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Steele Believes 1916 Will Bring
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Continuation of Prosperity—ln
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dispensables Scarce,
By W. 0. STEELE,
President of the All-Star Manufactur.
ing Company, Neckties, Bows, Ete.
The year 1916, in my judgment, will
bring a continuation of the prosperity,
which began during the last six months
of 1915, We had more business the
week following Christmas than in any
week during that period for years past,
This seems a fair indication that things
will continue in first-class condition.
Of course a man in my line of busi
ness has a number of obstacles to face
during the coming year, obstacles
caused in a measure Indirectly by the
European war. For instance, dyestuffs
are high and scarce. Bo also are web
bings, metals for the manufacture of
suspenders and men’'s belts. Silks also
are high and very scarce.
Outside of these, however. everyvthing
seems to be smooth sailing. It seems
reasonably clear that the coming year
will be as good, if not better, considered
from a standpoint of prosperity, as the
past year, particularly during the last
four months. Previous to this people
were very conservative in their buying
~-that is, they were ohsessed by the
general uncertainty !:mmv»rmm from
this, they began to buy more liberally,
and business took a quick turn for the
better.
We make harness.
We make and re.cover au
to tops.
We do repairing.
A complete line of auto lap
robes.
GOLDIN'S HARNESS
FACTORY,
130 Marietta Street.
1916 GREETINGS
FAIN & STAMPS
WHOLESALE GROCERS
ATLANTA - - GEORGIA
All Star Bows Are Always in Season
They are never sold at
s a Sacrifice They are
‘ ot ‘ made to suit the most
“‘ ":'_ J fastidious They are
g " bows of superior quall
« \ ' Standard price
$2.25 a dozen
Purchase a trial on
der and bde Convinced.
The All Star Manufacturing Co.
Atlanta, Georgla
Coffee, that's what we sell!
Good coffee, clean coffee, coffee of quality.
It has the punch—it has the flavor—it has the snap.
o‘Wenllitinumlllo“otbiglou.hnmwfl“ldo"
it.
Once a patron, always a patron, because we know
ce our specialty for years. Experts
mdil.bkndi'm'l.pdil.dfipi.
No dirt, no eration, but superior, odoriferous,
Rt and descriptions, and you'll be
us for prices ou con
vinced. G«!lmnfl&du‘um!’
Happy New Year. Best wishes for prosperity.
Thank you!
NADDOX COFFEE CO. Atlanta, Georgia
S
JOHN RUSKIN
CUESTA REY
These names stand out like a lone star in & clouded shy,
'l‘h'o‘ymtu names of cigars, cigars of quality, cigars of mere
than ordinary excellence
Good, clean, curling, supercured 19Bacco—the Anegt grown..
makes up thess three amokery faverites
They smoke fras and sasy, and the aroma s one of delisious
w:ummhonMNMhfl.NMyOM“
mbm«uunu.mm:xoymgdmnwn
sdded 15, by leaps and bounds, alang
Try o wial srder, Youll be convineed
New Year grestings!
Thank you
J. N. HIRSCH, ATLANTA, GA.
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Last Haif of 1915 Best in History
of Business—Good Outlook.
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By R. K. RAMBO,
Member of Jonn Slivey & Co., Whole
sale Dry Goods, Notions, Etc.
The last half of 1915 was the best we
have had in the history of our busi
ness. This was particularly welcome,
owing to the fact that the first half was
80 roo'r and uncertain. As a matter of
fact, the contrast between the two di
viglons of the same year was the imit,
the first half being the poorest in the
history of the business.
