Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-06-03
..Business is Business. '.


Business is Business
Henry J. Aufgang was a prosperous
farmer. He saved his money and got to
be well off. He bought his stuff at his
store in town and SO did his neighbors,
says Encampment (Wyo.) Herald.
Almost every day Henry drove to the
store with a load of something which
he sold and then "visited around -
with his neighbors in town and his
brother farmers, who, like him, drove
in often.
The women folks came sometimes, and
it was nice and sociable and everybody |
grew to know everybody else.
Henry j. Aufgang had a telephone in |
his house and rural free delivery car
rier brought him daily paper from
the Big Cities every day. He could |
c. IL up the doctor in town if his folks |
took sick or he could ask the store
keeper the price of eggs over the
phone and take some in if the price
was right.
One day he got a catalogue from
email order house, and read what it
said about saving money by buying of
the big concern (Which was many
stories high according to the picture
on the cover of the catalogue and en-
ployed thousands and thousands of peo
ple).
= Henry thought as he read the cata-
logue.
e Cuisines is business he said, and
e sent in an order-not to his friend, the
storekeeper in the town, who in the
. past had trusted and credited him when
he was hard up, but to the man he had
=, never seen-the man who ran the mail
j order house in the Big City
Business is business. Henry got
Sc CO of bn
-wouldn't fit. His friend the black
smith in town fixed it. He ordered his
clothes and his hats and his shoes and
his drugs and his furniture and his
carpets and his crockery and his boots
a and shoes and rubber boots from the
l. mail order house.
e Cuisines is business
Many of his neighbors followed his
example business is business.
Henry had been so busy getting in
the crop and sending orders to the mail
order house that he forgot all about
going to town for some months.
IS One day he thought he would take in
n, some dressed poultry and fresh eggs
n and visit round.
He called up the storekeeper to find
i the price of his stuff.
es Central said CLINE disconnected, D
n and Henry wondered.
Finally he went out and hitched up
Went to town; didn t seem to be mucl
9. doing there.
II Drove to the store-it was closedl
OF Went over to the furniture store
e closed, too. So was the drug store
ST also the hardware store and the hote
ne and restaurant didn' look prosperous
Nobody makes the town now" sai'
at the hotel man to Henry. Business to-
ne poor-town going Bookstores al
closed. -
or, Henry sought his friend, the black
=, smith-yes, he was doing business a
the old stand.
MT "What IS the matter with the town.
inquired Aufgang.
HNothin, - said the blacksmith, " eS
cept lot of crazy people around her
es have taken the notion that they don
at need any town and are sending all thei
sts money away to millionaires who run tn
&c, catalogue houses. Course they've 60
in to come to me, and / I'm here yet jus
ks because the catalogue fellows haven
devised ways and means for shoein
horses by mail. But when they do Il
nave to fit, too.'
- Henry was astounded.
in "why, I'd no idea" he con
lie meneed.
"Course you hadn IT," rejoined tn
Jus blacksmith. course you hadn I, yO
hadn t an idea. You don t think. Wei
vas you had better do so now. Where al
you going to sell your butter and eggs
Can you sell 'em to the mail ordC
wv house7 You can get rid of your whei
ard at the elevator, but you won't hav
er. any fun any more in this town visitin
he your neighbors, cause there isn't an
town, and the people you used to kno
have all gone away to some place Whel
they can make a living.
rs "Pretty soon the town will be a
an, gone. Then your good roads will
nay gone, too. And you can't bring yol
ner mail order jewelry and castings to tow
to be repaired. If your mail ord
ON ON shoes don't fit you IL just natural
os' have to squeeze your foot and bear
If your mail order clothes which "
buy sight unseen aren't what "
want, what are you going to do abo
sdy. it9"
eat; eat; The blacksmith paused 1t was
free long speech for him and it had got
With Aufgang.
end "Business is business" finally sa
oe So Henry.
''' eyes, and foolishness is foolishness,
answered his friend. "You may thil
dis it's business to kill off our town, b
r 1 don't. Think it over, Henry, THU
it over.''
just Henry did "think it over" as
avs drove slowly homeward with t
and dressed poultry and eggs which he h
intended to sell to his friend, the stol
keeper.
ties As he neared the house his Ii
lilly moved. Cuisines is business -
cts. said to himself, and preservation is I
ture Is first law. We've got to preser