, 1904-02-23
Is OPEN
TODAY
ELEGANT NEW STORE OF THE
LARAMIE GROCERY COMPANY
At SECOND AND GARFIELD.
Ladies Of the Company Serve Coffee
and Waters and Hundreds Of City
and County Visitors inspecting
New Quarters-Piuck of a Live
Firm Shown to the World.

The doors of he elegant new store
of the Laramie Grocery company at
the corner of Second and Garfield
streets were thrown open to the public
this morning. and while there was
some selling during the day, more at
tention was paid to entertaining the
hundreds of visitors and showing them
through the rooms tina to separating
them from their dollars. The goods
were there to be sold and no one who
wanted to buy was turned away. but
the visitors were to ne shown more
than to be made customers, and there
was a continuous stream of callers.
1t may well be said of the store at
the start that it is the finest in the
state. If any grocery company in the
intermountain region has a finer place
of business than Messrs. Simpson, Ing
ham and Hegewald, it is to be con-
graduated. There is plenty of room,
plenty of light. plenty of working
space, plenty of floor space for the dis
posal of the surplus stock and plenty
of everything that will tend to make
buying Of groceries a pleasure instead
of a hardship to be borne with a grim
ace and disposed of as rapidly as pos
sible.
The Laramie Grocery company is
purely a Laramie enterprise. January
/. 1898 Messrs. T. Fl. Simpson. Herman
Hegewald and Howard II. lngham
formed a copartnership for the purpose
Of conducting a grocery business at the
corner of Second and Garfield streets,
directly across Second street from
their present location, and which was
abandoned this morning. when the
new store was taken possession Of.
They bought the remainder of the
stock Of George Hunt and of the Lar
annie Cooperative association, and by
hard work and indomitable purpose
added from time to time and have built
up a magnificent trade. not confined to
the retail business OF the people of Lar
annie, but extended to embrace some
Of the best ranch trade in the county
and a jobbing business in the smaller
towns Of the state.
Alter TWO years as Il private to-pal'
nership the gentlemen incorporated
the Laramie Grocery company, Mr..
Simpson becoming the president and
manager, Mr.. Hegewald the vice presi-
dent and Mr.. Ingham the secretary,
The new company bought the site of
the Trabing Commercial company's
store. which had been destroyed by fire
March IA, 1895, and from that day to
this 1t had been at work upon the
planning M construction of the mag
nificent two-story building. possession
of which al a grocery store was as
sumed this morning. The building is
modern in every way. devoted to the
handling of goods in modern methods
and afording the largest amount of
comfort commensurate with good bust
ness.
The basement, which extends under
the whole OF the building, has cold
storage room, a cigar and tobacco
room and the Don for the steam heat
ing plant. under the sidewalk on the
Garfield street side of the building.
The building extends to the alley in
the rear, the surface of the alley being
on a level with the floor of the store.
Heavy goods are unloaded into this
basement by means of chutes from the
alley, where they are stored and drawn
upon as trade demands. A large ele-