The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-10-23
Doushty.McD Donald Company win
Erect New Home for Whole.
sale Grocery House ON
Fifth and Choctaw
PLAN $4,000 Fl.
OF FLOOR SPACE
Will Be rs BY $50 Feet, One Story
Brick with Basement; Coffman
is Contractor; Start
November |

The Doughty-McDonald company,
wholesale grocers. yesterday awarded
the contract for the erection of large
building which viii become the home
OF their business. The rapidly in-
creased volume of business which has
come to this establishment since Il
went into business in Chickasna made
the step necessary, the present quar-.
ters at Third street and Choctaw ave.
nue. having become inadequate to meet
the needs OF the company.
The new wholesale building will be
located on the north side Of Choctaw
avenue, on the corner of Fifth street.
1t win be of brick construction. front
ing rs feet on Choctaw avenue and
running back to depth of 100 feet on
Fifth street. A basement will be con-
structed under the building and decks
will be erected around the sides Of the
store and wareroom proper A total
of trifle over 1900 square feet OF
floor space will thereby be acquired,
Excellent shipping facilities win be
at hands. the industrial spur OF the
c. r. !. & P. railway passing ilnmedi.
ately liz the rear OF the building.
The contract has been awarded to
o. Coffman. who will begin the work
OF construction on the first Of No
vember. The contract calls for COM
pletion by the thirtv-first OF Decern-
ber, and the specifications provide for
modern building throughout. The
interior will be arranged in such a
manner that all merchandise may be
stored and handled in safe and expe-
ditious manner. while fires will be
doubly safeguarded by the installation
of modern sprinkIing system.
The Doughty-McDonald company
has been in the wholesale grocery bus
mess in Chickasha for three years.
coming here from Weatherford, Texas,
and buying out the branch house at
this point of the Waples-Platter com.
pany.
In spec King of the manner In which
the business has increased in volume
during the comparatively short time
the company has been in Chickasha,
Mr.. Lloyd Doughty, secretary-treas-
urer. said that 1t had practically
tripled. Mr.. Doughty stated that the
house employs four men on the road
as travelling representatives who
cover and recover the territory tapped
by the business. This territory ex-
tends from Chickasha In every idrec-
tion. To the northward the Doughty
Mcdonald company reaches El Reno:
to the east it goes as far as Planksr.
on the Oklahoma Central division of
the Santa Fe: to the west II sells goods
as far as Hobart and Lawton: TO the
south its travelling men take In every.
thing as far as the oklahoma-Texas
state line.
Sixteen people are employed by this
house and everything Is carried on
with a "do-it-now" vigor which has
made the success of the business the
possibility which has resulted in the
reality.
The officers of the Doughty-McDon.
aid company are j. S. Mcdonald.
Chickasha. president: ID. Doughty.
weatherford, vscepresident: Lloyd
Doughty, Chiclsasha. secretary-treas-
urer.
Members of the company express
themselves as being highly pleased
with the present conditions as they
find them. Crop outlooks seem good.
they say, and that which counts above
all else in helping the wheels Of busi-
ness to revolve. collections are well up
to the average.
The fall season. the members Of the
company state, is about twenty days
behind schedule. but the cotton Is nov
beginning to move. and the effects Of
the additional trade. coming in from
that source and cause. is becoming
most appreciable.