Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1910 — FROM FAR OFF SOUTH AFRICA COMES ORDER. [ARTICLE]

FROM FAR OFF SOUTH AFRICA COMES ORDER.

Irish Blacksmith Firm Knows a Good Thing When It Is Advertised and Wants Horse Stocks. * Martin L. Hemphill was surprised Tuesday to receive a lptter from South Africa containing an order for a set of horse stocks. The firm giving the order is O’Grady & O’Hara, blacksmiths and farriers, Heilbron, Orange River Colony, which is a part of the 1 Orange Free State, so much in prominence a few years ago when the English and the Boers were having their war.

The firm ordering the horse stocks gives minute instructions as to shipment. The stocks are to be sent via Durban, Natal, which is the seaport of greatest importance in the Cape Colony district, and shipping papers, customs duties, etc., will be looked after by agents of O’Grady and O’Hara at Natal, where the stocks will be taken from the ship and sent inland by tail some three or four hundred miles. Mr. Hemphill’s son Harve has figured it out that the stocks will travel a distance of 9,324 miles between Rensselaer” and Heilbron. The gentlemen giving the order saw Mr. Hemphill’s advertisement in the American Blacksmith, and very properly informed him by what influences they placed their order. The order was mailed at Heilbron on Jan. 24th and reached here Feb. 23d, so that it was Just 30 days on the road. It will take the stocks from 30 to 60 days probabij to make the trip.