The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-01-22
one Million Dollars is Involved and
Also Seven Leading Wholesale
Houses Here and at Other Points
Possession Will Have Been Com
summated February |.
Frank Armstrong VIII be the General Manager and
L. q. Race Sales and Purchasing Agent--rlessrs
RutI and KobIegard Retire from the Grocery Bus
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ments OF such large concerns Us the Cen
eral Distributing Company.
Niessrs. Armstrong and Crislip, WIN
are among the leading promoters of this
mammoth business enterprise, are widely
and favorably known to the wholesale
trade of West Virginia. They are gen
tlemen OF long experience and are pos
sessed with strictly modern and pric-
teal knowledge and IDEAS, and employ
the most modern methods in business.
Mr.. Armstrong has been in the Wholesale
grocery business for ten years, of which
he has been in the business here eight
years. Mr.. Crislip has been associated
with Mr.. Armstrong in the business here
five years and prior to that WAS in the
same sort of business on q considerable
scale in Buckhannon.
A. president of the new concern Mr..
Crisiip will be found to de the right
man in the right place und win lend
influence and strength to the company.
Mr.. Armstrong is one of the most sue
cessful wholesale grocery merchants in
the state aEd his peer in that respect is
not to be found anywhere. He Is thor
oughly devoted to the business and ab-
sorbed in il to such an extent that dis en-
tirctime and attention IRE given to it
exclusive of all other matters. W5th
him "a general manager the success of
the new concern will be proportionately
as grent as the new concern itself is
greater than the establishments he has
managed so efficiently.
Ire formation of the new concern was
inspired by desire to avail it % the
advantages and opportunities of the
purchasing power u big organization has
over small ones. The arrangement
gives the opportunity to buy in mucai
larger lots than formerly and resultant
therefrom are lower original prices. This
gives the concern a chance to ssmplv -
retail trade at even lower prices than
ut present, and, of course, works an i'd
vantage to the consumers, which will be
highly appreciated.
The purchasing DEPARTMENT will be-
for all seven houses instead OF just one
or two as heretofore, or in either words.
when IT comes to buying stock all the
houses win be regarded as unit and
the buying done accordingly. This will
result in not only reduction of original
cost but r's- IN lower freight expcndi-
lures and will prove an advantage, the
full good effects of which can not I've
foretold.
Among the rumors that were sept
broadasct when it was first learned that
negotiations were on was one 10 the eff
feet that fabulous sums had been offered
other wholesale houses to become part
of the new concern. This is pronounced
untrue in every particular and there
seems to be no reason to believe that
any one OF them has ever been approach
ed on the subject.
Invoices are being made preparatory
to tine fun consnrtmatiun of neg 49,
am. the properties will be turned over
- soon as It's is done net later than
February at the farthcrmost-
AIessrs. john and jacob KoblegarSi re-
tire from the wholesale grocery business
at the regret of the numerous merchants
and ot.crs who ave been doing business
with snem for years. There gentlemen
were pioneers in .ne whole~a1 business.
They started here more than FIFTY years |
ago in the poultry business and branched
out into ,4..c wholesale business and soon
became tine leading wholesalers IN ecu
trail West Virginia. They have main
tanned their prestige and are among 4hc
leaders to-day. They retire with
character uninpeacllable for honesty m
tcgrity and prcmpt attention 20 busi-
ness, as does also John Ruhl, who has
been 80 long associated with them and
who has been one OF the company's
guiding and controlling factors. The
new conccrn adds los Testimonial TO the
great business worth of these gertie-
mon whom il succeeds.
The gezticmen composing the new con
Germ arc men of <tricteSt integrity and
enjoy the implicit confdence Of the bust
ness world. They are men OF charactsr
and experience, men who succeed Mt in
every thing they undertake and that
this movement will Dc fnr reaching and
highly beneficial To the general public
there Is no question Of doubt-
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