Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — W. L. WOOD, OF PARR. [ARTICLE]

W. L. WOOD, OF PARR.

What Editor Judy Says of One of His Partners. Judyville' had a Sunday call from one of its ablest branch managers, W. L. Wood, of Parr, where Judy found him trying to run a little store at a little station on the Monon, 60 miles out of Chicago, but not on the time tables. Jbdy had dropped in there from a drive over the country to catch a train home when he met the “lousy calf” upon which he believed he could “steak” his money and not get “beefed.” Today there is no man in Jasper county of hia age that it would te as safe to stake a big amount of money on as W. L Wood, of Parr. Judy claims-no credit at all. In fact he knows that the only credit that Judy could assume is the choice of the man- on whom to put his “steak.” Wood is a day, night, an all time worker. He knows where to draw the line of honor and ownership. He had nothing. He now has interests worth fifteen thousand dollars cash; a credit worth twenty-five thousand dollars, and a business worth what be is getting out of it—about ten thousand dollars a year. The result of his own effort and the ability to use and not abuse that which comes close to him, and the trust that is put in him. ’ The rapid growth ot his little “peanut” country corner store to ite present size is one of the most remarkable enterprises in northern Indiana. —Warren Review.

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