TOMAHAWK LEADER NEWSPAPER July 3, 1908 PUTS OUT A NEW CIGAR James H. Hall Begins the Manufacture of "La Buns" Another new cigar to add to Tomahawk's fame is being put out on the market. It is "LaBuns," manufactured by James H. Hall. The new cigar is a trifle larger than the well known , "J. H. B. " It is of rich, dark color, with a broad leaf wrapper and an excellent filler and binder. Tomahawk produces more good cigars of different makes than any town in this part of the state. Dawn [email protected]
Source Tomahawk Leader July 3, 1908 MANY CHANCES IN SALOONS Applications Show New Ownership's and New Licenses to Comply With Recent Legislation Applications for saloon licenses show that there will be many changes in the saloon business in Tomahawk for the year soon to begin. Thirty-five have been made, two less than last year. These two places will probably continue as there is yet time to obtain licenses. Edgar Walquest has applied for the license for the Etberg place, Gustave Engleman will again take his old place, run last year by Fred Erdman, James Pickett will be succeeded at his old stand by William Jeannot and Mr. Pickett will take the Mike Booner stand next door, Aurthur Johnson will run the saloon at the Riverside Hotel and A.L. Roberge has purchased the Frank Duranso place on Tomahawk Avenue. The Roberge place on the Wisconsin River has not been licensed yet. Owing to the former licenses not being citizens of the United States, as required by law, licenses have been applied for by Mark Flanigan for the Pat Flanigan place at Jersey City, H.G. Fuller for the August Zastrow Saloon, Charlotte LeBlanc for the Peter LeBlanc place, Thomas Young for the Charles Peterson place, Mary Chevier for the Henry Chevier place, and I.E. Boudreau for the J.J. Boudreau place. The new law preventing the granting of a license to a corporation, H.J. Hein has applied for the Mitchell Hotel license for the Tomahawk Hotel Company. The complete list of applicants are: Charles Johnson James Flaherty H.W.McCarthy Louis Major E. Myre Mark Flanigan Ole Larson T. Twomey M.G. Hyman Louis Morency William Jeannot H.G. Fuller H.J.Hein Thomas Young Arthur Johnson Mary Doll Felix Lambert A.L. Roberge nels Swanson Edgar Walquest Theo. Hartwig James Joyce Gustave Engleman Peter Pederson David McCutcheon Thomas Riley John Twomey James Pickett Leo Lambert Sam Winker Charlotte LeBlanc James Poutre H.J. Taylor Mary Chevier I.F. Boudreau
>From the Tomahawk Leader July 2, 1986 History Sacred Heart Hospital Tomahawk Just two years after the incorporation of the City of Tomahawk, in 1891, a start was made toward establishing a sister's hospital here. It was because of the urgent pleading of the Reverend Charles Hoogstoel, pastor of St. Mary's Church, that the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother agreed to start a hospital here in the 1890s. Fr. Hoogstoel had become aquatinted with them at their Kneipp Institution, St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, Wisconsin, and also with the Reverend Joseph Joch, chaplain and advisor of the sisters. As soon as permission had been obtained from Bishop Messmer of Green Bay, in which the diocese of Tomahawk was at the time, and from Mother Frances Streitel, foundress of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, Fr. Joch assisted the sisters in getting established in Tomahawk. When a hospital was established in those years, it did not mean that patients and nurses were housed immediately in a brand new well equipped building. Whatever temporary shelter was available sufficed for the beginning. Such was the case when the sisters arrived in Tomahawk Oct. 19, 1893. They were Sisters M. Anna Niegel, the Superior, M. Alexia Baurer, cook, M. Gabriel Ortleib, portress, and M. Clementia Raes, and later M. Dionysia Griebel, nurses. Their first hospital was a small two story building located, according to some early settlers, at Fourth Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The place proved to be to poorly suited for the purpose, however, and after a few months of cold and privation the sisters accepted the opportunity to rent Mrs. E. J. Theiler's residence at 127 Spirit Avenue and Sixth Street. On a cold winter day, the sisters two patients were transferred by means of bobsled to this second hospital. The early records of the hospital show that nine patients were admitted between Dec. 2, 1893 and Jan. 12, 1894. During the winter of 1893-1894, Fr. Joch drew up the plans for a new hospital. After a conference with William Bradley, a prominent Tomahawk businessman who owned much of the land in and around town, it was agreed that the site for the hospital should occupy a plot of ground directly north of the newly erected church and parsonage. The site was donated by Bradley. Work was begun as soon as