The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-13
BUSINESS BRIEFS.

Munson & Mcnamara have a first-clas.
holiday display OF novelties in their win
dows-
o. q. Smith g. Co. sold fine farm ter
miles northeast of Wichita yesterday, to
L. S. Naftzger.
Herbert Levy has become merchant.
He is now clerking in the Enterprise
store and ne makes clever salesman
| Two windows of the Boston store are
dressed very artistically and were uuiyer
sally admired by passers-by last night.
E. J. Fosters Queenware store presented
very handsome appearance last night.
All the hanging lamps In the store were
| lighted and the effect was simply beau
tlful
The government revenue inspector, with
his little hand-chest of instruments, WAS
in town yesterday, striking terror TO those
| whose liquor transactions are not quite
straight Deputy MacCanse was steering
him towards the numerous baunts.
On Wednesday of the past week Mr..
Robert H. Foster, with j. P. Allen, drug
gist, appeared before the State Board OF
Pharmacy for examination, and passed
with very fattering record Mr. Foster
is most exemplary young man, and his
friends feel to congratulate him upon his
preferment in his chosen profession.
Mr.. Moves of Atchison is about to close
deal for one of the finest residences in
the city for his own USE II the deal Is
made, and it probably is made by this
time, Mr.. Noyes will move here soon. Mr..
Moves is the head of a large dry goods
company that will engage in business in
this city in the spring.
Charlie Stinson, the rustling travelling
salesman for the Wichita wholesale gro
Gerry will spend Christmas with his
mother at Pleasant Hill, Mo-, this year.
Charlie left the parental roof fifteen years
ago, but has never yet failed to return for
Christmas. He says no woman OR man on
earth shall cook his Christmas dinner but
his mother as long as she lives.
Mr.. Young of the Wells-Fargo Express
company informed an EAGLE reporter
last night that his company is doing more
business now than at any similar period
during the past three years, all of which
he attributes to the prosperous times now
prevailing. He says the business OF an ex-
press company is a better index TO the
business of city than anything else and
that when an express company is doing a
large amount of business the merchants
are too. He says the object of the COM
pany "a putting up a building at the depot
was to accommodate their increasing bust
ness.
j. T. Dorsey, the North Main street
groceryman, had bargain to offer In
some of his goods yesterday, and to get
it before the public. he got some dodgers"
printed. He nailed the dodgers on
board and then took his paint brush and
painted the words take one" above them.
He placed the board on top of kindling
wood box he keeps on the sidewalk and
the first thing he knew his kindling wood
was pretty nearly all gone. He watched
the box for short time and man came
along, picked up package of the kindling
and walked off, Mr.. Dorsey hailed him
and asked him what he did that for and
the man pointed to the sign stake one"
Mr.. Dorsey saw at glance what the
cause was for the disappearance of his
stock of kindling and in jiffy took down |
the sign and nailed it somewhere else. |
Ho found all the dodgers still there.