Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-10-21

of business in the town is conducted
on modern methods and the purchasers
of the surrounding country are reaping
the benefit.
The business now carried on by the
G. H. Davis Co. was established by
George H. Davis about 20 years ago.
His first store was the store now Occu-
pied by A. r. CoWles as music store
in the Nelson block. Ten years ago
the growth of the business demanded |
larger quarters and Mr.. Davis built
the fine block now occupied by the
company. For a few years a part of |
the street floor was used by G. G.. |
Lang as jewelry store but soon the |
increasing business Of Mr.. Davis made |
| it necessary to have more space and
Mr. Lang removed to the Nelson block. |
The Davis Co. now occupy the entire |
space Of two floors in the Davis block.
In 1907 the business was Incorporated
and the firm now consists of G. H.
Davis Warren w. HartweII and Harry
| D. Graves. The two junior members
of the firm have proven their ability
and popularity during the past few
years, for even during the absence of
Mr.. Davis. who spends much of his
time in California, the business has
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trading public. The Davis Co. store is
known throughout Vermont for its an
Inual Peerless sales, which have been
the gala shopping event Of the season
lin Orleans county for several years.
| The place is also known by the extern
oive advertising of "Davis the Shoe
man." The commercial travellers who
are visiting all the leading stores in
i Vermont say that the Davis company
carry larger and more carefully Sc
lected stock of ladies' and gents furs
I than any other store in the state. 1t
1 is the Davis Co. store with its COM
1 plete stock of dry goods, clothing,
1 furs. boots and shoes with their motto
7"Your money back if you want it"
that has helped Barton to become the
trading center for many Of the towns
llOf Orleans county.
a The Barron company is another mer-
Z camille concern that has started from
4 small beginning and become fixture
3 in making Barton trading center.
The business was begun by Barron &
u Hamblet in 1885 in small building
p upon the site of the present block OPP
. lposite the passenger depot. The old
: building has been moved twice and is
1 now used for part of the Catholic
l. school. The partners IN the original
% enterprise were E. w. Barron and c..
y E. Hamhlet, both of whom came from
3 West Charleston when young men. In
few years the business outgrew its
y quarters and in 1895 the large three
/ story block was built, designed for a
II large store on the first floor, tenements
81 and rooms on the second floor and a
l fraternity hall on the third floor. In
81 1900 Mr. Barron bought out the inter-
= est of his partner and until 1906 the
II business was carried on by him as the
% E. w. Barron One Price Cash Store.
In 1906 the business was incorporated
1: was the case with the Davis Co.,
t lad two of Barton's popular young
n en- were taken into the business.
wv the stock in trade of the E. w.
AKRON Co. fills he basement of the
tire block, the first floor, part of
.e second floor and the entire third
floor beside large storehouse at the
railroad yard. The Barron company s
store is what we know as a general
lstore, but in the cities it would be
known as a department store. 1t sells
groceries, dry goods. clothing, boots
and shoes, tobacco and cigars, sodas,
fruit and confectionery, gents furnish
ings, ladies' furnishings and gasoline
In fact it is a by-word in Barton that
l''you can get it up at Barron's.'
The growth of the business of the
Il Barron company is one of the most in
II teresting things in the development OF
II Barton as a trading center, but like
II Postum There's a reason" The
| company carries an immense stock
sells a vast amount of goods and sells
for small profit and gets cash.
These two big stores together will
that of C. A. Barrows in the Over
block comprise the leaders in the gen
eral mercantile line and every one o.
them is worthy of the large patronagt
they have Mr.. Barrows is mer
chant of experience who came to Bar
ton about six years ago from Nortl
Troy and bought the general store O
o. D. Owen, which even at that TIM