The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-25
IS A BUSY STORE
William Green & Sons Grocery
Has Unique Record.
FOrty-Eight Employees on Pay
Roll of Local Company.

the record established by the William
Green & Sons, grocers, in the past
thirty-eight years.
! In 1884 William Green started two
| small grocery stores, one in North
i Topeka and the other on lower Kan
Sas avenue between Fourth and Fifth
streets Then there were but a few
persons employed in each store. Now
Z forty Height employees are on the pay
roll of the company. Seven are en-
ployed in the bakery department.
The store runs five trucks. Deliveries
/ begin in the early morning and con-
tinue thruout the entire day, covering
the length and breadth of the city
and going into the outlying suburbs
certain days of each week. During
the rush times when the store has
a big sale on this force of delivery
trucks is increased to seven. The
3 Green store was one of the first COM
/ panies in the city to discard the horse
and wagon as a means of delivering
groceries.
| The store has many departments,
the delicatesSen which was estab
Hshed about seven years ago, the
bakery department which was put into
operation three years ago. a large
meat market, a vegetable department
carrying a fresh supply of fresh vege-
tables the year around, the grocery
department and the dairy department.
/ The delicatessen is the biggest thing
of its kind in Topeka. Here a person
may buy a sandwich. a small portion
of salad and eat lunch downtown, you
can buy a. dish of meat for the fam
lily lunch, or buy the evening meal
for the whole family The various
foods served in this department are
cooked on the second floor of the
building and here also in the large
stoves one may see huge roastS cook
ing, which have been ordered for
os,T en- F1Ie
is a department. of the store which is
just being taken up For instance if
a Topeka housewife were to have a
dinner for fifty persons at her home,
she might order the roast, or whatever
style of meat she wanted and have it
cooked and delivered piping hot at her
door the evening of the dinner Or
if she wished to order the entire din
n n, meat, vegetables, salad. dessert
the entire menu, she might do so also,
and the company would deliver 1t at
the appointed time
- Baked Beans Best Seller.
Many things are cooked for this de-
Dartmeut for sale in the store, but
perhaps the best selling article is
baked beans. Beans are cooked and
sold the year round. Potatoes in nu-
merous and Varied styles of cooking
are also much in demand. They are
sold mashed, escalloped, creamed. au
gratin and baked. Candied sweet po-
tatoes are also offered many times.
In addition to these two staples Othal'
things sold in great quantities are
Hamburger rolls, lima beans, meat
pies, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti
and tomatoes and escallOped corn.
Then during the cold months there IS
always a ready sale for chilli. The de-
partment furnishes the public with
four standard salads, potato, salmon,
combination and fruit. They also
make apple turnovers, puddingS and
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five standard kinds of sandwiches
sold, boiled ham, minced ham, peanut
and jelly, roast beef and cheese sand
witches.
The delicatessen department has re
Gently started furnishing TopekanS
with corned beef and cabbage. The
purchasers are like the famous Jiggs
and the more their MaggieS remon-
stEate against their buying the plebean
dish the more they buy of it and the
department heads know that they are
selling more and more or this deli
cious dish each time it is for sale.
The bakery department of this
store averages the sale of one thou
sand loaveS of bread each day, and a
good big proportion of these loaveS
are sold hot to the consumers who
stand in line waiting for hot bread for
the evening meal. Breadbaking on the
second floor of the store begins each
morning at o'clock and by 1880
o'clock the first hot 1oaves are sent
downstairs. Three big ovens are used
in baking the bread, cakes and vari-
Gus articles made in this department.
The flour used here is poured from
the sacks into a huge machine which
Sits it, and weighs the entire amount
without the touch of human hands
The water for the bread is also
heated and measured without coming
into contact with the bakers. The
flour and water or other ingredients
are placed into a huge mixer which
mixes from two to three hundred
IoaveS at a. time Twenty per cent
partment is whole wheat. Rye, gra-
ham and gluten breads, coffee, raisin
and cinnamon fruit loaveS are also
made. There are various kinds of
rolls and biscuits made, including
pocketbook rolls, toast and breakfast |
rolls, hard rolls and sandwich buns |
OF cakes there are all kinds, DEVILS |
food angel food, plain white cake. /
burnt sugar cakes, marshmallow
English walnut, Lady Baltimore. cara
mel, orange, coconut and sunshine. |
In addition to these, cup cakes. cream |
puffs and lady fingers are for sale |
About sixty DOZEN doughnuts are sold |
A number of years ago there were
no meat markets connected with |
grocery stores; the two businesses |
were entirely separate, but now they |
both go hand in hand The meat Il e.
partment of the Green company is |
one of the busiest departments of the |
store here one may buy any cut or |
kind of meat which he wishes. The |
largest part of the Green trade buys |
beef and porterhouse and prime rib |
roasts.
The Richeneu line of canned !
goods, in vegetables and fruits, is car /
red by this store; in fact they have
the exclusive agency for these goods |
in the city of Topeka
One of the most complete depart
ments in the store is the dairy de-
partment. in which over twenty-five
gallons of 40 per cent butter fat test'l
cream are sold to the Topeka public
every day. Here one will always find /
1 variety of cheese, including SWISS
imported Camembert, Sap. Sego,
EdaTn, Liedertaufel, New York. Wis