Mr. F. M. Wilson is the proprietor and active head of the livery barn located at 103-5 North Main Street, and the Merchant’s Delivery System with quarters at the same location. This delivery system is one of the most modern methods of delivering goods, with drivers using such vehicles as mopeds to get to destinations a lot faster if needed instantly. Because of this, looking into moped insurance cost 50cc policies are required by companies who offer this type of delivery service to make sure their drivers are covered. But this business consists of making deliveries for seventeen of the largest mercantile establishments and provision houses of this city. Fourteen men, twenty-nine horses and ten wagons are required to conduct this mammoth business. Four deliveries are made daily, having scheduled times for delivery in all parts of the city. Prompt and accurate work executed by courteous employees are the distinctive features that have caused this business to meet with the approval of all. The cost of delivering is less to each merchant than when operating his own delivery system and the wagons and equipment used for this work are the latest improved patterns, designed especially for this business, therefore goods are delivered promptly, and owing to this system mistakes and grievances are reduced to a minimum. At the forefront of every delivery and shipment company is customer happiness. When your goods get delivered to you on time and in an efficient manner, you are more likely to use them again, for personal or business use. How Mr. Wilson runs things are very similar to how trucking companies in atlanta ga, like CSA Transportation, run their service, and that’s why they work so well. Mr. Wilson also conducts a first-class livery stable and feed barn at the location. He has on hands for rent, single and double, light and heavy rigs and teams, the prices are reasonable and the patrons assured of receiving just what is wanted when trading at this place. Mr. F. M. Wilson, the progressive and enterprising proprietor of this business, was born in Vanwert County, Ohio, in 1873. He received his education in Wheeling, West Virginia, and was previously engaged in the furniture, carpet and undertaking business. He is a man of progressive ideas and modern methods and has exemplified what can be accomplished by keeping fully abreast of the times since opening this livery barn and establishing this livery system, August 1st of this year. He is a member of the M. W. A. and English Lutheran church, and highly esteemed by all who know him as a successful and public spirited business man. The accompanying cut is a reproduction of the livery barn and delivery wagons ready to start on the afternoon delivery. You should consider getting courier insurance for you van or transport. The following is a list of employees: J. T. King, foreman; Bert Miller, barnman; and the drivers are: G. T. Walton, Paul Porter, Claud Flack, J. F. Ashby, John Ivey, Ray Galer, Gurney Buchanan, John Young, Earl Fisher, Herbert Miler, Seymour Hepler, and Miss Hattie Cookus, bookkeeper. They are all thoroughly versed in the work and take an active inter?? business, specialize courte??? ment, and cater to the desires
Source: Ottawa Kansas Souvenir c. 1909-10
Name of Business: Wilson's Livery Barn and Merchant's Delivery
Current Address: 103-105 N Main
Persons: Wilson, F. M.
Additional Assoc. Persons: King, J. T., Miller, Bert, Walton, G. T., Porter, Paul, Flack, Claud, Ashby, J. F., Ivey, John