Bad as it 18 the European war was a
blessing to the American, and especial-
Iy to the Southern dry goods man. The
Eeneral uncertainty engendered by the
titanic struggle on the other side of the
Atlantic compelled the adoption of
closer methods of doing business and the
elimination of long-term credit Dry
goods associations, among which the
Southern Dry Goods Association was one
of the first, adopted the improved meth
ods when it became evident that they
were the wholesalers’ only immediate
salvation,
These methods have done away with
that usual big loss of money to whole
sale dry goods dealers in the event of
the fallure of thelr customers. For 9n~l
stance, a rurrhaur had long-term ered.
it and falled. As a rule, 80 per cent
of his indebtedness was to the whole- |
sale dry goods man. Yet his dry gc»-d-nl
stock represented only abous 15 pej cent
of his merchandise
This will not seem so strange I’h"?l
it i= taken Into consideration that the
wholesale dry goods man was about the
only one to extend long-term credit
There Is only one really dark cloud in
the 1818 sky. It is the difficulty to get
hold of the right kind of goods, Of
enurse tha shortage of dyestuffs and
the British embargo on wools aggra
vates this, especially in the matier of
prices, which are extraordinarily high
\Tnvel With Me in a Ford
I make South and Middle
Georgia—all towns.
See J. A. RAIFORD.
58 N. Pryor St. Atlanta, Ga.
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. GA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1916.
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Everything in Produce Line Plen
tiful During Past Year in Fruit
and Vegetables.
By E. H. LOWRY,
Manager Lowry Fruit and Produce
Company.
Nineteen hundred and sixteen ‘“looks
§00d” to us and our patrons begin the
new year with a determination to make
it a record-breaker. |
Last year was our seventh in the frult
and produce business, and, in many re-
Spects, it was one of abundance, that
is, in the frult and vegetabie line, be
ginning in January with strawberries,
beans and tomatoes and all early vege
tables from Florida. In May came &
big crop of Georgia beans, squashes,
cucumbers, Irish potatoes and the like
These were followed later in the summer
by Georgia watermelons, the noted Ki
berta peaches and canteloupes. Then
there were huckleberries and blackber
ries. The apple crop, too, while not
the lurfru on record, was especially fine
in qunl Y.
North Georgia, by the way, furnished
some of the finest apples during the past
Year ever seen in the Atlanta market,
and when 1t becomes generally known
that Georgila produces fruit of such su
perior eating and keeping qualities, we
predict & great future for the Georgia
apple and another paying crop will be
added to the State's list
Florida has a fine crop of Oranges,
grapefruit and tangerines and the prices
run low enough to cause general con
sumption.
We must not forget the Georgia
sweet potato, and our Information is that
South Georgla has produced a fine crop
and the revenue from the Georgla vam
aione will bring to the growers more
than a millon dollars
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iflmmumc Views Prevail for Big
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‘ Business This Year—Bankers
| Extend Liberal Credit.
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| By F. 8 PATTERSON,
Manager of the Southern Branch of the
' Moline Plow Company.
! Our shipments during the last four
months wers & per cent larger than
| those during the same period last year
{Our December shipments were double
[those of the same month & year ago
’l"mb:ru for 1918 business are very
i *o trouble last year was the general
| uncertainty of things People did net
know whether 1o go ahead or 1o stand
stin Poor- this year say, “Go ahead’
Another difficulty consisted In the fact
that bankers would not extend eredit an
SUERr cane In the sections of the South
E'hm this i ralsed extensively
; The extension of eredit on this, s
{well a 8 on cotton and other preducts
iaunu the past year, has been libers)
and has (et Jooss much money that
!Mbmlu would have been tied up for
an Indefinite time. Another factor that
'lamh 1o brighten up prospects is the
ghfl that people geberally have mors
confidence In the existing order of
things. l
1916, Says Stamps‘
By W. 0. STAMPS,
Of Fain & 3tamps, Wholssale O'Ml
The first six months of the year
1913 were gloomy. indeed, but "‘“J
Instructors in that they taught con
sarvatism 'n buying and sconomy ‘»
using of goods In the grocery and
produce line. What was taught In the
first half of the year was put inte of.
foct, and, notwithstanding the fa~t
that conservatism prevalied al! year
the last six monthe of he year were
gond in & bueiness wav
There were very few fallures In
INE Prospecta for 19018 are fine
Merchants owe loss money and e
farmers alsn. Nesides, the surnily of
eotton on hand is large. Necossity
compeed farmere 1o make » ‘arge per
cont of 'ndlspensables 'n 1815 that |
under ctfinary ronditiong Ihey would
» “Build With Brick"
Chattahoochee Brick Co.
