One month Mr.. Reeve sold twenty
eight house and barn bills, which
amounts to about hustiiog business
doesn't it? / could make several
counts showing wherein Mr.. Reeve is
a good retail dealer.
On Sunday behind pair of snow
white steeds we rode over the coun
try and noted its possibilities. l
wish | could borrow money and buy
up \the whole shooting match. ]
should like to own the entire country.
If | did l would stop rejecting on
the monopolist. Land has advanced
and has got to $50 an acre right adj
joining town, and that it will go high
or admits Of little question. The far
mers who sold in Illinois, in some |
instances getting SIPS an acre and
buying here for less than quarter of |
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