The Hutchinson Wholesaler from Hutchinson, Kansas • 9

THE HUTCHINSON WHOLESALER. PAGE NINO SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1910 HALE SUPPLY Hutchinson, Kans. ilNCE MEAT Qj imLsLMJ Purest and Best! A fancy article at a common price; in bulk or glass jars. Bulk New Orleans MOLASSES in Half Barrels. J.

R. DOWNS, Medora. R. A. STEWART, Hutchinson.

Proprietors RENO HERD We have some choice yearling SHORTHORN BULLS of excellent breeding and individual merit for sale at moderate prices. These bulls are pure bred and recorded in the American Shorthorn Herd Record. We will also price some cows and heifers at attractive prices. Farm located 7J miles northeast of Hutchinson and 1 mile from Medora. Call up on B.

B. telephone at farm, No. 1230, 1 ring. STEWART (SL DOWNS HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. Do You Want a Good Investment? We have some real values in city property and farms in and around Hutchinson, and other central Kansas points.

Write us for list of business opportunities, and give us a call when in the city. Cooke 3D, Grant Rooms 4 and 5, 16 N. Main HlltcRillSQIl, Kansas HUTCHINSON BUSINESS HAPPENINGS. One of the members of the firm of Lemon Bros of Halstead, Kansas, was in Hutchinson on Monday, visiting the wholesale houses. L.

E. Pendleton was here Monday from Dodge City, Kansas, on business. Mr. Pendleton sold his mercantile business at Dodge City a year ago and has been on the road since. He is looking for a good location for again entering the mercantile business.

Harvey H. Motter, who formerly traveled for the H. D. Lee wholesale hardware company, of Salina, Kansas, was in this city Tuesday carrying a mew line. Harvey now sells steel ceiling.

He makes his home at McPher-son, Kansas. The third monthly live stock sale by the Sales Day Association, a sub organization of the Retail Merchants Association, was held on Wednesday of this week. The cold wave cut the attendance, but there was a good crowd on hand. About 80 animals were sold, for a total of $6,758.00. Every animal offered was sold.

Entries are already coming for the March sale. The Guy Evans Cigar Manufacturing operating a factory at 600 South Main street, made a firm change a few days ago. Lloyd Evans sold his interest to J. T. Guy who will continue the business.

W. F. Ash, the Haven, Kansas, jeweler, was here on Tuesday. The city of Hutchinson wi vote at the April election on a proposition to vote park bonds to the amount of This is for the purpose of buying of the Fair Association the new fair grounds, to buld there a beautiful park and fair ground combined, to be owned by the city but leased to the Central Kansas Fair Association for fair purposes. The city would use the grounds all the year as a park, while the fair association would use them each fall for a fair.

Such a plan would give the city a beautiful and amply large park, and it would perpetuate the state fair. By belonging to the city all objection to the appropriation of state money for fair purposes would be eliminated. It is only a few days until the new $100,000 plant of the Carey Salt Co. will be ready to commence the manufacture of salt, the article that has made Hutchinson famous. The offices of the Hutchinson Lumber Planing Mill on West Sherman street are being enlarged and improved.

Steel ceilings are being put in and the walls and woodwork papered and painted. The newly arranged suite will be roomy and handy. The Reno county rural mail carriers, who were in Hutchinson on Tuesday for convention, were all enthusiastic road improvement boosters. They are planning to systematically push road improvement in each township by working with the township boards. Plans for the enlargement of the Soda Ash plant are almost complete and the actual work of construction and the installing of new machinery will be under way.

It is hoped that the manufacture of soda ash for the market will be started by June 1, possibly before. The Union Transfer Co. has built a large barn and sheds for the wagons, on West B. Avenue. The Hern grocery, at 127 North Washington street, is going out of business and is advertising a closing out sale.

On Monday the old Soda Ash Company known legally as the Hutchinson Chemical Alkali Co. was dissolved and the new company organized under the name of the Kansas Chemical Manufacturing Co. At a meeting of the stockholders at the Commercial Club rooms the formal reorganization was approved and the property of the old company was turned over to the new. New time cards went into effect on all the railways lines entering Hutchinson, last Sunday. No new trains were added and the changes made were largely minor.

No change was made that materially affected the service in or out of the city. Manager Bill Zirik of the Hutchinson Salt is engaging players for the Hutchinson ball team. He promises to give the Salt City a winning team in the Kansas State League. The Salt Packers are a great advertisement for the Salt City. The Sylvia Drug recently burned out at Sylvia, Kansas, has been reorganized as the Teed Drug with Joe Bailey, of Hutchinson; L.