Manulacturers of
Plain, Ornamental and
Oil Re-pressed Brick
Oftices, 701.704 Fourth National Bank Bldg.
AI'AMA. Ga.
Hary L. English, General Manager
Here, There, Everywhere
‘With the Traveling Men
r’nre{'}hrrll. Bouth Carolina territory,
of A. M. Robinson Company, last week
sold more than $2,200 worth of goods.
Members of the company consider this
good work.
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J. R. Bookhart, of the Maddox Coffes
Company, spent the holiday season in
Atlanta. He will enter his territory to
morrow.
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Nice orders wera brought in &' the
Cobb Clgar Company by P. W, ood
ward, city salesman, last week.
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Among the salesmen of H. Wilensky
& Sons to be In the city are D. M. Hol
senbeck, J. 8. Brall and M. 8. Craig.
They will start their 1816 work to-mor
row. Prospects are good, they said, for
& Very prosperous year,
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D. P. McDanlel, of the John Siivey &
Company notlons department, is being
kert very busy flllnl goods from the
mills. He -ui t u.o v:.n hard to get.
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Travelers for Gram!ing-Spaulding
Company will re-enter their territories
to-morrow, after havtl_“‘ “rested up”
during thfilut week. ese are L. A,
Herring, Florida territory; F. H. Baker,
South Georgia territory; Charles Babb,
Georgia Raillroad; J. G, Womble, West
Point and Central Railroad, and W. G.
Baker, North Goorltl..
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Nice orders were sent 'n by represen.
\
Scarcity of Dyestuffs and Im
ported Papers, However, Will
Cause High Prices.
.‘ P. A CLEMENT
Secretary. Treasurer of the Atiants Box
Factory, ;
1 suppose every one In our line of
business, as well as manufacturers and
wholesalers generally, have had the same
sApericnce as we, vip & big Increase
of business during the last four months
1 aiso presume they feel the same way
about the future, viz.: that It will be
one of prosperity
Our trade covers the Fouth and the
only drawback that we see 18 Lhe Tact
that the extreme difficulty of getiing
Importag papers 'n the manufaciure of
| boxes will, 10 & coertain extant, raise the
price on these The somrvity of dye
l.ufh alse affects our live in this re
Ir‘l As & whole homever . feel
| there Is nothing 10 worry about
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Manufacturer Declares That ‘Bad
2 ' 1 .
g Times' Were Result of Reac
tion From European War,
By MARRY L. ENGLISMH,
General Manager of the Chattahoo: hes
| Brice Company.
What Sherman sald of war holfts
true of business st year Viowes e
in the last ninety dars U bas picied
)u‘ and prospects are size for & big year
The cnuse of the Dad times was & o
!.c'm from the «Mecle of the Huropear
war When pecgdes pe-wered fromm r »
and confidence wmas resiored thinge he
ip.a o resume & pormal state
Many persone who rontempiated tom
| provemants hald off untfl the latter part
of et year when the Nigh ofitom
}m«n and olther influsPess aasures &
‘ EhY autienk In sy Spinieg, the sow
Ing year will he one of the Best in Ihe
Bovpth o higtowry
Rave abtained from other snurces
i Ths oty Bt 5
of feedetuffe, meats, lnrd and four
than they have in many yeare. Con
::nmwlv. 2:-: wifl have z:n ety
Eroceries. dry goods,
cm;m?mm and the like
tatives of John Silvey & Company last
week. The salesmen are Samuel John
son, Sidney Johnson, P. H. Jeter, D. M,
Braswell, T. W, McHan and R. C. Jones.
The entire force will start out to-mor
row.
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Dr. D. W. 8. Frye, Winder, Ga., of the
Barrow Drug Com(gnny, at that place,
was a Cobb Cigar Company visitor yes
terday. Dr, Frye reported a big trade
in his section.