weather permitted. It is said that the early settlers came with their teams to excavate the ground, each one digging for a day or two as a donation. The building, a two story frame construction, was erected by Anton Weingart and an assistant under the supervision of Fr. Joch. Later the building was brick veneered. On the day of the dedication, July 20, 1894, a high mass was offered in the parish church. The first seven years were difficult for Sacred Heart Hospital. The income was insufficient and consequentially the sisters had to use every means to enable them to keep the institution open. They begged for worn out sheets and pillow slips so they could pull the threads apart and use the lint instead of purchasing cotton batting, which was somewhat expensive and difficult to obtain. From the woods directly in back of the hospital, the sisters gathered fire wood and so reduced their fuel expense. For a short time they were even forced to beg alms and travel from one logging camp to another to sell hospital tickets to lumbermen. After 1900, several good ticket agents employed by the sisters helped bring in more patients and more income. The ticket agents were assigned a certain territory where they went from camp to camp selling tickets at $5.00 and later $7.50. The ticket entitled the holder to admission and to medical and surgical treatment in the hospital at any time during one year from the date of the ticket, for such a length of time within the year as the attending physician judged necessary for the patient suffering from injury or sickness. According to E. M. MacDonald, who succeeded his father as a ticket agent for the hospital, the Tomahawk territory included 72 camps besides sawmills. As an agent he received 15% of the sales from the hospital directly. After selling the tickets he submitted the result of his work to the foreman of the camp and the foreman then sent an order for the amount to the company. In the spring when the company paid the lumberjacks it deducted the hospital's share from the amount due the respective camp. The deduction was then sent directly to the hospital. Tickets were bought chiefly by lumberjacks who had no home or family in the vicinity. In time of illness their home was the hospital. In the memoirs of Sister M. Dionysia, now deceased, it is related that one such lumberjack bought a ticket every year. Whether he was sick or not, he always came to the hospital and said, "I must visit my home at least once a year." The early sisters testified that the lumberjacks, men of many nations, Russians, Poles, Swedes, Germans, Irish, French, were good men, respectful and obliging to the sisters. At the hospital, the men would help along with the work when they were able, sawing and splitting wood, painting around the house and helping in the barn and garden. During the first 14 years of its history, Sacred Heart Hospital prospered and accomplished much good. In 1908 an addition increased the length of the building by 60 feet and raised the capacity to 32 beds. Dedication took place Nov. 18, 1908 with the Reverend John B. Scheyer, the parish priest, officiating. For this addition, the Bradley Company offered a donation of $6000.00. The same amount was borrowed from the company without interest and when repaid, it was returned to the sisters as a donation toward future maternity care and an isolation unit. It was decided to build the isolation unit, but the work was not done till 1910. The two story building was dedicated Jan. 30, 1911. It served its purpose for many years but later was used as a nurses' and maids' quarters. Improvements and further additions were mad to Sacred heart Hospital in the following years. 1928 added a third story. Less than a decade later a three-story addition extending west on Washington Avenue was begun in April 1937 providing 18 additional beds. Nov. 25, 1943 Golden Jubilee. New Hospital ground breaking, Dec. 5, 1960.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mucha, Reitbauer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0EC.2ACE/638 Message Board Post: I am looking for anyone with any info to offer on the surname Mucha in the Tomahawk, Lincoln Co, WI area. I am searching in the time frame of 1920 - 1927. Any info from cemeteries, city directories, obits, vital records, etc would be great! Email [email protected]
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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0EC.2ACE/637 Message Board Post: Hi Everyone, I am looking for Moses Coudare, and Pattice Coudare family. Moses and Pattice brought their families to the Merrill area from Little Suamico, WI area. Also related to that family were Mary(coudare) and Louis Dickey, Charles and May Ranville, and Alexander Bertrand. Anything anyone can help with would be great. Thanks!
