Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-10-10
TO OPEN
BOOK STORE
EX-EDIToR ]. G. HAYTER WILL
RE-ENTER BUSINESS.
First Exclusive Establishment of
Kind In County To Be Complete
and Up to the Minute.

The Observer made no mistake
when it predicted that j. G. Hayter,
the retiring editor of this newspaper,
would not be contented to remain
out, Of active business for any great
length of time. The people of Dali
las and surrounding country will be
pleased to learn that he is making
preparations to open first-class
book and stationery store in this city
The store will be the first of its kind
to be opened in Dallas and will be
the only exclusive book and Station
cry establishment in Polk county.
The new book store will occupy a
room in the Wilson building on Main
street. Miss Robertson, the present
tenant will move her millinery store
to the room recently vacated by the
Oregon Power Company on Mill street
where she will fit up one of the neat
est millinery stores in the William
cite Valley
To Be Ready Soon,
When asked about his plans this
morning, Mr.. Hayter said to an OBJ
server reporter: {" Yes, it is true
that | am preparing to open book
and stationery store in Dallas on or
about November l. A room in the
Wilson building has been leased for
that purpose and the stock will be
installed as soon as carpenters can
get the place in readiness. Special
and display counters will
have to be constructed, and a mod
ern plate glass front installed This
will require little time; although
orders have been given to rush the
work as rapidly as possible. It is
my intention to equip the building
with the very latest furniture and
fixtures in order that the store may
be made one of the neatest and most
attractive of its kind in Western
Oregon.
Book Business Appeals.
II believe an exclusive book and
stationery store will prove a popular
to Dallas already credit
able list Of mercantile establish
continued Mr.. Hayter, "and
for that reason 1 am investing a
amount Of money in The
business. The book business has
ong appealed to me. Several years
400, when / found that steadily in
.reasing deafness would eventually |
compel me to give up active news
paper work, / decided that when II
became necessary for me TO cease /
ny long association with presses and |
ype, | would open a book store in
iOme live Oregon town. / need not
ldd that l know Of no interior town /
With a brighter future than Dallas,
md it is here that l shall continue to
make my home.
81 feel confident that an exclu-
i've book and stationery store will
i'll a long-felt want in Dallas and /
hat the reading public will welcome /
IN establishment Of this kind. In I.
this belief, would not be
understood as desiring to east any re- /
lection on the merchants who have /
.arried these lines in connection with /
heir other goods. The fact Is, these /
merchants have carried small and /
,roken lines Of books and stationery /
merely for the accommodation Of
heir customers, and / am finding
hem more than willing to turn over
he greater portions Of these lines
% the new book store.
To Transfer Stocks.
The Fuller and Stafrin phama-
lies have sold me their book stocks,
md Mr. Ellis. who had contemplated
putting in a line Of school books,
ias very kindly consented TO not en-
,age In the business. The Sim0nton
Scott and H. g. Black grocery
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