The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-20

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S. e Barber on Conditions General,

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S. E Barber on Conditions Generally.
It is generally supposed, and usual
ly the case, that when the country is
visited with a financial disturbance
tnal life insurance companies are the
first to feel its effect. This was gen.
orally true during the recent financial
furry, the big companies as a whole
showing reduction of new business
written. but in the case of the Aetna
Conn, of which Mr.. s. E. Barber is
the general manager for Kansas, the
report of new business secured has
exceeded that of any previous year,
especially with the Kansas agency, and
from the present indications Mr.. Bar
Der is very enthusiastic at the outlook
OF the future. In speaking of the
business of life insurance companies,
and conditions generally, Mr.. Barber
said: Reports are current that life
insurance generally over the United
States is almost at standstill, but this
IS not the case in Kansas. I have
personally consulted many Kansas
managers Of life insurance companies
and every one of them says business
is better SO far this year than during
the same period of 1908. My agency
has produced more business in five
and one-half months of 1908 than
last year was considered a record
breaker. All thought the recent
floods would ruin business in Kansas
for several months, but on the con-
trary our business is really phenom-
email Our collections are good, and
while business dropped off for a few
days during the high water, it has re-
sumed its normal conditions again,
ana more new contracts are being
written than at any time during the
year. My agents from all sections Of
the state report business good with
the merchants generally, and from
present indications, in spite of the
financial furry and high water, I can
didly believe 1908 will prove ban
ner year in all classes of business.
The Wilson Office Supply Company.
When Mr.. Joe Wilson, who is the
Wilson Office Supply company. with
headquarters at lot West Sixth ave-
ago, professional and business men
generally were of the opinion that the
office supply business was pretty we'll
represented, but during the short
career of this concern, Joe Wilson
has proven that the town needed just
what he started in to supply, an ex-
elusive office supply house in every
sense of the word. The policy adopted
in the beginning. of supplying all or
ders regardless of size in the quickest
possible time, won for him a place in
the esteem of the busy man. who ap
preciates prornptness in matters of
this kind. Mr.. Wilson is agent for the
L. c. Smith & Brother typewriter,
Burroughs adding machines. Library
Bureau filing devices and card index
systems, and has recently established
a complete repair department for both
adding machines and typewriters, and
has now under his charge a regularly
appointed branch mechanical inspec-
ton department of the Burroughs
Adding Machine company. and has the
contract for taking care of all the
Burroughs machines in this territory.
This is the first time in the history of
Topeka that a regular mechanical in
structor has been employed for this
work, and the fact that the adding