San Angelo Evening Standard from San Angelo, Texas • 13

PART two 4 to A SAN ANGELO STREET SCENE BUSINESS SECTION ment company The hardware stock jtlons of the big business is the China (crly and James Montgomery and it is valued at 975000 and Is the Department presided over by Mrs was through their efforts during largest this side of Fort Worth It'Effle Elliott and containing every- the long drought that the Fludlaler so ably thing needed in house furnishing Hardware Company has is carried in the main store in the together with a beautiful lino of maintained its credit nickel plated and aluminum wear The Findlaler llardwaro Company large warehouse on Concho avenue formerly occupied by the San Angelo Manufacturing company and lu the buildings on Twohig avenue which adjoin the store These Donatello china plain and dec-! particularly on thnlr National Full ter buildings are of two stories and iorated and Is always pleased tu Weight ripe and Casing the Coluni- WE ARE AS RELIABLE basement and being built of hollow tile and concrete are fire proof In this department Is located the plumbing show room and pipe cut- wait on ladles and Bhow them her bus Wood Rod Genuine Cook Cyl stock jlnders Samson Windmills Standard The water supply pipe windmill Windmills Bowsher Feed Mills crude oil engine gasoline engine Fuller A Johnson Engines Btovir --r ting and fitting shops The tin shop (and plumbing- department is prosid- (Gasoline' Engines Apollo Galvanised-and sheet Iron department whlchVdover by Hunter In this Sheet Steel with 'Coppor Contont AS THE MARBLE AND GRANITE THAT WE SELL Whon after fifteen years of ton- forced to' buy their products these finuoiis offort to create and mature were easily overcome by improve-a great Institution of human service ments in design which were worked those efforts have been crowned 0ut by Mr Find later on one of with unqualified success and those trips to Freeport and which were responsible for such achievement are accepted by Mr Stover These 1m-etillllod to the plaudits and congrat- provements divorced the govern-illation of the public and the com- lng pBrt8 0f the mill from the oper his formerly occupied the upper story moved to the new concrete building on Concho avenue phone 46 where jit is turning out considerably more work than ever It is still under direction The hardware department is operated under the direction of George department also Is Jim Rowland jUnlted States Ammunition (black tie shop foreman ahd general shells) Boardman Reinforced Stoel troublo man and three other first Silos Universal Percolators Arme class workmen Mr Rowland Is Rapid Fire Batteries Husdon Bot-reputed to be the best engine in- to nil ess Troughs and Storage Tanka In the county When the fin- Their new crude oil engines which Ishes sn irrigation plant or a pump- have been rerently perfected re-lng outfit it Is done In first clans quire neither batteries nor magneto style and Invariably givea satlsfac- and are running smoother than any tlon regardless of any obstacles that gasoline engine with a fuel expense miiuity of which they form a part Byng parts by furnlBhlng strong Brockman San veteran of about one fourth Stover" engine is modified "Diesel" for which is claimed the name efficiency and low fuel cost hardware man who attends to buying and Is assisted In the sales department by Tom Stone who travels for the house Walter Hamilton Jim Flndlater and Jim Lane mak-a combination that is hard to beat One of the most attractive por- San Angelo Marble and Granite Works SHIPMAN IZARD Proprietors We Also Uandlo Iron Fcnciug might be encountered One of the departments in which Mr Flndlater takes the most pride is the office The bookkeeping der partment is in charge cf John Smith assisted by Miss Bessie East- The Flndlater Hardware Company independent braces for tbe vane rod modestly attributes Its continued vhlch wag formerly attached to the prosperity and growth to the indul- waiklng beam support and conse-genro and consideration of their 'quentiy relieved the working parts many friends and customers Tho0f the mill of any strain caused by latter on the other hand have by ne weight of the Immense vane their patronage set their etamp of g0 iUccesaful has this change been approval on the able management 'that the factory has since adopted whkh has brought the great hard-'jt teir 18 and 16 foot sizes ware establishment to its present when the Stover Engine Works high standing With the Flndlater commenced operations Mr Findlat- people it is a question of co-opera- Pr wa8 persuaded by his shop force tion They are always ready to handle the Stover gasoline en-operate with those who have helped Jgines oil account of their extreme them to become an important factor jBimpllcity and superior quality In the development of San Angelo These have been constantly kept up and the Concho Country Those 'to date and are now one of the whose wants have been met for highest grade engines used in this Years by the mammoth stock which country A couple of years ago Lee 4 4 KOVAL CORONATION Patent Babl Doll Strap Pumps Just received late Saturday afternoon by express These pumps will ha put out at especially low prices Monday You will have to come early