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While hunting in South Goorgll last
week, Charles J. Willamson, head of
the A. M. Robinson Company n:loc
goods dewnment, bufied two kinds of
game. The first were birds and the sec
ond and, as he thought, the more im
gortnnt, were orders totaling more than
2,000 in value.
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F. H. Corry and P. H. Jeter, two S!-
veylites, were the “leaders’” in the num
ber and size of ul:- in December.
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A prosperous year was enjoyed by H.
Wilensky & Sons, said J. W. Simmons,
of the firm, who took stock last week.
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Representatives of the All-Star Man
ufacturing Company will re-enter their
terrvitories to-morrow to begin the 1016
business,
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Chris Irby. of A. M. Robinson Com
pany, brought in record “after Christ
mas” orders llast week. His sales
amounted to more than
Believes It Will Be the Biggest
Ever—People Are No Longer
Panicky, He Asserts.
By J M MHIRSCH
The coming year looks like the he
Restl ever AL present We aAre rece ving
many and large orders If the increase
B business keeps ip proportionstely
With the last three months we won'i
be abie to Al the arders
This Is very plessing, owing 1o the
iong perfod of uncertainty througt
whieh we passed T gEereral depres.
son of the sreater part of last year
nade thatl year a er P Ope Hue
ness, however, began s P aller
Beptember 1. 19
don’t Believe e s f money was
Be cause of Ihs ara e i ]
10 be more the result of & panieky fe
g People had the money and nesded
BARY L(hings tlhat they 4l not buy. it
seeme, because the were holding off
e see Yow matiers woud tur out
i . ave - -an A * . 1 the
first offacis of the war wore off, nats
ally Dusiness was in bhad i b
THOMPSON PRODUCE CO.
Wholesale Commission Merchants
And Jobbers of Fruits, Vegetables, Game and
Poultry. Southern Distributors of Von Ammon's
Uniform Pack Apples.
No. 4 Produce Place, ATLANTA, GA.
FRIENDS and PATRONS
We wish you all a Happy, Prosperous New Year!
Lowry Produce Co.
MR. MERCHANT -
We don't ssk for protection. We don't sxpect busi
ness unless we are right. The wise buyer will investigate
We solicit comparison,
We know the result,
We bought carly. We have the goods 1o deliver. Our
representative will call on you in January
A. M. ROBINSON CO.
.."l::: ;‘md Gold s Tampa lu:nmm Cigar of
One (1) Nickel
of Ouba's bost, mams ot Havama Tosoees. Toipe Bogeet
looks neat—it is ehio—a ' Smoker s Bmoke of uraurpassed
superiorily
HAPPY NEW YEAR
COBB CIGAR CO.
ATLANTA. GA
Advanced in gric
New Year turkeys were about 2 cents
& pound higher than those at Christ
mas, according to Mr. D. Thompson, of
the Thompson Produce Company. This
was due, to a great extent, he said, to
the scarcity of turkeys following Christ
mas,
Mr. Thompson thinks ccnditions will
continue to become better and that the
coming year will be prosperous. The
supply of all lines of produce, particu
larly the staples, such as potatoes,
onions and the like, is bavomlnf suffi
clently big to advance the prices to
normal.
To Be Issued Soon
The McClyre Ten Cent (‘omrny is
taking stock, preparatory to sending the
bn?':rn to the market The mmpan%
will issue the McClure catalog, wit
qrnw quotations and fllustrations, about
January 15, A good trade the ')‘;M
Year was reported by members of Mc-
Clure’s. |
Big Holiday Trad
Good business was reported by J N,
Hirsch, wholesale dealer in cigars, ciga
reties, tobacco and fancy groceries who
moved Into his new hmldm‘:’t Nos. 144.
146-148 Marietta street Any Mr
Hirsch was busy yvesterday putting his
new quarters into shape
Trip
to Atlanta is avafla
ble to the merchant
who bu an ade
quate bl{l' from the
members of the Mer
chants' Association.
Write to
H. T. MOORE, Sec'y
Chamber
Commerce Bldg.
