The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-01-13
THE CHILEAN COUNTY SPIRIT i!
Op ening of MicheI's Music Store Cheian
County Event Everybody Will Be
Most Heartily Welcomed


have grown to most healthful proper
tons and an enduring fame, home
music store, like I have just erected,
was needed to keep in sympathy with
the vigorous progress of these stirring
times.
This music store, owned and con-
trolled by the humble writer, is not the
cornered property, nor the avaricious
branch-play toy-store of an outside
piano trust, dominated by fancy and
exploiting plutocrats. A plain Chelan
county man and his sweet, mild-man-
nered wife, to whom were born two
plebian children, and who formerly lived
in an old, uninviting shack, thru which
the cold winter winds were blowing, and
in which for three long winters they
could hardly keep their bodies warm,
are the proprietors of Chelan County S
Pioneer Music Store, or Michel's Music
Store, and both my wife and myself bow
to the whole population of the county
and our nearby districts for the moral
and practical patronage of the people, fol
we realize with a meek spirit of heart
felt appreciation that the masses, and
not ourselves, made it possible to open
the doors of Chelan County's Music
Store, not in touch and sympathy with
the monopolizing piano trusts on the
Pacific coast.
In this new music store we have vowed
10 be the same plain and rugged-man
nered beings that we strove to be in the
old shack, as the nice looks and the
finer rooms of our new home do no
change our hearts even the least bit
We have the same warm feeling in ouI
hearts for struggling humanity as We
always had, and no amount of gold, no
the richest share of earthly possessions
could ever make our bosoms cold o.
our heads vain.
If we are very successful thru ouI
hard work, our surplus of energy, ou
cautious economy and our natural hatred
of dishonesty, we will in proportion grow
better in our regard and sweeter in ou
dispositions toward the poor. When
ever we shall put gold ahead of charac
ter, diligence and intelligence, We
should surely lose the high regard of the
progressive public that is getting more
and more careful every day as to whom
they give their loyal patronage.
No dishonest piano schemes will eve
be hedged out by me as long as l draw
the regular breath of an American SOW
ereign. No prize certificate robbery, nc
promissory piano-coupon swindle shall
ever be upheld by US. No whisky shall
be bought for men; no silk handker
chiefs for ladies; no toothsome candle!
for children, to sell piano or phone
graph. If we buy present at all, i
shall be bought after, but not before
the sale is made.
No music teachers shall be asked tc
become recommending crooks by ou
encouragement of disreputable, doubt
full methods in the music business. We
shall never follow the piano trucks of {
rival; nor ask a drayman where or wher
he hauled the piano of competitor
nor shall we profess to give to a patror
the best piano at any price. We shall
never lower the Edison standard of in
ventive genius by trying to sell talking
machines that never are, never were anC
never will be the equal of Edison's SUI
perior phonograph.
We shall endeavor to prove that g
business man can be honest and YET
very successful; but it shall be our high
est aim to prove practically that we will
succeed mainlyand particularly because,
and only because, we aim to be honest.
We shall struggle for our home and
Preside by being true to our home peo-
pie of Chelan county and North Central
Washington, and as we are the only
music store proprietor in the county oil
Chelan living in this county, we ask the
people of Chelan county to help us
knock out the parasites and the drones
who reside in other parts of the country
but usurp the local trade, and thus lift
the piano business to cleaner and higher
level. No outside leech, no intruding
stranger, can vanquish US in the music
business, as our expenses are lowest
and our motives are highest, while our
musical merchandise is of the very best
quality. We plead not only for ourselves
but we ask our entire population to pat
ronize every straightforward and loyal
merchant in the county. If we have
low minded and selfish men in the ranks
OF our business men in the county; if
we really have few contemplate extor-
tionists, we have, too, noble and good
natured merchants who will not over
charge you, but who are satisfied with a
modest and reasonable profit.