The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-01-02
A GENUINE SURPRISE
How Bros. e. Co.'s Prosperous
Business Transferred to
New Management.
Fred Rowe and Gordon Ingram
Become the Controlling
Spirits.
4 LARGE BUSINESS TRANSACTION.

Our citizens were not a little sur
2rised by the announcement made on
Tuesday last that the great hardware
house Of How Bros. & Co. had changed
hands-that B. Willis How, who has
been at it's head for the last fourteen
years has retired from the manage
ment and is succeeded by Fred B.
Rowe and Gordon Ingram. 1t has
been surmised for some time that Mr..
How was DESTROYS of getting into a
wider field of activity, but that it
should occur just at this time and
under these circu instances had been so
we'll guarded that no one was prepared
for the announcement.
The business transaction is briefly
this: How Bros. & Co., incorporated in
1899, has passed, by purchase of stock by
Messrs. Rowe and Ingram, under their
active management and control, and
Mr.. How retires to engage in the
wholesale hardware business in Duluth
The transfer carries bills and accounts
of the company, and there will be no
change or interruption in the business
whatever, other than an increased
urgency in the desire to settle all
accrued bills owing to the firm. The
same broad, liberal policy which has
made How Bros. & Co. the leading
hardware house in central Minnesota
h. l,0
ers are particularly equipped to so
continue it, Mr.. Rowe Is an expert
enced, practical hardware MANN
fact it was w. D. Townsend and Fred
B. Rowe who sold this same business
to How Bros. & Co. in, 1887. Me-.
Ingram is an experienced and expert
business man and accountant, and
upon him largely will deyolve the de-
tail work along those lines.
The corporation of How Bros. &
Co. has built up reputation far wider
than local-its reputation for solidity
and enterprise is famous throughout
central and northern Minnesota. The
old patrons may feel well-assured
of the same courteous and generous
treatment always accorded them. and
in fact the only face they will miss is
that of Mr.. How, for the entire work
ing force will be continued In their
accustomed places. The public is to
be congratulated upon the fact that
the succession has fallen to men who
are thoroughly competent to subserve
their interests, and the new manage
ment upon the fact that they succeed
to business so firmly established and
popular.
This business enterprise is one of the
Oldest in the city. 1t was established
in the seventies by Fl. P. Gallup
and George Fl. White, now OF Denver,
under the firm name of Gallup &
White. In 1881 Mr.. Gallup purchased
the interest of his partner and con-
tinued the business alone until 1885,
when he sold on account of the health
of his wife who was forced to seek
milder climate. Townsend & Rowe
were the purchasers and continued
the business two years when they sold
to q firm composed of b. W., Elisha
and Mrs. M. T. How, under the firm
name of How Bros. & Co., and in 1893
the firm was incorporated under the
laws of Minnesota, retaining it's IA
!. miliar title, under which it will con-
tinue to do business. There will be
no change in the corporate name.
The business has been, since its be-
ginning, quarter Of century ago,
steadily progressive. From a COM
paratiyely small beginning it has
grown steadily and uniformly until
it now acknowledges no commercial