The Hutchinson Wholesaler from Hutchinson, Kansas • 2

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1910. PAGE TWO THE HUTCHINSON WHOLESALER. Sons, of New York, sold to W. J-ewis, of Clarendon, Texas, all the cattJe on the Senson "Spur" ranch, in the Panhandle. $18,000 changed hands in this deal.

The Hutchinson Wholesaler A Trade Journal devoted to the business interests of the great Southwest. Published every Saturday at 100 South Mam street, Hutchinson, Kansas, by A. Li. Sponsler and T. G.

Armour. no beans except those baked in Boston can be called Boston baked beans so Mr. Pike should change his name. Acting on this suggestion, what is the matter with changing Pike's name to Scott, for he is a resident of the. city of Fort Scott, Kansas, and was for many years a retail grocer in that city, before Boston baked beans baked in Indianapolis were tabooed.

And then, Mr. Pike can hardly be called a Piker, anyway. Speak, Mr. Pike-er Scott, and tell us how you like your mew name. they have been indulging all winter long, "on the good roads proposition.

Nothing makes good roads except making good roads. Let's move our much discussed plans off of the paper on which they have been drawn and work them into tangible shape in dirt and other road materials. Keep in mind the fact that good roads increase the dollar value of each acre of adjacent property, and bring distant farms and grain fields closer to your front door. Good roads and good investment are synonymous terms in this connection. A.

L-. SPONSLER, T. G. ARMOUR, Editor Manager Hutchinson, which had a 1.41 per icent tax rate last year, expects to get along nicely this year with a 1.15 rate, owing to increased valuation in property and the economy incident to commission form of goveri.Trent, wnich makes no bills and pays cash for everything. Subscription Price, 50 Cents Per Year.

Entered as second-class matter April 17, 1909, at the post office at Kansas, under the Act of March 3, 1897. MEMBER OF THE GROCERY AND ALLIED TRADE PRESS OF AMERICA. Advertising columns open to all applicants for space. Rates given on application. The free use of The Wholesaler columns is extended to all our readers.

Suggestions, newsy items and original ideas is what we want. When in Hutchinson make our office your headquarters. Speaking of optomism: John R. Walsh, former Chicago banker, now in the federal pen at Leavenworth, is reported as being cheerful and as looking ahead for better days. And still there are some merchants worrying because a little of the wheat has been injured.

Of course, basing rates into Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas by way of the most reasonable haul, through the gulf ports, is not to the liking of Kansas City, which has sucked at the pap of discrimination so long that any other kind of a diet causes spasms. USING THE WHOLESALER This is an invitation to each reader of this journal, whether they be proprietor, clerk, or delivery boy. The Wholesaler desires to be of greatest service and pleasure to its clientele. There are many things happening over the wide territory of the Southwest, that will not reach us unless some one nearby sends the news-to this office. When you have a change of business, change in the firm, clerks leave the store or are given employment there, when you do some painting, renovating or other improving, or perhaps move into a new building, write the facts on a postal card and sent it to this office.

Or, a letter will do the work. Send us the news about your business and those with whom you work, about your neighbors, your town, condition of crops, outlook for business, and other things of interest to the business world; Write us criticisms, comment-dations, or suggestions, about anything printed in this paper, or about things not published which you would like to see discussed in these columns. Make daily anid practical use of The Wholesaler, and you will be a man afer the editor's own heart. The assessing of fines in Kansas because of short weights is causing a decided sprucing up among the scales, which in many instances are being found capable of carrying a heavier load without tipping the beam. The thing which interested the South west on Thursday, Saint Patrick's Day, was that the wheat crop was wearing the green.

It is the kind of green that will come back in the fall as green backs. WESTON PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF PRINCIPLE OF SUCCESS. On Thursday morning there passed through Hutchinson, halting only for breakfast and for a brief rest, a remarkable man, a representative of a principle. That man was Edward Pay-son Weston, the noted pedestrian, who is walking from the Pacific Ito, the Atlantic, after having a few months ago walked from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He is walking on a schedule, and at Hutchinson was seven and a half days ahead of that schedule, and is walking to show what a man well advanced in years, who has taken care of his physical man, can do.

