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Waupaca Republican Post

December 24, 1914

OLD FIRM, NEW EQUIPMENT

Forty Years in Business Page Knight Makes Extensive Addition to Equipment

Forty years ago next June Page Knight bought of H.D. Pryor the wagon shop on the corner of Washington and Fulton streets and began a general wagon and repair shop and worked together with one Jacob Nelson, combining their blacksmithing and woodwork until in 1806 Jacob Nelson decided to quit the business, when Page Knight bought his shop and interest in the business and has since rented the blacksmith shop out until last spring when he took his son Claude into partnership with him and they at once set to work remodeling and making over the old shop so as to have it more convenient to both the woodwork and blacksmithing on the north side of the street, thus by making the main building two stories and building a suitable lean to it makes a commodious building for the purpose, which they equipped with a famous woodworking machine, the best made, doing nine different kinds of work with the one machine, together with a surface planer, all of which is run by a Fairbanks Morse engine for which they are agents. The have always kept a good stock of lumber on as to have it seasoned and dry, one of the essential points for this business. They are always ready to do any job in the line of wagon and repair work, in fact, anything in the line of woodwork, blacksmithing and horseshoeing. Having enjoyed a fine business during the past forty years, they are with their present equipment better prepared to serve their patrons than ever before. Their motto in the future as in the past will be, “If our work pleases you, tell others, if not, tell us and we will remedy it as cheerfully as we did it in the first place.”

The company also has for pain shop the building formerly used by Simon Jensen, contractor and builder, which they had moved onto the lot north of the blacksmith and wagon sop, in which one can get a fine job from painting of a buggy to a first class automobile.

The enterprise of this firm classes them among the optimists regarding the future and increasing prosperity of Waupaca.