Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 50, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 5 July 1928 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1928

wL Blankets $9.90

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THIS SPECIAL OFFER CLOSES SATURDAY Assure Inexpensive Bedtime Comfort for This Winter !>v Joining Our Blanket Club NOW. Lehman’s Furniture Store QUALITY and SERVICE ■ PHONE 62 Your Profit Is Considerably Greater Than Ours Present summer savings over winter prices mean considerably more profit {ter ton to you than to us. In fact, your profit in buying next winter's coaj .now is approximately twice as much as we ever realize. - LOW SUMMER PRICES are not made at the expense of quality. Call 87 or see us TODAY—your profit is considerably greater than ours. Syler & Syler Phone 87- Nappanee, Indiana

USED GARS Be it a used car or anew one we are in a position to satisfy you. Anew Chevrolet or a good used car. Erbaugh Chevrolet Sales

NEW DRY CLEANING PRICES Our High Standard of Quality is Still Maintained Regardless of the Cut In Prices. Cash' and Call and Carry Deliver Men’s Suits or Topcoats, cleaned and pressed ... $ 50 $ .75 Sweaters, cleaned and pressed .............. .50 .75 Plain wool 1-pleoe dresses, cleaned and pressed ... .50 .75 Plain silk dresses, cleaned and pressed 91.25 up $1.50 up Pressing Meres suits ~ ... ... 35 .50 Ladies’ spring wool' coats, -fur trimmed 1.00 1.25 Ladies’ colored hats cleaned -30 Ladies’ white hats cleaned .............................. .75 Men’s felt hats cleaned 50 Men’s felt hats cleaned and blocked 1-00. C. A. DEISCH The Dry Cleaner

Men’s Summer Oxfords At Prices.to Suit All

Goodyear Welts riced 53.50, $3.95, $4.95 $6.00 to $9.85 One special lot $1.90 and $2.95

Blosser Shoe Store

Articles You Need To Dust Your Floors and Furniture Large hand duster . ■ . 29e Dry floor mops . • 69c Wall brush . $1.59 Oil mops . 69c Cheese cloth, 5 yards • • • • : 5c 10 piece brush set Shively Brothers HARDWARE PHONE 57 FURNITURE

I Bu> your All-Wool Blankets now at a I substantial saying and pay for them jin eonVeiUenl weekly payments. By keeping one of the best Blanket Mills on this country busy during their dull period, we have secured a substantial concession in the manufacturer’s price. All-Wool TtlxSO <pp f“*', inch blankets at .. . .

NOAH LEHMAN’S SUCCESS IS DUE TO PERSEVERENCE

Though ’one is invariably greeted •)> Noah Lehman in a carefree way and with a happy smile on entering the Lehman Furniture store, ; t is not so much the fact that the furniture business is the most easily managed of all business, and with no grief or worry.. but- that, he has'always been a firm believer in the old adage that his first business partner gave as his advice to him: "Never tell other people your troubles. they have enough of their own and can't be bothered with yours. The average customer should be made to forget his." Mr. Lehman was born in Whiteside county. 111.. Jan. 9, 1869, hut came to

Elkhart county with his parents when he was 4 years of age, locating near Wakarusa on a farm. He worked on the farm as soon as he was old enough to determine a weed from the crop, and even while •a boy worked as many as four-

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teen long hours a .day, never being able to attend school after crop weather began and he was able so help, although he did attend school in the winter. While farming, he started “crying” farm sales, and when only seventeen years of age, he would many times have his books full as he was the only auctioneer in this part of the county at that time. lij 1889, he came to Nappanee, borrowed $75, added the $25 he possessed. and bought a small stock of notions such as suspenders, hose, handkerchiefs, etc., which he displayed in a little one-room building formerly occupied by the Blosser Shoe Shop and where the Reed display room is now located. Every Saturday he heid an auction sale, thus drawing the crowds, creating a little fun and ex-

B 1-Making | fTI rue sense of the jj '" J I ed to business, Y I an only extend- £ ~a|S&o. Te’s a chance to Y J|jgl|P At least, it does | If we can do a X turn by giving &VL JW w ;xperienced advice on financial problems we MjM are only too glad to do so.And v|jjlpjn That policy has - w< institution V f / isl fanners and Traders C

