The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-02
Congratulations Pour In On
A. Ell. Dahl Who Celebrates
His First Anniversary
Too ay.
HAS YEAR OF REAL SUCCESS
Former State Treasurer Who Gave UP
Politics In Safe and Took Up Business
In Kenosha Proves Real Addition To
Business Life of the City.

Congratulations were in order and
there were flowers on one Of the desks
at the home Of the Ford automobiles
down on Exchange street this morning
as it was just year ago today that a.
Ell. Dahl slipped into kenosha and an
nounced that he had become the per-
sonal representative Of the Ford auto
mobile in Kenosha.
About all that Kenosha people knew
about Mr.. Dahl then was that he had
some time been treasurer of the state
of Wisconsin and had one time been
a candidate for governor and came
mighty close getting elected but most
of them thought that he had dabbled
too much in politics to make business
much of a success. These people didn t
know that before he went into politics
as member Of the legislature he had
been in a big business over at Westby.
At any rate, the former state treas
urer forgot politics when he came to
Kenosha and began talking business
and at the end Of his first year on au-
tomobile row in Kenosha he has the
privilege OF looking back over a mighty
good record. Of course there was a
war on much of the time and the out
put Of Henry Ford s big plants over
in Detroit was being largely taken by
the United States government but just
the same the cars kept coming through
to Kenosha and at the end of the first
year the ledgers at the office of the
Kenosha representative Of the Ford
company showed that 272 cars had been
delivered in the year and that more
than a hundred other orders had been
booked for delivery. There is one
thing about Ford customers and that
is that they are willing to wait because
they know that they are going to get
their cars just as soon as the line over
at the outside door of the Ford factory
will let one slip by for them
1t has been year Of rapid advance
ment for the Kenosha Ford agency UNI
der the direction Of the former state
treasurer. Before the year was half
gone he recognized that limited quar-
tiers would not be big enough to take
care of the Ford business in Kenosha
and he bought the Russell Garage, one
OF the largest garages in the city and
rechristened it sThe Home of Ford
Cars. Then he added livery stable
to give him little more storage room
and coincident with the announcement
Of the first anniversary is the announce
ment that notable changes are to be
made at the Ford Garage at the corner
of Exchange and Wisconsin streets and
when these changes are made the Ke-
nosha home of the Fords will be one
Of the largest as well as one Of the
most modern garages in the state.
Mr.. Dahl has not spent all of his time
selling Ford cars. He has taken lit
tie time to let people know that he has
come to be real Kenoshan and has
shown a real personal interest In a lot
Of big movements for the advancement
of the business interests and the social
interests of Kenosha. He has come to
be considered one of the men to be
counted on for any movement for the
advancement of Kenosha.
The first year of Dahl management
for the Ford agency has been an un-
alleged success. It has not been made
up entirely Of selling pleasure cars but
every vehicle in the Ford line has come
into general use IN Kenosha. The only
trouble has been to get cars fast
enough to deliver them and meet the
demands for the product With an out
put of 1000 cars per day for the com
ing year kenosha and the rest Of the
cities demanding these cars are going
to have enough so that deliveries can
be made promptly.
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