I have been busy adding new pages to my counties. I am especially proud of the 1910 Census for the township of Wausau - submitted by Joan Benner, (Marathon County) There is a new family history page for the Degner/Zeisler ancestry. (see Stories) In Lincoln County are many stories of Tomahawk, and a new story about the first school in Jenny, as Merrill used to be known. I hope shortly to add many pictures of Tomahawk. (See Stories) I have a new volunteer who is transcribing articles for me for Lincoln County, and will be doing some for Marathon County also. THANK YOU, GOD, FOR THE VOLUNTEERS! Shelley <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilincol">Lincoln County Wisconsin WiGenWeb</A> <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath/">Marathon County Wisconsin Genealogy Wigenweb</A> Marathon County WI - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath Lincoln County WI - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilincol Personal - http://members.aol.com/sdgreen715/index.html Mailing Lists: WIMARATH-L and WILINCOL-L
Tomahawk, Wisconsin Mitchell Hotel Fire March 6, 1929 The fire, known as the Mitchell Hotel fire, broke out shortly after noon on March 6, 1929, in a cloakroom of the hotel. It ravished 18 buildings in 4 hours. It destroyed a three-story frame building so quickly that only a phonograph was saved. While leveling the hotel, the flames, buffeted by a strong wind, leaped across the street to the East, igniting the Standard Mercantile Building, the town's largest store. Within two hours, the flames engulfed the whole business block East of the hotel on Wisconsin Avenue, spread west of the hotel and crossed Wisconsin Avenue to attack a bakery and four other shops. Proprietors and tenants scurried to safety as flames crackled nearby, spreading so quickly that little could be saved. Most of the population turned out. Schools were dismissed and high school students aided firemen in their efforts. The flames and smoke attracted farmers into town for miles around. A strong wind and snow added to the fire's strength and firemen, "Found their weapons inadequate to check it." Tomahawk firefighters had no engine to increase water pressure for their 12 lines of hose. Help was requested from surrounding communities, but when Merrill firemen arrived, their apparatus was rendered useless by a broken shaft. The Phillips fire department arrived to late. As a last resort, dynamite was used to blow a gap in the path of the fire. But that was unsuccessful. The explosion had the opposite effect, contributing to the spread of the fire. The intense heat from the blaze cracked pavement down to the sewers. This aided firefighters by allowing water to run off instead of collecting in pools. William Addis, the hotel clerk, who discovered the fire ignored his personal safety as he hurried through the corridors of the hotel warning roomers to flee. When he reached the second floor, he found his escape route blocked and jumped thru the window suffering serious injury. Firemen rescued C. H. Grundy, superintendent of the Marinette, Tomahawk and Western Railroad, who was confined to his hotel room by illness. Women telephone operators stuck to their posts despite the approaching flames and smoke. The telephone building was saved. Fire watchers-mostly young boys-devoured most of the stock of doughnuts, rolls, cakes, and cookies in the bakery across form the hotel after the owners fled. The fire spent itself shortly after 5 PM leaving 10 families homeless who resided above the stores in the flats. Losses estimated were $300,000.00. Except for the Mitchell hotel, all the buildings were two-story wooden structures. Merchandise and household effects taken from the burned buildings were piled in the streets adjoining the fire area. There was no special police guard and vandals made off with some items. By March 8, the snowstorm had turned the ruins into a jewel box of grotesquely shaped crystal. Electricity was restored that morning and Orville Grant, owner of the Mitchell Hotel announced plans to rebuild a modern, fireproof-50 room hotel-the present Tomahawk House-on the site. The August Zastrow Saloon and the Oelhafen Store was destroyed in this fire. This is my family line. Taken from the Wausau Daily Herald March 1979 Dawn [email protected]
A PROMINENT NORTH WOODS CHARACTER. One of the best known and most dignified old Indians on the Wisconsin River was Indian Pete, who died about two years ago, aged ninety-four. He has traveled every Indian trail along the Wisconsin River, and for the past fifty years has been a familiar character in the towns and lumber camps all through the upper valley. He seemed to command the universal respect of the Whites, and for many years was a privileged character on the trains and at the Mitchell hotel at Tomahawk. Pete was always proud of being a Chippewa, and seemed confident that his tribe were the only real good Indians in the pine woods.
