Arizona republican., 1918-06-29
THE STORY OF A
 TRADE
ME BOUGHT q little


 BoTTLING PLANT out on a ranch
 NOT FAR from Phoenix from a man
 WHO SAID he made a THoUSDANO DOLLARS profit on his plant
 LAST YEAR. We promised TO GIVE this man $S0O.OO IN CASH and 500 shares Of STOCK for his plant
 AND HIS good will
 BECAUSE he said he would ACT AS our manager and SELL OUR goods from this bot tling plant when
 WE GOT it moved down town, FOR S5000 a month. for the SEASON of 1918; so while we FIGURED we were paying the man
 A BIG PRICE for his plant. we FIGURED we were getting a GOOD MAN to handle the busi- ness
 FOR s5o.oo a month, when if we hired
 ANOTHER MAN. it would COST US sl25.OO a month. so we paid this man $SO00O IN CASH and promised 10 give him
 800 SHARES of our stock when THE STOCK was ready for de- livery.
 EVERYTHING swent lovely with the man
 AND the bottling plant when we GOT TT moved down town in a GOOD PLACE and invested a LOT MORE money to make it UP TO DATE, and then the business began to COME IN and AFTER the business came in PRETTY GOOD for a few weeks tho
 MAN WROTE us a letter and HE SAID, CT have got to resign. WHEN l made this agreement | with you. | did
 NOT KNOW that the business | was going to take
 so MUCH of my timc;" BUT lF the man made a THOUSAND DOLLARS last year OUT of his bottling plant. he MUST HAVE known he had to work
 LONG HOURS every day to | make that
 MUCH MONEY out of the little | plant. but we
 DID NOT want to QUARREL with the man be- | cause
 WE had not delivered the 500 | shares
 OF STOCK, so we accepted his | resignation ! AND HIRED another man to l manage the plant FOR S125.00 a month. Then
 A FEW DAYS after this man had
 RESIGNED. he came into
 OUR OFFICE in Phoenix. and HE SAID, MT Morley, l earned MORE THAN s5O.OO a month and | WANT more money" and l said
 "MR. MAN, you promised
 TO WORK for S50.O0 a month WHEN we bought your plant. THE MONEY you arc asking for | belongs to
 THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Celery-Nig Bottling Co.,, | do
 NOT SEE how l can pay you
 ANY MORE money" Then the man said
 TO ME, "wen, you better buy my
 STOCK" and I said to the man We are
 SELLING stock-not buying it;' AND THE man said to me. You BETTER BUY my stock" and I said
 "I HOPE you are not. trying to BLAcKMAIL mo, because l am | NOT GOING to buy your stock"
 WELL. a few days later I read an
 ADVERTISEMENT in the T ARIZONA REPUBLICAN which said a man | HAD some stock of the Celery | Wig Bottlng Co. | TO SELL for 75c per share, I AND the advertisement said if l YOU WANTED to buy the Il stock you | SHOULD WRITE to a certain I post office
 BOX, at a certain town, | so WE looked up the l POST OFFICE BOX 10 find out | WHOSE box it was and we
 FOUND that the post office boa
 BELONGED to the man we | BOUGHT the bottllng plant from | AND AS the man we bought th- bottling plant
 FROM had broken his | CONTRACT with us, and
 HE DIDN'T have any stock. we
 THOUGHT IT was big joke
 ON THE MAN because he
 HAD SPENT his money to | ADVERTISE something for salC that
 HE didn't have.
 WE JUST wanted 10 tell you
 ABOUT THIS because you | MIGHT WANT to buy
 THAT STOCK and lt would be [
 BIG JOKE on you | IF YOU went away
 OUT TO see this man and OFFERED him 75c a share FOR his stock and he | DIDN'T HAVE any stock to sel you. Yours very truly. NJ. J. Morley, Managing Director
 CELERY WIG COMPANIES