OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER.
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HUNTLEY BROTHERS' STORES
Among business men, traveling men and
those who are in position to make com
parison, these stores have the reputation of
being two of the most successful and best
managed stores, not only in Oregon, but on
the Pacific Coast.
The drug department is under the manage
ment of Mr. C. G." Huntley. The amount of
prescription business done and the extreme
care taken in having it done accurately and
by competent help, is indicated by the fact
that he is assisted by two registered and
two registered assistant pharmacists. "Noth
ing is too good for the sick room" is the
motto in this store. No stale or bargain
counter drugs are ever found here, while for
the newest preparations and the latest rem
edies, people always expect to find them at
Huntley's and are rarely disappointed.
Added to the stock of drugs and chemicals
for the regular prescription business is one
of the most complete lines of druggist sun
dries to be found in any store in Oregon.
Here is the finest imported perfumery from
France and England besides all the leading
oders made in the United States.
Imported hair, nail and tooth brushes at
department-store prices.
The 25 feet added to the rear of the store
some time since goes to make up the most
1 complete paint store in Clackamas county.
I Here you can get anything from a 5-cent
I brush to a barrel of linseed oil.
I The book store is managed by Mr. W. A.
1 1 luntley.
You can t make a success ot a book store
in Oregon City," is what the people said
when W. A. Huntley established his store,
and "what little business there is in this line
goes to Portland, and you can never meet
Portland competition." After a glance around
this large, handsome store, with its shelves
loaded with a stock that seemed much too
large for Oregon City, the writer remem
bered the little old store down the street,
when the ''book store" first started with its
modest little stock, and decided that such
remarkable growth must have good reasons
for it.
"And we have proven them mistaken by
handling only honest, reliable goods (every
thing we sell is on the 'money-back-if-you-want-it'
plan), buying close and selling on a
small profit, keeping a neat, clean store, and
ahvays trying to get promptly for people
what they wanted, that we didn't have. While
Portland department store competition is
severe we always meet it, sometimes beat
it for wc are content with a small profit,
and our customers appreciate it. Then, too,
all our expenses, such as rent, lights, fuel,
etc., are much lower than in the city.
"We carry also special lines of goods that
by increasing the volume of business enables
us to reduce the percentage of profit. We
put in the first stock of bicycles in the city,
ten years ago, and were laughed at for try
ing to sell wheels in this rough, hilly coun
try of poor roads. We were not laughed
out of it, though, and our annual sales of
150 to 175 wheels justifies our faith in the
bicycle. Reliable bicycles, such as the Cres
cent, Columbia. Orient and Hartford, to
gether with our reptation for carefully mak
ing good any defects and living up to our
liberal guarantees has brought us increasing
business in 1 his line.
"Five years ago we put in a small stock of
cameras and kodaks. There were only two
or three cameras in town, outside of the
professionals now there are hundreds, ami
our camera business has grown from a $50
stock to a $500 one, which includes all the
popular and best-known makes.
"While we make no claim to an art de
partment, yet we do sell a great many pic
tures and such artists' supplies as oil colors,
brushes, canvas, mat-board, etc.
"In the Butterick pattern department is a
$1000 stock of paper patterns over 10,000
separate patterns. We get mail orders in this
department from Barlow to Junction City.
"We have many other lines that don't be
long to a book store strictly speaking but
they all help, as we said before, to swell the
volume of business and thus enable us to
keep down the prices."
Our commercial stationery trade, office
supplies, typewriters and supplies, blank
books, etc., is constantly growing and we
find no trouble to, meet and often to under
sell Portland dealers.
This store is also the county depository
for state text books which brings us a large
business in school supplies from all the
county schools tributary to Oregon City.
We have furnished a num'cr of school libar
ies with books and in no instance have we
failed to underbid all competitors when bids
were asked for."
This business has been built up by C. G.
and W. A. Huntley under difficult conditions,
in face of Portland competition, and contrary
to the predictions of those who think no
business can thrive in a small city adjacent
to a large one.
Looking after the small as well as large
details of the business has been one of the
reasons of the firm's greatly increased pat
ronage. This together with a genuine desire
to please and satisfy every one, big and little,
will be reason enough for as great gains in
the future as in the past.
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Logan Cheese Factory
Farm Residence of J. R. Morton, Damascus
Farm Residence of V. Krickson, near Cams
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