Atlanta, Ga.
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By P. D. YATES, |
President of Ridley-Willlamson. Wyatt '
Ca., Wholesale Dry Goods,
Notlons, Etec. ,1
Conservatism--this {8 the keynote to
the dry goods situation as we experi
enced it in 19015, “'Safety first"” has been
the motto and it has worked out well
We had a fair business, nothing to com
plain of, and none of our patrons are
overstocked with unsalable goods. As a
result, the pathway for a better and big
ger business in 1616 is open. Conditions
point to a very good vear for us.
Although the past year was the most
unprecedented in our history 4|urlnl
the first part of the year, by rationa
selling confldence was rnmrog and bet.
ter business followed, growing with the
Runmx months. The end is not yet
Ather, it appears that the deep gloom
of a year ago will bs changed into an
equal extremity of success
By creating confldence through econ
sarvative sales we have made many
new friends. Of course, the last three
months of the past year were the most
prosperous. It was at about the begin
ning of this period that ths advance In
cotton prices caused people to get aver
the previous panicky feeling resultant
from the war.
We expect to extend and develop the
scope of our business, which, appears
very rational and certain, In view of
the general trads optimism. {
We wish to thank our friends 'olr :‘h:l' liberal patronage during !'1; and
wis hem
A Happy and Prosperous New Year
Our facilities for handiing your 1916 orders will be better and more com
plete than ever,
57 North Pryor Street. Near Equitable l:nlflo..
Let Us Help You Have a PROSPEROUS Year.
Attractive Show Cases will bring customers to your store.
Write or wire us for attractive catalogue and prices.
ATLANTA SHOW CASECOMPANY
ATLANTA, GA.
.y
A New Year's
Greeting
To those of you whom we have had the
privilege of serving during the past year
we extend thanks for your patronage. We
shall show our apprecidtion by lum
nothing undone in the coming year
, Will in any way improve our goods or
service to you, ’
Now a word to those merchants with
whom we have so far had no dealings.
*“Good resolutions’ are just as season
able in regard to business policies as they
are to personal habits.
Here are two that will pay dividends—
RESOLVE that during the coming
vear to keep your shoe stock free hog::
cumulation of odds and ends
styles are almost a dead loss,
RESOLVE that vou will sell those
shoes that give your customer the utmost
for his money. An enthusiastic wearer is
the best ad any shoe store ean have,
Our Red Seal Shoe Factory right here
in Georgia will help you do both,
By using our mail order system ean
do your present shoe business on m the
stock you now -*arryn.' You can keep this
stock rnmr-nd of only up-to-date selling
styles, and have vour :';mnl profit in
r'!m-b. instead of accumulated merchan
aise,
RED SEAL Shoog are leaders on style
and fit, and folks who wear them say
there's “a dollar a pair saved in the
wear,"
Postal brings catalog or salesman,
Mail it to-day,
Red Scal Factory, Atlanta, Ga.
Mail orders on the way same day,
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Williamson Foresees Big Busi-;j
ness—Discusses Dyestuffs =
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Scarcity, 4
B 1
“The outlook is bright for a big busie
ness,"” declared Charles J. Will{ g
head of the plece (‘oodn department of
A. M. Robinson Company, :“Y“’t 8
Mr. Willlamson belleved 1918 will be
one of the most prosperous {n the his
tory of the South. d
“The retall merchant,” added Mn
Willlamson, “has been hearing for &
long time the story of the dye scareity,
which will cause & shortage of all mer
chandise in which dyes are used, that
he has become skeptical and Is "333
to believe it. It i= true that this 2
was talked about for a long time befors
it was reallzed. The situation now is |
serious one—one into which the 1
merchant had better look and realss
that it's a condition and not a theory. ’g
Mr. Willlamson received letters 4
A number of manufacturers who 0
vanced their prices in the last s
weeks owing to the dye shortage. ;
this is becoming felt more and -
the dry goods situation, in this
prominent manufacturers and
#alers belleve, will soon be a serious
one * g