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e tribute stove ort thursdaj february 24 1355 ifetime story of prominent usiness man in claremont bethesda the world day e home of mr ham mr- the speaker wns eajpring- mcddle vrii je be on friday f0 23 3- vivian church 3 2 x pju the t j mrs whiteombe vviii be the has 179 ins speaker u the v m5 a on wed- 1 in 2 state prsesday march at 213 ait the columbia states air force laxons in the co by the ry a rat became of john l lew there are three k dikes in hollsn l big state located sleepers je district of i ta over finally coma have been a and also mans new mac have be a intrc tuced 1 charu t ci re a r of th besljcnosvn imp nem dealers in the entire di rict aa well o kintryw i arough hi wholesale bus has been honoured wit fully illustrated story of hi lursines- life 15 centred in wheel tread laremoat gh eompri hie stoi a p iblishi t m implement deal roveaxentst mounting needs for more and nore food production the vears 1 e i oa m dealers instance you wouldlof course be ante have dreamed of the or i money 1 tractor with i ver takeotf ad jus ta blejhowever trie dreamers iastreort oe fenders of individual tus irt- few o our more 1 hou- i lb ib who not heard of charlie coot ulc vstti hke tv r customers would have j mem and 1 ught we ee crazy if we i mechanize i talked about the posiibu1 v i of machines such as to- lepi ha balers forage harjvice ters and tractor mounted i but could an luipment of marsv kinds 1 buslne nearci ot uuariie cooper icutii- vj ni it is unlikely that very many such things as automatic barn there i 1 1 it rlr i 1 firm pcope start running a busijclean v hen of ag- a milking parlors a farm he future so nd 1 canridbntiallyv yours x byyrne hope sander j montitvv hoiv for gv tht whit y j- or fceae beauf oav liquid dktkrgkxt raavea d hwamic easier sad w it mew less reaive tx youll oal i t a o civ divs jijty dshwwhiac thitj mere tfin acy u boxe of powder deiergeau 3 j- r i pnee tbja antf oiher fiei at too i ae clay iciue hte it hi extrm rraeunas rovrr vm ca 00 my bands- you boud w the way thw cew iitui c- tcrgeat loofeo ecs yolk ta seeoads hjk away touch crae ou o and paa afc toy tor vud gy ool oaly for dad iu -xoo-ea- nyloa woif aad other fiae fsbriea t keep a man j n why both i service shop partment cat they are prop- school yet charlie cooper well known wholesale distri butor and retail dealer o claremont ontario did just that and hes been in business and made money ever since oming through good times and bad he says in fact that he even managed to make money dining the depression of the 30 when a great many deal- tars were forced out of business charlie had his start in 1120 when his father purchased a hardware store with living quarters on the second storey just to have a place to live charlie puts it his father frank cooper was not too interested ill business being a successful farmer so charlie took over while his dad bought more land close by to clare- mont and continued farming in addition to the hardware lines the business also repre sented the mccormick line of farm implements for inter national harvester company in the area in 12 charlie bought the business from his father and took on the agency for durant cars continuing as international harvester dealer things were different in the farm equipment business than they are today he re calls as a matter of fact we were more like spotters than following on the heel dealers wed find the prospects depression it created and the company bibekman would come along and close the deals in mast cases we had no money invested in repair parts uid almost all service problems were taken care of by a com pany man referred to as au expert know them today dealers themselves never dreamed that the day would come when it would be to their interest to organize their own tradeassoc- iation and hold such impor- 1 tant events as the annual ohfeda show kxpands car business a few years after he had taken on the durant agency charlie cooper started selling international trucks when around l3i durant motors passed out of the car business he took on chrysler dodge and plymouth along with fargo trucks within the next two months he was appointed gen eral motors dealer and today still handles the entire genera motors line as have many other dealers charlie has found the motor car business to be a valuable adjunct to his farm equipment line although by no means the most impor tant part of hi overall oper ation change in machines ways o doing business are no the only things that have changed since 1 started there charlie well remembers the wartime shortages of farm equipment which resulted from the necessity of diverting raw- materials and plant facilities to the production of war goods the her difficulties for the trade and also of course for farmers themselves the poor sales of the depression years had re- milted in much of the machin ery on farms deteriorating to very poor condition so that throughout most of the war years dealers had to roll up their sleeves and do a real ser vice job to keep these machines tolling this job was thai much more demanding because of erlv managed and good man agement of the sales end of i the business will be required more than ever now that com- petition has become tough and sales harder to come by association leader charlie coopers name has long been closely identified with dealers association aetivi- j ties he recalls that in the fall of 1944 the late cor wilkin son who was then blockman for international harvester for the area in which the clare mont dealership is located got a goodly number of interna tional dealers together to dis cuss their mutual problems and other matters pertaining to the trade out of this meeting came the formation of the groups own local company association with walter atkinson who un til recently was international dealer at stoutlville ontario as chairman this was actually the birth of the ontario retail farm equipment dealers associa tion because in the spring of continued on claremont 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