The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-10-17
COMMENCING BUSINESS
SUCCESSOR m Wells STORE

salmon. Idaho. October Is. 1919
10 the people OF Lemhi county and
especially my customers.
on retiring from the eroeerv h,,si.
ness ! want most earnesflv n thank
every one of You for the pafronara
you have bestowed the mas, atyh,
k,,s,s On our store: in helping US to
go ap business from 1898 a month
~ nist month) 10 business of ov-
s,'vv month, which was the
OF our last months business.
one here can appreciate your
= more than | and my only regret
a ,i1' ! was not made OF steel so
. Nv, 90 through another eight years
rne 'he past. as they have been the
osl peasant years OF my life. but 1
80 nsu enough for while and win
NV W,.. .ahe much needed vacation.
"ithin the last week different
ones nave come to me daily and ask.
81 was not afraid my former com
penuors would get the upper hand of
my successor-just word on that
fossibly they may for a week ar
Two through knowing everybody and
ne stranger, but i want to saw
isnt mere that they have in Mr.. Lehr
anu mis- sister two people who thor.
ioagiy understand the grocery husi.
ness, having run the largest grocery
business In Graybull. Wyoming. and
aohe business of $751; and 500 600
month. | have seen letters the last
week from bankers and other nrom-
lheht people of Graybull. a CITY of
o.oo9. begging Mr. Lehr. If he had moi
.lready located TO come back and
form a large cooperative store and
70 nave control and full charge
put ~ was too late. He was already
located and is mighty well pleased
win Salmon and II any of Mr.. Lehr's
competitors think they have In him
an easy competitor, they are abso
lutely at sea.
| could nave sold out several differ.
ent times during the past year but I
considered my would-be purchasers
dead ones and ] always promised my
trade TO leave live one in my place
IL | ever sold and in Mr.. Lehr and his
sister you may rest assured that I
nave people who are there and will
give them all run for their money
ana also something to think about all
the time.
In closing l want to ask everyone
OF you and especially you people who
lived here before | started business
TO think back and look back and try
TO remember what kind OF prices and
pronts you paid for goods and to
stand by the new proprietors and
neip them TO make success as |
think they are entitled TO a trial from
Eeyery one. Give the new man a chance
as | know from what have seen and
heard about Mr. Lehr and his sister
that they are two of the most solid
people of Graybull Salmon and Lem.
hi county needs q lot of them. It's
the new people who build up every
town. Let's get lots of them in here
and the sooner the better for the
town and county.
Once more | want to thank you for
your trade and your efforts in my be.
half the past eight years and TO In,
form you that you shall see more and
hear more OF me as always intend
to make my home here and do bus.
mess here as in my estimation there
is no finer country under the sun than
we have here in Lemhi county,
Do not worry about competition in
the grocery business. My former
ccmpetitiors will not have their own
way with my, successor and I promise
YOU now that If you stand by Mr..
Lehr you will never regret it,
4 | thank you.
n FRED VEL.