Show SEARS bears HAPPY AS FARMER former head of malt mail order house W who h 0 retired with works in fields chicago richard W sears a who has retired from business with 25 made in 17 years took charge of the threshing at his farm at grays crays lake ill tho the other day at five p V in the man whose ainan cial career would have been meteoric had it not been for his quiet way ot of doing things was out in thu the fields supervising the work that the 20 men who came an hour later were to accomplish com before sundown wearing overalls and wide brimmed straw hat as lf it he were accustomed accustom eo to them mr sears surveyed his bis model farm as it if it were the only interest he had lo irk life ile he refused to turn from it and r richard W sears look backward over the 17 years that have elapsed since he left his post as aa telegraph operator in redwood falls minn to start the mall mail order business that has grown into the greatest in the world im awfully busy he declared 1 I lave have to look after the threshers thre and get this work done today to day I 1 any time dine to talk about myself never did have he added with a merry twinkle of his bis eye farmer sears who has announced that he intends to devote the rest ot of his time to his family and his farm la Is only 45 years old ile he was a telegraph operator of a wayside station when an eastern watch manufacturer sent him a watch with the privilege of returning it it he could not sell it ile he found that lie he could sell that watch and many more so large did the watch trade he established become that he resigned his position and went to I 1 minneapolis neapolis two years later he be came to chicago and began the business career that ended recently with the sale ot of his stock in sears roebuck co to a new york syndicate and his retirement with great wealth mr sears family is enjoying tho the farm life as much as the head of the house ills four children two boys and two girls have been reveling in rural domesticity and say they want to be farmers too |