to get your sice as these goods srs extra good sellers and scarce In every market Ik WKIGHT DllV GOODS COMPANY i 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4jf4l Mr and Mrs 8 Kemp and daughter of Robert Lee were visiting Mr and Mrs Charles Orsmin Friday and Saturday The King's The 1 Daughters will have a called meeting Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at the home of Mrs ErerhearL Geo Barse Live Stock Commission Company Fort Worth Kansu Oity St Louis Business Established 1871 Dost Prices secured for Cattlo Hogs and Sheep SAN ANGELO TEXAS The trade and commercial center for Central West Texas Population over 14000 Altitude 2000 feet Unlimited supply of pure water from the three Concho Rivers City equipped with all modem facilities street railway gas sewerage telephone light power and water system Excellent educational facilities in publio and privato schools Fourteen churches representing nearly all denominations All business streets paved with wood block and several residence streets paved with bithulithic Eleven large wholesale institutions grain elevators foundry machine shops brick plant cottonseed oil mill saddlery factories ice plants candy factories creamery flouring mill and mattress factory Located on forks of three Concho Rivers thousands of acres of land nnder irrigation Colter of largest and licst stock farming country in the Central West Several thousand ear loadB of live stook shipped to markets nnnuully and approximately 6000-000 pounds of wool and 900000 pounds of mohair sold here in 1914 Burdick who was formerly one of the Flndlater erectors and is now manager of the water supply de-partment of Krakauer Zork Moye of El Paso Induced the Stover Engine Works to develop a crudo oil engine and the results been something marvelous In cieney and economy sines use the common crude oil and only about one half the quantity of It that a gasoline engine would require of the higher priced fuel These engines are now made In the 8 12-18 80 25 80 40 60 and 60 horse power sixes the last three having twin cylinders In addition to this the Stover Manufacturing company is now building what they pronounce to be the best ensilage cutter ad tow on the market aa well as full line of feed mills of all descriptions and an especially fine alfalfa kaffir corn oat and corn grinder also all sixes of pump Jacks When the Fuller A Johnson Manufacturing company Introduced their wonderful farm pumper the Find-later company at once recognized the advantage of the engine and accepted a Jobbing agency for this district This has since assumed quite large proportions as they now lias always been available at tha big tore and by the genius of the men at the head of each department whose ready advice on technical matters Is always promptly an-1 cheerfully given are the establishment's warmest friends And It is to the public that the great firm pays Its compliments The steady Improvements Which fiave been made In the past may serve as an index to the eztenalon which is proposed In the future and those progressive farmers who would keep abreast of the latest inventions In the mechanical and water supply which make farming profitable have only to consult the Flndlater expert! for a digest of years of experiment and research Eighteen years of management of large commercial house however has not served to erase the memory 'of ten years previously spent as an expert windmill erector nor has that experience been without profit In serving the farmers of the Angolo country Previous to tbe establishment of the Flndlater Hardware company Its founder John Findlaler Jr had his headquarters from 1885 to 1895 In Water Valley where he remained until the last named year when he opened up a windmill well supply and general ship the engines by the ttrioad an hardware business In San Angelo with them the popular priced Ful buying out the old Titus A Johnson Type Xuatuum-stock then In the hands of E' A igines which use McCarty on account of his having or a good grade of distillate ror the agency for the Ideal Windmill (fuel and the FJndiater direct con-by the Stover built by the Stover Manufacturing nseted pump Jack which though i company that has since devclopnjj very solidly built operates Into the Samson Windmill Theisnme principle as a farm i Samson mill had been more than The Flndlater satisfactory every since the iwonty foot mill was erected for Mr hardware business buggies and farming implements on the! pumper Hardware Company Hrst! handles all lines connected with tlio Montague at the natural well of the railroad miles Temple 227 miles Paint Rock 35 miles and Red River 253 miles Finest all tlm year climate in America Golf all summer und winter good fishing hunting and the best natural roads for motoring on this continent We like to live here and so would you old 9 headquarters ranch and while some faults developed later in the very large sizes owing to changes of materials when the steel trust VI IIiaieriBIV WIIVU lUV wni which lines wore turned over to the Ban Angelo Manufacturing Company when it was started That company lately developed in- Baker Hemphill's Mammoth Stoi I-- a was formed and all foundries were to the Henderson Buggy Implo.