Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1920-03-18
Famous Manufacturer
Makes Connection
Here.
Winchester Company Appoints 10
cal Store lis Representative
10 Sell New Products.

20 Sell New Products.
Tie appointment Of Shock,y 4
= I.aines 10 sell This community th
} new hardware aud sporting good
manufactured by the Wincheste
Repeating Arms Company j. an
nomced And IN the opinion o.
icading merchants II IS one ~ th'
most interesting and important de
vclopmeut. the local retail trad,
has known.
First his family. next his dog
then comes his Winchester. In III,
love Of the best type Of American
Almost every family seems TO have
possessed Winchester NJ one time
or another and the love and respect
for the good old gun Is just about
universal And now that recently
there have been many new additions
to the Winchester family" there Is
wide popular interest In the new
cousins and other relatives Of the
famous repeating rife.
Fifty three years ago the Win
chester repeating rife was placed on
the market by The winchester Re
peating Arms Company, II New
Haven Conn. II was good rife.
in fact the first truly successful re
peater. and almost Immediately
achieved great popularity This
first success was made secure by the
strength and vision Of It's makers,
one Of the first American concerns
to build With the purpose Of gaining
and holding dominant place in the
worlds Industrial arena.
So large was the part played by |
the Winchester rifle In the settling |
Of the great West and establishing /
law and order. that the name Win
chester came into common use ~
place Of the word rife And SO high
was the standard Of manufacture
for IT, that II was soon
he favorite hunting rife all over
he world
Improved models followed in the
curse Of time. including the first
successful repeatl z
,hotgun And with the coming Of
imokeless powder The Winchester
'ompany commenced the manufac-
ure Of ammunition. to insure Win
hester users the best possible cart
tdges and shot shells for their
ifles and shotgunS. This proved to
'e an especially good move; for the
continued superior shooting quail
les of Winchester arms have for
many years been partly attributed
o ammunition being made for them
n the same plant, by the same or.
-anization.
Now this great manufacturing es
tremendously expanded
n the gigantic part 1t played in the
winning Of the World War. is APP
'arently branching out to make all
'oSsible use of the additional know
edge. experience. and equipment
hus acquired. New articles being
made already include tools. cutlery,
shing tackle. flashlights. skates,
nc. With half a century of exper-
ence and unexceled equipment en-
ering into their production. 1t Is to
,e expected that these new products.
made in the same skilled and work
nanlike manner as the famous Win
hester guns have been made for so
ong. will have merit above the or
linary.
To the good fortune of the many
I'D friends Of Winchester in the
who viii be the first to
wish to examine these new articles.
We have here in town a retail hard
ware concern of such high standing
IS to be one of the first exclusively
elected to present these new Win
hester products to the buying pub
ic. The agreement thus carries
With II the privilege and response
,ility Of representing the manufac-
urer more directly, than any retail
merchant has heretofore done in
he ease of the Winchester Com
ANY.