A SUCCESSFUL MERCHANT. D. C. Jones is one of the business men of Tomahawk whose qualifications have fitted him for the business world. Quick to learn, patient in his efforts to master business problems, success came easily to him, and while yet a boy he had won a standing because of merit and faithfulness. Mr. Jones came to Tomahawk in 1889, and went into partnership with E. W. Whitson in a general store. In 1899 he bought out his partner, and is now carrying a first-class stock of groceries, gents' furnishing goods and also handles flour, feed, hay and farm machinery. He has four warehouses, and he is first, last and all the time a hustler. He is public-spirited and takes a deep interest in everything that tends to advance the best interests of his city. He has been alderman for two years, and vice-president of the village for two years. He is popular and efficient, and a fair type of the self-made Northern man. He has been a man of action, and in his constant contact with men he has by his manner and character created such a favorable impression that few men in Tomahawk are more highly respected than he.
TOMAHAWK LUMBER COMPANY. The Tomahawk Lumber Company was established in 1904. It saws twenty-five million feet of pine, hemlock and hardwood each year, which is brought to the mill by rail and water. They employ 145 men, and run day and night the year round. They operate a planing mill in connection with the saw mill, and nearly their entire product is sold and shipped as dressed lumber. This company sells their product only by wholesale. Their market covers a wide range, mostly in the Mississippi Valley, yet many carloads of their product finds market in San Francisco, also New York. Their saw mill is modern in every respect. This mill was built in 1904 and has been in constant service since that time. The officers of the company are R. B. Tweedy, President; Spencer Illsley, Vice-President, with C. C. Uber, Secretary, Treasurer and Manager. This manufacturing plant is one of Tomahawk's most substantial institutions. It is an organization that employs a large amount of labor at good wages, and the members of the company are among the most progressive and substantial business men of Lincoln County.
BRADLEY BANK, TOMAHAWK. Tomahawk is particularly fortunate in the matter of its banking facilities; and to these institutions must be given a large measure of credit for the influence they exert in extending the city's commercial and municipal prestige. They add a substantial dignity to the business community, independent of their value as commercial agents. This substantiality is one which is unconsciously infused into every form of local business life. To the Tomahawk people John W. Froehlich seems as much an essential part of their city as the trees and streets, as nearly his whole life has been spent there, and since attaining his years of manhood he has been conspicuously and constantly identified with the Bradley Company's interest. He was manager of the Mitchell Hotel for eleven years, and for six years has been cashier of the Bradley Bank. This bank has been a success from the start. It has done much to assist in the development of the resources of Tomahawk and Lincoln county. It has a paid capital of $50,000 and a surplus of $6,400. The officers of this bank are Edward Bradley, President; R. B. Tweedy, Vice-President, and John Froehlich, Cashier. These men are all well and favorably known in financial circles, and their names stand for business principles and honest and correct dealing. The bank is strong because the men back of it are strong. It has prospered because its management has been careful and prudent. Its success is well merited and richly deserved.
TOMAHAWK PULP AND PAPER COMPANY. This manufacturing plant began making paper in 1889. Their first mill had a capacity of ten tons per day; their second mill was built in 1905 on the opposite bank of the Wisconsin River from the first plant. This mill has a capacity of twenty-five tons per day. The two mills use 2,000 horsepower and employ one hundred twenty-five men the year round. A. M. Pride, proprietor and general manager of these two mills, came from Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in the manufacture of pulp. He is not only a successful business man and manufacturer, but he is a successful citizen in everything that good citizenship implies
A MAN WHO DOES THINGS. R. C. Thielman is one of the most loyal and patriotic citizens of Tomahawk. In these qualities he is second to none. On no occasion is this spirit allowed to slumber, for at the least opportunity it makes itself manifest. Mr. Thielman came to Tomahawk in 1897 and has been in the meat business for twenty years. In 1890 he engaged in the lumbering business, and is the owner of a large tract of standing timber. He is logging for the Bradley Company, and will cut eight million feet for this company the coming year. He is now running three logging camps, employing over two hundred men, and is badly in need of and anxious to employ another hundred. The timber is principally hemlock and hardwood, and is brought in principally by the railroad. There is still within fifteen or twenty miles of Tomahawk a solid township of timber. It is estimated that for twenty years the logging and lumbering industry will be prominent in and around Tomahawk. The cut-over land is selling at from five to ten dollars an acre, and no better soil for dairy purposes can be found in the state. Mr. Thielman owns several hundred acres inside the city limits and has platted two additions to the city. He has been mayor of Tomahawk for five terms, and the city has prospered under his leadership. In each of his official positions he has given earnest and intelligent service, and upon his official record there is not a blot. He is of that class of citizens who build up cities and then make them known on the map, and his fellow citizens realize his value as a permanent, prominent, progressive citizen. If the reader wants a few days of recreation that recreates he can find some of the best fishing in the state in close connection with Mr. Thielman's camp, and a few meals at one of his several logging camps will make one wish he was a lumber jack.
