Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-04-26

o. We iiud the following article ia the
Wheeling Gazette Of tho I7tt inst, aud os
1t Is in relation to one Of the b'st arranged
stores west ol the mountains we. Icy it be.
fore our readers. They viii always and
Messrs. Thompson p Patterson at home and
ready to accommodate. ~
The Book Business.
We take the occasion of The formaton o.
the partnership oi Messrs. John II 'rhomp.
son g. /. II. Patterson, OF our city,, to call
the attention Of dealers aud customers for
books generally TO tho advantages Of Wheel.
ing, and the peculiar advantages they pos
secs Cor the supply OF all the demand ID their
line. The book business in our city was una
ny years ugo,a nInttcr OF no little importance
from the lnrgc ncld 10 be- supplied by the
necessity that existed log large portion of
the western merchants to make this a point.
AS other avenues opened this trade diminish.
cd until the field was limited to very small
circle with feeble demand. At that time,
some ten years ago, Mr.. John ii. ThOmp.
son, who has been raised here, and TO the
business, commenced earnestly to gather up
the scattered fragments oil trade, and to sup
ply the demand. Steadily and literally, bu,
unostentatiously he has continued to keep up
with, but not in advance ofthe demand ;thus
enabling himself to supply all the wants by
lair system Of trade without oyerruaing bis
capacities by Il surplus stock, aud yet never
disappointing customers by TOO limited sup
ply. II has worked well both for him and
Tor tie public, until the trade is now llrger
and far more profitable than ever before
Purchasing at the best rates and with
sound Judgment, he has been able to meet
the wants OF both the wholesale and retail
trade to very great satisiacton,and establish
Il business beneficial to all parties
AT this point he has united with him. Mr..
|. IL. Patterson, who has been successfully
engaged in the drug business until he has
acquired high reputation as candid and
lair business man,bOth here and through cas.
tern Ohio, and they have taken the store III
Main st., recently occupied w w. II. Selby,
Esq, which is decidedly one of the best store
in this city, where they will hereafter do
business with an enlarged capital trade and
Iaci lites.
Their store is about one hundred feet in
depth, the rear portion thorough ly lighted
from above and very high, while the front,of
some fifty feet depth, is divided into three
stories, giving them abundance of room for
business, and furnishing, as we have said,
superior and rich establishment.
Their business has been extended largely
and will par,ake mainly of the following
character, FOR which they have full arrange
m nts Of the best character,anG for which hey
are admirably adapted. They will supply
dealers at wholesale with school books, for
the schools of o., Penn. ard Va, with med
ical, law, theological, scieurtic, misce.lanc-
ous, and blank books, Of the best make, aud of
all varieties. Also with stationary, wall pa
Pc, window PAPER, transparent bl nds, and
variety goods These will also be furnished
mall their varieties at retail.
They also supply dealers with full as
sortmcnt of standard remedies, medicines lin
iments, &c, which will ensure to them all
they want IN that line. We nave no doubt /
that with the arrangements they have made,
their business will be immense, and they will |
find it equally profitable and popular.
The public have, in their past, sure guar /
anty that their business will b. permaRcRt,t I
profitable and honorable to customers, und that !
is all the public ask to secure il.