Show SEARS HAPPY AS FARMER Former Head of Order Mall House Who Retired with Works In Fields Chicago Richard Richard W. W Sears who has retired from business with 25 made In 17 years took charge of ot the threshing at his farm at Grays Gray's GraysLake GraysLake GraysLake Lake Ill m. the other day At five p p. p m. m the man whose financial financial finan finan- cial career would have been meteoric had It not been for his quiet way of doing things was out in the fields supervising the work that the 20 men who came an hour later were to accomplish accomplish accomplish ac ac- ac- ac before sundown Wearing overalls and wide brimmed straw hat as as if it he were accustomed to them Mr Mr- Sears surveyed his model farm as asIf asIf asif If it were the only interest he had in life Ure He refused to turn from it and c iY l V r 1 Richard W. W Sears look backward over the 17 years that have elapsed since he left his post as telegraph operator in Redwood Falls Minn to start the order mail business that has grown into the the greatest Inthe in inthe inthe the world Im awfully busy he declared I 1 have to look after the threshers anc and I get this work done to I haven't any time to talk about myself Never did have he added with a merry twinkle of his eye Farmer Se Sears rs who has announced that he intends to devote the rest of his time to his family and his farm is only 45 years old He was a telegraph operator of a wayside station when an eastern watch manufacturer sent him hima a watch with the privilege of returning it if Ir he could not sell it He found that he could sell that watch ant and many more So large did the watch trade he established become that he resigned his position and went to Min Minneapolis neapolis Two years later he came to Chicago and began the business career that tha ended recently with the sale of his stock in Sears R Roebuck Co to a aNew aNew aNew New York syndicate and his retirement retirement retirement retire retire- ment with great wealth Mr Sears' Sears family is enjoying the tho farm life as much as the head of the house His four children two children two boys and two girls have gIrls have been reveling in rural domesticity and say they want to tobe tobe tobe be farmers too |