LUMBERMAN, MERCHANT AND FARMER. John Oelhafen, a prominent and influential citizen of Tomahawk, Lincoln County, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, born January 22, 1836, a son of Andrew Oelhafen. John Oelhafen, the subject proper of this sketch came to America with his parents when eight years of age, and his childhood days were spent on the farm, his primary education being received in the village schools. He remained on the farm, assisting his father until he reached his majority. Although at the age of seventeen he commenced working in the pineries, giving his earnings to his father to help in the support of the family. In September, 1861, he was united in marriage with Anna S. Miller, who came to America alone at the age of seventeen. To this union were born six children, viz.: Anna E., Andrew, J. W., Mary E., Wm. and Anna L. After their marriage, Mr. Oelhafen and his wife removed to a farm in Washington County, where they remained for about two years. Mr. Oelhafen then sold his interest in the farm and removed to Milwaukee, where he opened a general store, remaining there some ten years. In 1872 he removed to Wausau, at which place he opened a general store, and also engaged in the lumbering business, both in Wausau and Milbank, S. Dakota, where he held large interests in farm lands and city property. In July, 1887, he erected the first building in Tomahawk, Lincoln County, before the days of railroads in that section of the country. At Tomahawk he again opened a department store and also continued in the lumber business, which he still carries on, being assisted by his three sons. Andrew, having charge of the lumber business; J. W. in charge of the mercantile business, and Wm. having charge of the cedar yards. Mr. Oelhafen has invested heavily but profitably in pine and farm lands all through the northern part of the state. He owns a very handsome residence in Tomahawk, and has always been an enterprising and influential citizen. Of the many lumber companies that have done their full part in cutting away the great forests of the North, John Oelhafen has done his. Mr. Oelhafen has been in the lumber business for the past thirty years, and is now employing over two hundred men, with standing timber in the forest sufficient to run for more than ten years longer. His timber consists of hardwood, pine and hemlock. Oelhafen mill is now cutting fifteen million per year. Logs are brought in by rail and water. The mill is kept busy day and night in winter and day times during the summer. Mr. Oelhafen is not only a merchant and lumberman of many years experience, but is also the owner of the largest farm in Lincoln County, consisting of 800 acres, all fenced and 260 acres under the plow, and thoroughly stumped and stocked with blooded cattle. He is also a prominent stockholder and director of the Bradley Bank in the city of Tomahawk, and is one of the early pioneers who helped to break the wilderness in the Wisconsin Valley. He is doing his part to make Tomahawk the hustling, progressive little city that she is.
