The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
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ID. p. Paxton Closes Lease for
Holiday Building.
Take Place Vacated by Jones
Dry Goods Co.
PAXTON AND PAXTON.
Brothers Will BE Associated in
Business.
New Store Will Be Opened on
March 15.
PAXTON AND PAXTON.

1--WE will use our best endeavors to
make the new store SO attractive, not
Only with the goo~s we will place III
SAFE but with the service We intend 10
give that it will bct ONE the trailing
pace of the peeps of Topeka and
those from the sur...rnding country as
We'll was the statement made vaster-
lay afternoon by d. P. Paxton, who
with his brother. Thomas r. Paxton,
has taken a five year lease of the store
at the corner of East Sixth avenue and
Quir.cy street. which was vacated py
the Jones Dry Goods company on the
irst of the year. 1t is anticipated that
The new store will be open and re1dy
for business by March Is.
People of Topeka will know tnat
the statement of Mr.. Paxton, when
was echoed by his brother, is no idle
boast. The T'axtons are We'll ana
favorably known to the people Of th's
city. In association with W. t. kem-
per, under the firm name or kemPef,
Paxton & Co, a general merchandise
store was operated in this same place
prior to the time that the Jones Dry
Goods company bought them out. And
they not only enjoyed a prosperous
business but also the confidence ana
good will of a good clientele.
When the Jones company secured
control of the store w. t. Kemper and
D. p Paxton devoted their energies
to building up large mail order
house business in Kansas City, Mo-,
under the name of the Kemper-Pax-
ton Mercantile company. Mr. L. X.
Paxton opened up general merchan-
disc store in Valley Falls and conduct
ed it with success until the nrSt OF the
year when he sold out.
On the announcement that the
Jones Dry Goods company was to dis
continue its store here in Topeka Tor
Of fT-9f
energies of its members in the proper
DEVELOPMENT of its new and big store
in Kansas City, D. p. Paxton and his
brother, Thomas r.. saw an oPpor-
secured an option on the lease of the
corner building which did not expire
until Yesterday afternoon.
1t has been public knowledge for
some time that negotiations were under
Wav for the lease of the corner store
used by the Jones company and 1T was
the impression that the Kemper-Paxton
Mercantile company was negotiating
for the lease. Mr.. Paxton said yester-
dav that this was a wrong impression
in the main. He said that he and his
brother had taken out the lease as
separate business venture and that the
store would not be run in connection
with the Kemper-Paxton Mercantile
company.
der the name of Paxton & Paxton"
said Mr.. D. P. Paxton, land will not be
in any way connected with the kemper-
Paxton Mercantile company of Kansas
City. Mo. 1, however, Will retain my |
interest in that company, but 1t Will |
have nothing to do with the manage |
ment of the new store here. The KEN |
per-Paxton company is a stock corpor-
alton and my only interest in 1T will be |
that of a stockholder. Mr.. Kemper will
take full charge of that business. My |
n 7n
development of the new store and as
soon as possible will take up my resi- |
dence here in Topeka
INV brother will be associated with
me in the active management of the |
store here and we expect to make it |
the store of the people conducted on a |
cash basis.
Several heads of departments of the |
new store have been engaged already !
and they will start out at once for the l.
in the east to lay in a supply I
of goods for the opening of the store.
which 1 hope will lie on March Is. Mr..
Charles Craig who will be head of the
shoe department, will go to Boston and
secure as fine line of shoes for rea-
sonable figures that any firm Will be
able to place on the market. 1 intend
to leave for New York city at once to
purchase a stock of dry goods and no.
tions and when we open up we will have
as fine a lot of goods and at as fair
prices as any store in the country will
be able to offer"
Mr.. Thomas r. Paxton, who was also
in the city, reiterated the statement of
his brother as to the plans for the
store and stated that he intended to
move his family from Valley Falls TO
Topeka as soon as the store is in run
ming order and that he and his brother
intended to devote all their energies to
making the new store the best general
dry goods and merchandise store in this
section of the country.
1t is likely that the Paxton brothers
will close a deal with the Jones Dry
Goods company for the store fixtures,
which are practically new and ade-
1uate. 1t is their plan to give the
place a thorough cleaning with new
paint and Varnish and when the opening
day comes, the people of Topeka viii
in reality be stepping into a brand
new store with a new stock of goods,
the latest that the markets afford, aid
with a force of clerks who will be af-
fable and willing as were the clerks in
the old Kemper-PaXton store here and
those who were in the Jones store as
we'll.
topeka is to be congratulated that
such live business men as the Paxton
brothers have decided to again run a
store on this corner. for under their
former management and the succeeding
store had become an institution of the
city and one which would have been
missed by the people of the city and
their neighbors in the country, if it had /
not been started up again.
A Former Kansan Dead.
Leavenworth, Kan, Jan 1S.-Word