The Hutchinson Tradesman from Hutchinson, Kansas • 1

Devoted to the Commercial Interests of Central and Western Kansas and of Northern Oklahoma. .4 VOL. XII. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 1907. No.

4. ALL Td THE FAIR. SOLD FOR $9000. Old Lard Refinery Now the Property Of J. H.

Seright. in the light of his own experience lie really and believes about them. If: anything he has here said moves you to put his statements to proof in a. personal way, he will be happy to have you give testimony in some subsequent issue of Farmers Mtad and Breezek Miean while Tret's "take, in the "THE GREAT WHITE WAY." has purchasect from the American Company a tract "of land on" which stands the old lard refinery building at the corner section imediately across Fourth avenue from' the Hutchinson Packing Company's plant, two miles and a half east of Main street. This purchase is understood to have been made for the National Warehouse Company, of which Mr.

Seright is the head. Mr. Seright went from this city to Wichita over a year ago, moving his broom corn business there. He says the principal reason for going there was-that he found more ample banking facilities for handling broom corn securities, and that shippers couid secure advances on broom corn in storage. After spending year or So The Mail and Breeze Tells a Story About the Big Show We Will Have in Town.

The current isue of the Malt and Breeze carries an article advising everyone in Kansas to take a few; days vacation and go to the fair, for the fun there is in it and1 for the education it is to everyone who goes. Good reasons for having a fair and -good -reasons for going to a fair are given. The article is timely as considering the' big -state fair in Hutchinson next week is worth reading. Here it 1: I. The time of the year is here "when the people on the farms get have fought 'their anual battle against adverse conditions with what skill and the season have dictated.

with the help of favoring conditions 'and their 'own good judgment, have won more or les a victory. After the heat and burden, or the fray, which we annually engage in, there, Mr. Seright has concluded that JL-f it. is onp- of those fortunate combi-' ations we sometimes observe -in twice, a year going to his jobbing center in some big city to buy goods. The doctor goes away, from home, as often as the demands of his practice will let him, to the medincal school and to take a course of lectures which shall improve him in some line of his" work.

And the same sort of pilgrimage is necessary to other men in others pursuits who find1 a brief outing and" a large view of the world's work an investment which pays large dividends. They come homer, mentally refreshed, re the change, with new knowledge and renewed interest in their pursuits. The state and even the big county fairs are recognized as meeting places pre-eminently" worthy while for all producers and for a display of the best products which human skill, working the forces of been ableto create. Here you rub shoulders may talk if you choose, with the men who are "up and "coming" in special lines of doing, -you learn a little "something about their methods and see the results of their work. If this gives you new confidence in yourself It Is well worth your time and If; it goves, you an' inkling of where you have been going wrong, or "where you can improve on your methods, it has done just what a good fair should do.

and what makes agricultural fairs as shows and expositions more Important to human Interests than any other, But if you should find no benefit of this' kind for yourself either one way 'or the other, so far as you may be aware of, you will discover upon your return that your visit to the fair has strangely, and surprisingly refreshed you in spirit; that it has given you new energy, new; things to talk about think about, and that you are better contented and in better condition to take up. your duties than -you would have been without the outing: The fair is ajl of this and more too to the women folks, and the" boys and 'girls of the farm. It 13 a great soeial institution of- importance and value. In fact the fair has something, and something worth for all human kind, -either from farm or "Along with its wholesome and instructive side "it offers no ned of entertainment 'and pleasure, more or 'less harmless and beguiling which 13 calculated to divert -an ingrowing mind. la these7 foregoing -remarks about fairs the writer has set down what worldly things, that brings this period of relaxation and fair time together, every harvest.

-It. is the experience of most of us, the railway facilities at Hutchinson are much, superior to those the broom corn territory, and so Is getting his business back here. The investment of $9000 in this warehouse property, indicates that he means what he says. 1 Mr. Seright has recently sent but a series of letters to broom manufacturers all oyer the, United States, and to the broom corn giving reasons why they should come to Hutchinson to purcnase broom corn, and showing conclusively that Hutchinson is situated logically as the assembling point for shipments for all kinds of brush, being in direct railway communication with the Guy wno tor tne better part or 3b5 aays in the year have a certain round of duties to perform, that after that -time man, and 'doubtless also, needs what tJhe: old country doctor calls a change; It may be a change, of Hutchinson Merchants Might Get Into the Push on This.

Hutchinson has the most substantially built Up and best arranged main business street of any city "of its size in the west. There are many electric street lights land electric but no one has as yet suggested the creation of a "Great White Wiay'V This scheme has "lately been inaugurated in Wichita. That town learned the trick from Denver, Colorado's capital city has a section of street where for fifty feet on each side of the street an electric arc limp is set and blazes out its white glare. Wichita went. Denver one better and for two blocks on North street: set' an light each tWentyve' feet" on each side of the street.

These lights are suspended from a cable carried along over the curb from the. pole lines at the' outer" edge of the walks." Every twenty-five feet an arc is swung. The section is on one ciccuit and is turned on at the electric! light pant When night settles down "and the current is turned on, that two blocks shines a brilliant white' glare that turns the night ito day and makes the rest of the city look dark in comparison. This is that section of street isf called Way." The 'merchants bear the expense of 1 the arc lights in front of their" respective stores, where their display windows are brilliantly light' ed. It is understood the electric light company makes a price that puts the.

cost at a reasonable figure. At-any rate It Is so satisfactory that a of Douglas avenue about sis blocks long is to be equipped with the same lighting -system and the mep chants are" to-pay the bill. 7 If Hutchinson merchants' should get together and have a line-of arc lights om each side of. the street twenty-five feet apart, from "the jSantd Fe to the Cow creek bridge, a distance "of four blocks, it would make the prettiest sight' in Kansas', "and could 1 priately called the "Gfreat" White raw heart, a change of thought; a change of scene of even a change of diet, but he needs it as much, if not more, than Ire needs anything else and if he. is Wise he will get it.

If he is a man 1 nn farm anrf thwrfifrtrfl nrantlrmlarlv well fitted to appreciate and prehend'all. he sees there he can get tvi Aro firtY ViiC! niinmfliT nn rf trfef-f districts, and all other sections In. this part of Kansas, where broom com is grown. Shipping from any and all of thesB districts by way of Wichita involves a-relay which is eliminated in the case, of Hutchinson. Mr.

Seright expects to see nearly all of this year's crop handled through Hutchinson, and he expects. to make this "city his permanent headquarters." to tne iair man in any otner way an the same space of time. There is" nothing, perhaps, so dead- enirig toall ambition-and endeavor as to imntate the horse hitched to the sweeper mill and go round year after year, in the same circle- of unbroken monotony as the horse does day after day In the little orbit "of his work, -r A must broaden- his horizon jjj from time to time, must see what are doing and learn something about their methods, to keep step with progress and "get at the best 1 Ella Wheeler Wilcox declares that "men's" interest in open-work stockings never Aand the redheaded editor of the Wichita Eagle butts "in andT declares that a peek-a-boo waist tolls a fellow two blocks out of his 'way every day. If Mr. Roosevelt is called "The President when he has his' clothes on, what, would he be called, with his clothes off A Teddy Bare See? mat lie mis The merchant "gets his broadening" "in'a husinegs way by one, or.