The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
FENDER BROTHERS
General Hardware, Farm Machinery
and Implements, Vehicles, Har-
ness, Etc, Waitsburg, Wash.

"There is a tide in the affairs OF
men. which taken at the flood, LEADS
nm TO fortune" Had Shakespeare
lived in our day and in the PACING
Northwest, he would have applied the
above quotation to towns and cities,
as well as to men. In the subject OF
this sketch, both appncatiOns are JUS
titled.
When Fred A. and Frank E. Fender
came to Waitsburg in the fall OF 1891
and ordered thirteen carloads OF farm
implements and machinery as starter
in business, they staked their capital
and credit to the limit on their faith
in the future of Waitsburg. They
builded better than they hoped. There
was at that time not merchant here
who carried implements, and there
was not a place in the entire towns
where a farmer could buy pillow.
Waitsburg was, as we reckon time,
an old town; at least, one OF the OLD
est towns in the state, but the tide
had not come The hood came with
the big wheat crop of ninety seven,
and with it came men of push and en-
terprise, who have helped to make
Waitsburg one of the fairest and most
prosperous towns of Southwestern
Washington.
When the Fender Brothers began
business here with the thirteen car
loads of implements and machinery,
they had little else to offer But
farmers were quick to see the econ
omy of being able to buy here, instead
o. having to go to Nalla Walla, and
trade. 1t was a well-observed rule of
the nrm from the start to carry every
they gladly gave Fender Brothers their
thing called for, just as quickly as the
firm could get it, and the result is,
that today, Fender Brothers carry
one of the most complete and best
selected retail stocks of the kind in
the country.
The stock includes Shelf and Heavy
Hardware, Tinware, Cutlery Enam-
eled Ware, Stoves and Ranges, Rubber
Hose and Betting, Paints and Oils of
all kinds, Cream SeparatOrs and Dairy
Supplies, and Blacksmiths' Supplies;
a complete assortment of Light and
Heavy Harness and Saddles, Wagons,
Buggies and carriages, Headers, Bind
ers and Mowers; Windmills, Gasoline
Engines and Pumps, Plows, Harrows,
and Rakes; Fence wire, and Farmers
and Mechanics Small Tools.
The firm is exclusive agent for
WinOna wagons, and other Vehicles,
Moline Balm Wagons, Henry Buggies,
Hacks and Carts, John Deere Plows
and Harrows, Iowa Cream Separators,
International Harvesting Machinery
Co.'S Headers, Binders, Mowers and
other machinery. Skilled men are con-
stantly employed putting up windmills,
and installing engines, machines and
pumps, and a complete tin and sheet
metal shop is run in connection with
the business.
This firm built and owns one-half
of the Fender Block, and occupy the
whole block, which gives them two
large salesrooms on the ground floor,
well lighted, and with all the appoint
ments of the up-to-date store of the
kind.
The Fender brothers are natives of
Illinois, and were pioneers of Spokane,
Wash, having arrived there in 1882.
Arrived in Washington, each became
interested in farming, and soon be-
came so identified with the people that
Fred A was elected and reelected
county commissioner of Spokane
county, and was seven years chairman
of the board.
No more appropriate description
could be given of the brothers than to
say they are typical Western business
men and ever ready to do their share
in promoting all worthy enterprises
for the public good