TOMAHAWK. In the northern part of Lincoln County, at the confluence of four rivers, the Wisconsin, the Tomahawk, the Somo and the Spirit, may be found the thrifty little city of Tomahawk. Few towns of equal size have better railroad facilities. Its main artery is the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, then follows the Marinette, Tomahawk & Western, which connects with the Soo line, the Chicago & Northwestern and the Wisconsin Central. By reason of its magnificent and almost unlimited water power, several large manufacturing institutions have been erected, including two excellent paper mills. Among other advantages enjoyed are electric lights, water works and sewer system, owned by the municipality, wide streets, good schools and churches, two banks, two good newspapers, several good hotels-one of which, the Mitchell, cost $50,000; fine driveways, excellent roads and a splendid surrounding country. On the north and west the Wisconsin River winds gracefully around the city. On the south and east the immediate country is somewhat broken. Prospect Hill, covered with pines and extending cape-like into Tomahawk Lake, is an extremely picturesque point in the surroundings. The lake and river is dotted with wooded islands, lending a charm to the landscape. The social life of the town is excellent, and of the best and most wholesome American type The commercial and manufacturing interests of the city have been built up chiefly on the lumber trade. But of late years the saw mills have been supplemented to some extent by the wood working establishments that employ a large force of men, and is one of the factors in the development of this section of the country. As the lands in all directions are being converted into farms, the new settler finds a ready income from the small timber remaining on the land that he can convert easily and quickly into ready cash. This is true to a great extent of all the unoccupied timber lands of the Valley. Much of this new land which formerly contained an excellent forest of basswood, hemlock and birch, can be bought at from five to ten dollars per acre, and there is no better soil in the state. And to these things we might add the fact, that within the near limits of the city is a very large horsepower of undeveloped water power, that within a radius of a few miles are some eight rivers and twenty lakes that will all do much in the years to come to add wealth to the city. There are also untouched hardwood forests of millions of feet almost within sight of the city. Tomahawk, with its excellent transportation facilities and its adjacent wealth of inexhaustible material, appeals to the homeseeker. Probably the most alluring promises comes from the unsubdued acres of rich dairy country that abound in every direction. The character of the men whom these lands have already attracted give assurance to the stranger that this will be the center of not only a manufacturing interest, but will develop into an excellent dairy and stock country in the near future.
TOMAHAWK BOX COMPANY. The Tomahawk Box Company commenced business in July, 1906, with W. G. Foss President and General Manager, and G. A. Foss Secretary and Treasurer. This Company employs forty-five men the year round, and cut up six million feet of lumber, consisting of hardwood, pine and hemlock per year. Their machinery is strictly up-to-date and first class in every respect. There is nothing done by hand that can possibly be done by machinery; especially is this true of the nailing of the boxes, as they use one of the largest size nailing machines with twenty-four hammers, driving more than one hundred nails a minute. They use a printing machine twenty-six inches wide, printing two colors on one hundred pieces a minute. Mr. W. G. Foss has been an active lumberman for more than thirty years, and for fifteen years a citizen of Tomahawk. The product of this manufacturing plant is shipped east as far as New Jersey, and as far south as Missouri. It is one of the best and most useful manufacturing plants of Tomahawk, and is doing much to give employment to many citizens. Its proprietors are progressive, energetic men who believe in Tomahawk and its future.
TOMAHAWK IRON WORKS. This substantial industry was established in 1890 by the late W. H. Bradley and in June, l906, was purchased by William Drever and J. H. Knaggs, since which time it has been greatly enlarged and much modern machinery installed. This Company manufactures new machinery of different kinds, but specialize in various lines, such as locomotive, car and mill repairs, steam fitting, structural steel, foundry and boiler shop work. A number of sawmill refuse burners and many towering smoke stacks, in this northern section, were erected by this Company, who employ about 30 mechanics the year round. William Drever, President and Treasurer of the Company, came to Tomahawk eighteen years ago and has been in the machine shop business for more than 30 years. He is a master mechanic from choice, necessity and force of habit. His services have won an excellent reputation for the Company in the saw and paper mill industry in this section and his list of acquaintances covers a wide territory. J. H.. Knaggs, Vice President, came to Tomahawk eight years ago. He is a practical boiler maker of 30 years experience and on account of his ability has established an enviable reputation among the many competitors of the Company. He is thoroughly familiar with every department of the boiler business and has probably superintended the erection of more smoke stacks, refuse burners and steel structural work, than any other man plying his trade in this northern section. This Company have worked up an excellent trade which extends to the northern border of the state as well as for 60 or 70 miles west along the Soo Line and some distance south among their competitors. They not only make a specialty of repairing and overhauling locomotives but buy and sell the same. Tomahawk is indeed fortunate in having an institution of so permanent and substantial standing. This plant is not located here for a day or a year for these men believe in Tomahawk and its future; they are here to stay and to add to their already increasing business as necessity demands.