Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-01-05
OUR BUSINESS MEN.
We head our new years list of business
men with the name of a new and flourish
ing firm.
COOKE 6 BAKER.

MT. ". IL. COChG, 10 GuC oCe1NO ACu1oCl L
the concern, Mr.. Geo. P. Baker being close
ly engaged at his establishment near the
where Baker Bros. carry on Il large
commission business.
Charley Cooke. as he is Familiarity called,
is a tar-heel by birth, andirst saw the light
at Raleigh n. g., and about nineteen years
afterwards he commenced practicing with
the yard-stick in the employ of Piper "
Funkhouser, at the same stand where we
now find him. After three years he went
to Frederick city, Md, and taught two
wears in the Deaf & DUMB Institution
there, of which his father MI. w. d. Cooke,
principal. Returning to Staunton he
sold goods for Mr.. D. A. Kayser three
wears, after which, for five or six months,
he figured in insurance circles as an active
and successful fire man. On the LIST JAM,
ZIG, he formed a partnership with MI. Ba.
ker, and they bought the stock and good
will of MI. M. P. F~unkhouser, and the
concern has done a fine business ever since,
sold off their goods rapidly and drawn to
the house many new friends in addition to
the large custom it had previously had.
Their stock is quite a large and general
one and embraces everything that is ever
found or expected in a first-class dry goods
store.
Mr.. Cooke has by his close attention to
business, his correct dealings an d uni
form courtesy won his way into the good
will and confidence CT this community,
and is one of our rising men, He is secre-
tary and treasurer of the Young Mems
Building Association, which has p%rospered
in a remarkable degree and, for the time it
has been III operation, outstripped all its
predecessors.
MI. q. Men. WhIttle, from the good old
county OF Botetourt. is Il popular and eff
ticient salesman in the establishment,
here his service in the former house had
made him almost an Indispensable. and
N(r. D. w. Drake, who has been identified
/ with the house through its several changes,
il another valuable attache of the concern.
In the hardware line we have.
PRICE & MILLER,
d co-partners1ip born with the new year,
Ar. Alexander E. Miller having this week
| bought the interest of Mr.. g. l.. Cline the
late partner of Mr.. Price. Mr.. George D..
Price is a pioneer in the hardware trade.
| He came from Winchester to Staunton in
1949 and opened his wares in this, the
| INDICATOR building known then as the
| old Bell Tavern At that time Prices
| was the only hardware store between Win
| chester and Nashville, Tennessee. Nearly
| everything he sold then Was of English and
German manufacture. especially his shelf
| goods, and the strides the country has since
made in that branch of manufacture is no.
| ticeable now when we find that on his well
| filled shelves there is little of foreign man.
ufacture except his fine pocket knives and
razors. MI. P. kept store for 5 years also
In the store next door to D. A. Kayser,
after which he moved to his property at
! the corner of Main and New streets where
he has been ever since, and from which
| stand he has sold a great many goods. He
| dealt largely in agricultural implements,
having sold in one season AZ drills, 20 reap
ers, % mowers and 20 threshing machines
and large quantities of fertilizers, and he
now keeps everything that is needed in his
line. His long experience and large ac-
quaintance, together with his known probi-
ty have secured him many friends and a
| coed trade, but his failing health made it
| desirable for him to have a partner and
| last summer he sold half his business to
Mr.. Cline Of Leesburg, who is now as we
nave stated succeeded by Mr.. Miller, a
| popular and well known citizen of t. is
| place, tho an Alabamian by birth. He was
raised in Texas and came to Staunton five
years ago. Then he removed to Huntington
and after a stay of two years returned to
Staunton where for some years lie has
been engaged in business with his brother
! M. Erskine Miller, Esq. MI. Miller in his
new departure will carry with him the
good wishes and support of many friends.
The house has a faithful and competent
attache in Mr.. John Hardy, a youth of
mnch business promise.
On the opposite side Of Main at No. 30
is the house of
LEVY BROS,
| one of the latest tho not by any means the
least of our business houses.
This is a branch house of Levy Bros,
| Richmond, a house which started in Rich
mond go years ago on a small beginning
and is now the largest retail concern in
the South with d force Ofninety employees
engaged in the manufacture of gentlemens
shirts, ladies wear, bed comforts NC, be-
sides having an extensive wholesale trade.
The Staunton branch-house was estab-
lished here about eight months ago, under
the management of Maj. Alex. Hart, q ma
tive Of New Orleans. but not unknown to
our people, having commanded the 5th
Louisiana Regiment, which during the
war operated in the Valley under Stone
wall Jackson.
After the WAL, Maj. HI. went to Levy
Bros, and has been with them for ten
years. He first opened IN Mrs. Kelley's
building. with the intention of keeping
samples principally, ordering from the
Richmond house, but his trade grew upon
him SO rapidly that he had to Sc more
room, and moved in November to his pres
ent location, next door to Loeb Bros,
where the public will find a vel attractive
and varied stock, SO mixed that we must
refer the inquisiJive reader to his advere
iisement for particulars of the StauLton
Bazaar, where there is only one price
h a low one, and q cash one Mi.
Hart has the assistance of Mr.. Frank
Link, we'll and faYorably known here, Mr..
Joseph Woodward, an attentive young
salesman, and Miss Sophia Switzer, of
Lexington, who has charge Of the fancy
goods department.
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