It is not a great feat to walk, and not one which cannot be duplicated by any ordinary man to walk from ocean to ocean. It is" not that that makes Weston a famous man, his each day's doings recorded in the daily press all over the United tates, and makes him the object of personal interest to the people of each succeeding town and hamlet through which he passes. The thing that makes Weston a marked individual and a source of personal interest is fthe fact that he is making a success of what he is doing, and the further fact that he is doing it well. Edward Payton Weston is the personal representative of the principle of success, and people will turn aside from their labors any day to see a man making a success, and will cast an encouraging glance towards any person who is doing his task well. It has been said by a wise man that if a man does any one thing better than his fellows that thojugh that man should seclude himself in a hut in a forest, far from the haunts of men, because of the undying quality of excellence in his work the world would wear a beaten path to his door.

The day of opportunity has not passed. The light of genius has not failed. The way up is not obstructed. The mm of today has greater opportunities to succeed than the man of any other age or country, for the world is today in the noon day of its progress, and has laurels for each one who does a thing and does it well. Some men can not make money matter how much capital is invested, and other men can make a big business grow out of a small nest egg.

It is ability and hustle that do the job. ABOUT OURSELVES. Today's issue of The Hutchinson Wholesaler begins the third year of this journal's service to the mercantile interests of the Southwest. In this connection The Wholesaler may be pardoned for pointing to the milestones along the way, and for calling attention to its own growing importance as a factor in the business life of this section of the mercantile world. The two years passed have been filled with endeavor to make a first class publication of its class, and the responses from both readers and advertisers prove that in no small measure the object has been achieved.

From the first the circulation has steadily increased, until now The Hutchinson. Wholesaler goes everywhere in the wide range of Hutchinson's commercial territory. Seventeen hundred live dealers and clerks in 417 towns each week receive and read this paper. The market news, current commercial news, and the advertisements of manufacturers and jobbers are carried to these readers. The almost universal renewing of subscriptions and the growing list of advertising patrons is the indicator pointing to the measure of success attained.

For the future better things are in store. The Wholesaler will grow in the variety and strength of its various departments, in the completeness of its market news, and in the information carried in its editorial utterances. Plans are being perfected for improvements in many particulars. If the expansion of the circulation and advertising patronage during the year shall contineu at the rate of th epast then will the publishers that they "are making progress towards their definite goal to make The Hutchinson Wholesaler the one great trade publication of the Southwest, filling the field and performing well its alloted task. A LA SUNNY JIM High o'er the line Jumps the nimble boar; Scarc'ty the power That makes him soar.

We scarce know where To set the mark To guage the flight Of the source of pork. All meat producing countries are experiencing prices proportionately as high as in the United States. Evidently the use of Grape Nuts is not yet universal. When state railway boards get down to business the prices will get down for the people, who will reap the reward of lower railway rates. The jobbers and other big shippers of Hutchinson have their dander up.

They will have the state railway commission understand that some real rate adjustment will have to come, even though the railway managers should really be grieved at what the commissioners do. It is claimed that this idea is original with the Hutchinson shippers, and an entirely new thought to the board. Your store should have an ample equipment of signs, in front, inside, and on the delivery wagon. Successful merchants believe in signs. And, by the way, this would be a good year for Kansas to select a real railway board, which would get for the people what they need.

All cattle shippers are pleased with the federal supreme court decision this week, ruling that in assessing penalties for violating the 28 hour stock shipping laws railway lines are liable for each shipment, and not for each train load. A trainload may consist of twenty shipments, by that many owners, and each of these will now constitute just cause for separate It is no disgrace for a store to look "seedy" this time of the year, if it is because of displaying and handling garden and field seeds. Every town has "tightwads," but the town would not lose anything if the T. should die or move away. T.

do not make a town. PIKE OR SCOTT? In last week's issue of the Wholesaler comment was made concerning the Boston, baked beans controversy. A letter from a reader of this journal was quoted, suggesting that as Inspector Pike of the Kansas pure food department did not come from Pike's Peak he has no right to be wearing the name Pike. The writer argued that if IT IS GOOD ROADS TIME This is the time of the year when the business men of the various cities and towns, and the merchant who operates a store at the country crossroads, should crystalize into action the resolutions and favorable talk in which The highest priced clerk on the place is often the cheapest one, when results That the Southwest has not entirely gone out of the cattle business was demonstrated on Wednesday, when at Fort Worth, Texas, S. M.

Senson are checked up..