The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-06
ATWAT TER & PATTON.

ATWATER & PATTON.
That was a very practical, business.
like April joke that Messrs. r. III.
Atwater and j. r. Patton perpetra.
ted upon the people Of Durham and
adjacent country-just such a joke as
we should like to see repeated by 9TH
er enterprising men year after year.
1t was nothing more nor less than
the organization Of a new and what
promises TO prove an important mer-
camille firm-a firm that carries on
two large business houses here, one
devoted wholly to wholesaling Of gro
cerics and provisions and the other
to a retail trade in the same general
lines of goods.
Before particularly referring to
what Messrs. Atwater d Patton are
doing and contemplate accomplish
ing let US see for a moment what
they have already done. This in
wolves the statement OF a few items
of somewhat personal nature. To
begin with we may say that the Cos
partners are young men, Mr.. Atwa.
ter being a native of Orange county
and Mr.. Patton of Alamance. Each
was born and raised farmers boy,
and farm occupations have until late
years largely employed their time
Mr.. Atwater was also engaged in op.
Grating a tannery, and he did not
embark in mercantile pursuits
until 1875, when he became one of
the firm of Thompson & Atwater,
general merchants, of Cary, Wake
county. Four years later he sold
out of that firm to Mr.. 4. F. Page
and went to Raleigh, where he was
engaged with Christopher & Sorrell
(now l.. r. WYATT wholesale grorers.
From Raleigh Mr.. Atwater CAME to
Durham on the first of February,
1884, and in partnership with W.. j.
Wyatt established the extensive gro-
Gerry house of Atwater g. Wyatt On
the first of March, this year, he sold
his interest in that business to WR
Boylan, and just one menth u
and Mr.. Patton formed m
b., MIR. Pate
chandizing until
then as q : clerk for
at "McCray's," in Alamahco
After two years clerkship he b
a co-partner, and he remained id5l-
tilted with that house until the 14thI
of January, this year, when hel came
to Durham. The cc-partnerb ara
well.known to the people of Chatham
and Alamance counties, and they are
certain of large trade from those
sections-it WILDE a trade which
they will particularly strive to Guilt
vate and to hold, and we have no
doubt they will succeed even beyond
their expectations. The Durham and
Wake and Orange county trade will
be looked after with equal care, and
merchants and planters will find it to
their interest to maintain trade re-
lations with the house.
Atwater 81 Patton's wholesale
house occupies the large double store
corner of Mangum street and the rail-
way. Here they have opened large
stocks of fresh goods bought in the
New York, Baltimore, Richmond and
other markets, such articles as meats
coming from points as far away as
Chicago, Louisville and Kansas City.
Every facility exists for meeting the
wants of patrons, and the house will
be happy at all times to quote prices
for intending buyers.
To meet the wants of the retail
trade Atwater & Patton have just
opened retail family grocery house
on Main street, opposite Vaughan &
Tenny's drug store. Here especial
attention is paid to fancy groceries.
the. stocks coming from such respon-
sible houses as Francis III. Leggett
& Co. and Thurber, Wyland g. Co.
of New York. Visitors to this house
will find it ga 1" in every respect,
and we can readily predict for it un-
qualified success. At least the CO.
partners will spare no honorable eff
fort to effect such results.
From the retail department goods
will be, delivered free of charge to
MISREPRESENTATION the town-and it was
to the old firm. of Atwater il Wyatt
that the:people were indebted: for the
introduction of Stree delivery" of
groceries in Durham. Mr.. Atwater
has also inaugurated other trade i'm
provements (as regards methods)
since his advent in Durham as amer-
chant, and the house of Atwater &
Patton will be found to; be: as fully
alive to the situation as any progress
sive firm could be expected to be. =
c. F. r. BELL.
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