Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-01-24
ROCK ISLAND TO
Be PRESENTED.
At MOLINE CLUB
Local Merchants, Heads Of Their
DepartAeats and CLERKS In.
yited to Hear Mann.

Rock Island business men have
been invited to attend and to bring
both men and women employees to
the Moline club in Moline Tuesday
evening for the dinner at which
Fred P. Mann. business genius of
Devils Lake, N. D., will make an
address.
Mr.. Mann's coming to Moline is
under the auspices OF the recently
organized Moline Ad club. He will
tell in his address how he built up
a 100000 a year business in a
$500 town.
The Moline Ad club has arranged
to put the entire $1.50 ticket fee
into the dinner, the coming Of Mr..
Mann being financed separately
with no additional cost to those
who attend. 1t is the purpose Of
the club to have merchants bring
their heads of departments and any
men or women of their sales force
that they desire because the club
believes that much material benefit
will come to the employees in hear
ing Mr.. Mann.
Fred P. Mann is a plain spoken
man who knows what he is talking
about and talks in wholehearted
interesting way. His coming to
Moline is looked upon IS one of the
feature events of the year in that
city.
Devils Lake, n. D., Mr. Menn's
home town, is a little city of $500
people. Eleven years ago he and
his brother built fine big depart
ment store there and equipped it
with mahogany fixtures, fine glass
cases and carpets. Citizens of the
community thought it was a great
mistake All this splendid furnish
ings were too grand for the large
farmer trade that came to town
with boots and shoes covered with
mud, they said. But the farmers
came. They came in and hung
their sheepskin coats on the ma
bogany show cases." said Mr.. Mann,
And they bring plenty of mud. We
like it. The more mud the better:
it varies with the days receipts.
High grade fixtures and merchan-
disc attract trade But this was
not the whole drawing power OF
Mr.. Mann's trade. Good merchan-
dising methods and good advertis-
ing were also necessary.
AS a result of Mr.. Mann's bust
ness during these years the whole
town of Devils Lake and surround
ing communities have prospered.
Very little money leaves Devils
Lake never to return in local taxes,
local charities and local invest
ments. The people in that COM
munity are able to buy the same
quality of goods from Fred Mann
as from mail order houses or stores
in larger cities for the same prices
and often at lower prices. Mr..
Mann has become nationally known
as a result of his remarkable mer-
chandising success. He received
more requests from all parts of the
United States to come and tell how
he did it. than he can fulfill. The
Moline Advertisers club feel that
they are rarely fortunate in having
this opportunity to hear him speak.
All persons in Moline and sur
rounding cities should feel as the
members of the advertisers club
feel.
What has been done in Devils
! Lake can be done in the quad
cities. There is nothing miracu-
lous about it. All that is necessary
is wide-awake community of citi-
zens and merchants with real civic
pride and business brains. Tickets
can be obtained at The Argus, Rock
Island, Carlson Bros store, the
Edison shop, Lethin Bros store
| and Joeephson's, Moline. The citi-
zens of the quad-cities can I'M
doubtedly learn a great deal from
Fred Mann. What he has to say
will be worth hearing. Make your
reservations early. Dinner will be
| served at $50 Tuesday evening
Jan. q, Commercial club. Moline