Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-03-30
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

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weatherABu sinessAThe Wheat Mar
ket Building T Wholesale Trade
John v. Farwe1 e. CO.-J. w. GrtswOld
& Brothers d CO.-The Lests-
Iature.
CHICAGO, March IS, 1s7O.-Cool weather
the past week, notwithstanding a heavy
thunder shower, Wednesday night, has re-
tarded vegetation, and kept back bud and
blossom. Still the season is much earlier
than last year. We lave pansies lowered
in the open air, and early peas are just
creeping into the light.
is becoming quite active, and the prospects
of an increased trade are improving. Prices
of most classes of goods rule a little
than last year. rf- - - rJH"H
THE WHEAT MARKET
has been a little excited, No. 2 fresh bring
ing $1.27, and sales for the last half of April
making 81 asa, which shows confidence in a
rising market.
is abundant, the demand for it waiting the
opening of navigation.
BUILDING.
From the reports of our city architects,
contracts have been made for building, the
present season, to the amount of over three
million dollars.
.t- IT,. THE WHOLESALE TRADE
is more active than the retail trade, and
merchants from the whole Northwest are
making our streets, hotels and stores lively
with their presence. Spring styles are be-
ginning to make their appearance. But the
1~iveliest locality 1 have yet seen is in the
great wholesale dry goods house of
JOHN v. w L CO.,
whose statesmen, clerks and employees make
a good sized regiment, perform their duties
with the promptness and efficiency of a dis
ciplined army, and we'll represent the lead
ing house of the West. .r---
]. W. GRIswoLD L CO., AZ AND so WABASH
AVENUE, sH3- .'.f1..
are now opening the largest and most fash
ionable stock of spring cloaks, cloakings,
trimmings, laees, and especially ladies' suits,
ever offered the trade of the Northwest.
They lead in matters of taste, and distance
all competitors in the wholesale cloak trade.
The largest wholesale millinery house in
this city, devoted exclusively to the sale Of
| Head Gear, is the firm of
GAGE BROTHERS L co.,
Importers, Manufacturers and Jobbers OF
| Millinery Goods, 70 Lake street, UP STAIRS,
celebrated all over the Northwes for their
large, well-selected and fashionable stock, al
ways fresh and attractive, and of the latest
styles. Other millinery houses swell the
amount of their sales, by keeping depart
ments for notions and furnishing goods, but
this house sells of Head Gear alone, three
quarters of a million dollars worth a year
They are large manufacturer having in addi-
ton to their manufactory of hats and hal
frames, of which 1 wrote last year, a hundred
girls at work making cactus, hair and fancy
braid hats, which enable them to SUPPLY job.
bers, at Eastern manufacturers prices, and Il
offer unusual inducements to retail dealers.
The milliners of the Northwest will here
find the most desirable goods for their trade
of every conceivable fashionable style, a
the lowest prices. GAGE BROTHERS Il Co. ar
authority in matters of fashion and taste
and what they cannot supply the trade il
the millinery line is scarcely worth looking
for. They are among the most substantial
and responsible houses in this city, and hav
built up an immense trade in Head Apparel
by using their abundant means, in the mos
sagacious manner, to produce and procur
the best goods at the lowest prices, by cour
tesy, urbanity, p~romptness IN filling orders
and by giving their customers the benefit o
their capital, skill and experience.
THE LEGISLATURE
has been invited to hold its adjourned ses
sion in this city and declined. People ar
beginning to lose faith in Legislatures gen
orally, and in this one in particular.
began its sessions with good promises an
inspired sanguine hopes, but its perform
ances, thus far, have not met the public ez
pectation. p.
There is nothing new in amusements or i
daily city life. b.