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citement, and getting a faster turnover in his stock. He remained her'for five months before closing out his stock and going into the hardware store where the Gutelius store is now located, working for Cal Leslie and James Til man. Here he received the magnificent sum of a dollar a day, Out of this he had to pay for his board and room and washing •diil it and saved money, too! He remained here one and one-half years, clerking and holding sales as he could book them. At the end of this time be became manager of the! implement department of the store then owned by Wm. Maurer, at W-a-karusa. After a year here, he again pulled up stakes and came back to Nappanee; Sept. 1, 1892, he purchased a half interest in the furniture store and funeral directing business of E. W. Good with Barney Uline as his partner. in three years, or. as Mr. Lehman puts it, after he had. paid for his half.” he purchased the other half of the store from Mr. t’line. He remained in the same location for five-years after owning the entire store, then moved into the east room of the two rooms” now occupied by Shively Bros. In 1909' he again moved, this time into the building where he is now located and which he purchased at that time. As each year passed while he was engaged in the furniture business, Mr. Lehman learned more and more about furniture buying and construction. However, In 1919, seeking a vacation from all business, he sold his furniture store to B. F. Ringle, of Winona Lake. Mr. Lehman still retained the music store and funeral directing business, and moved into the building next door, now occupied by the Gutelius store. In 1920, however, he sold the funeral directing business to the present owner, A. E. Wright, and in 1921 the music business to H. F. Beck, who had had charge of this department for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Lehman then did some real vacationing, spending one

winter in the Hawaiian Islands, the next winter in Florida, and the winter of ’24. in California. . But being idle for the first time in his life had its bad innings, and in September of 1925, Mr. Lehman repurchased the furniture store of Mr. Ringle.- In *he meantime the funeral business and music store had returned to the former location in this building. Mr. Lehman- sold his home to Mr. Wright in 1924, however, and as soon as rempdeling had been done, the, funeral directing business was moved tn this location. The music business ‘ continued in the furniture store until 1927 when it was moved to its present location. Mr. Lehman’s 36 years of expeiience in the furniture business has given him a thorough knowledge of the business that few dealers are able to boast of. His integrity and fair deal ing as well as his long-established business gives him many advantages in the retail field. He is able to procure the exclusive right to liaudle many of the best and well-known nationally advertised products. Among these, articles that "the name alone sells” are: Sealy mattresses and springs, Florence Oil - stoves, New Easy Washer, and Eureka vacuum cleaners. Tile Lehman Furniture store also has a complete and one of the best lines of living room, dining room, and bedroom suites; floor, table, and bridge lamps; wall tables,: end tables, and gate-leg tables, wall mirrors, pictures, tapestries, sewing cabinets, costumers, wicker furniture, breakfast sets, cabinets, and floor coverings . encompassing- Wilton. Axminister, and Body Brussels rugs of room and small size, congoleum rugs, and linoleum. Mr. Lehman has charge of all the buying, correspondence, and keeps the books as well as doing the work of a salesman. However, Lowell Tobias. who has been in the employ or Mr. Lehman for the past three years, does the major part of selling on the floor as well as the delivering of goods. Mr. Tobias is a pleasant salesman and absolutely “on the square," as he would rather lose a sale than to misrepresent the article in order to get it sold. In this way he has built up a reputation as a dependable salesman and customers seek him out to explain the points in the article they desire to buy. Perhaps John Geyer holds the record for tpe length of employment by one concern in this city. Mr. Geyer has been wITh the Lehman store for the past 20 years as salesman, repairman, and deliverer of goods. Os late his health has not permitted him to be at the store, and old customers find it strange not to see him coming to meet them and inquire of them their wants.

We Have Banking Facilities You Should Not Be Without

Capital and Surplus --- $91,000

Quitting Business! The present stock will be closed out to the walls. Prices smashed. Values unbelievable! Sale Starts Today Hartman Clothing Cos.

Fresh Vegetables! Fresh!, crisp, tender vegetables—only a few hours out of tho ground! LUSCIOUS BERRIES

Berry season is on. Eat of them to vour hearts desire. RASPBERRIES FOR SATURDAY’S TRADE FRESH FRUITS Are needed to furnish you with the necessary vitamins—and how easy to “take!” MULLETT’S GROCERY PHONE 67 WE DELIVER

If you’re after clothes that arc a business and social asset-—clothes that retain their good looks throughout their long lifetime —then this is your store, and vow want - KUPPENHEIMER Good Clothes Hostetter & Myer Bathing Suits Ladies suits, all wool $3.00 to $5.95 Misses suits . . . .$1.95 Childrens suits . . 65c to $1.50 Men’s suits . . $1.25 to $2.95 Boy’s suits . . . 65c to $2.75 Rin ge nb e rg ’s How Can You Tell? The average person e.nn'i h;ok at a uatch am 1 tell much about il's inner workings But there are two pretrv good tests file reputation i•' tin iliakcr and the reeomM Wmia lion of the jeweler. : : : . i " E. NEWCOMER & SON JEWELERS IN NAPPANEE’FOR OVER 40 YEARS

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