E. Daniels, of Stafford; and H. O. Teed, of Sylvia, as the partners. The business men of the south end wholesale district in Hutchinson are agitating for a new fire stat'on in that section of the city, to give added fire protection.

The city is now maintaining two fire stations and should one go to the south end it will likely be equipped with an automobile fire wagon. 60,000 cement blocks, each two fe.t long, will be required to build the large buildings at the straw board plant. The blocks are being made on the site, of sand dug from the spot where the pond is to stand that will furnish a water supply for the factory. Miss Edna Vohringer, who has been employed at the Commercial National bank, has taken a place in the offices of the Fontron Realty Co. The weather this week has been much more favorable to the shipping of perishable stuff than it was last week, but there were a couple of days this week when the risk was heavy.

A Commercial Club has just been organized at Pretty Prairie, Kansas. F. C. Fields is president, D. A.

Voran, vice president, James W. Stevens secretary and J. C. Hanes, treasurer. The club now has 35 members and will boost for the good of the hustling little city of Pretty Prairie.

One of the things the club will try to do will be to secure the building of a $150,000 flouring mill there, and the home people will put up part of the money for the enterprise. Tnis week the old frame building at the northeast corner of Avenue and Main street, which was. the first church, first school house, and first court house in Reno county, was torn down to give way to a two story brick block to be built by R. O. Slayton.

T. H. Bain, who was recently reported as having skipped from Laird, Kansas, has returned. It is said he has been to New York. Bain a few weeks ago traded a store at Albert, Kansas, for a store at Liard, Kansas, getting some cash boot.

He soon after traded the Liard store for a half section of western Kansas land and got some boot. He then left the country for a few weeks, and his creditors levied on tne land. Bain now proposes, through attorneys, to settle his debts on a pro rata basis, at a low percent. The real estate was appraised at $4 per acre, and has a $950 mortgage aga'nst it. inat leaves Bain's equity in the land not over $400.

Over $2,600 in liabilities are outstanding, it is claimed by some of the creditors. The attorneys for Bain admit that he was an easy mark and was plucked by the fellows who traded with him. There will be a mass meeting of all the Hutchinson business men at the Commercial Club rooms next Wednesday night, to devise plans for boosting the Salt City Business College of Hutchinson. The institution will probably enroll 500 students during the present year and has outgrown the present til and is on a trip east. While Clyde is away his territory, on the Santa Fe man line west from Hutchinson, is being covered by C.

N. Booth. I. E. French is pushing the work on his new frame store building on North Monroe street.

He has already placed tne orders for his opening stock. i Gossage Hevenor have this week opened their new grocery store at Thirteenia and Main street. A. H. Schlaudt, of the Knoor-Schlaudt Wholesale Notion will leave next week for New York to place orders for Christmas stuff for next fall.

He wi- be accompanied by Mrs. Schlaudt. Joseph Sherrow, of Langdon, Kansas, was a visitor to the jobbing houses of Hutchinson on Wednesday. if. L.

Grimes, proprietor of the Hutchinson Monumental Works, is owner and driver of a new six cylinder touring car. Dague Finkenbinder is the style (Continued on Page Twelve.) quarters. Geo. W. Livengood proposes to put up a four story brick building at the corner of Second Avenue and Walnut street, and rent all bait the first floor to the college.

The lower floor would be leased to business firms. The building is proposed to be 75 by 155 feet, four stories of brick, costing perhaps $60,000. The Hutchinson Interurban Co. is fitting out new omces in the old Santa Fe hotel building, at xhird Avenue and Main street. The farmers live stock sales days have become so popular in Hutchinson that two sales will be held in March.

The first one will be on March 16. A Mr. Nelson, who is in the mercantile business at Rocky Ford, Colo visited J. L. Wyatt in this city this week.

Mrs. A. J. Deatz, wife of the head of the Central Mercantile returned yesterday from Kinsley, where ishe has been with her mother, Mrs. Som-mers, who is very sick.

Clyde Eddy is taking a vacation from his road work for the Central Mercan- YOUNG- SONS Garden, Field, Grass Onion Sets Seed Potatoes QUOTE TODAY: OLD PROCESS OIL MEAL Ton lots $40.00 1,000 lb. lots, cwt. 2.05 500 lb. lots, cwt. 21 Phones 196 Hutchinson, Kas.

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