The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-07-07
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CHICAGO, Jane 80, asI7.

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10 the Editor o. 1hs Herald
{lstFr Ssr--- Al last SIS. are getting some
weather that seems lika silrarner-;ller2
nioIpeteF at noon t,i~saay etoai nj ninety
ia Che shade. Vegetation Just ahounsls
bot paper collars are at dascouht. At
the government signal Office 81 storm
signal IS dying 90 ! expect Tomorrow
witi he cold again. II there Is one
thing more than another in abundance
~ chicago this year. it is straw berries
immense. luscious onez-sud they sell
II from four TO six cents quart. The
Prairie Farmer county haye a variety
berries this ysar five inches III carcum-
ference. they are said 10 be very bartiY
and wonderfully prolific.
Business IS quiet, and will he until
after the FoaIth Of July. To the utter
disgust OF the Juveniles and sun
dry shopkeepeTs. the common coan-
Gil passed ana ordinance last week
foTbidding the use Of fireworks or fire.
crackers in the city. The Fourth with.
out these Ihiugs and few fires aud
run~aways, with some broken bones as
n consequence, will seem stale enough
Among the large cid houses that
don seem 10 have any duh times dur,
ing the year, is the boot and shoe firm
of Measrs Doggett, Bassett * Hills,
corner OF Lake street and Wabash ave.
nue.. They commenced business in
1916 as Ward x DoEgett, and have met
with almost uninterrupted success.
Their reputation, so well known all
over the country, Is not second TO any
house Of their line in America for ster-
hing, reliable business honor, energy
and enterprise They employ now
where everything is done by steam and
machinery that can be- They were the
first to make the celebrated Chicago
custom boots. Their ssles extend
over all the western states and terrific
ries, and for the past three years have
been large il Texas, whore they are re-,
presented by Nathan n Kiieore, esq.
They are now making a line of goods
especially adapted for the Texas eli
! mate and trade. ASIDE. from their ow n
+! nfanufacture, they keep an sinnnense,
stock of New York and Boston made
goods that are sold in Chicago at New
York and Boston prices
, In the heavy hardware line. the old
house OF the northwest is J.. D. KIM
bark formerly Hall KimbariS d Co.
established in lS52, nj 1913 and 1876
South Water street. Since the fire Mr.
| hinbark has been located at 50, 81 and
81 Michigan avenue, aud occupies six
floors III building 60xl50 feet, with
two steam elevators and all the modern
improvements for heating putting out
ire, etc. Mr. Kimbark's stock is SIM
/ the first iloor Of ron OF al! kinds and in
all pes-Bessemer, Ssinen, Martin
iine tool. pillow cutlery aud spring steel.
Second iioof- bolts, nuts; clips, wheels.
| couplings. and in short, everything in
/ The non hne used about 4 carnage or
vagan. also an apparently @ndless yari
! ETY. OF solid steel and steel faced ham.
mers. siedees, picks, etc The third
| floor cohiaias several cords of nm
wis, 1900 kegs nails, biacksnith's
| tools, such as bellows. drills and
vices, revolving scrapers-the best
thing III the scraper line manufactured
! Dallas county should own at ie.sst fifty
/ of them TO work on the roads. Car
/ rage trimmings, cloths, carpets rugs.
? CITE. and siiger-plated lamps for cars
riages and phietnns buckles and knobs.
/ Fourth floor is devoted TO finished
woodwork Tor carriages, wagons and
plowa.
| Fifth floor is filed from floor to root
with finished and unfinished wood
wofk-hobs and felloes-apd in short
everything required TO build carriage
or wagon of any kind or fashion.
The basement contains two steam
( engins--one to run the elevator, and
another to do any necessary cutting
drilling, or pounding of iron--foul
1 thousand kegs of nails, twenty-five hun.
4 dred kegs of horseshoes, shafting, rails
/! FOR mines. street aud narrow guage rail
ways, thimble skeins, and chains from
a trace chain to chain strong enough
70 hold au ocean steamer
/ Mr. kimbark is manufacturer agent
/ for the celebrated Perkins horse and
mule shoes. and the Northwestern
/ Globe, Putnam and Star horse nails.
( His trade extends from lake Superior
in the north, TO the gulf of Mexico
and west TO the Pacific. la Tex.
rs he Is represented by Ralph
/ Church, whom everybody knows
as one OF our most enterprising and
/ popular Dallas citizens aud in the selee.
ton of whom Mr.. Kimharks has exhit,
/ tied his usual business foresight. Ills
catalogue is a large book OF nine hund.
red and twenty-five pages, handsomely
| boun,i, and should be on the desks oil
I every hardware store in Texas.
/ One OF the priHeipal places of attrac-
ton IN Chicago is the Union Stock
Yards, the largest stock market in the
world. Messrs Gregory, Cooley d Co,
| one of the largest and strongest firms
! doing business there, have had so large
and successful a trade in Texas they
| almost consider themselves Texans.
| The interests of our Texas shippers
could not be in better or safer hands.
/ The yards contain twenty-eight humid.
red pens for stock and stalls for thou,
sand horses. and cover three hundred
and sixty-tiye acres of groand, one
| hundred and sixtysfive of which is
planked over. During 1876 there was
five million, seven hundred and ten
thousand head of stock handled at the
yards Yoursitruiy, E. A.Ny.