. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. nd comprehensive a line of business, and the atlairsof the company so well managed by Mr. John J. Orr, the secretary and treasurer and resi-dent manager, it is little marvel that the business has so developed as to embrace not onlyLouisville and thisjmmediate section, but the South generally as far as Georgia. In its commodious sales and warerooms at 172 Fourth street the company employstwenty-five skilled hands. Mr. Orr, the affable and enterprising resident manager, cameto Loiiisyille from Toledo, Ohio, expressly in this i
. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. nd comprehensive a line of business, and the atlairsof the company so well managed by Mr. John J. Orr, the secretary and treasurer and resi-dent manager, it is little marvel that the business has so developed as to embrace not onlyLouisville and thisjmmediate section, but the South generally as far as Georgia. In its commodious sales and warerooms at 172 Fourth street the company employstwenty-five skilled hands. Mr. Orr, the affable and enterprising resident manager, cameto Loiiisyille from Toledo, Ohio, expressly in this interest. He had formerly been foreman ,of a similar industry in Toledo conducted by Mr. M. I. W ilcox, who is associated in inter-est with him in the enterprise here. Mr. Wilcox is also a leading and wealthy shipchandler at Toledo, and is there doing a business in excess of $300,000 a year. The pros-pects of the Louisville Tent and Awning Co. are flattering in the extreme, and it is al-ready rated among the leading industrial and commercial enterprises of the HEWETT, FIELD & CO., Wliolesale Dealers in Field Seeds and Implements, Nos. 416 and 418 West Main Street. This house, now nearly twenty years old, was founded by Hewett, Hardy & Co., andthe change to the present style of firm took place in 1871. The establishment has alwaysbeen the largest in its line in Louisville, and does an extensive business in all varietiesof field seeds and in farm implements throughout Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas. Thefirm ships native seeds to the principal cities East and West—as lar West as San Fran-cisco. In the line of fsirm implements, the house holds the State agency for South Bendchilled plows, Avery plows, Brinly plows, Vandiver corn planters, Hamilton cultivators,Hamilton sulky rakes, Hoosier drills, Dederick hay press. Baling ties and Jackson are all highly commended by scientific and practical agriculturists. Mr. Dexter Hewett, senior of the firm, has lived here
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