Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1948 — Page 36

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Py ; Christmas Tree Business Got Going © i In Hottest Days of Last September vip |. Dealers Required To Figure Far Ahead

ky A Ie THE DEAL for that Christmas ai a a [2 RC TY entree you will buy before Dec, 25 i py y : bd ‘was really under way in the ‘hottest weeks of last summer. Thé man who tried to sell refrigerators to Eskimos has nothing on A. H. (Ott) Meyer, manager of the local branch of the Hofert Christmas Tree Co. ; In the late summer he sets out, order pad in hand, to visit In|dianapolis’s: Christmas tree merJ Tehanta] He goes to Kis oldest and best customers, the* parking . lot Ll operators and ‘stores, and’ asks ff them in the sweltering heat of September how many Christmas {trees they will want in December. { J a» J BEFORE HE has finished, he || WIll have found & wholesale mar(ket for somewhere between 15.000 what happens to .those trees land 18,000 trees, still standing i : , "a hi {in the ‘second growth areas of workers and drive-in. customers which are lot} Ser on Christmas | |Montana, New Brunswick —andion cold days. i pH Ry Sisposed or a—rhiieh ; |Nova Scotia. Thé Gverhead in handling 18 moans touching a mateh to thoy If there fs anything more sea- low. Lot lease, ‘and that's all lin some big open lot, : - {sonal than an apple orchard, it is: Labor is hired by the day. Some “But, we don’t b them.” {fhe Christmas tree business, They days two or three men: other Meyer oy rd poly pm. ue begin té-sell about Dec. 10, Sales days five or six, depending on Mr. _ for Pa We a oh Toure oo rise- rapidly ‘until Christmas Eve. Meyer's estimate of the demand. left aver” And. eve any .|Then whatever is left aver it a| On the lot are piles of baled jp, Hofert Co. has developed nat dead loss. 80 the business needs Nova Scotia balsalms, Douglas christmas tree business from bea pretty sharp vencil, ‘a good firs and western pines. All are y

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nearly all have been taken in rar from: everyone's thoughts,

Meyer and his far-sighted customers. Er 3 Delivery is a-simple matter, too. That's a contract job, F, E. Rus-

very, 543 W. 14th St, with 10 frucks, sees that the trees get to the stores and parking lots, > A SE rh oe THE AVERAGE, tree is seven to eight feet high, The taller ones sell best on the North Side. One

is Byron Christie, a woodsy-look-ing fellow himself, who retails at 56th and College, Ruhl! and New York and E, 10th and Euclid.

iE : yond the fon, {measure of - economics and a tagged with their approximate ya ueat Bble realm-of 4 knoweldge of the type of trees height when the baling tape is: = ~~ — EN 2 people. want. . iremoved. This means they have! a : i se & =» {been measured before: the swing) SOME DEALERS have had ‘4 THE HOFERT CO., one of the of the woodsman's ax. ~ TY hL.Jieyers confided, large wholesalers in the city, is) # a = | Once in Chicago 1 saw them

an all-Christmas® tree business.| MOST OF the trees have ar-| 0h a pig un The Hoferts have wholesale out: rived in box carsswhich roll Upof trees available this yeas in lets in half a dozen other large to the lot. “About one more car Indianapolis, but be assured. that seities. They own some of the land and we're finished," Mr. Meyer |, spite of this the Christmas tree {from which the trees are harvest- explained. business is one which is played 8d, and some of It 18 leased, MUCH | . “We ship in box cars to keeptlose to the vest, “in Montanar — —————— {them clean, and we pile ‘em into, Burning them is like burning The Hofert outlet here is a a car right to the roof.” He failed green dollar bills, And any busi[vacant lot on a railroad siding at|to mention what a temptation an ness man, even a Christmas tree {920 E. Michigan St. There's a open car of Christmas trees lying dealer, know that is simply not tarpaper shanty to warm the on a siding in transit would be/the thing to do.

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‘classes of Thomas Jefferson School No. 7 were opened In T8347. stent OHA STOVE Wit 4 OF TEES Sa Bp Het orn wi reese : = IR Le bf & Cit al HE OraIna ry thE Et it 7 tds en RNY pe AE 8 Cn CL xy wn NE Spa ls z ; ; Just as the other schools were named. School 7 was designated ee ogg ® Seventh Ward after the district fn which it was located. : pS with a eautiful In 1872 a new school building| =. be CT ded : ‘ was started on the present. site A Girl Scout unit was organ- . “ at 748 Bates St. and first classes ized in 1929 but was discontinued were held the following year. Jas; eifee PA was eas i shud eg Egg i SE £ ‘A. WAS Organ THE FIRST principal, Nelsoniand for many years has fought Yoke, had served in the Civil Warito rid the school area of the _ #8 a4 drummer boy. He held his/Bates St. tunnel under the Pennpost at the school until 1899, sylvania © Railroad, only two “* During his administration the blocks from the building. first flag was unfurled over thef ~~ , , bes school bullding by U. 8. Amy pug TUNNEL, built in 1918, « Joldlers, with elaborate © Gore ngs long been the cause of comet ._|plaint from school patrons who + When railroads in the schooligpiect to the dimly lighted Inte“7 district altered their track routes rior, when' there is any light at many houses occupied by puplisig) ‘and to the inclined walks so of No. 7 were wrecked, resulting gjipnery in the winter. } Jha decrease in the school enroll- The first home-coming o the, ’ 4 Yr institution was held in 1932 and” i gr aRAIting. seventh and sight, than 500 former pupils and ferred to School No, 8 on Vir.[leachers attended. : . vinia Ave. and Thomas Jeffer-| Present -enrollment stands at on became a sixth-grade school.|386, With Mrs. Irma W. Cook as

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