Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-05-05
SUCCESS IN LAWRENCE,
Arthur L. Cole, Weybridee Boy,
Makes Coco in Ststioner's
Business

Business.
The following from "Geyer's Station
err" will be read with interest by the
many friends of Arthur l.. Cole, for
merly of this town:
We are indebted to Carl Schurtz for
this statement, which is richly freighted
with truth: ''Ideals are like stars: Won
will not succeed in touching them with
| your hands, but like the seafarinp man
on the desert of waters, you choose
them as your guides, and following
them you reach your Destiny" Arthur
l.. Cole, stationer, of Lawrence, must
have set as his ideal steady progress
toward bigger, broader and more in
fluential success in his business, and
through persistently following out his
ambition in this direction he is reaching
the goal. There is great deal of in
spiration to be drawn from the story of
Mr.. Coles rise in the stationery bust
ness.
Mr.. Cole is native to New England,
having been born at Weybridge Vt, on
May 70, 1867. His education consisted
IN some good thorough training at the
district school in his home town, and a
course at Beeman academy, New
Haven, Vt.
He started in the retail stationery
business in October, 1887, working for
George S. Harris & Co., of Clinton,
and he remained with that firm and its
successors until the spring of 1902. he
made up his mind that he had passed
the working for other people" stage,
and he began business for himself, oc-
cupying one window and one counter in
the store of S. w. Fellows, on Essex
street, in Lawrence.
That was the beginning, and the
end is not yet. Late in the same
year he took advantage of an oppor-
tunlty which enabled him to buy the
stationery and art business of George
w. Colburne & Co., No. 281 Essex
street. His business steadily grew
larger, until he had out grown the Col
burne store, and in June, 1907, he
moved into new and larger quarters at
293 Essex street, where he is now To-
Gated
At the present time Mr.. Coles store
is modern in every detail, attractively
and very carefully arranged. He car
ries complete and up-to-date stock of
blank books, stationery and office sup
plies; also pictures and frames, operat =
ing his own picture frame shop. As an
indication of his interest in the broader
activities of the trade and of business
affairs at large, he is member of and
has shared in the work of the Boston
Stationer' S association and the Lawrence
Merchants association and Board of
Trade
What is unquestionably one of the
factors in Mr.. Coles success is the fact
that he believes thoroughly in outdoor
sports of all kinds, and he is himself an
enthusiastic golfer. He is member of
the Home club, and of the Merrimack
Valley Country club, and shares heartily
in their activities.
1t is always pleasure for us to have
an opportunity to tell one of these
stories of steady, consistent progress in
the retail stationery business There
are great many young men scattered
through the trade who have tuck ed
away in some corner of their storeroom
for ideals a determination that some
day they will go into business for them
selves, and they could not possibly have
a stronger or better incentive to hard,
useful work than this very determine
ton. Such story as that given here
concerning Mr.. Cole-with its record of
a modest beginning and uninterrupted
development-ca and doubtless will
serve as an added inspiration to the man
who has his eye fixed on store which
will bear his own name over the door,
and contain his own money in the cash
drawer. Clinton Mass Item.