The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-12-03
PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES.

nCIOtNAI IllO st fII4IES.
We also paid visit to The extensive gal.
lely OF &. ii. Calbv, who has the larges,
and finest stock OF Florida views we have
seen. He has recently commenced TO deai
at wholesale and retail in Photographic
supplies, keeping u full stock and selling Al
Eastern prices. He is greatly encouraged
al his success 50 FIR and IS rapidly building
up good trade throughout the State
a WHOLESALE MART.
That O ala is early deslined TO bee me
The wholesale mart of Central Florida, Ii
not more, does not admit OF the slightest
doubt.
Another house which we will mention as
having met with the greatest success is that
Oi
J. i SUTTON & CO,
the seedsmen. Although established only
- few year., they have built up trade cx-
tending all over the State and almost doub
ling itself every season. For want of some
thing better We clip the following from the
OcAla Banner, as best serving to show then
methods and popularity
1t affords the Banner a great deal of pleas
urc o refer to this excel cut and Trustworthy
mercantile firm and the success that has at
tended their unit ring eilUus to build up a
trade in their spccialties. Mr.. Sutton came
10 Ocala in the spring Of ~SG from Cedar Key,
carefully looked the ground over and satisfied
hilnS eli that Ocala was destined to grow, be
ing in rich and fertile country AMI well
adapted to the growth of fruits, vegetables and
the crops common TO Florida Many pre-
dicted mat Ocala could not support purely
seed store, as all the drug stores and number
of the dealers in general merchandise had been
handling that line of goods, but those who
made the predict on ofhis failure did not know
the sterling qualities of the head of the firm,
aud the nerve and uDiiagglng energy IN The
gcntleman's composition.
He opened his establishment In August and
at the same time advertised the fact that under
no consideration would he sell goods bc could
not fully guarantee TO geriuinate, and that on
a certain day he would destroy in public, by
bonfire, every remnant of old seed in stock.
This Was 4 new departure in his line of busi
ness and an eye-opener to .heipcople Of Ocala
and vegetable growers Of the county who had
never witnessed such surprising exhibition
OF conscientious dealing in products they had
been buying for years from other parties, thar
| in some cases had oeen carried in stock from
year TO Year, regardless OF the disastrous re
salts to the planters who purchased thcm.
The firm of j. b. sutton u Co. are not only
dealers in all kinds of seeds bat are import
ers and growers as well, with an eXpcr mental
garden where all The seeds carried IN stock
are thor ughly tested and record kept OF
their terminating qualities.
These mcthOdcal results enable the firm to
speak with confidence and assurance, and
slowly but surely, their correct business
methods have brought that increasing and
growing trade which honest, conscientious
and unuring labor to please aud satisfy in
yariably accompiishCs.
Another factor in bringing Mtssrs Sutton
x Co. 10 the favorable rolicc of the public
has been their persistent advertising, not only
in the local papers OF the county, bat by send
ing ont thousands and tens of thousands Of
carefully prepared price-liste, which have
gone 70 every town ana hamlet, and into those
Of ncighboring States, giving information
that Ocala contained dealer, in seeds whose
varied and complete stock compared favOra
bly, with those of the largest dealers in Jack
sOnyiilc, savannah, Macon and Atlanta, and
at prices which make it to the buyers inter
est To purchase their supplies from the Ocala
Seed House
The result ofal these energetic efforts on
the part of the firm has been to extend their
,rade in thousand directions and enjoy
business that is as gratifying TO them as it is
pleasing To the Banner to record.
II is scarcely necessary for rs 10 say 10 our
farmers and trucA growers in view OF Mr.. SUIT
tons success IN his specially, to patrOnize the
firm that has labored with an eye single to
their hcncflt-giving them what lie promises,
and he can be relied upon.
We might go on talking about this or
that house until he FLORIDIAN would not
hold the half, and il would be pleasure TO
do SO, but space forbids The whole can al
last be condensed in few words and YET
tell the whole story. Ii is live, progress
slve place, made up Of live, clever people,
who will take hold and help along any en-
terprise promising good for the city or sec
ton. AS a matter OF course the FLORIDIAN
is at home in all such communities, and al
though large club of patrons already
exists here, The following were added to its
books: Bullock & Burford, lawyers; J H
Livingstone, real estate; James r Moor
head, county surveyor; S T Sistrunk, dep
uty clerk; w T Taylor, saw and planning
mill; DR. w IL Marean, homeopathic ply
sician; T j Flood, architect; F G Moor
head, civil engineer; Miller & Spencer,
lawyers E w Agnew, wholesale and re-
tail merchant, president Of the First Ma
tional Bank, etc; Serge Malyvan, wine
manufacturer; Jno F Dunn, president of the
Merchants National Bank; G II Colby,
Photographic supplies w G Jeffords, real
estate.
We met and made, the acquaintance of
Mr.. G. p. Quaintance, of Archer, Fla,
where he has large nursery, and was here
in the interest of the same. His trees are
all grown especially for this State and are
meeting with large sale.
The MOnteZuma hotel, 80 we'll known to
the travelling public, is now under the con
troll OF Maj. T. ID. Lancaster, who is Major
(senior of1cer) of the second Battalion of