Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-20
Business ia brandon.

The ''panic has not seriously affected
the business of our village. Farm pro-
duce is abundant, and commands fair
prices. Our merchants are having a
good fall trade. Prices in many instan-
ces are being reduced. We noticed in
passing the store of Ross, Pitts & Co., a
day or two since, sheet of paper about
rod long, conspicuously suspended and
Crammed with reduced prices, all
kinds of prints at ten cents yard, and
numerous other fabrics at prices which
render it unnecessary that any one
should go cold during the winter to
come.
THE BOOT AND SHOE BUSINESS
Our shoe dealers have lowered their
prices peg or two, and are doing
thriving business for the benefit of our
sales. Most of them claim to trade
slowly for cash. They say they can't
make their ends meet by selling on tick
as they often get aoaged by their credit
customers. They propose to give the
credit business no quarter as they fear
they shall loose their 61ol by it, d..
We think this giving credit on boots
and shoes is rather a bootless business
and that there may be many slips in get
ting their pay and we advise them to
put their heel on the whole thing and
hold on to the last +..- ..@.-.
A BUSINESS CHANGE ...-
Our friend n. p. Kingsley has sold
his large stock of lewelry and furniture,
amounting to about eighteen thousand
dollars, to Gibbs Brothers & Co, who
have already taken possession and COM
menced business. The new. firm consists
of DR.. E. d. Gibbs well know among US
as a bookseller and stationer. Mr.. p.
p Gibbs, formerly in the grocery and
provision business, and his son A. ID.
Gibbs, q grand Consolidation we believe
of all the Gibbs in town in one firm.
The new firm have the experience
and business capacity to make the enter
prise success. .s.. ....-.-.- - s.. .' +.
The location OF the store is one of
the best in Brandon. Mr.. j. II. Ley
son, the skillful and Intelligent watch
maker employed by Mr.. Kingsley, is
retained by the new firm. Mr.. Ley
son learned his business in the Walt
ham mandatory. He is a young
man of gentlemanly manners and fine
culture, and in his department has
probably no superior in our State. MIR.
Kingsley has been ia the business for
about eighteen years, and belongs, to
the class of men. who started in busi-
ness soon after the introduction of the
railroad here, and who, with such
men as Fphriam. Ross, Wesley Morrill,,
DIR. Y. Ross, s.. F. Paige, i. j. Bliss,
DR.. e. L: Case and others, nearly every
one of them, commencing poor, have
done much to build up the business
of Brandon, and most of them have,
gained competence by the practice of
the good old-fashioned virtues of in
dustry, frugality and. economy. Mr..
Kingsley commenced the jewelry busl-
ness not worth dollar. By the aid of
his worthy fathers name he purchased
a stock of something more than So, 900
worth, and, in opening his store, he
succeeded in selling the amount Of one
dollars and ninety cents worth as the re-
suit of the first days trade In the
course of a week he was much elated
in counting up five dollars as the cash
receipts of one day. By dint of perse-
verance and earnest attention TO bust
ness, and gentlemanly department, and
fair and honorable dealing, he SO in
creased his trade that for the last two or
three years it has been no uncommon
thing for his sales near the Christmas
holidays to amount from $500 to $500
day Like his early contemporaries,
above mentioned, he has always been
public spirited and ever ready to do
his share in the various enterprises cal
culated to build up and promote the in
terests of our village. Though still in
the prime of life, he retires with well
earned competence. CLOVIS.